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JONES, OWEN WYNNE (Glasynys; 1828 - 1870), cleric, antiquary, story-writer, and poet Born at Ty'n-y-ffrwd, Rhostryfan, near Caernarvon, 4 March 1828. When he was 10 years of age he went to work in the quarry, leaving it at the age of 17 to go to Bron-y-foel school. It is not definitely known whether he went to Eben Fardd's school at Clynnog, but he certainly went to the Caernarvon Training College to qualify as a teacher in the Church schools. He was a schoolmaster at Clynnog
JONES, PHILIP (1618 - 1674), colonel in the Parliamentary army and member of Cromwell's Second (or 'Other') House Ministers' Committee asked him to resolve the difficulties that had arisen over the vicarage of Mydrim and the living of Llangunllo in Radnorshire (August 1649), and to do justice to the harassed clergyman of Llangattock in Brecknock (March 1650). Before that, Philip Jones had become himself a member of the powerful Committee for Compounding (December 1648) and of the Committee to look into the proper
JONES, REES CRIBIN (1841 - 1927), Unitarian minister and teacher , School Board and the Board of Guardians. He was interested in spiritualism. Watcyn Samuel Jones (1877 - 1964) was a child of his first marriage to Mari Jones (10 January 1873). She died on 11 March 1898. His second wife, Mary Ann, died on 8 February 1945 and he himself died on 11 August 1927. His son dedicated his book, Helyntion hen bregethwr a'i gyfoedion, 1940, to his stepmother.
JONES, REES JENKIN (1835 - 1924), Unitarian minister, schoolmaster, historian, and hymn-writer Jones were members of his classes. In 1879 he resumed his old duties in the pulpit of the Old Meeting House and at Trecynon seminary, popularly known as ' Jones's School '. There he had among his students Sir T. Marchant Williams, G. Pennar Griffiths, and T. Botting. He retired from the ministry in 1909. He married Anne Griffiths (died 7 March 1899), Aberdare, and they had five children. He edited Yr
JONES, RICHARD IDWAL MERVYN (1895 - 1937), schoolmaster, poet, and dramatist . David's College School, Lampeter (1909-11). After spending a short time as a clerk in the office of a solicitor at Lampeter, he became a clerk to his father who had relinquished school-mastering after a dispute with the governors of his school (Felin-fach) and had started in business in Lampeter as a coal-merchant. He joined the army in March 1915 and saw service in East Africa; he left the army in
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 (1560 - 1615), priest, of the Society of Jesus four Welsh secular priests known to have worked under Fr. Jones's direction. These activities, doubtless, underlie the sheriff of Hereford's unsubstantiated charges of political subversion made against Jones in 1605 and explain the phrase ' Jones the Jesuit, the firebrand of all.' He became vice-prefect of the whole Jesuit mission in England and Wales on 30 March 1609, at a crisis in the affairs of
JONES, ROBERT (1806 - 1896), Baptist minister and author . He was an ardent Liberal (see Y Faner, 2 December 1868), and was constantly lecturing on political, religious, and social subjects. He died 3 March 1896.
JONES, ROBERT (1810 - 1879), cleric and author Barmouth from 1840 to 1842. In 1842 he was appointed vicar of All Saints, Rotherhithe, London, where he remained till his death on 28 March 1879. He was buried in All Saints churchyard. While at Barmouth he published a collection of Welsh psalms and hymns, and in 1864 he produced a reprint of Dr. John Davies, Flores Poetarum Britannicorum. In 1876 he published the Poetical Works of Goronwy Owen: with his
JONES, ROBERT (1891 - 1962), aerodynamicist March 1962 at Stanwell. Robert Jones ' early work at the National Physical Laboratory was on the mathematical theory of aeroplane stability. Later he did much theoretical and wind tunnel work on airships and became one of the leading experts in the world on the stability of these craft. In 1923 he was awarded the R.38 Memorial Prize of the Royal Aeronautical Society for a classic paper on airship
JONES, ROBERT AMBROSE (1848 - 1906), Calvinistic Methodist minister, man of letters, and publicist Born 24 March 1851, the eldest child of John and Maria Jones, at Bryn Aber, near Abergele, where his father was a gardener. The knowledge of the fact that his great-grandfather had married a French woman who was a lady's companion at Gwrych Castle helped to foster Emrys's interest in France and the Continent generally. After leaving the elementary school at Abergele, he went, at the age of 14, to
JONES, ROBERT EVAN (1869 - 1956), collector of books and manuscripts Twrog, Maentwrog, and they had one daughter. He died 27 March 1956 and was buried at Maentwrog.

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