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JONES, WATKIN (Watcyn o Feirion; 1882 - 1967), postmaster, shopkeeper, folk poet, setter and tutor of cerdd dant versed in harmony and counterpoint, he was an external examiner of the College of Tonic Sol-fa for many years. He was also proficient in cynghanedd and had the contents of Cerdd Dafod by Sir John Morris-Jones at the tips of his fingers. He won a number of bardic chairs at local eisteddfodau. He contributed significantly to making the art of singing to the accompaniment of the harp (cerdd dant) more
JONES, Sir WILLIAM (1888 - 1961), administrator and politician
JONES, WILLIAM (1857 - 1915), Member of Parliament Welsh Calvinistic Methodist church at Holloway, but was excommunicated in 1887 for (presumably) advocating too advanced opinions as Sunday school teacher. From 1888 to 1894 Oxford was his home; there he acted (it is thought) as a private tutor, and began a life-long friendship with Sir John Rhys. During his stay in London he became greatly interested in politics, as a Liberal, and developed into one
JONES, Sir WILLIAM (1566 - 1640), judge was the eldest son of William ap Griffith ap John (died 1587) and of his first wife, Margaret, daughter of Humphrey Wynn ap Maredudd of Cesail Gyfarch (died 1583), first cousin to the grandfather of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir. His great-grandfather, John ap Robert ap Llywelyn ab Ithel, alias John Roberts, of Castellmarch (Llangïan), was among the first batch of Caernarvonshire local officials
JONES, WILLIAM (1675? - 1749), mathematician were bought by Sir John Williams and catalogued by J. Gwenogvryn Evans - they are today (with Richard Morris's notes and indexes) in the National Library of Wales. William Jones's youngest child Sir WILLIAM JONES (1746 - 1794), philologist and an authority on Hindu law Literature and Writing Scholarship and Languages Law There is a biography (Memoirs of Sir W. Jones, 1804) by lord Teignmouth, and a
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
JONES, WILLIAM (1726 - 1795), antiquary and poet inhabitants to emigrate to the U.S.A. and set up a Welsh colony in Kentucky. In this connection he wrote to Sir William Pulteney, M.P. for Shrewsbury, to ask him to raise the matter in Parliament, and also to Mr. Pinckney, the American ambassador in 1792 and 1794, but nothing came of his plan. He loathed all forms of oppression and every kind of adulation of the English. In 1786 he wrote on behalf of the
JONES, Sir WILLIAM (1746 - 1794), philologist - gweler JONES, WILLIAM
JONES, WILLIAM GARMON (1884 - 1937), professor of history and librarian of Liverpool University Miscellany); ' Bosworth Field, an episode of Welsh history ' (Trans. Liverpool Welsh National Society), 1912; York and Lancaster (Bell's 'Source Books of English History'); ' Welsh Nationalism and Henry Tudor ' (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1917-18). In 1923 he married Eluned, only daughter of (Sir) John Edward Lloyd of Bangor. He died 28 May 1937 and was buried in the family
JONES, WILLIAM OWEN (Eos y Gogledd; 1868 - 1928), musician study music under Joseph Parry. From 1907 to 1927 he lived in Glamorgan - at Cilfynydd and afterwards at Merthyr Tydfil, being choir-master of Soar Chapel in the latter place. He conducted choirs and composed songs (e.g., ' Telynau'r Saint') and anthems. But he is best remembered in connection with his work for penillion -singing - both as a singer, exponent, and adjudicator. He returned to Blaenau
KADWALADR, SION (fl. 1750-1765), writer of ballads and interludes . The scenes are lively and the satire keen, and the author stands high in the second class of 18th century interludists. He should not be confused with the John Cadwaladr, whose ballads Sir O. M. Edwards printed in Beirdd y Berwyn.
KATHERYN of BERAIN (Mam Cymru, The mother of Wales; 1534/5 - 1591) Born in 1534/5, Katheryn was the daughter of Tudur ap Robert Vychan of Berain, Denbighshire, by his wife Jane, daughter of Sir Roland Velville (died 1527), a natural son of Henry VII, whom Henry made constable of Beaumaris castle. Katheryn, who is said to have been a ward of queen Elizabeth, ultimately acquired by mortgage Penmynydd in Anglesey. She was married four times: (1) to JOHN SALUSBURY

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