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JONES, THOMAS (1648? - 1713), almanack maker, bookseller, printer, and publisher Collection of all the Material News, Printed and sold by Thomas Jones in Hill's Lane (?) near Mardol. Price 1d.), possibly in 1705; if this was the case then Shrewsbury was one of the places where the earliest provincial newspapers were published (Francis Burges's Norwich Post began publication in September 1701; see Llewelyn C. Lloyd, op. cit.). Thomas Jones died 6 August 1713; this date is deduced from a
JONES, THOMAS (1742 - 1803), landscape painter friends included Garrick, Evan Lloyd (1734 - 1776), Farington, and Francis Wheatley. He left for Italy in 1766 and settled in Rome, moving to Naples in 1780. His circle of friends in Italy included Towne, John Smith, Edward Pars, and Day, and he carried out a large number of commissions there. He returned to England in 1783 with his wife, Maria, and two daughters, and continued to paint, avowedly at
JONES, THOMAS HUGHES (1895 - 1966), poet, writer and teacher in September 1909, together with William Ambrose Bebb, Evan Jenkins, D. Lloyd Jenkins and Griffith John Williams. All of these boys came under the influence of outstanding teachers, especially Samuel Morris Powell, to whom generations of pupils owed a great debt. At this time, Thomas Hughes Jones made a name for himself by winning chairs at local eisteddfodau for his poetry. He was given the
JONES, THOMAS LLOYD (Gwenffrwd; 1810 - 1834), poet He is said to have been born at Brynffordd (then in the parish of Ysgeifiog), but there is no confirmation of this - others have suggested Holywell or Whitford as his native parish. The 'Lloyd' in his name was perhaps a later addition, though it occurs in the name of an uncle of his. He worked in a cotton-mill at Greenfield, Holywell, up to the age of about 18, and then became clerk to Thomas
JONES, THOMAS WILLIAM (Baron Maelor of Rhos), (1898 - 1984), Labour politician chairman of the Ruabon bench of magistrates for twenty years. Jones had joined the ILP in 1919 and served as the chairman of both the Wrexham Trades Council and the North Wales Labour Federation. He was short-listed as a prospective parliamentary candidate for Anglesey in 1931, but withdrew in favour of Megan Lloyd George, the Independent Liberal candidate and sitting MP for the county. He unsuccessfully
JONES, WILLIAM (1764 - 1822), hymn writer Born at Cynwyd, Meironnydd. He went to Bala as a lad, and was a weaver in a factory belonging to Simon Lloyd; he became a Calvinistic Methodist elder. In 1819 he published Aberth Moliant, neu Ychydig Hymnau; one or more of these hymns of his will be found in practically all our present-day hymnaries. He died 2 May 1822, aged 58.
JONES, WILLIAM (1718 - 1773?), early Methodist exhorter, and possibly the first Anglesey Methodist way, other evidence connecting him with Liverpool), was alive in February 1779. It may be noted in passing that he and the Cymmrodor William Lloyd (1717 - 1777) of Cowden were cousins - their mothers were sisters. See J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 93.
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 leaders of the 'Little Wesley' schism]. He was enrolled as a member of several Cymreigyddion societies and wrote awdlau for eisteddfodic competitions on such subjects as 'A Welshman's longing for his country,' 1820; 'The regency of George IV,' 1824; 'The Druids of the Isle of Britain,' 1834; 'Job,' 1840. His prose work, The Bard, or the Welsh Hermit, 1830, an account of imaginary journeys to various
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
JOSHUA, SETH (1858 - 1925), minister (Presb.) Born 10 April 1858 in Ty Capel, Trosnant Uchaf, Pontypool, Monmouth, son of George Joshua and Mary (née Walden) his wife. He married Mary Rees, Llantrisant, in Neath, Glamorganshire, 23 September 1883, and they had eight children (one son, Peter, was a minister and a popular evangelist in America; another son, Lyn, was responsible with Mai Jones for the radio programme ' We'll keep a welcome in

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