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JONES, SAMUEL, Methodist elder - gweler JONES, ROBERT
JONES, SAMUEL (1796 - 1883), banker - gweler LOYD, LEWIS
JONES, SAMUEL MAURICE (1853 - 1932), artist Born at Mochdre, Denbighshire, 1853, son of the Rev. John Jones (1820 - 1886), Calvinistic Methodist minister. He was educated at Caernarvon, Liverpool, and London; in London he met Ruskin and Holman Hunt and had his work criticized by them. Deciding to devote himself to painting, he settled at Caernarvon as a landscape painter, working mainly in water-colour, his favourite fields being the
JONES, SARAH RHIANNON DAVIES (1921 - 2014), author and lecturer Rhiannon Davies Jones was born on 4 November 1921 in Llanbedr, Meirioneth, the second daughter of Hugh Davies Jones (1872-1924), a Baptist minister, and his wife Laura (née Owen, 1887-1977), a teacher. She had one sister, Annie Davies Evans (née Jones). Her father was brought up near Oswestry, but his original family home was Derwen Fawr farm, Corwen, which the family had to leave in the 1880s
JONES, SHÂN EMLYN (1936 - 1997), singer Shân Emlyn was born in Oxford on 8 February 1936, the daughter of Emlyn Jones and his wife Joanna (née Owen). The family lived in Oxford, where the father was a clerk in Morris Motors and a member of the works band, until the beginning of the Second World War, when they returned to Wales, settling first in Felinheli and then in Pwllheli. With a trombonist father and a mother who was a music
JONES, SIMON BARTHOLOMEUS (1894 - 1964), Independent minister - gweler JONES
JONES, T. LLEW - gweler JONES, THOMAS LLEWELYN
JONES, TERENCE GRAHAM PARRY (1942 - 2020), actor, director, writer and popular historian Terry Jones was born on 1 February 1942 in Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire, the second son of Alick George Parry-Jones, a bank clerk, and his wife Dilys Louisa (née Newnes). He first met his father on the platform of Colwyn Bay railway station when he returned from India after serving with the RAF during World War Two. When Terry was four, the family moved to Surrey where he attended primary school in
JONES, THEOPHILUS (1759 - 1812), historian of Brecknock . He was educated at Christ College school under David Griffith (1726 - 1816); Edward Davies (1756 - 1831), his lifelong friend, was his schoolmate. Jones practised in law for a considerable period, but on being appointed deputy-registrar of the archdeaconry he gave up his private practice and devoted himself to historical research. He married Mary Price, daughter of Rhys Price of Porth-y-rhyd (near
JONES, Sir THEOPHILUS (bu farw 1685), governor of Dublin - gweler JONES, MICHAEL
JONES, THEOPHILUS - gweler JONES, JENKIN
JONES, Sir THOMAS (1614 - 1692), chief justice . and in Williams, Montgomeryshire worthies. The son of Edward Jones, of Sandford (Salop), he went from Shrewsbury school to Emmanuel College, Cambridge (B.A. 1632), but had entered Lincoln's Inn in 1629, and was called in 1634. During the Civil War and the Commonwealth, he 'trimmed,' but after 1660 he rose rapidly: serjeant, 1669; king's serjeant and knight, 1671; judge of the King's Bench, 1676

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1057 - 1068 of 1933 for "Griffith Hartwell Jones"