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JONES, JOHN (Shoni Sguborfawr; c.1810 - 1867), Rebecca rioter ill-treating their horses. In March 1843 he was brought before the Merthyr magistrates on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, but was discharged on promising 'to lead another life.' In the following May he was again brought before the Swansea magistrates on a similar charge. He then went to work in the neighbourhood of Pontyberem, and his services were engaged by the leaders of the Rebecca
JONES, JOHN (Humilis; 1818 - 1869), Wesleyan minister, editor, translator, and essayist Nicholas o Rwsia, 1855, Y Bywgraffydd Wesleyaidd, 1866, and Y Chwedleuydd, 1868. He also wrote various articles to Y Traethodydd, 1855-69. He died at Cardiff, 13 March 1869, at the age of 51.
JONES, JOHN (1786 - 1865), printer and inventor was diverting company, was cultured and composed verse under the pseudonym 'Pyll'. After his death 19 March 1865, his son Owen Evans-Jones continued the business, without much enthusiasm, until his death in 1887. His grandson J.J. Lloyd then owned it until 1935 when the shop was closed after the family had been in the printing trade over five generations from 1776 until 1935. Evan Jones (1830 - 1918
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

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