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JONES, JOHN WILLIAM (1883 - 1954), author, collector of letters and papers, publisher, antiquary and folk poet and election addresses - local and county; local folktales; programmes of eisteddfodau, concerts and literary societies; pictures of Ffestiniog people; memorial poems and cards. He sent similar materials to the library of the University College of North Wales in Bangor. He died 6 January 1954, at his home, and was buried with his wife (who had pre-deceased him twelve years previously) at Bethesda
JONES, JOHN WILLIAM (1827 - 1884), editor of Y Drych, a Welsh-American newspaper Clinton and started to keep school himself, teaching his pupils arithmetic; he became proficient in this subject as well as in astronomy and geology, and, in course of time, acquired a wide general knowledge. When Y Drych was founded in 1851 he began to contribute to its columns, and, towards the end of 1852, was invited by the proprietor, John Mather Jones, 1826 - 1874, of Bangor, Caernarfonshire, to
JONES, JOSEPH (1799 - 1871), Catholic priest Jesuit priest at Holywell, followed by a term at a college in France, before being appointed as missioner for his 'fellow countrymen in Wales ', being the first Welsh missioner so to be appointed from among the Catholic priests. In 1847 he was at Abergele ministering to the Irish labourers constructing the railway from Chester to Bangor. There followed a term of ministry at Wrexham and Mold (living at
JONES, LEWIS DAVIES (Llew Tegid; 1851 - 1928), eisteddfodwr Born at Ffriddgymen, near Bala, 3 November 1851. He went to the British School at Bala in 1862, and after a period as pupil-teacher entered the Bangor Normal College in January 1872. He spent two years there, and after eighteen months' teaching at Cefnfaes school, Bethesda, he was appointed headmaster of Garth school, Bangor, in June 1875. He held this post for twenty-seven years, relinquishing
JONES, LLEWELYN (1894 - 1960), minister (Presb.), editor and author Born in 1894 at Llandegfan, Anglesey, son of J.E. Jones, minister (Presb.) and his wife of that place. He was educated at Holyhead county school, the University College, Bangor (where he graduated B.A.), and Mansfield College, Oxford (B.Litt.). He gained an M.A. degree of the University of Wales in 1921 for his thesis on the hymnology of the Methodist Revival, with par- ticular reference to the
JONES, MAURICE (1863 - 1957), priest and college principal Born 21 June 1863, at Trawsfynydd, Merionethshire, 2nd son of William Jones, shoemaker, and his wife Catherine. He was educated at the local school and with scholarships proceeded to Friars School, Bangor, Christ College, Brecon, where Dr. D. Lewis Lloyd was headmaster, and Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated with 1st-class hons. in divinity, 1886. He gained the degrees of M.A. and B.D. in
JONES, MEIRION (1907 - 1970), educationist Born at Llithfaen, Caernarfonshire, 30 July 1907, the son of Robert Owen Jones and Annie Jones. He attended Llithfaen primary school, Pwllheli grammar school, and Bangor Normal College, and served as a teacher at Corris primary school (1929-30), Blaenau Ffestiniog central school (1930-39), headmaster of Llandrillo primary school (1939-45), headmaster of Dyffryn Ardudwy primary school (1945-50
JONES, MICHAEL DANIEL (1822 - 1898), Independent minister and principal of the Independent College at Bala , and at a committee held at Shrewsbury (1879) - 'The Decapitation Committee,' as his partisans called it - he was dismissed. For some time after this the Independents had two colleges at Bala, one under M. D. Jones at Bodiwan and the other, which belonged to the 'New Constitution' at Plas-yn-dre. This was in charge of Thomas Lewis (1837 - 1892), and was transferred to Bangor in 1886. In the end, both
JONES, MOSES OWEN (1842 - 1908), schoolmaster, musician, and eisteddfodwr the Bangor national eisteddfod, 1902 (NLW MS 4383E), and 'Biographies of Penry Williams, artist, Hugh Hughes, engraver, and Joseph Edwards, sculptor, with a critical estimate of their work,' written for the Mountain Ash national eisteddfod, 1905 (NLW MS 4373D). He died 27 July 1908.
JONES, OWEN GLYNNE (1867 - 1899), mountaineer and schoolteacher they proceeded to 'put into effect our late friend's wish'. By this time George Abraham had married Jones's London - Welsh cousin, Winifred Davies, daughter of David Davies and a niece of ' Mynorydd ' (William Davies); as well as being a good climber trained by Jones, she had been to the universities of Wales (Bangor), London and Cambridge. It was she who ghosted George Abraham's numerous books on
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

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