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JONES, JOHN (1820 - 1907), minister (B) and historian ' meeting house in Llandrindod within five weeks of his death on 1 March 1907. He left one daughter, Mrs. Annie E. Skewis (died 1910) and a son. He travelled widely in Wales and in England to collect funds to clear the debts of the chapels which he had helped to build. In Wales and the Border he was known as Jones the Rock, and was described as ' the nonconformist bishop of Radnorshire.' He published two
JONES, JOHN (1773 - 1853), cleric Born 31 March 1773, the eldest of the thirteen children of Thomas and Lowri Jones, Dolgellau, Meironnydd. Thomas Jones was a businessman and financier, founder of the first bank in Dolgellau, and a relative of David Richards, ' Dafydd Ionawr '. John Jones was educated in Dolgellau, Ruthin Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford where he graduated B.A. in 1796 (M.A. in 1800). He was curate in
JONES, JOHN CHARLES (1904 - 1956), Bishop of Bangor , and a unity and strength never seen before. He was known in the remotest parish, a bishop to all - ' belonging to us all ' as one Methodist elder put it. In the summer of 1950 he led more than 4,000 people along the pilgrim route to Aberdaron. The exhibition of the treasures of the churches in the see, held in Bangor 3-5 March 1953, was an opportunity to bring everyone together as well as
JONES, JOHN EMRYS (1914 - 1991), secretary and organiser of Labour Party Wales He was born on 12 March 1914, the son of William and Elizabeth Susan Jones. They lived at 5 Harris Terrace, Penrhiwceiber in the Cynon Valley. He was educated at a secondary school at Mountain Ash, but left school at fourteen years of age. He worked as a shop assistant, 1928-29, a railwayman, 1929-33, for the Rootes motor factory, 1933-36, and as a railwayman again, 1936-49. He joined the
JONES, JOHN HENRY (1909 - 1985), educationist and translator weakness, he turned back to classical literature and translated Agamemnon, the first tragedy in Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy, into Welsh: the play was broadcast on the radio by the BBC's Welsh Home Service in March 1953, and published in 1991 (ed. R. Telfryn Pritchard: CAA, the Centre for Educational Studies, Aberystwyth). There followed, until the end of his life, a rich crop of poems in Welsh
JONES, JOHN HERBERT (Je Aitsh; 1860 - 1943), journalist and author 1932. In 1941 he went with his daughter and her husband to live at Pen-y-groes, Caernarfonshire, where he died 23 March 1943. He published a text (1915) of Llyfr y Tri Aderyn (Morgan Llwyd) and several books which included some of his own more important articles from Y Brython. His chief works are: O'r Mwg i'r Mynydd (1913), Swp o Rug (1920), and Moelystota (1932).
JONES, JOHN JAMES (1892 - 1957), teacher, librarian, scholar and linguist Born on 12 March 1892 in New Quay, Cardiganshire, the son of a saddler, Thomas Jones and Elizabeth, daughter of John Williams, Pendre, Llwyndafydd. He was educated at the Council School, New Quay and Aberaeron intermediate school (1906-10); he was a student teacher before entering the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (1911-14). He graduated B.A. (Wales) with honours in Latin, and was
JONES, JOHN MORGAN (1861 - 1935), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Born 26 March 1861 at Margam, Glamorganshire He worked in that district for some time before proceeding to Arnold College, Swansea, and thence to Trevecka College. He held pastorates at Bwlch (Brecknock) and Alexandra Road, Swansea, before entering S. John's College, Cambridge, in 1895; he graduated in 1898 [ M.A. 1903 ]. In the same year he was appointed minister of Hope English C.M. chapel at
JONES, JOHN MORGAN (1873 - 1946), minister (Congl.) and Principal of Bala-Bangor College, Bangor November 1919. When Thomas Rees died in 1926 he succeeded him as principal, a post which he held until his own death on 7 March 1946. His remains were buried in Glanadda Cemetery, Bangor. Throughout his life he was deeply interested in education and was chairman of the north Wales branch of the Workers' Educational Association from 1926 to 1946. In the University of Wales he was Warden of the Guild of
JONES, JOHN OWEN (Ap Ffarmwr; 1861 - 1899), journalist Nottingham as leader writer of the Nottingham Daily Express (see under David Edwards. During this time, he wrote a biography of Gladstone (Cofiant Gladstone, Caernarvon, 1898). He died at Nottingham 2 March 1899 and was buried in the Methodist burial-ground, Dwyran, 7 March. A memorial was placed on his grave in 1902, partly by subscriptions from Anglesey farm labourers. As his pen-name suggests, he took a
JONES, JOHN OWEN (1857 - 1917), Calvinistic Methodist minister and tutor, and man of letters , to his great disappointment, it was decided to abolish the department. He retired to Caernarvon where, in 1916, he was a master at the County School. He died 6 March 1917 and was buried at Caeathro. His chief characteristic was his unremitting industry. He was a good and successful teacher, but a stern disciplinarian who did not suffer fools gladly. And, as he was no respecter of persons, he made
JONES, JOHN OWEN (OWEN BRYNGWYN; 1884 - 1972), singer the name of his home in Llanegryn). He married, 24 March 1923 in Manchester, Dorothy Mary Elliott of Maidenhead, a trades union official, and they made their home in Hampstead, London, until 1962 when they moved to Ashtead, Surrey. In 1939 he resumed his teaching career and he was science teacher at Epsom College until 1954. As a singer he was in great demand as a soloist in oratorio and in

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