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JONES, DAVID (c. 1630 - 1704?), Puritan Ieuan Gwyn Vaughan of Moelifor, Llanrhystyd, and widow of Ernestus Musgrave of Llanina. They had one daughter, Anne, wife of Philip Pugh of Hendre, Blaenpennal (died 1687); Philip Pugh (1679 - 1760), another of the Cilgwyn ministers, was therefore David Jones's grandson.
JONES, DAVID JAMES (Gwenallt; 1899 - 1968), poet, critic and scholar Born 18 May 1899 at Pontardawe, Glamorganshire, the eldest of three children of Thomas ('Ehedydd') Jones and his wife Mary. His parents were from Carmarthenshire and his consciousness of his roots was an important element in his personality, as is seen in his essay on Rhydycymerau in the D.J. Williams presentation Festschrift (ed, J. Gwyn Griffiths, 1965). The family moved to Allt-wen and
JONES, EZZELINA GWENHWYFAR (1921 - 2012), artist and sculptor newspaper reporter, 'I have recorded in art that which I saw and assimilated of the culture and industry of Wales over a period of ten decades.' In 1995 also she met the journalist Gwyn Griffiths at her exhibition in the Rhondda Heritage Park and they discussed the history of the Breton onion sellers - the Johnnie Onions or Sioni Winwns. Ezzelina remembered one of them very well, her name was Marie le
JONES, JOHN (1650 - 1727), dean of Bangor, educationist, and antiquary Born at Plas Gwyn, Pentraeth, Anglesey, 2 June 1650, son of Rowland Jones and Margaret, daughter of John Williams of Chwaen Issa, Llantrisant, Anglesey. His brother's grandchild married Paul Panton, the antiquary. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A., 1668, and later B.D. and D.D., 1689, he took holy orders and was preferred in 1672 to Rhoscolyn and its chapelries of
JONES, JOHN (1761 - 1822), Calvinistic Methodist minister -gwyn, to Anglesey he was convinced and in 1784 began to preach. He was a strong, powerfully built man, and his ministry was incisive and convincing. He is said to have converted 180 in the course of one meeting. When he was 35 years of age he married Mary Williams, heiress of Pen-y-bryn, Edern, where he spent the remainder of his life; he is usually known as ' John Jones of Edern.' He was ordained in
JONES, JOHN EVANS (1839 - 1893), journalist 1872 was appointed editor of The Caernarvon and Denbigh Herald at Caernarvon; after the death of John James Hughes (Alfardd), editor of Yr Herald Cymraeg, in 1875, he was appointed his successor, but resigned in 1879, confining himself to the English paper. He also edited for a while a monthly, Y Darlunydd, issued from the same office, for which he wrote over the pen-name ' Y Cwilsyn Gwyn.' He was
JONES, JOSEPH DAVID (1827 - 1870), schoolmaster and musician Born in 1827 at Bryncrugog, parish of Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire, the son of Joseph and Catherine Jones. The father, a weaver, was also a Wesleyan preacher. When he was 14 he began, much against his father's wishes, to attend a singing class which was held at Dolannog, about two miles from his home. The family moved to Pant-gwyn, near Llanfair Caereinion, where the son was able to get
JONES, MORGAN (1717? - 1780), Congregational minister Born at Tŷ-gwyn, Cefnarthen, in 1717 it is thought. He lived on his own property, Tŷ-gwyn. He officiated with other ministers at the ordination of John Davies at Cefnarthen, August 1768; it is not known, however, whether he was an ordained minister or had started to preach in his own church before 1771, but it is known that he ministered at Cefnarthen from 1771 to 1780, and that he received a
JONES, ROBERT (1560 - 1615), priest, of the Society of Jesus and Superior of the English Jesuits from 1609 to 1613; was born in 1560 near Chirk, Denbighshire. Another account says Oswestry. He may have been a pupil of the martyr Richard Gwyn and was certainly acquainted with the Edwardes family of Plas Newydd yn y Waun, for he arrived at Reims on 20 August 1581 with Richard and Francis Edwardes, and at the English College, Rome, with the first named on 6
JONES, ROBERT TUDUR (1921 - 1998), theologian, church historian and public figure Tudur Jones, the son of Thomas Jones, a railway worker, and Elizabeth Jane (neé Williams), a nurse, was born in Tyddyn Gwyn, Llanystumdwy, Eifionydd, Caernarfonshire on June 28 1921. Along with his brother and sister, he was raised in Rhyl, Flintshire. The family were zealous Independents, worshipping regularly at Carmel chapel, under the ministry of Rev T. Ogwen Griffith. The 1904-5 Revival
JONES, SARAH RHIANNON DAVIES (1921 - 2014), author and lecturer Pengwern ('The eagle of Pengwern', 1981), a novel set in the time of the Heledd saga poetry, which the author says that she wrote in response to the threat by Gwynfor Evans to go on hunger strike for a Welsh television channel. Dyddiadur Mari Gwyn ('The Diary of Mari Gwyn', 1985) is a novel dealing with the persecution of Catholics in the reign of Elizabeth 1 focusing on the life of the writer and
JONES, THOMAS (1910 - 1972), Welsh scholar two books on Wales together with his discussion of aspects of the texts did much to reintroduce Gerald to a contemporary Welsh audience. His other major contribution was his studies of the so-called 'mabinogion' tales in a number of articles and reviews but most especially in the English translation which he and his colleague Gwyn Jones wrote and which was first published in 1948. Underlying this

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