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  • JONES, EMRYS (1920 - 2006), geographer State. His first academic post was an assistant lectureship in the Department of Geography at University College London, 1947-50. However that was not followed by promotion to a full lectureship since the then Head of Department considered his work to be in the field of sociology. This incident reflected the marked differences in the field of geography at the time and the conflict between the
  • JONES, EMYR WYN (1907 - 1999), cardiologist and author numerous journals. His main interests were the Liverpool Welsh, the Quakers, Henry Tudor and the Battle of Bosworth, and Henry Morton Stanley. In Henry Stanley: Pentewyn Tân a'i Gymhlethdod Phaetonaidd ('A Firebrand and his Phaetonian Complex', 1992) he demonstrated that Stanley was a consummate liar. In his own field he published several volumes of essays which reflect his interest in traditional
  • JONES, ENID WYN (1909 - 1967), a prominent worker in religious, social and medical fields Justice of the Peace for Denbighshire. She made a very substantial contribution in the field of medical and nursing administration as Vice-Chairman of the Nursing Advisory Council, Welsh Hospital Board; as a member of North Wales Mental Hospital and later Clwyd and Deeside Hospital Management Committees; and as a member of the Medical Executive Committee of Denbighshire and Flintshire, and of the
  • JONES, EVAN (1836 - 1915), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and publicist at Machynlleth. He married, while he was at Corris, Jane Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Jones, Bala; they had two daughters and a son. His wife predeceased him. He was a leader in his connexion, moderator of the North Wales Methodist Association in 1897, and moderator of the General Assembly in 1898-9. He was practically the founder of the Calvinistic Methodist Bookroom, and was general editor of
  • JONES, EVAN (1777 - 1819), Baptist minister the field on the Calvinist side, by publishing (1801 or 1802) a pamphlet, Traethawd Byrr ar Dduwdod Crist, attacking Richards, who riposted with venom in several pamphlets. Jones was a most popular preacher even in his student days at Bristol; he preached frequently at meetings of the Baptist Association and at quarterly meetings; and tradition has it that Christmas Evans would not preach after him
  • JONES, EVAN (Gwrwst ab Bleddyn Flaidd, Gwrwst; 1793 - 1855), Baptist minister and littérateur , S. Lythans, and twelve children were born of the marriage. His ministry at Castleton was very successful, the number of members increasing, branches being established at S. Mellons in 1833, and S. Brides, Wentloog, in 1838, and several members including J.R. Morgan (Lleurwg), becoming ministers of religion. He was friendly with some of the most prominent literary men of his day, such as Robert
  • JONES, EZZELINA GWENHWYFAR (1921 - 2012), artist and sculptor that 'tapped the very depth of her being'. She researched her new field diligently and took a temporary job for six months in order to finance the purchase of her first kiln. She enrolled on a course in the Extra-mural Department of Swansea University and took tuition and advice from the Art College but declined the offer of a place on a degree course for mature students. Ezzelina was intent on
  • JONES, FRANCES MÔN (1919 - 2000), harpist and teacher Society from 1957 to 1985, she became a Vice-President from 1985 to 1988, and its President from 1988 until her death. She was also Secretary of the Welsh Folk Dance Society from 1959 to 1971 and a Vice-President from 1975 to 2000, and when the Society for the Traditional Instruments of Wales, Clera, was founded in 1996, was elected its Honorary President. She married the Methodist minister Robert Môn
  • JONES, GLANVILLE REES JEFFREYS (1923 - 1996), historical geographer historical interpretation, reflecting the influence of Frederic Seebohm, had tended to portray a society consisting largely of freemen who pursued a mainly pastoral economy in a dispersed habitat. Jones, making extensive use of law texts and post-conquest documentary sources, envisaged an economic and social order in which settlement patterns and open-field systems were to a greater extent those of an
  • JONES, GWILYM GWALCHMAI (1921 - 1970), musician International Eisteddfod, Llangollen, he opened a studio for singing at Rhyl, Caernarfon and Wrexham (1954-57), and several of his pupils became well-known figures in eisteddfod and concert circles. Many of the students who were taught by him at the college in Manchester won international acclaim in the field of opera. In the midst of his great activity as a college lecturer, he was much in demand throughout
  • JONES, HUGH (1831 - 1883), Baptist minister and college principal sufficiently educated for a preacher, he attended school at Llanrhuddlad for fifteen months, and in June 1853 was accepted for four years at the Haverfordwest Baptist College. He married, in 1858, Catherine, only daughter of John Hughes, Llangollen; there were thirteen children of the marriage. His first intention was the mission field, but he was persuaded to give up the idea and consequently accepted the
  • JONES, HUGH ROBERT (1894 - 1930), founder of the Welsh Nationalist party Born 3 June 1894 at Deiniolen, Caernarfonshire, son of Robert Hugh Jones and Ellen his wife, the former descended from the old Bodnithoedd family and the latter from the family which produced John Elias and Ieuan o Leyn. When be was 3 years old he went to the boys' school Clwt-y-bont, where he remained until he was 13. Thence he went to the quarry to follow his father's calling, receiving a