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JONES, THOMAS (c. 1622 - 1682), Protestant controversialist Born at Oswestry, the son of John Williams (son of William ap Meredith of Pwllheli), and probably nephew of Henry Williams, town clerk of Oswestry in 1623. His studies at Jesus College, Oxford, interrupted by the Civil War, were resumed in 1646, when on taking the covenant he was awarded a Fellowship at University College by the parliamentary visitors before graduating (B.A. 23 February 1650, M.A
JONES, THOMAS (Twm Shôn Catti; 1532 - 1609), landowner, antiquary, genealogist, and bard Of Fountain Gate near Tregaron, Cardiganshire, the natural son of a Cardiganshire landowner. According to the diary of John Dee he was born 1 August or 10 August 1532 (J. Roberts and Andrew G. Watson, John Dee's Library Catalogue (1990, 45-46). Thomas Jones visited Dee in London in 1590 and Manchester in 1596, and they corresponded with each other in 1597 : Dee called him 'my cousin'. He is
JONES, Sir THOMAS (bu farw 1731), treasurer and secretary of the 'Society of Antient Britons' in London, and author Lane, Gent.', admitted 17 February 1707-8. But in the Gray's Inn register, under 20 November 1713, we find 'Thomas Jones, of Newcastle, co. Glamorgan, gent (admitted to Lincoln's Inn, February 10, 1707, by certificate of John Hungerford, Treasurer.' Despite the week's discrepancy, this would seem to be our man; if so he came from Bridgend. In Old Wales, i, 38, W. R. Williams prints the following
JONES, THOMAS (1819 - 1882), Independent minister Born at Rhayader, Radnorshire, 17 July 1819, son of John Jones (died 1829), a commercial traveller. He was apprenticed with a flannel manufacturer at Llanwrtyd, but in 1831 became a collier at Bryn-mawr, and later (1839) at Llanelly,Carmarthenshire. He began preaching with the Calvinistic Methodists, but joined the Independents in 1841. After some schooling at Llanelly and at Rhyd-y-bont, he was
JONES, THOMAS (1860 - 1932), farmer and poet published Caneuon, 1902; Beirdd Uwchaled [an anthology of the poets of that region], 1930; and Pitar Paw, 1932. He wrote the life of John Jones of Glan-y-gors for the 2nd imp. of Seren Tan Gwmwl, 1923, and some of his writings are to be found in Cymru (O.M.E.), Gen., Yr Haul, etc. He was an authority on setting penillion to the accompaniment of the harp.
JONES, THOMAS (Canrhawdfardd; 1823 - 1904), preacher, printer, and musician Born 2 July 1823 at Bwlch-y-creigiau, near Nannerch, Flintshire, the son of John and Mary Jones. He learned to read music when quite young; when only 16 he led the singing in the local Wesleyan chapel. He also started to hold music classes in the districts surrounding his home. In 1849 he began to preach with the Wesleyans; in 1851 he moved to a place near Holywell and, from there, to Lixwm. In
JONES, THOMAS (Glan Alun; 1811 - 1866), Calvinistic Methodist minister and man of letters Born 11 March 1811 at 'Cefn-y-gadair shop,' Mold, son of John Jones, formerly of Cefn-y-gadair in Llanelidan, and before that of Hendre, Derwen, Denbighshire, who was son of JOSEPH JONES, of Y Seinad near Ruthin. ' Joseff y Seinad,' an Antinomian, was one of the sectaries who found a following after the Methodist disruption of 1750 - see on him J. H. Morris, Hanes Methodistiaeth Liverpool, i, 226
JONES, THOMAS (1742 - 1803), landscape painter Jenkin Jenkins, and proceeded thence to Jesus College, Oxford, where he matriculated 11 July 1759. It was intended that he should take holy orders, but on the death of John Hope, his mother's uncle, in 1761, he left Oxford and devoted himself to painting. He entered William Shipley's drawing school in the Strand, London, then directed by Henry Pars, in November 1761, and in March 1763 he became Richard
JONES, THOMAS (1761 - 1831), Calvinistic Methodist minister and Biblical commentator Williams, published in 1770, but the dates show that this cannot be right, and D. E. Jenkins has suggested that Jones was concerned rather with the press-correcting of ' John Canne's Bible,' in the edition published in 1796 to compete with Peter Williams and David Jones's edition of the same work. Thomas Jones became a pillar of Calvinistic Methodism in the town, and was one of the trustees of the 1813
JONES, THOMAS (1769 - 1850), Baptist minister Born at Llangollen, he had his religious upbringing in the celebrated church of Glynceiriog. On his father's side he was descended from the Dôl Hir family of Glynceiriog. He and his neighbour, John Edwards, were ordained joint ministers of Glynceiriog 2 July 1794. By 1796 the views of Robert Sandeman had set the people by the ears and there was a schism in the church, one party under the
JONES, THOMAS (1752 - 1845), cleric Born at Cefn yr Esgair, Hafod, Cardiganshire, 2 April 1752, son of John Thomas. In 1765 he went to school at Ystrad Meurig, and after nine years there he was ordained deacon in September 1774 and licensed to a curacy at Eglwys-fach and Llangynfelyn, Cardiganshire. In 1779 he moved to Leintwardine, Herefordshire, and after serving at Longnor (Salop), Oswestry, and Loppington, he went to Great
JONES, THOMAS GWYNN (1871 - 1949), poet, writer, translator and scholar later published in Gwlad y Gân a Chaniadau Eraill (1902). W.J. Gruffydd in 1949 referred to the poem as juvenilia but recalled its effect on him as a thunderbolt. In 1902 also his poem 'Ymadawiad Arthur' won the chair at the Bangor national eisteddfod, under the adjudication of John Morris-Jones, a poem which secured for him a unique place in the emerging world of new Welsh poetry. He again won the

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