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JONES, WILLIAM (bu farw 1893) - gweler JONES, ABEL
JONES, Sir WILLIAM (1746 - 1794), philologist - gweler JONES, WILLIAM
JONES, WILLIAM (bu farw 1820), president - gweler JONES, EDWARD
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
JONES, WILLIAM ELWYN EDWARDS (1904 - 1989), Labour politician He was born on 4 January 1904 [some sources cite 1905], the son of the Reverend Robert William Jones, a minister with the Calvinistic Methodists at Bootle, and Elizabeth Jane, his wife. He was educated at Bottle Secondary School and Ffestiniog Grammar School and the University College of North Wales, Bangor and the University of London. He qualified as a solicitor in 1927, was appointed clerk to
JONES, WILLIAM GARMON (1884 - 1937), professor of history and librarian of Liverpool University Born 15 November 1884 at Birkenhead, son of William Jones of Birkenhead (of the firm of Jones, Burton and Co., engineers, Liverpool) and Jane Jones of Mold. He was educated at King William's College, Isle of Man, his intention being to qualify for a business career. He actually worked in a Liverpool office for two years and in 1903 went to Liverpool University to study for a degree in engineering
JONES, WILLIAM HENRY (1860 - 1932), journalist and local historian Born 4 February 1860 at the Mumbles, near Swansea, the son of William Henry Jones (1826 - 1912) and his wife Ann (Fisher). He was educated at the Goat Street British School, Swansea. For years afterwards he worked as a journalist and editor of newspapers at Swansea, Caernarvon (1879), Exeter, Norwich, and Yarmouth; he returned to Swansea in 1913. He married, 1885, Annie Elizabeth, daughter of
JONES, WILLIAM JENKYN (1852 - 1925) Brittany, Calvinistic Methodist missionary Scriptures and religious tracts. He was helped for a period by his brother, Evan Jones. He published a Breton hymnary, Telen ar Cristen and with Professor le Braz translated Genesis into Breton. He was elected a member of the Société Archéologique. He married Fanny Wilhelm. In 1922 he was given the degree of M.A., Wales (honoris causa). He died 10 February 1925.

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