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JONES, Sir LEWIS (1884 - 1968), industrialist and politician articles and papers on economic and industrial matters. He acted as the Senior Vice-President of the Council and Court of Governors of University College; Swansea, and of the University of Wales, and he believed strongly in preserving the unified federal structure of the University. He was knighted in 1944 for his political and public work, and he was awarded the degree of LL.D. honoris causa by the
JONES, OWEN VAUGHAN (1907 - 1986), obstetrician and gynaecologist Society in 1972. Following his retirement in 1972 he was awarded an Honorary MA by the University of Wales in 1973. He served for many years on the University Court, and chaired the Council of the University College of North Wales, Bangor for five years 1981-85. That was a difficult period in the history of the college, and O. V. Jones is credited with doing a good deal to alleviate bitter divisions
JONES, PHILIP (1618 - 1674), colonel in the Parliamentary army and member of Cromwell's Second (or 'Other') House he had to sign. In 1661 the Carmarthenshire consistory court brought a charge against him of having (many years before) carried away the organ of S. Mary's Swansea, but it remains a mere record on the books, with no more said about it. In fact, whatever bitter clerics and hostile Royalists might say, Jones had prepared a safe accommodation for himself with the new powers through the kindness and
JONES, RICHARD LEWIS (1934 - 2009), poet and farmer can still recite large sections of his work from memory. He disliked obscurity in verse and always insisted that poetry should not be a puzzle. As a highly accomplished exponent of cynghanedd he always put a great emphasis on the word-craft itself. The englynion he composed to his eldest daughter, Delyth Wyn, on her eighteenth birthday are so intricate they would have won the admiration of the court
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, Sir THOMAS (bu farw 1731), treasurer and secretary of the 'Society of Antient Britons' in London, and author notice, without however indicating its source: '1731, on 11 January, died Sir Thomas Jones, at his house in Boswel Court, Treasurer and Secretary of the Most Honourable Society of Ancient Britons; a Justice of the Peace and Register of Memorials relating to Estates for the County of Middlesex.'
JONES, Syr THOMAS (bu farw 1731), trysorydd ac ysgrifennydd cyntaf Cymdeithas yr Hen Frutaniaid yn Llundain, ac awdur wahaniaeth yn y dyddiadau, gellir barnu mai yr un dyn sydd yma; os felly, dyn o Benybont-ar-Ogwr. Rhydd W. R. Williams, yn Old Wales, i, 38, y cofnod a ganlyn inni, ond heb nodi ei ffynhonnell: '1731, on 11 January died Sir Thomas Jones, at his house in Boswel Court, Treasurer and Secretary of the Most Honourable Society of Ancient Britons; a Justice of the Peace and Register of Memorials relating to
JONES, THOMAS (Cynhaiarn; 1839 - 1916), lawyer and writer of verse Born 10 February 1839, son of John and Jane Jones, Pen-lôn, Pwllheli. At 13, he began working in a solicitor's office at Portmadoc, and in 1867 qualified as a solicitor; he was afterwards county-court registrar at Portmadoc and Ffestiniog, and town clerk of Cricieth. In politics he was a conservative, in religious adherence a Congregationalist. But he is best known as a writer of verse; he was at
JONES, THOMAS (1910 - 1972), Welsh scholar researcher, Thomas Jones was a notable and inspiring teacher as well as being an astute and active administrator, serving as dean of faculty, vice-principal, secretary and later chairman of the language and literature section of the University Board of Celtic Studies; he was also a member of the University of Wales Press Board, the Council and Court of the University and of the National Library of Wales
JONES, THOMAS (c. 1622 - 1682), Protestant controversialist lost his chaplaincy through the hostility of the bishop of Winchester, whom he had denounced as a lukewarm Protestant, it was to the Anglesey rectory that he retired. In 1670 the continued hostility of the bishop of Winchester brought on his head a prosecution and fine in the king's Bench for scandalum magnatum arising from his denunciations of Popery at court, while insubordination to his own bishop
JONES, THOMAS PARRY (1935 - 2013), inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist 1981 Lion Laboratories moved to purpose-built premises in Barry. In 1983 the use of breath-alcohol analysis was accepted as evidence in court and the Lion 'Intoximeter 3000', an infra-red device, was the first instrument approved by the Home Office for this purpose. Jones was awarded the OBE for his work in 1986. In 1990 he sold his company to an American company, MPD, Inc., and moved back to his
JONES, THOMAS WILLIAM (Baron Maelor of Rhos), (1898 - 1984), Labour politician him such an ardent Socialist and the champion of the miners throughout his life. As a result of much persuasion from his former headmaster, he became a pupil-teacher in August 1914, later joining the Non-Combatant Corps as a conscientious objector in 1917. As a result of his refusal to obey an order, he was court-martialled in December of the same year and was then imprisoned until May 1919. He

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