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JONES, OWEN (Meudwy Môn; 1806 - 1889), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and man of letters Born at Gaerwen-bach, Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog, Anglesey, 15 July 1806. His parents died when he was very small, and he was brought up by his aunt Elizabeth, wife of Morgan Williams, tanner, of Llangefni. When he was 6 years of age he was sent to the village school. Rice Roberts of Plas Llangefni, noticing his rapid progress, paid for his education at Thomas Jones's school, Llangefni, whence he was
JONES, OWEN VAUGHAN (1907 - 1986), obstetrician and gynaecologist , and after choosing to specialize in obstetrics and gynaecology he gained an MD at Liverpool in 1936 for a thesis on oestrogenic substances. He was appointed Honorary Gynaecologist at the Caernarfonshire and Anglesey Infirmary, Bangor, in 1937, and the following year he became the first consultant obstetrician to be appointed by Caernarfonshire County Council, based at St David's Hospital in Bangor
JONES, OWEN WYNNE (Glasynys; 1828 - 1870), cleric, antiquary, story-writer, and poet the bishop of Bangor. He became curate of Llangristiolus, Anglesey, was transferred to Llanfaethlu in 1863, and to Pontlotyn, Monmouth, in the same capacity in 1866. There his stay was short, and he moved to Newport, Monmouth, as joint editor, with Islwyn, of the newspaper Y Glorian. He then went to Portmadoc and thence to Towyn, Meironnydd. He died 4 April 1870 and was buried in Llandwrog
JONES, RICHARD (Glan Alaw; 1838 - 1925), minister (Presb.) Born 3 June 1838 in Llanfachraeth, Anglesey. Initially he was a shoemaker and poet. In 1875 he was called to serve the home mission at Millom, Cumberland, and stayed there for about 6 years. He moved from there to Holyhead where he continued to preach. In January 1884 he was called to be pastor of Brynrefail church, Caernarfonshire. His culture was self-acquired for his path to the ministry led
JONES, RICHARD ROBERT (Dic Aberdaron; 1779 - 1843), polyglot Liverpool in 1804 and London in 1807, and stayed for short periods at Bangor, at Caernarvon, and in Anglesey. In the course of his wanderings he found opportunities to learn Hebrew, and also modern languages, such as Spanish and Italian. The large number of books which he always carried about his person he had sometimes to sell in order to procure food and clothing, and buy back again. He took no interest
JONES, ROBERT AMBROSE (1848 - 1906), Calvinistic Methodist minister, man of letters, and publicist to the field of his own denomination and to the Welsh and general politics of his day. His pen was his sword. Even his ostensible 'election address' to the electors of Anglesey was a pamphleteer's device. In this address he purported to offer himself as a ' Welsh candidate,' and outlined a specifically Welsh policy including home-rule, and a pledge to remain separate from all English parties. This
JONES, ROBERT TUDUR (1921 - 1998), theologian, church historian and public figure succeeding Gwilym Bowyer as Principal of Bala-Bangor College in 1966 and an Honorary Professor in the university's Theology Department in 1989. In addition to his involvement in political matters - as editor of Y Ddraig Goch and parliamentary candidate for Plaid Cymru in Anglesey in 1955 and 1959 - the 1950s and 1960s were a time of great academic activity for him. His earliest substantial works
JONES, SARAH RHIANNON DAVIES (1921 - 2014), author and lecturer again in 1990. Rhiannon Davies Jones was a Welsh Nationalist, and her beliefs and responses to political events of the period are clearly reflected in her work. The events relating to the Investiture of 1969 influenced Llys Aberffraw ('The court of Aberffraw'), a novel about Owain Gwynedd which won the Crown at the Anglesey Eisteddfod in 1973 and was published in 1977. Similarly in the case of Eryr
JONES, THOMAS (1777 - 1847), translator, schoolmaster and minister (CM) Born in Llanfwrog, Anglesey, in 1777. He was fortunate enough to receive some schooling with a cleric in his home area. He and two of his brothers, Rice Jones, Pen-clawdd, Glamorganshire, and Robert Jones, Congl. minister, Corwen, Meironnydd, were preachers. In 1803 he and his wife, Margaret, moved to Ty'nyrefail, Llanynghenedl, Anglesey, where they had at least 8 children. He was elected an
JONES, THOMAS (1818 - 1898), parish clerk of Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, and living before that at Tyn-llan and Newhavren, Llantrisant, Anglesey. Thomas Jones deserves a brief mention by virtue of his industry in transcribing and collecting over forty volumes of music manuscripts, mainly ecclesiastical but with also a large admixture of secular music, including folk-songs, 'national' airs, part-songs, etc. His collection (now NLW MS 8112-52
JONES, THOMAS (c. 1622 - 1682), Protestant controversialist lost his chaplaincy through the hostility of the bishop of Winchester, whom he had denounced as a lukewarm Protestant, it was to the Anglesey rectory that he retired. In 1670 the continued hostility of the bishop of Winchester brought on his head a prosecution and fine in the king's Bench for scandalum magnatum arising from his denunciations of Popery at court, while insubordination to his own bishop
JONES, THOMAS JERMAN (1833 - 1890), missionary for twenty years with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists Born 10 August 1833 at Llangristiolus, Anglesey, son of John Jones and Jane, née Jerman; he worked in early life on the farm and later as a quarryman at Bethesda, Caernarfonshire, where he was temporarily disabled through an accident. He studied at Clynnog school under Eben Fardd and later at Bala C.M. College (1860-3). He was ordained and ministered amongst the Welsh in the North of England

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