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JONES, EVAN (Gwrwst ab Bleddyn Flaidd, Gwrwst; 1793 - 1855), Baptist minister and littérateur Born at Llanddoget, Denbighshire, 26 August 1793. He began to preach when he was 18 years old, and became missionary to Llŷn and Eifionydd in 1815. He was ordained at Garn Dolbenmaen, 25 November 1817, and moved in 1820 to Llangollen, in 1822 to Dolgelley, and in September 1823 to Castleton, Monmouth, where he remained until his death on 1 December 1855. In 1824 he married Mary Morgan, Maesyfelin
JONES, EVAN (1790 - 1860), the last of the Usk japanners was descended from the Allgood family. He bought the japannery from John Pyrke in 1826, but after the death of John Hughes (1784 - 1851), and of his artist Morgan Davies (1770 - 1837), he paid comparatively little attention to this business, and became increasingly absorbed in his farm, his ironmongery shop, his brickworks, and his gasworks, not to mention his participation in public life - he
JONES, EZZELINA GWENHWYFAR (1921 - 2012), artist and sculptor many more sculptures in bronze but was also experimenting with various other styles and media. She was also establishing connections that enabled her to show her work in Manchester in the Henry Donn Gallery and in Bristol in the Patricia Wells Gallery. The 1990s was a busy period for Ezzelina. 1994 saw an exhibition in Cyfarthfa Castle in Merthyr, significantly entitled: 'My Wales - Fy Nghymru i
JONES, Sir HENRY (1852 - 1922), philosopher
JONES, HENRY (bu farw 1592), civil lawyer
JONES, HENRY (1605 - 1682), pioneer of Gaelic studies - gweler JONES, MICHAEL
JONES, HENRY (1605 - 1682), bishop - gweler JONES, MICHAEL
JONES, HENRY, deputy governor of Dublin - gweler JONES, JOHN
JONES, Sir HENRY STUART (1867 - 1939), classical scholar and lexicographer Born at Hunslet, Leeds, 15 May 1867, only child of the Rev. Henry William Jones [ 1834 - 1909 ] (then curate of Hunslet) and Margaret Lawrance, née Baker; [his grandfather was a solicitor at Bishops Castle, and the family seems to have been Cornish - not (as is often said) Welsh ]. He was educated at Rossall school and Balliol College, Oxford (classical scholar 1886). A brilliant university
JONES, HUMPHREY ROWLAND (1832 - 1895), evangelist full swing. Jones caught the fire, and on returning to Tre'raddôl started the Welsh Revival of 1858-60, and, with David Morgan, Yspyty (1814 - 1883), was very successful. The strain proved too much for him, and he retired, leaving the field to Morgan. In 1871, he returned to America with his health impaired physically and mentally. He was a hospital patient at Winnebago, Wisconsin, for five years. On
JONES, IEUAN SAMUEL (1918 - 2004), minister (Cong.) being following the call by the Rev. T. Glyn Thomas (1905-1973) in his presidential address at the Annual Assembly of the Union of Welsh Independents at Nantlle Valley in 1968. The movement's first chairperson, the Rev. Morgan Mainwaring, wrote: 'For the very first time in the history of religion in Wales representatives from all the Christian denominations met to discuss together, and determine
JONES, IORWERTH (1913 - 1992), minister, author and editor Chapel. It was here he started preaching in 1930, and the following year he went to Bangor University and Bala-Bangor College. He graduated with honours in Philosophy and later in Theology. His favourite subject was Christian Doctrine in his latter degree, but it was John Morgan Jones, Church History Lecturer and Principal of Bala-Bangor College, who left the most lasting religious influence on him. He

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