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JONES, SAMUEL (1628 - 1697), Nonconformist minister and schoolmaster meetings and to preach as Presbyterian and Independent. To him the difference between Presbyterian and Independent was but slight - just as it was to Stephen Hughes and Daniel Higgs, the Independents who 'recommended' him. He died in July 1697, highly respected by the gentry and by common folk. [He should not be confused with the subject of the next article.]
JONES, THEOPHILUS (1759 - 1812), historian of Brecknock . He was educated at Christ College school under David Griffith (1726 - 1816); Edward Davies (1756 - 1831), his lifelong friend, was his schoolmate. Jones practised in law for a considerable period, but on being appointed deputy-registrar of the archdeaconry he gave up his private practice and devoted himself to historical research. He married Mary Price, daughter of Rhys Price of Porth-y-rhyd (near
JONES, THOMAS (1848 - 1900), surgeon in 1890 professor of surgery in what was then the Victoria University. He became chief surgeon of the Welsh hospital (see Hughes, Alfred William) in South Africa during the Boer War, and died there 18 June 1900.
JONES, THOMAS GRUFFYDD (Tafalaw Bencerdd; 1832 - 1898), musician went to Kenfig Hill, and thence to Cwmavon. In 1860 he visited North Wales and stayed on as private secretary to Thomas Gee. He left Denbigh in 1863 for Aberdare, where he set up a printing office at which he could produce Y Gwyddonydd Cerddorol. His ' Gwarchae Harlech,' a cantata, was performed by ' Côr Caradog ' (see Jones, Griffith Rhys) in 1865. He emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1866, was ordained
JONES, THOMAS GWYNN (1871 - 1949), poet, writer, translator and scholar . 1916); 'Madog' (1918, in Y Beirniad); 'Broseliàwnd' (1922); 'Anatiomaros' (1925); 'Gwlad Hud' (1919-25). His main works, prose and verse, were collected and published in 6 vols. by Hughes & Son, Wrexham, between 1932 and 1937. Caniadau (1934) contains more or less the same works as the Gregynog Detholiad but with the addition of 'Argoed' (1927), while Manion (1932) contains the poet's personal
JONES, THOMAS HUGHES (1895 - 1966), poet, writer and teacher in September 1909, together with William Ambrose Bebb, Evan Jenkins, D. Lloyd Jenkins and Griffith John Williams. All of these boys came under the influence of outstanding teachers, especially Samuel Morris Powell, to whom generations of pupils owed a great debt. At this time, Thomas Hughes Jones made a name for himself by winning chairs at local eisteddfodau for his poetry. He was given the
JONES, THOMAS IVOR (1896 - 1969), solicitor Hughes, of Solway, Buarth, Aberystwyth. Never one to seek the limelight, he was a quiet man but with mischievous humour and a steadfast nature. He died 29 March 1969, aged 72, and was buried at Llanuwchllyn.
JONES, THOMAS JOHN RHYS (1916 - 1997), teacher, lecturer and author Welsh-language writer T. Hughes Jones. He and his family settled in Gresford where he took over the editorship of Yr Athro ('The Teacher'), the journal of Undeb Athrawon Cymreig (1960-64). Following the death of J. T. Bowen, he prepared a new version of Teach Yourself Welsh entitled Teach Yourself Living Welsh (1977). He took early retirement due to his wife's poor state of health, and he and Stella
JONES, THOMAS TUDNO (Tudno; 1844 - 1895), cleric and poet Born at Llandudno 28 April 1844, the son of Thomas Jones and Mary, daughter of Griffith Griffiths of Bryncelyn Fawr, Llanengan, Llŷn. Having attended local schools till the age of 13, he went to work in a shop kept by his brother. In 1867 he was appointed editor of the Llandudno Directory, and was for a time on the staff of the Caernarvon and Denbigh Herald at Caernarvon. From 1874 till 1880 he
JONES, WILLIAM (bu farw c. 1700) south-western Wales, Baptist minister . Thirty had been baptized before the Olchonites had arrived; before the end of 1669 there were fifty-five members; by the end of 1675 eighty; by 1689, 113. These numbers testify to intense and persistent propaganda; for these Baptists had to survive the fierce impact of the penal laws, the natural opposition of the Independents nurtured by Stephen Hughes, and the still more fierce opposition of the
JONES, WILLIAM (1770 - 1837), Calvinistic Methodist minister widow, of Mathafarn (the ancestral home of Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn) in Llanwrin, Montgomeryshire, and removed there, setting up as a cattle dealer. He began preaching in 1802. In 1805, he removed to the neighbouring farm of Dôl-y-fonddu, where he died 1 March 1837. There is a memoir (1840) by John Hughes of Pontrobert.
JONES, WILLIAM (1826 - 1899), secretary to the Peace Society as successor to Henry Richard, Tregaron; son of John Jones, a Ruthin Quaker, and great-grandson of Jonathan Hughes, the bard mentioned by Borrow in Wild Wales. William was educated at Ackworth Quaker School. Later he was appointed head of a commission for the relief of distress during the Franco-German war of 1870-1. He had discussions with president Cleveland and Li Hung Chang and other

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