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JONES, GRIFFITH (1683 - 1761), cleric and educational reformer Born at Pant-yr-efel, Cwmhiraeth, Penboyr, Carmarthenshire, 1683; christened 1 May 1684, son of John ap Gruffydd and Elinor John. Educated in the village school, he afterwards became a shepherd. He then determined to be a clergyman, and, after some preparation, entered Carmarthen grammar school, under John Maddocks. About 1707 he applied for ordination, and, according to John Evans of Eglwys
JONES, JOHN (Myrddin Fardd; 1836 - 1921), writer, antiquary, and collector of old letters and manuscripts following books, mostly at his own expense: Golygawd o Ben Carreg yr Ymbill, 1858; Awdl Mynyddoedd Eryri, 1862; Caniadau Ieuan Lleyn, 1878; Adgof Uwch Anghof, 1883; Gwaith Owain Gruffydd, 1895; Cofiant Dewi Wyn, 1902; Gleanings from God's Acre, 1903; Cynfeirdd Lleyn, 1905; Gwerin Eiriau Sir Gaernarfon, 1907; Llen Gwerin Sir Gaernarfon, 1908; Gwaith Owain Lleyn, 1909; and Enwau Lleoedd Sir Gaernarfon, 1913
JONES, JOHN Maes-y-garnedd,, 'the regicide' Sir Gruffydd Vaughan (exec. 1447) and on her father's from a daughter of Gruffydd Derwas, knight of the body to Henry VI, whose son Tudur Vaughan was ancestor of a line of eminent Irish Joneses (see under Michael Jones, died 1649). John Jones as a younger son was sent to make his way in London, in the service of the Myddelton s, distant kinsmen of his mother through their common descent from Sir
JONES, MICHAEL (bu farw 1649), soldier Of Irish birth but Welsh family, being sixth in descent from Gruffydd Derwas, lord of Nannau and ancestor of the family of Nannau as well as (on the female side) of John Jones the regicide. His father, Welsh-born LEWIS JONES (son of John Wynn ap John) went from Merioneth to Brasenose College, Oxford, c. 1562, proceeding straight from B.A. to a Fellowship of All Souls (1569), thence to Ireland
JONES, OWEN WYNNE (Glasynys; 1828 - 1870), cleric, antiquary, story-writer, and poet churchyard. He was the author of Fy Oriau Hamddenol, sef, Caniadau Moesol a Difyrus, Gan Gwyndaf Hen a Chaersallwg, 1854; Lleucu Llwyd (2nd. imp. 1858); Yr Wyddfa: sef Gwaith barddonawl a rhyddieithol Glasynys. Dan Olygiad H. O(wen) Glaslyn. Rhifyn I … (1877?); Dafydd Llwyd; Neu Ddyddiau Cromwell (2nd imp. 1857); Dafydd Gruffydd, pa beth wyt ti yn ei feddwl o'r Ddwy Fil a'r dydd hwnnw? (3rd imp. 1894). He
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, THOMAS GRUFFYDD (Tafalaw Bencerdd; 1832 - 1898), musician Born 6 January 1832 at The Forge, Pen-y-cae, Monmouthshire, the son of Gruffydd and Hannah Jones. He was apprenticed as carpenter but his chief delight lay in music. He received his first lessons in music from Rosser Beynon. When only 16 he became precentor at Sardis, Pontypridd, of which his father was then the minister. In 1850 he began to send his compositions to eisteddfodau; at an eisteddfod
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
KYFFIN, RICHARD, dean of Bangor He was not connected with any branch of the better-known family of that name. It is very likely that he was the Richard ap John or Ris ap Ieuan ap Ris ap Gruffydd, rector of Gyffin in the diocese of Bangor, 'the son of unmarried parents,' who in 1470 received a papal dispensation, on account of his illegitimacy, for promotion to holy orders. As dean he appears to have been an active supporter of
teulu LACY (DE), lords Ewyas, Weobley, (died 1233), son of Hugh II by a daughter of Roderick O'Connor, married Gwenllian, daughter of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, who, like her brother Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, was the child of an irregular union contracted before Llywelyn's marriage with Joan. During a long widowhood (she died in 1281), she may have resided at Llys Gwenllian on the royal manor of Ystrad Owain in the commote of Cinmeirch, supported
teulu LESTRANGE Great Ness, Cheswardine, Knockin, JOHN LESTRANGE (died c. 1269) witnessed the treaty between Dafydd ap Gruffydd and Henry III in May 1240, was appointed in March 1241 to try Dafydd, and in January 1245 was a commissioner to make peace with him. HAWISE, daughter of this John Lestrange, married Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn. In the years 1244-5 John Lestrange wrote to Henry III telling of Gruffydd's support for the English cause; he aided
teulu LEWIS Llwyn-du, Llangelynnin Two linked families which were very prominent in the history of Quakerism in Merioneth. I. Lewis, son of John Gruffydd ap Hywel ap Gruffydd of Derwas, died 8 August 1598, was married to Elin, daughter of Hywel ap Gruffydd; from these were descended four brothers, ELLIS, OWEN, GRUFFYDD, and RHYS. The remainder of this paragraph is concerned with the second of these, Owen Lewis I (died 1658?), and

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