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JONES, THOMAS WILLIAM (Baron Maelor of Rhos), (1898 - 1984), Labour politician Socialist and campaigner for miners' causes. He published a volume of reminiscences, Fel Hyn y bu, in 1970. He married on 1 January 1928 Flossy, the daughter of Jonathan Thomas of Birkenhead, who predeceased him. A son and a daughter survived him. The family lived at Ger-y-Llyn, Ponciau, Wrexham, and at Bro Hedd, Clarke Street, Ponciau, Wrexham. He died in a fire at his Wrexham home on 18 November 1984
JONES, TREVOR ALEC (1924 - 1983), Labour politician Party in 1945. He had been chairman of the Wood Green CLP and secretary of the Rhondda West CLP, 1965-67, and of the Rhondda branch of the National Association of Labour Teachers. He was also a member of the Wood Green Borough Council. He acted as political agent to Iori Thomas MP in the general election of March 1966. When Thomas died the following year, Jones was chosen as his successor, and held
JONES, WALTER DAVID MICHAEL (1895 - 1974), painter and poet independently. Continuing to work hard as both painter and writer, Jones published a number of reviews and essays, and in 1951 completed his second major literary work, The Anathemata. This long, fragmentary text - 'very probably the finest long poem written in English this century,' wrote W. H. Auden - is Jones's most ambitious work. A 'great wandering work' (as Thomas Dilworth describes it), it unfolds a
JONES, WATCYN SAMUEL (1877 - 1964), agricultural administrator and principal of a theological college
JONES, WATKIN (Watcyn o Feirion; 1882 - 1967), postmaster, shopkeeper, folk poet, setter and tutor of cerdd dant ' and 'Y ffrwd wen', which continue to be popular with present day verse-setters. He played a prominent part in founding Cymdeithas Cerdd Dant Cymru, being one of the three conveners of the first public meeting at Bala on 10 November 1934 which led to the founding of the society. He served as treasurer from the beginning until 1950. He married Annie Thomas on 13 April 1906 and they had seven children
JONES, WILLIAM (1755 - 1821), Evangelical cleric One of the friends of Thomas Charles; born 18 November 1755 at Abergavenny, son of John Jones, clockmaker. He went to Jesus College, Oxford, in 1773 or 1774, and remained there till 1777 (Charles was there in 1775, and Jones was then his ' very intimate friend'); Jones, as his diaries begun at Oxford show, was a tolerably good scholar. Early in 1778, he became tutor in a Government servant's
JONES, WILLIAM (bu farw c. 1700) south-western Wales, Baptist minister . The church of Rhydwilym [the chapel bearing that name is on the Carmarthenshire bank of the eastern Cleddau ] had a wide geographical ambit, from mid-Cardigan to Amroth by the sea, from Haverfordwest to Llanllawddog; by 1715, according to the lists of Dr. John Evans, it had 900 members in Pembrokeshire alone - an obvious exaggeration, but a great tribute to the power and persistence of the
JONES, WILLIAM (Gwrgant; 1803 - 1886), lawyer and writer name of Gwilym Brwynog. He published a book called Gwreiddiau yr Iaith Gymraeg. Gwrgant was a popular adjudicator at eisteddfodau; as one of the three adjudicators at the Rhuddlan eisteddfod (1850) he read the adjudication awarding the chair prize for a poem in the open metres to Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd). Gwrgant took an active part in London Welsh activities all his life; he was a member
JONES, WILLIAM (1718 - 1773?), early Methodist exhorter, and possibly the first Anglesey Methodist by the historians of Anglesey Methodism, and Robert Jones of Rhos-lan, though he never mentions him by name, seems to hint at the reasons for his eclipse. It is certain that he adhered to Harris at the disruption, but Harris soon fell foul of him, thinking him an Antinomian. And Thomas William (1717 - 1765) of Eglwysilan hints in 1751 that Jones had become a Moravian. However that may have been, we
JONES, WILLIAM (bu farw 1679), Puritan minister a year; he was at Plas Teg when a licence was issued to him to preach under the Indulgence of 1672, dated 28 October. A few years later he joined the coadjutors of Thomas Gouge in translating religious books into Welsh - the two which he translated were originally written by Gouge himself, and both appeared in 1676 with the titles Gair i Bechaduriaid, a Gair i'r Sainct and Principlau neu Bennau y
JONES, WILLIAM (1675? - 1749), mathematician that his landlord (Bulkeley of Baron Hill) sent him up to London; after a period in a countinghouse there he became instructor on a man-of-war, and attracted the notice of admiral Anson. Tutorships in great families followed; two of his pupils, Thomas Parker (earl of Macclesfield) and Philip Yorke (earl Hardwicke) became Lords Chancellor. Macclesfield afterwards took him as tutor to his son, and
JONES, WILLIAM (Bleddyn; 1829? - 1903), antiquary, local historian, geologist, and collector of folk-lore , at the Caernarvon national eisteddfod in 1862, which won much praise, was published in Y Brython, 1862, 75-93, and reprinted under the title of Llawlyfr ar Ddaiareg Sir Gaernarfon, 1863. He collected much of the materials of his uncle John Thomas (Siôn Wyn o Eifion, 1786 - 1859), which were published in Gwaith Barddonol Sion Wyn o Eifion, 1861. Autograph letters from him, essays by him on folk-lore

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