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JONES, RICHARD LEWIS (1934 - 2009), poet and farmer Richard Jones, or Dic as he was known throughout Wales, was born on Good Friday, 30 March 1934 at Pen-y-graig, a smallholding near Tre'r-ddôl in North Cardiganshire. His mother, Frances Louisa (1910-1986) was one of the daughters of the Isaac family who farmed there. She qualified as a teacher and after taking up a post at Blaen-porth school she married a local farmer, Alban Lewis (Abba) Jones
JONES, ROBERT ALBERT (1851 - 1892), barrister and educationist Inn, 7 May 1879, and afterwards resided at Liverpool. He possessed independent means which enabled him to devote much of his time to public activities. With Robert Lewis, M.P., he was joint treasurer to the Executive Committee of the North Wales Liberal Federation, although he failed to agree with Gladstone on Ireland. He was deeply interested in land ownership, and published at his own expense The
JONES, ROBERT TUDUR (1921 - 1998), theologian, church historian and public figure deeply influenced the parents' devotion and piety. Robert Tudur had an excellent education at Rhyl Secondary School under teachers such as Lewis Angell in Welsh, T. I. Ellis (the Headmaster) in classics and A. M. Houghton in history. Houghton was an Evangelical Calvinist (and father of physicist Sir John Houghton FRS) who combined respect for academic discipline with steadfast religious dedication
JONES, THOMAS (1870 - 1955), university professor, civil servant, administrator, author Born 27 September 1870 in Rhymney, Monmouthshire, the eldest of the nine children of David Benjamin Jones, a shopkeeper, and his wife, Mary Ann Jones. He was educated in Rhymney Board School and Lewis' School, Pengam. At 14 he became a clerk at the Rhymney Iron and Steel Works. He was admitted to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1890 as a prospective candidate for the Calvinistic
JONES, THOMAS (1810 - 1849), Calvinistic Methodist missionary Born 24 January 1810 to Edward and Mary Jones, Tan-y-ffridd, Llangynyw, Montgomeryshire. Originally a wheelwright, he became miller at Llifior, Berriw. About 1835 he began preaching; he was one of the first of Lewis Edwards's students at Bala (1837). Desiring to become a missionary, he offered himself to the London Missionary Society, which however refused to send him to India, thinking that his
JONES, THOMAS IVOR (1896 - 1969), solicitor year), 1939 and 1946 and for many years one of the two Honorary Legal Advisers of the Association. He was one of the Trustees appointed by Sir Howell J. Williams in 1937, to hold the properties which Sir Howell had provided in Grays Inn Road for the purposes of a London-Welsh Centre, and retained that responsibility until his death. He was also active in many other London - Welsh interests, in
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, TOM ELLIS (1900 - 1975), Baptist minister and college Principal Wrexham, before joining the Army toward the end of the First World War, serving in Germany and Ireland and completing his service in 1919. By then, under the ministry of the Reverend D. Wyre Lewis, he had started to preach. He entered the local Preparatory School for ministers, conducted by the Reverend J. Powell Griffiths in the English Baptist church in Ponciau, and in 1920 he matriculated and gained
JONES, WALTER DAVID MICHAEL (1895 - 1974), painter and poet First World War. Freely mixing prose and verse, the text tells the story of John Ball, an everyman soldier, and 'the many men so beautiful' who served alongside him. Jones's writing is littered with allusions to Hopkins, Lewis Carroll, Coleridge, Shakespeare, Malory and Y Gododdin, as well as to modernists like Eliot and Joyce. The complexity of the poem - its concern with the antagonisms and
JONES, WILLIAM (1675? - 1749), mathematician ' nickname, ' Pabo,' for William Jones. The father was John George; the mother was Elizabeth Rowland, of the family of Bodwigan, Llanddeusant (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 3), and Elizabeth's mother was of the family of Tregaian and therefore, according to Lewis Morris (Add. M.L., p. 190), related to the Morris family's father and mother. He was at school at Llanfechell, and showed such skill as a calculator
JONES, WILLIAM COLLISTER (1772 - ?), printer Christened 12 July 1772, son of William and Sarah Jones, Chester. W. C. Jones and Thomas Crane were printing Welsh books in partnership from about 1796; in 1797 they began to print George Lewis, Drych Ysgrythyrol. In 1798 they arranged to print Welsh religious works for Thomas Charles, Bala, and Thomas Jones, Denbigh; in that year, however, the name of Crane disappears from the imprints. W. C
JONES, WILLIAM ELLIS (Cawrdaf; 1795 - 1848), poet and man of letters Born 9 October 1795, at Tyddyn Siôn, Abererch, Caernarfonshire. Having received his education at a local school and from his father, Ellis Jones, who was himself a schoolmaster, he was in 1808 apprenticed as a printer with his cousin, Richard Jones (1787 - 1855). On completing his apprenticeship he was engaged by another cousin of his, Lewis Evan Jones, at Caernarvon. There he came to know Dafydd

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