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JONES, OWEN (1809? - 1874), architect and ornamental designer Born 15 February 1809 in Thames Street, London, the only son of Owen Jones (Owain Myfyr). His career, which is described in the D.N.B., can be summarized as follows: - educated at the Charterhouse and privately he became, at 16, the pupil of L. Vulliamy, architect, with whom he worked for six years, studying at the same time at the Royal Academy. In 1830 he left for France and Italy; in 1833 he
JONES, OWEN (Owain Myfyr; 1741 - 1814), a skinner in London and one of the most prominent figures in the literary life of Wales at the end of the 18th cent, and the beginning of the next in the history of the literature of Wales and in the literary life of the period. At this time he called himself ' Owain ap Huw.' With his friend, Robin Ddu o Fôn (Robert Hughes, 1744 - 1785), he is found in 1768 copying from the manuscripts of the Morris brothers the work of Dafydd ap Gwilym, together with all kinds of other material which they saw in the old manuscripts. This was one of his main
JONES, ROBERT (WILFRID) (1862 - 1929), musician Born 5 July 1862 at Tyddyn-bach, Arthog, Meironnydd, the son of Meredith and Jane Jones. He joined a band when he was quite young and became a competent player of the cornet. He was sent to Chester to receive music lessons from John Owen (Owain Alaw), and stayed there until his teacher died in 1883. After a course of lessons given him by J. H. Roberts he went to the Royal Academy of Music, London
JONES, SARAH RHIANNON DAVIES (1921 - 2014), author and lecturer again in 1990. Rhiannon Davies Jones was a Welsh Nationalist, and her beliefs and responses to political events of the period are clearly reflected in her work. The events relating to the Investiture of 1969 influenced Llys Aberffraw ('The court of Aberffraw'), a novel about Owain Gwynedd which won the Crown at the Anglesey Eisteddfod in 1973 and was published in 1977. Similarly in the case of Eryr
JONES, WILLIAM (1726 - 1795), antiquary and poet neighbourhood, but he set to work to educate himself. He wrote good English although he spoke it with difficulty. He mastered Latin and translated portions of Horace and Ovid into Welsh verse. He corresponded with the Gwyneddigion and contemporary men of letters and collected folk-songs and country dances for Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin), and poetry, together with notes on the metres, for Owain Myfyr. He
KENTIGERN (518? - 603), saint, the founder of Glasgow He appears in the Welsh genealogies as Cyndeyrn, son of Owain ab Urien and grandson of Urien (of) Rheged; Owain is an important figure in the romances included in the ' Red Book of Hergest,' and he and his father, Urien, figure in the early Welsh poems which recount the struggles of the North British princes against Hussa the son of Ida - see the articles Llywarch Hen and Taliesin. The family
teulu LACY (DE), lords Ewyas, Weobley, (died 1233), son of Hugh II by a daughter of Roderick O'Connor, married Gwenllian, daughter of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, who, like her brother Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, was the child of an irregular union contracted before Llywelyn's marriage with Joan. During a long widowhood (she died in 1281), she may have resided at Llys Gwenllian on the royal manor of Ystrad Owain in the commote of Cinmeirch, supported
LEWIS ab EDWARD (fl. c. 1560), poet the wedding feast of Wiliam Llwyd ab Elisau of Rhiwaedog and Elizabeth, daughter of Owain ap Siôn of Llwydiarth, at Rhiwaedog, 20 October 1555, where, together with Simwnt Fychan and Siôn Tudur, he composed mocking englynion to Gruffudd Hiraethog who was the victim of buffoonery at the feast. He graduated as a pencerdd at the Caerwys eisteddfod of 1568 and thus belongs to the last generation of the
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teulu LLOYD Dolobran, Owain Glyn Dŵr. His widow, Lucy, daughter of Griffith ab Ednyfed Lloyd of Bromfield, was then alive. His third son, DEIO AP LLYWELYN, was the first to be associated with Dolobran. (The Vaughan family of Llwydiarth, issued from the eldest son, Jenkin). Deio's first wife was Mary, daughter of Griffith Goch of Ruyton xi Towns or of Knockyn. The Vaughans of Glasgoed issued from this marriage, and David ap
teulu LLOYD Bodidris, This was an ancient Denbighshire family which rose into prominence under the Tudors, largely as a result of successful marriages into neighbouring houses, one of which made them heirs to Glyndyfrdwy, the patrimony of Owain Glyn Dŵr. JOHN LLOYD became sheriff of Denbighshire in 1551; his son, Sir EVAN LLOYD (died 1586), succeeded him in the office in 1583, and was elected M.P. for the county in
teulu LLOYD Rhiwaedog, Rhiwedog, , received a copy of the family pedigree from ELISE AP WILLIAM LLOYD, who was high sheriff of Merioneth in 1565. The ancestry as given by Dwnn (Visitations, ii, 225-6 - see the footnotes by W. W. E. Wynne) is traced through Owain Gwynedd and Llywarch Hen to Coel Godebog. J. E. Griffith (Pedigrees, 234) gives the descent from Owain Gwynedd down to 1832, and (ibid., 383) shows also the relationship of SIMON

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