Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUMPHREYS, RICHARD MACHNO (1852 - 1904), Baptist minister went to the Baptist College, Llangollen, in 1875. He ministered at Siloam, Cardiff (1877-84), Rhosddu, Wrexham (1884-91), and Calfaria, Llanelly (1891-1904). When he was at Llanelly he edited the Welsh column in the Llanelly Mercury. He began to write verse when he was quite young and won chairs at eisteddfodau - Wrexham (1884), Rhosllanerchrugog (1887), Newcastle Emlyn (1888), Pontyberem (1901
JARMAN, ELDRA MARY (1917 - 2000), harpist and author , performing tunes such as the 'Wrexham Hornpipe', already familiar to her through her own family tradition, in lengthy soirées before appreciative audiences. When war broke out in 1939, Eldra offered her services to the Women's Land Army. She was given a month's training at Llysfasi Agricultural College, where she was taught how to feed hens, handle sheep and clean out pigsties. She went on to spend nine
JEFFREYS, GEORGE (1st baron Jeffreys of Wem), (1645 - 1689), judge Born at Acton, Wrexham, on 15 May 1645, the sixth son of John Jeffreys and his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Ireland of Bewsey, Lancashire ('a very pious good woman ' according to her son). His grandfather JOHN JEFFREYS (died 1622), chief justice of the Anglesey circuit of the Great Sessions, who had first adopted the family surname, laid the foundations of Acton estate by expanding and
JENKINS, JOHN (1656? - 1733), Baptist minister Meeting, Wrexham. A volume of sermons in his hand was formerly in the possession of William Herbert, minister of Maesyberllan, and of Joshua Thomas, Leominster.
JENKINS, JOSEPH (1743 - 1819), Baptist minister son of the Evan Jenkins (1712 - 1723 March 1752) who was pastor of Wrexham ' Old Meeting ' for some months in 1737 and again (after a period at Exeter) from 1740 till 1752, and grandson of John Jenkins (1656? - 1733), pastor of Rhydwilym. Joseph was only 9 when his father died, but Thomas Llewellyn saw to his education in London; later, he went to Aberdeen (M.A. 1765, D.D. 1790). He was baptized
JEREMY, JOHN (DAVID) (1782 - 1860), preacher and schoolmaster Born 28 October 1782 at Cwmynys farm near Carmarthen. After having been at the Wrexham Independent Academy (1803 for a short time) and the Carmarthen Presbyterian Academy (1804-8), he became successively a schoolmaster at Llan-y-bri, a private tutor at Saethon, Llŷn, to the family of Williams of Bron Eryri, and an Independent minister at Salem, Llandovery (ordained 20 April 1815). The story of
JOHN ap JOHN (1625? - 1697), the apostle of the Quakers in Wales Called Siôn ap Siôn by Ellis Pugh in his Annerch i'r Cymru (1721); born at Pen-y-cefn in the township of Coed Cristionydd, Ruabon. He joined the Puritans in the days of the Commonwealth and became a member of the congregation at Wrexham which was under the care of Morgan Llwyd. On 21 July 1653 he and another man journeyed on Morgan Llwyd's behalf to Swarthmore, Lancashire, to meet George Fox, the
JOHNS, WILLIAM (1771 - 1845), Unitarian minister, tutor, and writer Congregational Fund Board from 1789 till 1793. It may be, therefore, that he was a student at Oswestry, 1789-90; but from 1790 till 1793 he was at Northampton Academy, where he forsook not only Calvinism but also Trinitarianism. After ministering at Gloucester and at Totnes he was, in 1799, appointed classical tutor in the Manchester Academy, but in 1800 he established a grammar school at Wrexham, transferring
JONES family, smiths, poets, musicians and preachers Cilie, the Wrexham national eisteddfod in 1933 for a poem, 'Rownd yr Horn', and the chair at Fishguard national eisteddfod in 1936 for an ode 'Tyddewi', as well as lesser prizes at the National eisteddfod. He was an adjudicator at several national eisteddfodau and he was a chief bard in the Gorsedd of Bards under the name 'SB'. He published an outstanding, prize-winning ode, 'Yr unben', in 1935. After his
JONES, BENJAMIN MAELOR (1894 - 1982), educationalist and author 1972) of Uwchmynydd, near Aberdaron, Caernarfonshire, who was a nurse in London at the time. There were no children of the marriage. He died on 13 January 1982 at 87 years of age at Hywyn, his home in Dolgellau, and his remains were cremated on 18 January at Pentrebychan, near Wrexham, close to where he was born. A memorial service was held at Judah chapel, Dolgellau, on 20 February 1982.
JONES, CADWALADR (1783 - 1867), Independent minister and first editor of Y Dysgedydd 1803. He began to preach in 1806 and the same year was admitted to Wrexham Academy, at which he paid his own expenses, spending the summer at home on the farm. William Williams (1781 - 1840) and Michael Jones were his fellow students for part of the time. In May 1811 he was ordained as the successor of Hugh Pugh (1779 - 1809) at Brithdir; 'his ministry extended from the Garneddwen to Barmouth, and
JONES, CAIN, almanac-maker responsible for twenty issues which were published by Eddowes of Shrewsbury, with the exception of the last, the 1795 issue, which was printed by J. Marsh at Wrexham. There is no record of a later almanac by him. He dabbled in poetry and there is an elegy by him in the almanac for 1783. JOHN CAIN JONES (died 1826?) His son, who wrote under the pseudonym Siôn Ceiriog. There are letters by the latter in NLW

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