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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
JONES, JACK (1884 - 1970), author and playwright Cardiff and at other centres in Wales; and in 1949 he spent three months in the United States promoting the cause. Compared with much of his earlier work, his five novels of the 1950s Lily of the Valley and Lucky Lear, 1952, Time and the Business, 1953, Choral Symphony, 1955 and Come Night: End Day, 1956, reveal a sharp decline in literary standards. In 1954, he married (2) Gladys Morgan, a library
JONES, JAMES IFANO (1865 - 1955), librarian and bibliographer University of Wales awarded him an honorary M.A. degree. His historical works included his lengthy study of ' Dan Isaac Davies and the Bilingual Movement ', which appeared in J. Vyrnwy Morgan, ed., Welsh Political and Educational Leaders in the Victorian era, 1908; The Early History of Nonconformity in Cardiff, 1912; and ' Sir Mathew Cradock and some of his contemporaries ' in Archæologia Cambrensis, 1919
JONES, JENKIN (bu farw 1689) Kilgerran, captain in the Parliamentary army, Puritan preacher, Independent He dwelt at Rhos-y-Gilwen in the lower reaches of the parish, and came into prominence in 1656 as a supporter of the Protectorate of Cromwell by signing his name on the Humble Representation and Address. In Restoration times he secured, through Stephen Hughes, a licence under the Declaration of 1672 to preach in his own house; his followers were few, according to the report of Henry Maurice in
JONES, JOHN (Idrisyn; 1804 - 1887), cleric and author New Quay on 17 August and was buried at Llandysiliogogo. He published about twelve works, the best known being his Dehongliad Beirniadol ar yr Hen Destament a'r Newydd in five volumes (Llanidloes, 1852). His other works include Yr Esboniad Beirniadol (six volumes; Llanidloes, 1845) and his translation of queen Victoria's Journal of our Life in the Highlands (Carmarthen; Morgan and Davies, 1868).
JONES, JOHN (Tegid, Ioan Tegid; 1792 - 1852), cleric and man of letters Born at Bala, 10 February 1792, first son and third child of Henry and Catherine Jones; according to Elizabeth Davis, the mother had a pretty large millinery business, and Tegid's prolonged sojourn at schools suggests that his family was not too badly off. He speaks of a brother, David (born 1794, a banker), a sister Elen christened 29 January 1787, and another Gwen, born 1788, who died young

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