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JONES, CADWALADR (1783 - 1867), Independent minister and first editor of Y Dysgedydd from Bwlch Oerddrws to the uplands of Ganllwyd.' Cadwaladr Jones gave up charge of Llanelltyd and Cutiau in 1818, and of Brithdir and Rhyd-y-main in 1839, confining his labours to Dolgelley and Islaw'r-dref until 1858. After that, and until his death in 1867, he worked with E. Davies of Trawsfynydd at Llanelltyd and with E. Ellis of Brithdir at Tabor. He was buried in Brithdir cemetery. He was known
JONES, DAFYDD RHYS (1877 - 1946), schoolmaster and musician to Wales to be educated in Cardigan board school; Ardwyn school, Aberystwyth; and Newcastle Emlyn grammar school. Contemporaries at Newcastle Emlyn were William and David Davies of Pontrhydygroes with whom he spent part of his holidays, thus beginning his very long association with that area. He gained a teacher's certificate at Aberystwyth College, and taught in Corris, Bryn-mawr, and Park Boys
JONES, DANIEL EVAN (1860 - 1941), author Born 22 September 1860, at Soar, Llangeler, Carmarthenshire, son of John Jones and his wife of Bargod Villa, Drefach. He was educated at local schools and by the Rev. W. E. Davies at the Pen-rhiw academy. In his youth he worked as a mason and bridge builder. Later he kept flannel and cloth factories in Dre-fach, Llandysul and Machen. He cultivated his literary interests from an early age. In 1899
JONES, DANIEL JENKYN (1912 - 1993), composer Daniel Jones was born on 7 December 1912 in Pembroke, the second son of Jenkyn Davies Jones, a bank manager, and his wife Margaret Falconer Jones. The family moved soon afterwards to Swansea, and Daniel Jones's name is inextricably linked with that city. His father was a composer and his mother a singer, and he showed early musical promise. As a pupil at Swansea Grammar School he became a close
JONES, DAVID (Dafydd Brydydd Hir, Dafydd Siôn Pirs; 1732 - 1782?), poet, tailor, and schoolmaster of Anglesey (1735-86) (p. 736) he wrote an elegy upon the latter. J.H. Davies gives a list of printed ballads by him (Bibliography of Welsh Ballads, 85, 676, 684, 721); the most famous of these was his song in praise of the harp. Some of his work appeared in Cyfaill y Cymro, 1767. It is believed that he died c. 1782.
JONES, DAVID (1708? - 1785) Trefriw, poet, collector of manuscripts, publisher, and printer printer at Trefriw. The first output of this press appeared in 1776, the first major work being Histori yr Iesu Sanctaidd in 1776, a Welsh translation of the 'History of the Holy Jesus,' by William Smith. He continued to print until his death on 20 October 1785. His uncle, John Davies (Siôn Dafydd Las, died 1694), is separately noticed.
JONES, DAVID JAMES (Gwenallt; 1899 - 1968), poet, critic and scholar Born 18 May 1899 at Pontardawe, Glamorganshire, the eldest of three children of Thomas ('Ehedydd') Jones and his wife Mary. His parents were from Carmarthenshire and his consciousness of his roots was an important element in his personality, as is seen in his essay on Rhydycymerau in the D.J. Williams presentation Festschrift (ed, J. Gwyn Griffiths, 1965). The family moved to Allt-wen and
JONES, DAVID JOHN (1906 - 1978), opera singer recordings. According to those who heard him it was a sonorous voice, which could fill the largest halls without the aid of a microphone. Bruce Dargavel said that his voice combined the size of the Amazon with the clarity of a Welsh mountain stream. His varied career is a good example of success in the world of singing without the advantage of formal education. He married in 1934 Mary Phillips (b. 1912
JONES, DAVID MORRIS (1887 - 1957), minister (Presb.) and professor Davies Lecture (in Welsh) delivered by him in 1953 on ' God the Creator and God the Saviour ' was not published. He published Llên a dysgeidiaeth Israel hyd gwymp Samaria (1929), Efengyl Ioan a'i Hystyr (1944), and a commentary on the first epistle to the Corinthians (1952).
JONES, DILLWYN OWEN PATON (1923 - 1984), jazz pianist held at Nice in 1949, and subsequently in Vic Lewis's band and on board the liner Queen Mary, which enabled him to visit jazz clubs in New York. He also played with several other bands in London and presented the pioneering BBC programme 'Jazz Club'. From 1958 he led his own London-based trio. In 1961 he emigrated to the USA and spent the rest of his life in New York, playing with a number of
JONES, DORA HERBERT (1890 - 1974), singer and administrator University College of Wales, Aberystwyth to study Welsh. During her time at Aberystwyth she came under the influence of the folk-song collector Mary Davies, and was a member of a quartet which sang folk-songs and performed at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1911. After graduating in 1912 she took a year's course in palaeography before her appointment as secretary to John Herbert Lewis, the M. P. for Flintshire
JONES, EDMUND (1702 - 1793), Independent minister, and author always welcome at the latter's Trevecka college. He was married but childless; his wife Mary (born in 1696) died 1 August 1770. Their married life was very happy, but it is a baseless legend that Whitefield decided to find a wife after seeing their happy state. Jones was always poor, but always generous. He was known to have given his greatcoat on one occasion and his shirt on another to poorer people

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