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teulu JONES, smiths, poets, musicians and preachers Cilie, wife, Mary George (1853 - 1930) from the George family of Pembrokeshire, came to Blaencelyn in the parish of Llangrannog in 1876 to run the smithy. Their first eight children were born at the smithy; the family moved in 1889 to Cilie farm where the rest of the twelve children were born. Examples of Jeremiah Jones's poetry can be found in Awen Ysgafn y Cilie (1976). All his sons learned the
JONES, CADWALADR (1783 - 1867), Independent minister and first editor of Y Dysgedydd Born May 1783 at Deildre Uchaf, Llanuwchllyn, Meironnydd, the only child of John and Dorothy Cadwaladr. His parents were never Nonconformists and were not regarded as particularly devout, although they inclined to the Church of England. He was 11 years of age when George Lewis (1763 - 1822) became minister at Llanuwchllyn, and it was Dr. Lewis who admitted him to membership of the Old Chapel in
JONES, Sir CADWALADR BRYNER (1872 - 1954), a leading figure in Welsh agricultural education and eminent civil servant U.C.W., Aberystwyth. He was a member of the college council from 1920 till his death. He did much to ensure that the Welsh Plant Breeding Station, with George Stapledon as first director and Professor of Agricultural Botany, came to Aberystwyth. In recognition of his services to higher education the University of Wales awarded him the hon. degree of LL.D. in 1938. His official career was fittingly
JONES, DAVID GEORGE (1780 - 1879) Tir-Waun,, blacksmith
JONES, DAVID LEWIS (1945 - 2010), Librarian of the House of Lords array of high calibre, eloquent speakers to address the Society and increased turnout at meetings. For many years from 1998 he was also the secretary of the Lloyd George Statue Appeal Trust set up to achieve a memorial statue to David Lloyd George in Parliament Square, a commitment which proved an irksome, long-term undertaking, eventually achieved only in 2007 - to Jones's great delight and relief
JONES, EDMUND (1702 - 1793), Independent minister, and author , went in 1740 to Philip David. Disappointed, he removed in July 1740 to Pontypool and settled at the Transh, where he built an Independent meeting house but still retained charge of the Ebwy Fawr congregation. According to George Whitefield he sold his books for £15 to complete the building. A strong Calvinist and a zealous Evangelical, he was responsible for bringing Howel Harris to preach for the
JONES, EDWARD (1778 - 1837), Wesleyan Methodist minister Generally known as 'Edward Jones, Bathafarn'; born 9 May 1778 at Ruthin but brought up on Bathafarn farm, Llan-rhydd. The fifth of six children of Edward and Anne Jones, he was educated at Ruthin School, and, about 1796, went to Manchester to work in the cotton industry. Converted to Wesleyan Methodism under the preaching of George Marsden, he returned home in December 1779 and formed a Methodist
JONES, ELIZABETH MAY WATKIN (1907 - 1965), teacher and campaigner example, the inhabitants of Cwm Tryweryn appeared on Granada television's Under Fire programme, filmed in Manchester, brandishing their placards and with Elizabeth and her harp, a symbol of their cultural pride, placed amidst them. The many radio and television interviews in which Elizabeth participated included one on The Dragon's Teeth, where, alongside Megan Lloyd George, she argued against the
JONES, GARETH RICHARD VAUGHAN (1905 - 1935), linguist and journalist Born 13 August 1905, son of Edgar and Gwen Jones, Barry, Glamorganshire. He was educated at Barry County School (of which his father was headmaster), Aberystwyth College (first class hons. French), Trinity College, Cambridge (Modern Languages Tripos I and II, first class hons. French, German, Russian). In 1930, he became foreign affairs secretary to David Lloyd George. From 1931 to 1933 he was
JONES, GARETH RICHARD VAUGHAN (1905 - 1935), journalist experience before he could be considered for a permanent position. In January 1930 he went to work as foreign affairs advisor for David Lloyd George, a man for whom he had great respect, and produced reports on developments within the British Empire, the League of Nations and the Soviet Union. He travelled to report on the rising political, economic and ethnic tensions in central Europe, especially in
JONES, GEORGE DANIEL (1877 - 1955), master printer Born 1877 in Lampeter, Cardiganshire, the son of Daniel and Margaret (née Rees) Jones, Red Lion Fach, later of Harford Row, Lampeter, Cardiganshire. George was apprenticed to T.L. Davies, Caxton Press, Lampeter and thereafter joined the staff of a well-known firm of printers at Gloucester as an improver. Within a few years, on the advice of J. Gwenogvryn Evans, he joined the Oxford University
JONES, GRIFFITH (1683 - 1761), cleric and educational reformer Cymyn (1702 - 1782), was rejected more than once, but owing to the influence of Evan Evans, vicar of Clydeu, Pembrokeshire, he was at last ordained by bishop George Bull on 19 September 1708 (deacon) and 25 September 1708 (priest). His first curacies were at Penbryn, Cardiganshire (1708), Penrieth, Pembrokeshire (1709), and Laugharne, Carmarthenshire (1709), where he was also master of a S.P.C.K

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