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JONES, Sir CYNAN (ALBERT) EVANS (Cynan; 1895 - 1970), poet, dramatist and eisteddfodwr tranquility of the Llŷn countryside. The narrative element, in the ballads and in the long poems, is more conspicuous in his work than in that of any other Welsh poet. In 1946 he published a short prose romance, Ffarwel Weledig, set in Macedonia. Drama in Wales owes a great deal to Cynan. In 1931 he won the prize offered at the National Eisteddfod for a full-length play with his Hywel Harris. Absalom fy mab
JONES, DAVID LEWIS (1788 - 1830), Arian minister and academy tutor Born 8 April 1788 at Glynadda, Llanpumpsaint, Carmarthenshire. He was brought up as an Independent at Pencader and was educated by David Davis of Castell Hywel and at Carmarthen Academy (1807-11). He was ordained at Llwynrhydowen, 30 August 1811, as co-minister with David Davis of Castell Hywel, and opened a school at Llandysul - at that time he was an Arminian although he ultimately became an
JONES, ELEN ROGER (1908 - 1999), actress and teacher Merch Gwern Hywel in 1976. After her seventieth birthday, she became a more regular face on television, acting the part of Miss Brooks in Joni Jones and Ann Robaits, Heidden Sur in Hufen a Moch Bach. She also performed in two series that became very popular on S4C, Gwely a Brecwast and Minafon, an adaptation of a novel by Eigra Lewis Roberts, Mis o Fehefin, where she became well known as the character
JONES, FRANCIS WYNN (1898 - 1970), statistician and writer comprehensive bibliography but though he completed the task he died before its publication. Llyfryddiaeth Thomas Gwynn Jones was published by the University of Wales Press in 1989. In his preface the editor, D. Hywel E. Roberts, refers to the notable contribution made by F. Wynn Jones to whom the volume is dedicated. He published a host of articles in periodicals such as Y Drysorfa, Y Ford Gron, Y Genhinen
JONES, GRIFFITH (Glan Menai; 1836 - 1906), schoolmaster and author year in recognition of his services to the literature of Wales. Glan Menai was a keen eisteddfodwr and won a number of important prizes in the eisteddfodau of those days. He published several books, e.g. a novel Hywel Wyn (1861), Enwogion Sir Aberteifi (1868), Caneuon (1886), Cyfystyron y Gymraeg (1892), Traethawd Bywgraffyddol a Beirniadol ar Edmwnd Prys (1899), Guide to Llanfairfechan (1901), etc
JONES, REES JENKIN (1835 - 1924), Unitarian minister, schoolmaster, historian, and hymn-writer Ymofynydd (for the second time) from 1881 to 1887. His publications include Emynau Mawl a Gweddi, 1878; Emynau ac Odlau, 1895 (most of them being his own translations); Unitarian Students [at Carmarthen], 1796-1901, 1901; an article in the Encyclopaedia of Education on ' Davis Castell Hywel and his school'; articles in the D.N.B.; and more than twenty essays on theological subjects. He was a regular
JONES, THOMAS GWYNN (1871 - 1949), poet, writer, translator and scholar . Upon his retirement in 1937 he was awarded hon. D. Litt. degrees by the two universities closest to his heart - Wales and Ireland - and made a C.B.E. A special memorial number of Y Llenor (28, 2) was published in 1949. There is a good bibliography to 1937 in Owen Williams, A bibliography of Thomas Gwynn Jones (1938), with a supplement by David Thomas (1956). Both are now superseded by D. Hywel E
JONES, WILLIAM (1726 - 1795), antiquary and poet Son of William John David and Catherine his wife. The father was a guard on the coach which ran between Shrewsbury and Machynlleth but also farmed Dôl Hywel, Llangadfan, Montgomeryshire, where William Jones lived all his life. He was christened in Llangadfan parish church, 18 June 1726. The only education he had was when one of Griffith Jones's schools was set up for a short time in the
LEVI, THOMAS ARTHUR (1874 - 1954), professor of law was spent in fields better taught in professional law schools, in order to make a good impression on practitioners. Research and publications were not his world. He was rarely to be seen in the library (though he kept abreast of legal publications). He had in 1896 published an edition of Welsh poems (begun by his father), and various articles, one noteworthy one being on the Welsh Laws of Hywel Dda
LEWES, EVELYN ANNA (c. 1873 - 1961), author ' From Neuaddlwyd to Madagascar ' (in Welsh) are among her MSS in the National Library of Wales. She became an authority on Welsh folklore. Her story ' Hywel of Claerwen ' was published in the transactions of Bangor national eisteddfod 1902, and others appeared in Dream folk and fancies (1926). Her best known work, Out with the Cambrians (1934), is a record of outings with the Cambrian Antiquarian
teulu LEWIS Llwyn-du, Llangelynnin Two linked families which were very prominent in the history of Quakerism in Merioneth. I. Lewis, son of John Gruffydd ap Hywel ap Gruffydd of Derwas, died 8 August 1598, was married to Elin, daughter of Hywel ap Gruffydd; from these were descended four brothers, ELLIS, OWEN, GRUFFYDD, and RHYS. The remainder of this paragraph is concerned with the second of these, Owen Lewis I (died 1658?), and
LEWIS, HYWEL DAVID (1910 - 1992), university professor and philosopher Hywel D. Lewis was born in Llandudno 21 May 1910 and brought up in Waunfawr, Caernarfon, the son of David John Lewis, a minister in the Presbyterian Church of Wales, and his wife Rebecca (née Davies). He was educated at Caernarfon Grammar School where he showed no great distinction and afterwards at the University College of North Wales (as it then was) at Bangor where he studied Philosophy, a

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