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JONES, DAVID MORRIS (1887 - 1957), minister (Presb.) and professor Born 14 March 1887 at Maes-y-groes, Maenan, Caernarfonshire, son of William Maurice and Elisabeth Jones. He was educated at the elementary and free schools in Llanrwst, the University College, Bangor (where he graduated with honours in Welsh and philosophy), Bala College, and Cambridge. He joined the armed forces in 1915, but was recalled from Salonica in 1916 to receive a commission as chaplain
JONES, DAVID OWEN (1856 - 1903), Wesleyan minister and author period was spent in the Llanfyllin, Llanfaircaereinion, and Bangor circuits, and ended in 1879 (1875 in Asaph) when he was ordained. During that same year he married Jane Jones, eldest daughter of John P. Jones, Llanfairfechan. His ministerial career was as follows: Caerwys (1879); Penmachno (1880); Bethesda (1883); Birkenhead (1885); Manchester (1888); Liverpool (1891); Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant (1894
JONES, EDMUND DAVID (1869 - 1941), schoolmaster and author in 1886 to the University College at Bangor where, in 1890, he graduated with honours in French in the University of London. In 1891 he obtained a teaching post in the Birkenhead Institute, but at the end of the year he returned to Bangor as a student-assistant in French. In order to prepare for the London M.A. degree he went to Oxford to attend lectures and to study in libraries without entering a
JONES, EDMUND OSBORNE (1858 - 1931), cleric Born at Barmouth, 24 September 1858, second son of John Jones, rector of Llanaber with Barmouth, and Adelaide his wife. He was educated at Dolgelley grammar school and Friars School, Bangor, under the headmaster-ship of D. L. Lloyd. He matriculated at Oxford in October 1876, as a Postmaster of Merton College, was placed in the first class in classical Moderations in 1878, and in the third class
JONES, EDWARD (1826 - 1902), Calvinistic Methodist historian till 1879, and where he married Elizabeth Roberts. In 1879 he removed to Bangor, becoming an elder in Hirael C.M. church - at his death he had been an elder for forty-three years all told, in three churches. He married as his second wife a daughter of John Owen (1808 - 1876) of Tyn-llwyn. At 73, he removed to Portdinorwic (Felinheli), where he died 1 March 1902; he was buried in Pant Glas burial
JONES, EDWARD ALFRED (1871 - 1943), connoisseur of silverware write to Y Cymmrodor and Archaeologia Cambrensis in 1904 and was a regular contributor for the rest of his life to journals such as the Burlington Magazine (e.g. ' Some old silver plate in the possession of Lord Mostyn ', 1907), The Connoisseur (e.g. ' Welsh goldsmiths ', 1941), Apollo, The Athenaeum and Art in America. The church plate of the diocese of Bangor (1906) was his first book, and it was
JONES, EDWARD OWEN (E.O.J.; 1871 - 1953), journalist and writer of englynion Born in May 1871 at Welford, Northamptonshire, where his father, ' Berwron ', was a farm bailiff, but in 1875 the family moved to Llosg-yr-odyn, Y Gaerwen, Anglesey. He was apprenticed to the printer's trade at the Bangor office of the North Wales Chronicle in 1887; then in 1903 he succeeded Hugh Edwards as editor of Y Clorianydd, the Anglesey weekly paper, at Llangefni, and held the post for 48
JONES, ELEN ROGER (1908 - 1999), actress and teacher certificate, she applied to study for two years at the Bangor Normal College, after spending a year as a pupil-teacher in the infants' class of her old primary school in Llanallgo. Elen arrived in Bangor in 1926, joining the University's Music Club as well as the College Choral Society. At twenty years old, she succeeded in her final examinations, and gained a teaching post at Llanbedr-goch School. She then
JONES, ELIAS HENRY (1883 - 1942), administrator and author Commissioner, settled in Bangor, north Wales, and for the next ten years was actively interested in the movement for international peace and in Welsh education. From 1927 to 1933 he was editor of The Welsh Outlook. In 1933 he was appointed registrar of the University College of North Wales, a post which he held until his death on 22 December 1942. E.H. Jones is best known as the author of The Road to Endor
JONES, ELIZABETH JANE LOUIS (1889 - 1952), scholar lecturer in Welsh and English in 1916 at Bangor Normal College. In 1917 she married E. Louis Jones, a solicitor of Llanfyllin, son of Dr. Richard Jones, Harlech, and they had four children but two of them died young. In 1928 she published with Professor Henry Lewis, Mynegai i farddoniaeth y llawysgrifau (University of Wales Board of Celtic Studies, 1928). She died 14 May 1952 at Wrexham, and was buried
JONES, EMYR WYN (1907 - 1999), cardiologist and author Director of Cardiac Studies there from 1966. For a period before and immediately after the war he also served as consultant to the three main hospitals in north Wales, Bangor, Rhyl and Wrexham, as well as holding a clinic in Rodney Street which was attended by many Welsh people. Later he was Vice-Chairman of the Welsh Hospitals Board (1968-1974) and together with the Chairman, Gwilym Prys-Davies, pressed
JONES, ERASMUS (1817 - 1909), novelist Born 17 December 1817 in the parish of Llanddeiniolen, Caernarfonshire. He attended school at Pentir, near Bangor, emigrated in 1833 with one of his brothers, and settled for a time in New York. He spent some time in Trenton, then back in New York, and afterwards in Remsen, Oneida County, New York State. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, c. 1848. In 1852 he paid a visit

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