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JONES, DAVID JOHN TAWE (1885 - 1949), musician extensive to be included in this article. He suffered a great deal from the effects of World War I when he was gassed and received a shrapnel wound in his head. Shortly before his death he completed a five-act opera, The Enchantress, based on the biblical theme of ' Jezebel ' - the libretto by J. Dyfnallt Owen and an English translation by ' Wil Ifan ' (William Evans). The opera is scored for full
JONES, DAVID OWEN (1856 - 1903), Wesleyan minister and author Born 18 February 1856, at Penmachno, son of Owen and Jane Jones. His father, a stone-mason by trade, became a member of a firm of contractors and was able to give his son a good education for that period, at the Llanrwst grammar school and Grove Park, Wrexham. Later, D. O. Jones went as a junior clerk to the N. and S.W. Bank in Liverpool, and on being promoted was transferred to the Newtown
JONES, DILLWYN OWEN PATON (1923 - 1984), jazz pianist
JONES, DORA HERBERT (1890 - 1974), singer and administrator , becoming allegedly the first woman to work in the House of Commons. She came into contact with Ruth, Herbert Lewis's wife, also a folk-song collector, and with the composer Morfydd Llwyn Owen. In June 1916 she married Herbert Jones of Plas Blaenau near Llangernyw, who was serving with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers; he was wounded at Ypres later that year. During the winter of 1916-17 Dora herself spent time
JONES, EDGAR WILLIAM (1868 - 1953), educationalist and broadcaster Born 13 December 1868 at Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Montgomeryshire, the son of Richard Bellis Jones, schoolmaster, and Hannah (née Vaughan). He was educated at his father's school and later at the Northern Institute at Liverpool and at Oswestry High School under Owen Owen. From 1885 to 1890, he was a student at University College of Wales Aberystwyth, returning after a period of teaching at
JONES, EDWARD (fl. 1781-1840), member, from 1781 of the London Gwyneddigion political debate in the Caradogion Society. When Leathart's book was published (1831), Jones was living in Paris, and was the oldest living member of the Gwyneddigion; [in the letter mentioned above, Leathart describes him as ' so advanced in years that we can say nothing more to him than ask his health ']. His help (and that of his brother Owen) is acknowledged in the preface to the 1789 Dafydd ap Gwilym
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 (1749 - 1779), musician Born in 1749 at Dolydd-byrion, near CricciethCriccieth, Caernarfonshire. He wrote several anthems and hymn-tunes which he left in manuscript. His anthem, ' Arglwydd, chwiliaist ac adnabuost fi,' became very popular; this was arranged by William Owen, Tremadoc, and afterwards by John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), the latter's arrangement appearing in Y Cerddor Cymreig, nos. 107 and 108 (see also a
JONES, EDWARD OWEN (E.O.J.; 1871 - 1953), journalist and writer of englynion
JONES, ELEN ROGER (1908 - 1999), actress and teacher . She played her first screen part in a programme on Daniel Owen, with Wilbert Lloyd Roberts (1925-1996) producing, a part she would play again seven years later in a Welsh Theatre Company production. Over the next decade, she appeared in productions such as Byd a Betws and Gwyliwr. She received widespread recognition for her performances of Saunders Lewis's work, Dwy Briodas Ann late in 1973, and
JONES, ELIZABETH JANE LOUIS (1889 - 1952), scholar three years, mostly in London and Oxford libraries. During her time in London she and her close friend Morfydd Llwyn Owen were assisted by Sir John Herbert Lewis and his wife, Ruth. In 1912 she won a prize and medal at Wrexham national eisteddfod for the principal essay on the history of the Eisteddfod. The following year she gained her M.A. degree for a thesis on this topic. She was appointed a
JONES, ELIZABETH MARY (Moelona; 1877 - 1953), teacher and novelist Born 21 June 1877, in Moylon, Rhydlewis, Cardiganshire, the youngest of the 13 children of John Owen (a carrier who took farm produce by horse and cart to the industrial centres of south Wales before taking the tenancy of the farm, Moylon) and Mary, daughter of Abraham Jones (who was also a carrier). One of the children died young while the parents were in the cemetery at the burial of two others

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