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JONES, MORGAN GLYNDWR (1905 - 1995), poet, novelist and short story writer Glyn Jones was born at 16 Clare Street, Merthyr Tydfil, on 28 February 1905, the younger son of William Henry Jones (1873-1957), clerical worker at the GPO, and his wife Margaret (née Williams, 1897-1966), teacher. An elder brother, David Tydfilyn (1901-1968) became an H.M.I. A paternal grandfather David William Jones (1832-1900) had been a Welsh-language poet, known by his bardic name, Llwch
JONES, NATHANIEL CYNHAFAL (1832 - 1905), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet ) edited Charles o'r Bala, a Welsh fortnightly magazine for the use of Sunday schools. He published several volumes of his poems - Fy Awenydd, 1859, Elias y Thesbiad, 1869, Y Messiah, 1895, Y Bibl, 1895, Charles o'r Bala, 1898, and he and Richard Mills wrote a Welsh biography, Buchdraeth y Parch. John Mills, 1881. His chief literary accomplishment was the editing of the works of William Williams of
JONES, OWEN (Owain Myfyr; 1741 - 1814), a skinner in London and one of the most prominent figures in the literary life of Wales at the end of the 18th cent, and the beginning of the next Born 3 September 1741 at Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr, Denbighshire. As a young man he went to London as an apprentice to a skinner. He worked for Messrs. Kidney and Nutt in Ducksfoot Lane, and when he was about 40 years of age acquired their business for himself. His address from about 1782 onwards was 148 Upper Thames Street. He became a wealthy man, for, however much time he devoted to the work of
JONES, OWEN GETHIN (Gethin; 1816 - 1883), local historian Born 1 May 1816 at Tyn-y-cae, Penmachno, Caernarfonshire, to Owen and Grace Jones. The father was a stone mason, and the son was brought up in that craft, but later on became a carpenter, then a builder, and finally a contractor on a fairly large scale. He married (1843) Ann (died 1873), daughter of William Owen of Coetmor and granddaughter of Robert Jones, a very well-known drover, of Bwlch Bach
JONES, OWEN GLYNNE (1867 - 1899), mountaineer and schoolteacher they proceeded to 'put into effect our late friend's wish'. By this time George Abraham had married Jones's London - Welsh cousin, Winifred Davies, daughter of David Davies and a niece of ' Mynorydd ' (William Davies); as well as being a good climber trained by Jones, she had been to the universities of Wales (Bangor), London and Cambridge. It was she who ghosted George Abraham's numerous books on
JONES, OWEN THOMAS (1878 - 1967), Woodwardian Professor of Geology in the University of Cambridge the Geological Society in 1945, while the University of Wales awarded him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1958. In 1910 he married Ethel May, daughter of William Henry Reynolds of Haverfordwest, and they had two sons and a daughter. One son died in an aircraft accident in 1945. O.T. Jones died 5 May 1967.
JONES, OWEN WYNNE (Glasynys; 1828 - 1870), cleric, antiquary, story-writer, and poet , where Eben Fardd was his neighbour. In 1855 he was sent to take charge of a school at Llanfachreth, Meironnydd, where he came into contact with Ab Ithel, who was then at Llan-ym-mawddwy; they co-operated in arranging eisteddfodau in which Glasynys competed. He then joined the Rev. William Hughes at Beddgelert and probably went on to a college in Birmingham. He was ordained deacon 2 December 1860 by
JONES, (WILLIAM JOHN) PARRY (1891 - 1963), singer
JONES, PETER (Pedr Fardd; 1775 - 1845), poet and hymnist Born 17 September 1775, son of William Jones, a weaver (or tailor) and country bard, Brynengan, Dolbenmaen, Caernarfonshire. He followed his father's trade, but removed while young to Liverpool, where, it is said, he spent some years as schoolmaster, and where he spent the rest of his life. A Calvinistic Methodist, he was elder of the old Pall Mall chapel for many years. As a boy he showed poetic
JONES, RHYS (1713 - 1801), antiquary and poet additions, by Cynddelw (Robert Ellis, 1812 - 1875). It should be observed that Rhys Jones was living at Tyddyn Mawr and not at Blaenau when he published his Gorchestion, which is a selection of the works of Aneirin, Taliesin, Llywarch Hen, and other poets; Rhys Jones wrote his awdl in praise of William Vaughan of Cors-y-gedol on the pattern of the awdlau by Gutun Owen and William Llŷn included in this
JONES, RICHARD (1787 - 1855?), printer and publisher Printer and publisher with presses at Dolgelley, Pontypool, Merthyr Tydfil, Machynlleth, and Llanfyllin. Born 26 May 1787 at Bryntirion, Bont-ddu, Meironnydd, the son of William Jones and Catherine (Evans). Numerous details concerning the career of this important Welsh printer and publisher are given by Ifano Jones in his History of Printing and Printers in Wales, 1925; a summary must, therefore
JONES, ROBERT (1769 - 1835), cleric and friend of William Wordsworth; born at Plas-yn-llan, Llangynhafal, near Ruthin, in November 1769, the son of Edward Jones, attorney. He was educated at Ruthin Grammar School and S. John's College, Cambridge, where he was a fellow-student of Wordsworth 's. He accompanied the poet on one walking tour on the Continent in 1790, and on another through North Wales in 1791. Ordained at S. Asaph in

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