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JONES, GWILYM CLEATON (1875 - 1961) Cape Town, Johannesburg, bank manager election for the Caernarfon boroughs. Cleaton Jones was educated at Bala grammar school. He succeeded in the introductory examination of the Incorporated Law Society of England and Wales in 1889. By 1893 he had started working with Williams Company, Old Bank, Chester. He emigrated to South Africa (Cape Colony at the time) in November 1902, soon after the death of his elder brother, Eiddon Rhys, of whom
JONES, GWILYM RICHARD (Gwilym Aman; 1874 - 1953), musician, conductor of choirs and singing festivals, hymnist Born in Siop y Bont, Brynaman, Carmarthenshire, on 12 April 1874, the son of Richard Jones and his wife Elizabeth Mathew. The father, a successful baritone, came from Tŷcroes and settled, after his marriage, in Brynaman; his son grew up in the midst of the lively culture of that area during the heyday of Watcyn Wyn (Watkin Hezekiah Williams and Gwydderig (Richard Williams, 1842 - 1917). Gwilym R
JONES, GWILYM THOMAS (1908 - 1956), solicitor and administrator , and then the University College of North Wales, Bangor, where he graduated with an M.A. degree in Law. In 1936, whilst working as a solicitor in Pwllheli, he was appointed as official court translator for the trial of the 'Penyberth Three' - Saunders Lewis, Lewis Valentine, and D. J. Williams - at Caernarfon and then at the Old Bailey in London when the case was transferred there. In 1938, he became
JONES, HARRY LONGUEVILLE (1806 - 1870) ) of uniting the two North Wales dioceses had already brought him into friendship with John Williams (ab Ithel), and their common interest in antiquarian matters led them to initiate and edit Archaeologia Cambrensis in January 1846, and to found the Cambrian Archaeological Association in 1847. Jones bore the costs of Archæologia Cambrensis up to 1850, and seems to have lost much money over it. But
JONES, HARRY LONGUEVILLE (1806 - 1870), archaeologist and educationalist 1848 he had relocated from Manchester to Beaumaris, from where he later moved to the nearby village of Llandegfan. By this time, Welsh antiquities had become his principal concern, as he had taken the lead, in co-operation with his fellow Anglican John Williams Ab Ithel, in establishing the journal Archaeologia Cambrensis (1846) and the ensuing Cambrian Archaeological Association (1847). These were
JONES, Sir HENRY (1852 - 1922), philosopher Born at Llangernyw, Denbighshire 30 November 1852, the son of a shoemaker. Apprenticed to his father at 12 years of age, he had an arduous struggle for education, but later qualified as certificated teacher at Bangor Normal College and for two years was master of an elementary school at Brynaman, Glamorganshire. He then decided to enter the Calvinistic Methodist ministry, won a Dr. Williams
JONES, HUGH (Erfyl; 1789 - 1858), author, editor and translator treatise on Welsh syntax. NLW MS 1805E contains letters, and NLW MS 1899C poetry, by him. From c. 1821 at latest he was overseer of Welsh printing at Chester, for Edward (1798 - 1854) and John Parry (1775 - 1846). He was editor of Y Gwladgarwr, 1835-40, and was one of the translators of the Beibl Darluniadol (1844-7) edited by Ieuan Glan Geirionydd. He died 25 May 1858, aged 69, and was buried at
JONES, HUGH (1830 - 1911), Calvinistic Methodist minister master of pulpit oratory in the older tradition - T. C. Williams indeed averred that he was the last survivor of that tradition. His good biography (1869) of William Roberts of Amlwch (1784 - 1864) deserves mention. He was D.D., ' honoris causa,' of Princeton University, New Jersey (1890).
JONES, HUGH (Huw Myfyr; 1845 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet , and thence, in 1890, to Dinorwig. His pastorate there was stormy - though an able man, he was 'temperamental.' He died suddenly, 9 December 1891, aged 46; a biography (by David Williams), with a selection of his sermons, appeared in 1893. He was a poet of some standing; he published, in 1885, a metrical psalter, Salmydd y Cyssegr, and several of his elegies, notably those on his tutors, Dr. Lewis
JONES, HUGH (1837 - 1919), Wesleyan minister and historian ), Caernarvon (1875), Chester (1878), Rhyl (1880), Liverpool (Shaw Street) (1883), Tregarth (1886), Liverpool (Mount Zion) (1887), Liverpool (Shaw Street) (1890), Tregarth (1893), Liverpool (Mount Zion) (1896), and Bangor (1899). In 1902 he was appointed superintendent of the Bookroom. He retired in 1911 and died 23 May 1919. He married Mary, daughter of the Rev. John Williams (Calvinistic Methodist) of
JONES, HUMPHREY (Bryfdir; 1867 - 1947), poet and 'compère' of eisteddfodau were published - Telynau'r Wawr and Bro fy Mebyd a Chaniadau eraill. He married in 1893 Mary Eleanor Williams and they had 5 children. He died 22 January 1947.
JONES, ISHMAEL (1794 - 1876), Independent minister Born in a thatched house called Plas-yn-pant, Ponciau, Denbighshire, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Jones. In his early days he was a coal-miner, but in spite of the blue scars on his face he would not admit to having been one. He fell under the spell of William Williams (1781 - 1840), of Wern, and shortly after joining the Independents began to preach. He was at Hackney College before being

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