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JONES, ALWYN RICE (1934 - 2007), Archbishop of Wales secretary for the Student Christian Movement and SCM in Schools. In 1965, his mentor, Bishop Gwilym Williams, appointed him director of education for the diocese of Bangor, as well as chaplain of St Winifred's School, Llanfairfechan. Williams also made Jones his youth chaplain, warden of ordinands, examining chaplain and honorary chaplain of Bangor Cathedral. In addition to these roles, Jones was an
JONES, ARTHUR (1776 - 1860), Independent minister he kept one of the Dr. Williams charity-schools which, on the death of Benjamin Jones (1756 - 1823), had been transferred from Pwllheli to Bangor. He published Pynciau Athrawiaethol, 1838, and Rhetoric, neu Areithyddiaeth Ysgrythyrol, 1810. Early in his ministry he took a prominent part in the theological controversies of the day, and was one of the first in Wales to preach the ideas of Edward
JONES, BASSETT (fl. 1634-1659), scholar and physician Son of Richard Jones, of Michaelston-super-Ely, and Jane, his wife, daughter of Thomas Bassett, esquire and high sheriff, of Miskin, Glamorganshire Bassett entered Jesus College, Oxford, in 1634, and afterwards the Dutch university of Franeker, and other seats of learning on the Continent, where he studied physics and chemistry. He returned home, and in 1648 (the year of the battle of St. Fagans
JONES, BENJAMIN (1865 - 1953), Chancellor of Bangor Cathedral Born in Minffordd, Llangeinwen, Anglesey, May 17, 1865, son of Thomas Jones, a farm labourer and his wife Ann (née Williams). After a period of student-teaching in St. Paul's School Bangor he decided to enter the Church. He was educated 1889-90 in Bangor school of theology where reading, preaching and ministering (under the wing of the church hostel) were taught, and in 1890 became a member of
JONES, BENJAMIN (1756 - 1823), Independent minister -dref chapel, Llanfyllin, Ann Griffiths, the famous hymn-writer, was converted. About 1805 he published Ffynhonnau Iachawdwriaeth as a counterblast to John Wesley's essay on Election. He also published an able booklet, Athrawiaeth y Drindod mewn Tair Pregeth, to counteract the views expressed by Peter Williams about the Bible and particularly the Sabellianism of his book, Dirgelwch Duwioldeb, 1792
JONES, BENJAMIN MAELOR (1894 - 1982), educationalist and author born 6 July 1894, the fifth son of Edward and Jane Jones, 13 Yale Street, Johnstown, near Rhosllannerchrugog, Denbighshire. Eleven children were born to them, but three died in infancy. His father, a carpenter at the Hafod colliery, hailed from Llansanffraid Glyndyfrdwy, Meironnydd, and his mother from Llansanffraid Glynceiriog, Denbighshire. (The Edeirnion poet, Edward Jones ('Iorwerth Goes Hir
JONES, CADWALADR (1783 - 1867), Independent minister and first editor of Y Dysgedydd 1803. He began to preach in 1806 and the same year was admitted to Wrexham Academy, at which he paid his own expenses, spending the summer at home on the farm. William Williams (1781 - 1840) and Michael Jones were his fellow students for part of the time. In May 1811 he was ordained as the successor of Hugh Pugh (1779 - 1809) at Brithdir; 'his ministry extended from the Garneddwen to Barmouth, and
JONES, Sir CADWALADR BRYNER (1872 - 1954), a leading figure in Welsh agricultural education and eminent civil servant Born 6 April 1872, son of Enoch Jones, Cefnmaelan, Dolgellau, Merionethshire, and Jane, the daughter of Lewis Jones, Maesbryner. He was educated at Dolgellau grammar school and Aspatria agricultural college; he received the degree of M.Sc. from Durham University and was a Fellow of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. He was appointed assistant lecturer at U.C.N.W., Bangor in 1893
JONES, Sir CYNAN (ALBERT) EVANS (Cynan; 1895 - 1970), poet, dramatist and eisteddfodwr Born 14 April 1895, the son of Richard Albert Jones and Hannah Jane (née Evans), Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire. He received his education at the elementary school and the County School at Pwllheli, and University College, Bangor (on a Baptist scholarship), where he graduated in 1916. In the same year he enlisted in the R.A.M.C., serving in Salonika and France as a member of the 86th Field Ambulance
JONES, DAFYDD (1711 - 1777), hymn-writer to live c. 1763 and died 30 August 1777; he was buried at Crug-y-bar. He is remembered as a hymn-writer. A hymn written by him appeared in one of the parts of Williams of Pantycelyn's Aleluia, 1747. He began to translate into Welsh the psalms and hymns of Isaac Watts and these were published in two volumes: Salmau Dafydd, 1753 (2nd imp., 1766) and Hymnau a Chaniadau Ysprydol, 1775. He also
JONES, DAFYDD (Dafydd Siôn Siâms; 1743 - 1831), musician, poet, and book-binder , and another (1796) on the death of his second wife, Jane Hugh. He died 30 March 1831 and was buried in the burial ground of Nazareth chapel, Penrhyndeudraeth. His work has the interest of marking the transition between the latter half of the 18th cent, and the early phase of 19th century Welsh poetry.
JONES, DAFYDD RHYS (1877 - 1946), schoolmaster and musician Born 10 June 1877 in Maes Comet, Drofa Dulog, Patagonia, one of the 10 children of Dafydd Jones and Rachel (née Williams) his wife. The father was among the first group to land on the beaches of Patagonia. He came from the Blaenporth area, Cardiganshire, of the same family as John Jones, Blaenannerch (1807 - 1875). His mother's family had emigrated from Bryn-mawr to the Welsh settlement in Rio

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