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JONES, JOHN HUGH (1843 - 1910), Roman Catholic priest Born at Tanrhiw, Llanycil on 21 May 1843; his father was John Jones, and his mother Mary née Jones was a grand-daughter of Dafydd Cadwaladr. He was educated at the Bala grammar school; the biographical sketch in Cennad Catholig Cymru states that he also received private tuition from John Williams (Ab Ithel). In 1862 he entered Jesus College, Oxford, intending to prepare for Anglican orders, but
JONES, JOHN ISLAN (1874 - 1968), minister (U) and author Born 17 February 1874, son of Evan and Mary Jones, Tynewydd (later of Cornant and Melin Llys-faen), Cribyn, Cardiganshire. He went to schools in Cribyn and Llanwnnen (under David Thomas, ' Dewi Hefin') until he was about ten years old. After being a farm servant and a stonemason with his father he attended the school of David Evans, minister (U) at Cribyn, (1896-98). He won a scholarship to Jesus
JONES, JOHN ITHEL (1911 - 1980), minister (Baptist) and college principal was ordained minister of Gilgal, Porthcawl in 1936, moving to Horfield, Bristol in 1940 and Haven Green, Ealing, London in 1950. He married Hannah Mary Rees ('Nana'), the daughter of the Reverend Thomas Lloyd Rees who was minister of Calfaria, Morriston, but who had been raised to the ministry in Moreia, Dowlais. They had no children. Ithel Jones returned from London to Wales in January 1958, having
JONES, JOHN JAMES (1892 - 1957), teacher, librarian, scholar and linguist Born on 12 March 1892 in New Quay, Cardiganshire, the son of a saddler, Thomas Jones and Elizabeth, daughter of John Williams, Pendre, Llwyndafydd. He was educated at the Council School, New Quay and Aberaeron intermediate school (1906-10); he was a student teacher before entering the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (1911-14). He graduated B.A. (Wales) with honours in Latin, and was
JONES, JOHN LLOYD - gweler LLOYD-JONES, JOHN
JONES, JOHN MATHER (1826 - 1874), proprietor of Y Drych Born 9 June 1826, at Bangor, Caernarfonshire. He emigrated to U.S.A. in 1849 and made his home in Utica, New York. He bought Y Drych in 1865 from John William Jones who thereafter became editor of the paper, being assisted by Thomas B. Morris ('Gwyneddfardd'). In 1866 John Mather Jones published a Welsh book on the history of the Civil War, which had been written by the two editors of Y Drych at
JONES, JOHN MORGAN (1861 - 1935), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author
JONES, JOHN MORGAN (1873 - 1946), minister (Congl.) and Principal of Bala-Bangor College, Bangor Born 23 October 1873 at Albert Cottage, Cwmaman, Carmarthenshire, the sixth child and second son of Joseph Jones, engineer, and Mary, his wife. After a course of education at the school in the Market Hall, he worked in the office of a local tinworks. He began preaching at New Bethel church, Garnant, under the ministry of the Reverend J. Towyn Jones in 1889 and subsequently became a student at the
JONES, JOHN MORGAN (1838 - 1921), Calvinistic Methodist minster
JONES, Sir JOHN MORRIS - gweler MORRIS-JONES, Sir JOHN
JONES, JOHN OGWEN (1829 - 1884), Calvinistic Methodist minister and man of letters
JONES, JOHN OWEN (1857 - 1917), Calvinistic Methodist minister and tutor, and man of letters North Wales (1884) and in 1888 graduated in the University of London with honours in philosophy. He was appointed to take charge of the elementary classes at Bala College, and when these classes were formed into a separate department in 1891 they were entrusted to E. Wynne Parry and J.O. Jones; when Parry died in 1897, Jones was placed in charge. He continued to hold this appointment until 1915 when

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