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JONES, JOHN ITHEL (1911 - 1980), minister (Baptist) and college principal John Ithel Jones was born in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, on 1 January 1911. He was educated at the local primary school and at Cyfarthfa grammar school, Merthyr Tydfil. He was baptised at Moreia, Dowlais. Reverend R.B. Jones, the well known evangelical preacher was his uncle. Ithel Jones was already a student in the University College of Cardiff when he was accepted in 1930 by the
JONES, JOHN OWEN (Ap Ffarmwr; 1861 - 1899), journalist Son of Owen and Emma Jones; born at Ty'n y Morfa, Trefdraeth, Anglesey, 1 January 1861. Following his father's death and his mother's second marriage, the family removed to Cae'r Llechau, Dwyran (about 1865). Educated at the Board school, Dwyran, he was apprenticed at 14 as a draper to Lewis Lewis, Caernarvon. During this period he read widely in the works of authors like Darwin, Huxley, Ruskin
JONES, JOHN TYWI (1870 - 1948), Baptist minister and journalist wrote a number of plays, some of which deal with the language and Welshness, e.g. Dic Sion Dafydd (1913), and stories for children and adults, together with some theological works, e.g. Y Bedydd Ysgrythurol (1900). He published numerous essays in Seren Gomer and hymns in Llawlyfr Moliant. He married twice: (1) Ellen, daughter of Herbert Davies, a tailor of Aberdare; she died in 1915; and (2) Elizabeth
JONES, JOHN VIRIAMU (1856 - 1901), first principal of the University College, Cardiff Board for Intermediate Education. In the midst of these indefatigable activities, he devoted every moment of his leisure to scientific research, mainly in physical measurements such as the determination of the ohm. For this research work he was elected F.R.S. in 1894. He died 1 June 1901 at Geneva and was buried near his father in S. Thomas's cemetery, Swansea. His brother, Sir David Brynmor Jones, is
JONES, MAURICE (1863 - 1957), priest and college principal of age. He married (1), in 1894, Emily, daughter of Col. C.M. Longmore, of Gosport; (2), in 1911, Jennie Bell, daughter of Sidney Smith, of Gosport. They had 3 sons and 2 daughter. He died 7 December 1957 at his home, 27 Gravel Hill, Addington, Surrey, and was buried in the churchyard there.
JONES, MICHAEL (bu farw 1649), soldier army raised to combat the Irish rebellion of 1641, but protesting against the truce of 1643 joined the Roundhead forces in England to fight its author, Charles I. He operated as colonel of horse mainly on the North Wales border, beating back Prince Maurice at Holt bridge in March 1645, and helping to negotiate the surrender of Chester (1 February 1646) after joining Thomas Mytton to defeat relieving
JONES, MORGAN (1717? - 1780), Congregational minister grant from the Presbyterian Board in 1774. He signed a preface (22 July 1754) to a second edition (Bristol 1754) of Mêr Difinyddiaeth Iachus. He died 1 April 1780.
JONES, OWEN GETHIN (Gethin; 1816 - 1883), local historian Born 1 May 1816 at Tyn-y-cae, Penmachno, Caernarfonshire, to Owen and Grace Jones. The father was a stone mason, and the son was brought up in that craft, but later on became a carpenter, then a builder, and finally a contractor on a fairly large scale. He married (1843) Ann (died 1873), daughter of William Owen of Coetmor and granddaughter of Robert Jones, a very well-known drover, of Bwlch Bach
JONES, PETER (KAHKEWAQUONABY, DESAGONDENSTA) (1802 - 1856), Methodist minister, political leader and author Kahkewaquonaby Peter Jones was born on 1 January 1802 at Burlington Heights (Hamilton), Upper Canada, the younger of two sons of Augustus Jones (1757 or 1758-1836), a Welsh-American crown surveyor, land speculator, and farmer, and Tuhbenahneequay (Sarah Henry), the daughter of Wahbanosay, a Mississauga chief. Peter Jones spent most of his youth with his mother and her people, only visiting his
JONES, ROBERT (1810 - 1879), cleric and author Born 6 January 1810, eldest son of Robert Jones of Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire. He was educated at Oswestry Grammar School, matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, 12 December 1834, and took his B.A. in 1837. He was ordained deacon by bishop Carey of S. Asaph, 1 July 1837, and licensed to the curacy of Northop, Flintshire. He received priest's orders on 5 May 1838, and served as curate of
JONES, ROBERT LLOYD (1878 - 1959), schoolmaster, children's writer and dramatist golau, Pan oeddym fechgyn, Rhiannon, Safle, Y scwlmis, Santa Clôs a'i fab, Y tair chwaer, Teulu'r Gelli. It was he who was mainly responsible for forming the Drama Society of North Wales in Caernarfon in 1929, which was to function as a branch of the Welsh Drama Union. He served several times as an adjudicator in the Urdd Gobaith Cymru national eisteddfod. He was twice married: (1) in 1906 to Elin
JONES, ROWLAND (1722 - 1774), philologist influence on the linguistic theories of William Owen Pughe, especially on his dictionary. He published the following books: (1) The Origin of Languages and Nations, Hieroglyfically, Etymologically, and Topographically defined and fixed, after the Method of an English, Celtic, Greek, and Latin English Lexicon, 1764 : (2) Hieroglyphic, or a Grammatical Introduction to an Universal Hieroglyfic Language

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