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JONES, WILLIAM (1851 - 1931), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 27 July 1851, second son of William and Elizabeth Jones of Pantydeuddwr, Pen-twyn, Carmarthenshire. He was educated at the Board School, Llannon, Parcyfelfed school, Carmarthen, and Trevecka College. He began to preach in 1874, was ordained in 1879, and became successively minister of Moriah (Treboeth, 1879-80; Bethania, Morriston, 1880-1904; retiring to Cross Hands for a year; Seion (Forest
JONES, WILLIAM (Gwilym Myrddin; 1863 - 1946), poet Born Llwyndinawed farm, Cil-y-cwm, near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, 12 April 1863, son of Evan Jones and his wife. His schooldays were restricted by the needs of the farm. In 1886 he married Elizabeth Jones of Pumsaint and about the end of 1898 he left his native area and settled at Betws, Ammanford. For a time he was bailiff on a farm near Ammanford and later secured a post as lampman at the
JONES, Sir WILLIAM (1888 - 1961), administrator and politician Born 27 June 1888, the son of Hugh and Mary Jones of Gellifor in the Clwyd valley, Denbighshire. He was educated in schools at Llanrwst and Denbigh, and began his career as a clerk in a solicitor's office. Jones became a solicitor himself in 1922, and was appointed to a post within the Denbighshire County Council. He served as Clerk of the Peace and as Clerk to the County Council from 1930 until
JONES, WILLIAM (1896 - 1961), poet and minister Born 24 September 1896 at Trefriw, Caernarfonshire, son of Henry Jones, Congregationalist minister, and his wife Margaret (Madgie), daughter of William Jones, Presbyterian minister of Trawsfynydd. He was educated at Llanrwst county school (1908) and he entered University College of North Wales Bangor in 1914 and Bala-Bangor College 1914-16. He graduated in Welsh and Hebrew in 1917. He was
JONES, WILLIAM (bu farw 1820), president - gweler JONES, EDWARD
JONES, Sir WILLIAM (1746 - 1794), philologist - gweler JONES, WILLIAM
JONES, WILLIAM (bu farw 1893) - gweler JONES, ABEL
JONES, WILLIAM ARTHUR (1892 - 1970), musician Born at Caernarfon, 5 April 1892, son of J.R. Gwyndaf Jones, proof-reader for Y Genedl, and Elizabeth Jones his wife. On his father's side he was related to Richard Jones, ' Gwyndaf Eryri ', while his mother was the daughter of John Jones, ' Eos Bradwen '. Because of his mother's family connections he was known as ' William Bradwen ' when he was a child at school, and he chose to keep the name to
JONES, WILLIAM BASIL (TICKELL) (1822 - 1897), bishop Son of William Tilsley Jones of Gwynfryn, Llangynfelyn, Cardiganshire, and Jane his wife. Born at Cheltenham, 2 January 1822, he was educated at Shrewsbury and Trinity College, Oxford, where he was scholar in 1842-5, and was placed in the second class in Lit. Hum. in 1844. He took his B.A. in 1844 and M.A. in 1847, was a Fellow successively of Queen's and University Colleges, and took a prominent
JONES, WILLIAM BRADWEN - gweler JONES, WILLIAM ARTHUR
JONES, WILLIAM COLLISTER (1772 - ?), printer Christened 12 July 1772, son of William and Sarah Jones, Chester. W. C. Jones and Thomas Crane were printing Welsh books in partnership from about 1796; in 1797 they began to print George Lewis, Drych Ysgrythyrol. In 1798 they arranged to print Welsh religious works for Thomas Charles, Bala, and Thomas Jones, Denbigh; in that year, however, the name of Crane disappears from the imprints. W. C
JONES, WILLIAM ELLIS (Cawrdaf; 1795 - 1848), poet and man of letters Born 9 October 1795, at Tyddyn Siôn, Abererch, Caernarfonshire. Having received his education at a local school and from his father, Ellis Jones, who was himself a schoolmaster, he was in 1808 apprenticed as a printer with his cousin, Richard Jones (1787 - 1855). On completing his apprenticeship he was engaged by another cousin of his, Lewis Evan Jones, at Caernarvon. There he came to know Dafydd

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