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HUWS, MORIEN MON (Morien Môn; 1856 - 1932), Nonconformist minister and poet
HWFA MÔN - gweler WILLIAMS, ROWLAND
HYWEL ap RHEINALLT (fl. c. 1471-1494), poet whose work is well represented in existing manuscripts. It includes a large number of poems to members of various landed families of North Wales, including those of Ynys y Maengwyn, Coetmor, Clenennau, and Emral; he wrote a poem in praise of Dafydd ab Owain, abbot of Strata Marcella. A number of his love poems and his bardic controversy with Lewys Môn are also preserved; a reference is made to
IEUAN MON (fl. c. 1460-1480), poet
IEUAN MON HEN - gweler IEUAN MON
JENKINS, HERBERT (1721 - 1772), early Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister Born in Mynydd-islwyn parish, Monmouthshire. According to Bradney (Hist. of Mon., I, ii, 442), his father was Herbert Jenkins and his grandfather that William Jenkins of Aberystruth parish who was curate (and kept school) at Trevethin (Pontypool) from 1726 till 1736. It may be that the parents had 'dissented'; tradition asserts that they were attached to the church of Edmund Jones, and certainly
JONES, BENJAMIN (P[rif] A[rwyddfardd] Môn; 1788 - 1841), poet, writer, and Baptist apologete
JONES, EDWARD (fl. 1781-1840), member, from 1781 of the London Gwyneddigion . He had two brothers, OWEN ('Owain Môn ' and ' Cor y Cyrtie ' - a nickname which may indicate that he, too, was a lawyer's clerk), who was secretary (1789), vice-president (1792), and president (1793) of the Gwyneddigion, but was dead when Leathart wrote his book, and WILLIAM ('Bardd Môn'), who died in July 1820 (Leathart, op. cit., 57) - William was a member of the Cymreigyddion Society, and had
JONES, FRANCES MÔN (1919 - 2000), harpist and teacher Frances Môn Jones was born on 20 October 1919 at Broughton near Wrexham, the daughter of David Charles Davies and his wife Mary Jane (née Goodwin). She was educated at the local school and Grove Park Grammar School in Wrexham, and mastered Welsh as a schoolgirl, in spite of not hearing the language at home. She began to play the organ at Pisgah chapel in Broughton at the age of 14, but a year
JONES, OWEN (Meudwy Môn; 1806 - 1889), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and man of letters year he was appointed cashier at the Plas-yr-argoed colliery. He and Roger Edwards were ordained at the Bala Association, 8 June 1842, and both of them acted as ministers at Mold. There Meudwy Môn began to take an interest in the temperance movement, of which he was one of the pioneers in North Wales. In 1844 he received a call from the C.M. churches in Manchester, but in 1856 resigned owing to
JONES, WILLIAM (1718 - 1773?), early Methodist exhorter, and possibly the first Anglesey Methodist hear no more of him; and it is far from certain that he was the William Jones whose burial on 25 July 1773 is recorded in Llangefni parish register. As the writer of the above article has now pointed out, in his recent book Methodistiaeth Fore Môn (Caernarvon, 1955), p. 94, William Jones of Trefollwyn cannot have been the man who died in 1773. Henllys MS. 138 at Bangor is a copy of the will (signed
LEWIS ab EDWARD (fl. c. 1560), poet He hailed from Bodfari, Denbighshire. Wiliam Thomas ab Edward, the scribe mentioned in Peniarth MS 122: Poetry, &c. (509), is also associated with Bodfari. Lewis ab Edward was also known as Lewis Meirchion, but is often confused with Lewis Môn, a poet who fl. c. 1480-1527. His elegy on the death of Edmund Llwyd of Glynllifon (died 1541) is possibly one of his early compositions. He was present at

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