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JONES, SAMUEL (1681? - 1719), Dissenting Academy tutor uncles) minister at Nailsworth (Walter Evans in NLW MSS 10327B)]. Samuel Jones was at Abergavenny under Roger Griffith. When Griffith conformed (1702), it is alleged that the Academy was transferred to Knill, Radnorshire, in charge of John Weaver, but this is incorrect - it was to Shrewsbury, under the care of James Owen, that Samuel Jones and the other students removed. On James Owen's death (1706
JONES, SAMUEL (1628 - 1697), Nonconformist minister and schoolmaster and a man of a high degree of culture, he devoted his time and his powers to the training of young men for the ministry. Brynllywarch became a 'university' for early Nonconformist ministers. The Presbyterian Board and the Congregational Board made generous grants towards the support of Brynllywarch students, among whom were Samuel Price, assistant to Dr. Watts the hymnist, Rice Price, father of Dr
JONES, SAMUEL, Methodist elder - gweler JONES, ROBERT
JONES, SAMUEL (1796 - 1883), banker - gweler LOYD, LEWIS
JONES, SAMUEL MAURICE (1853 - 1932), artist
JONES, SARAH RHIANNON DAVIES (1921 - 2014), author and lecturer Rhiannon Davies Jones was born on 4 November 1921 in Llanbedr, Meirioneth, the second daughter of Hugh Davies Jones (1872-1924), a Baptist minister, and his wife Laura (née Owen, 1887-1977), a teacher. She had one sister, Annie Davies Evans (née Jones). Her father was brought up near Oswestry, but his original family home was Derwen Fawr farm, Corwen, which the family had to leave in the 1880s
JONES, THEOPHILUS (1759 - 1812), historian of Brecknock Born 18 October 1759 at Brecon, son of Hugh Jones, at that time curate of Llanfaes there, later vicar of Llangamarch (1763-8) and of Llywel (1768-99), and prebendary of Christ College, Brecon - his wife Elinor (died 1786) was daughter of Theophilus Evans, and the historian spent much of his boyhood at Llwyn Einion, Llangamarch, his grandfather's home, and inherited historical documents from him
JONES, THOMAS (1870 - 1955), university professor, civil servant, administrator, author in 1945 and Chairman from 1952 to 1954. From 1934 to 1940 he was a member of the Unemployment Assistance Board. He was appointed C.H. in 1929. Jones was a man of exceptional drive and energy. Although he abandoned his intention of becoming a minister of the church, the social teaching of the Scriptures remained his chief inspiration. Thomas Charles Edwards, Joseph Mazzini, Sir Henry Jones and
JONES, THOMAS (Y Bardd Cloff; 1768 - 1828), poet
JONES, THOMAS (1720? - 1790), cleric and author
JONES, THOMAS (1871 - 1938), schoolmaster and antiquary
JONES, Sir THOMAS (1614 - 1692), chief justice was of Welsh descent (of the tribe of Ednowain Bendew, for which see Arch.Camb., 1876, 1877, and more directly, 1878), but the family had long been associated with Shropshire, and Sir Thomas himself acquired Welsh denizenship only after his marriage (with Jane Barnard, of Chester), when he took up his residence at Carreghwfa ('Carreghova') Hill, Montgomeryshire. His career is described in D.N.B

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