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JONES, THOMAS HENRY (1921 - 1965), lecturer and poet
JONES, THOMAS JOHN RHYS (1916 - 1997), teacher, lecturer and author Wales, Swansea where he graduated with first class honors in Welsh under Professor Henry Lewis. Although he did research into the Welsh interludes for which he gained an MA degree, he chose not to publish the results as the language of some of the interludes would have been too coarse and indecent to suit public tastes at the time. (He later wrote an article on the interludes - though his name as
JONES, THOMAS WILLIAM (Baron Maelor of Rhos), (1898 - 1984), Labour politician contested Merioneth in the Labour interest in the general election of 1935 against Henry Haydn Jones, the sitting Liberal MP, and captured the division in 1951, serving as MP until his retirement in 1966. He always believed that one of his foremost achievements as an MP was to persuade the government of the day to bring Bala lake into public ownership. He was also instrumental in persuading the Central
JONES, Sir WILLIAM (1888 - 1961), administrator and politician collaborated effectively with Huw T. Edwards. He resigned from the Council in 1959 as a protest against the appointment of Henry Brooke, Minister for Welsh Affairs, as its chairman. Jones was considered one of the most distinguished administrators in Welsh local government. He was a native Welsh speaker, a member of the Council of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, and he served as a member of the
JONES, WILLIAM (1826 - 1899), secretary to the Peace Society as successor to Henry Richard, Tregaron; son of John Jones, a Ruthin Quaker, and great-grandson of Jonathan Hughes, the bard mentioned by Borrow in Wild Wales. William was educated at Ackworth Quaker School. Later he was appointed head of a commission for the relief of distress during the Franco-German war of 1870-1. He had discussions with president Cleveland and Li Hung Chang and other
JONES, WILLIAM (1896 - 1961), poet and minister Born 24 September 1896 at Trefriw, Caernarfonshire, son of Henry Jones, Congregationalist minister, and his wife Margaret (Madgie), daughter of William Jones, Presbyterian minister of Trawsfynydd. He was educated at Llanrwst county school (1908) and he entered University College of North Wales Bangor in 1914 and Bala-Bangor College 1914-16. He graduated in Welsh and Hebrew in 1917. He was
JONES, WILLIAM GARMON (1884 - 1937), professor of history and librarian of Liverpool University Miscellany); ' Bosworth Field, an episode of Welsh history ' (Trans. Liverpool Welsh National Society), 1912; York and Lancaster (Bell's 'Source Books of English History'); ' Welsh Nationalism and Henry Tudor ' (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1917-18). In 1923 he married Eluned, only daughter of (Sir) John Edward Lloyd of Bangor. He died 28 May 1937 and was buried in the family
JONES, WILLIAM HENRY (1860 - 1932), journalist and local historian Born 4 February 1860 at the Mumbles, near Swansea, the son of William Henry Jones (1826 - 1912) and his wife Ann (Fisher). He was educated at the Goat Street British School, Swansea. For years afterwards he worked as a journalist and editor of newspapers at Swansea, Caernarvon (1879), Exeter, Norwich, and Yarmouth; he returned to Swansea in 1913. He married, 1885, Annie Elizabeth, daughter of
JONES-DAVIES, HENRY (1870 - 1955), farmer and pioneer of agricultural co-operation Glyneiddan, Nantgaredig, Carmarthenshire. There were two sons and one daughter of the marriage, the elder son being Dr. T.E. Jones-Davies (1906 - 1960). Henry Jones-Davies died 16 June 1955 and was buried at Nantgaredig.
JONES-DAVIES, THOMAS ELLIS (1906 - 1960), doctor and international rugby player Born 4 March 1906, elder son of Henry and Winifred Anna Jones-Davies, Bremenda, Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen, St. George's School, Harpenden, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and St. George's Hospital, London. He was awarded the degrees of M.A. and M.D. (Cantab.), and F.R.C.P. and D.P.H. (London). After serving for some time as an
KATHERYN of BERAIN (Mam Cymru, The mother of Wales; 1534/5 - 1591) Born in 1534/5, Katheryn was the daughter of Tudur ap Robert Vychan of Berain, Denbighshire, by his wife Jane, daughter of Sir Roland Velville (died 1527), a natural son of Henry VII, whom Henry made constable of Beaumaris castle. Katheryn, who is said to have been a ward of queen Elizabeth, ultimately acquired by mortgage Penmynydd in Anglesey. She was married four times: (1) to JOHN SALUSBURY
teulu KENRICK Wynn Hall, Bron Clydwr, ), inheriting the estate in 1700, and with it the pastoral oversight which Owen had exercised over the Merioneth Dissenters (chiefly Independent). He was ordained at Wrexham in 1702 along with John Evans (c. 1680 - 1730), by Matthew Henry, son of Philip Henry, James Owen, and other Presbyterian ministers. About 1715 he settled as minister of Bala, then of Llanuwchllyn (1739), where his son John Kenrick of

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