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JONES, JOHN JAMES (1892 - 1957), teacher, librarian, scholar and linguist English style. He contributed articles to Welsh periodicals on Celtic studies, religion and bibliography. He published Welsh translations of Breton and Russian short stories in Yr Efrydydd, 1935 and Yr Haul 1945, and Persian sayings in Yr Efrydydd, 1934. He published articles in Yr Haul (1942-4) on unascribed Latin hymns in the Emyniadur (the Welsh Anglican hymnal, 1897), contributed to the Dictionary
JONES, JOHN MORGAN (1861 - 1935), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author translation appeared in 1942 entitled The Revelation of God in the Old Testament. He was an uncompromising pacifist. He died 22 July 1935.
JONES, JOHN WILLIAM (1883 - 1954), author, collector of letters and papers, publisher, antiquary and folk poet neu Ddwy (Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1942); Gwilym Deudraeth, Yr Awen Barod (Llandysul, 1943); Rolant Wyn, Dŵr y Ffynnon (Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1949) and R.R. Morris, Caneuon R.R. Morris (1951). One of his close friends was Ellis Humphrey Evans ('Hedd Wyn') and he assisted J.R. Jones with the publication of Cerddi'r Bugail. He assisted with collecting the contents of O Drum i Draeth by Eliseus Williams
JONES, JOSEPH (1877 - 1950), principal of the Memorial College, Brecon life of Breconshire as a member of the County Council 1913-1948; chairman of the County Council 1940-1942; Alderman 1948-1950; chairman of the Education Committee 1919-1950. He was a Justice of the Peace of the Borough of Brecon. He became particularly prominent in the sphere of education. He served on various committees such as the Burnham, Hadow and Spens, and represented Wales on the Norwood
JONES, OWEN VAUGHAN (1907 - 1986), obstetrician and gynaecologist death rates of mothers and babies in the area were the highest in Britain; through his own hard work, his organisational talent and his inspirational leadership he succeeded in bringing them down into line with the UK average. He married Gwyneth Jane Davies (1907-1995) of Llanilar, Ceredigion, in 1942, and they made their home at Carreg Lwyd in Menai Bridge, Anglesey. They had two children, a son, Huw
JONES, RICHARD LEWIS (1934 - 2009), poet and farmer (1911-1957) and settled in the area. It was there at Tan-yr-eglwys, the family farm in the south of the county, that Dic Jones was brought up. He had an elder brother, David Goronwy (1932-2002) and later three girls arrived to complete the family, Rhiannon Maud Sanders (1935-), Margaret Elizabeth Daniel (1941-) and Eleanor Mary Isaac Jones (1942-). Dic received his formal education at Blaen-porth
JONES, ROBERT LLOYD (1878 - 1959), schoolmaster, children's writer and dramatist Alice Jones, Minffordd (died 1942), and three sons were born to them; (2) in 1944 to Sarah Roberts, Bethesda (died 1962). He died at Tre-garth 3 February 1959 and was buried at Coetmor cemetery, Bethesda.
JONES, ROBERT TUDUR (1921 - 1998), theologian, church historian and public figure . Even though he gained a scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford, Tudur bowed to family pressure and entered the University of Wales, Bangor, and followed courses in Welsh, under Professor Sir Ifor Williams, and philosophy. He graduated with First-Class Honours in Philosophy in 1942. He went on to train for the Independent ministry in Bala Bangor College in Bangor and was steeped in church history by
JONES, SAMUEL (1898 - 1974), journalist, broadcaster and Head of the BBC in Bangor Welsh and History. As a student at Bangor he met Maud Ann Griffith. They were married on 2 September 1933 at the Welsh Wesleyan chapel in Cardiff. Their only child, Dafydd Gruffydd Jones, financial consultant, was born on 4 May 1942. Mrs Maud Jones died on 3 January 1974. On 8 September, 1924 Sam Jones began his teaching career at Harrington Road School, Liverpool. He left Liverpool for Cardiff in
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, THOMAS (1870 - 1955), university professor, civil servant, administrator, author ), A Theme with variations (1933), Leeks and Daffodils (1942), Rhymney memories (1938), Cerrig Milltir (1942), The Native never Returns (1946), Lloyd George (1951), Welsh Broth (1951), A Diary with Letters (1954), The Gregynog Press (1954), Whitehall Diaries Vol I and II (1969), edited by Keith Middlemas. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Glasgow University (1922), the University of Wales
JONES, THOMAS (1908 - 1990), trade unionist and Spanish Civil War veteran was the last British member of the International Brigade to return home. By this time both his parents had died. Because of his exploits in Spain, he was henceforward known locally as 'Twm Sbaen' or 'Tom Spain'. In 1942 he married a widow from Rhos, Rosa Edwards (née Thomas), whose husband had died of tuberculosis in 1941. They had two children, Keith and Moira, and he treated the two children from

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