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JONES, WILLIAM JENKYN (1852 - 1925) Brittany, Calvinistic Methodist missionary Born 29 March 1852 at New Quay, Cardiganshire. He was educated at Bangor Normal College and at University College, Aberystwyth, and became a schoolmaster at Ystradgynlais. Ordained (1882) for the Brittany mission-field, he worked for forty years from the Quimper centre, the capital of Finisterre and a Roman Catholic stronghold; facing insuperable odds he exerted great influence, distributing the
JONES, WILLIAM LEWIS (1866 - 1922), professor of English Born 20 February 1866; son of William Jones, Llangefni, and Hannah Lewis, sister of Thomas Lewis, M.P. for Anglesey. Educated at Friars School, Bangor, he obtained an open scholarship at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in the Easter term, 1884. He read for the Classical Tripos and graduated in 1888; he had won the Members' University Prize in the previous year. After graduation
JONES, WILLIAM OWEN (1861 - 1937), minister of the 'Free Church of the Welsh', Liverpool Born 7 April 1861, at Penbryn, Chwilog, the son of Richard Jones, farmer, and Ellen Hughes. He attended several schools in the district, including that of Llanystumdwy. He also went to the Holt Academy, and to Clynnog School. He was subsequently at the Calvinistic Methodist Theological College, Bala, the University College of North Wales, Bangor, and S. John's College, Cambridge, where he took
JONES, WILLIAM SAMUEL (Wil Sam; 1920 - 2007), playwright commissioned by the Drama Company of the University College of North Wales, Bangor to write a full-length play, 'Gwalia Bach', but unlike his other plays it was never published. In the same year he won the short drama competition in the National Eisteddfod for 'Dalar Deg'. The following year, the most important of his career, a collection of five of his plays, Pum Drama Fer, was published and he gave up the
KYFFIN, EDWARD (c. 1558 - 1603), cleric and composer of metrical psalms ordained deacon in London, 14 May 1585, at the age of 27, and priest at Bangor, 28 December 1590; he is also recorded as being one of the witnesses at an ordination service in the bishop's oratory at Bangor, 26 September 1593. He was curate of S. Martin Outwich, London, and it was probably there that he died from the effects of the great plague in 1603. Kyffin was the author of Rhann o Psalmae Dafydd
KYFFIN, RICHARD, dean of Bangor He was not connected with any branch of the better-known family of that name. It is very likely that he was the Richard ap John or Ris ap Ieuan ap Ris ap Gruffydd, rector of Gyffin in the diocese of Bangor, 'the son of unmarried parents,' who in 1470 received a papal dispensation, on account of his illegitimacy, for promotion to holy orders. As dean he appears to have been an active supporter of
LAKE, MORGAN ISLWYN (1925 - 2018), minister and pacifist conscientious objector and joined the Friends Ambulance Unit in Belgium in 1944-5, where he was held captive by the Germans. There were reports at that time of his bravery and his non-violent response, but Islwyn rarely talked of his experiences. While at Bangor University preparing for the Christian ministry his pacifist conviction was deepened further amongst mature age students who had also been in the war
LEWES, EVELYN ANNA (c. 1873 - 1961), author ' From Neuaddlwyd to Madagascar ' (in Welsh) are among her MSS in the National Library of Wales. She became an authority on Welsh folklore. Her story ' Hywel of Claerwen ' was published in the transactions of Bangor national eisteddfod 1902, and others appeared in Dream folk and fancies (1926). Her best known work, Out with the Cambrians (1934), is a record of outings with the Cambrian Antiquarian
LEWIS, BENJAMIN WALDO (1877 - 1953), Baptist minister as members at Hermon, Pontygwaith. There he was persuaded to begin preaching, at the same time as James Thomas Evans, the principal of the Baptist College, Bangor. He began to earn his living in a colliery, at first underground and then in the smithy. After taking night-classes for some 7-8 years he was accepted for a period of about a year to 18 months at the Pontypridd Academy (again along with
LEWIS, DAVID MORGAN (1851 - 1937), Congregational minister, afterwards professor of physics was appointed a lecturer in physics at University College, Bangor, and in 1891 professor of physics at University College Aberystwyth, where he remained until his retirement in 1919. Although he had left the ministry as a young man he was a prominent figure in Congregational circles throughout his life. He compiled a biography of his father, Cofiant y Diweddar Barchedig Evan Lewis, Brynberian, 1813
LEWIS, DAVID WYRE (1872 - 1966), minister and administrator (B) Maerdy, Glamorganshire, and then to Pen-y-graig, where he was baptised as a member of Soar church, Ffrwdamws and began preaching. Following a short period at night school in Porth and 14 months at Severn Grove Academy, Llanidloes (1893-94), he was accepted by Bangor Baptist College, but he postponed commencing his course until September 1895, spending the first year at the University College of Wales
LEWIS, EVAN (1818 - 1901), dean of Bangor Aberystwyth, and afterwards to his uncle David's school at Twickenham. In April 1838 he went to Jesus College, Oxford, graduating in 1841; he was a notable oarsman, and under his captaincy the college boat went head of the river. He was ordained by Bethell of Bangor in 1842, and served curacies at Llanddeusant, Anglesey (1842-3), Llanfaes and Penmon (1843-5), Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog (1845-6), and Llanllechid

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