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INSOLE, JAMES HARVEY (1821 - 1901), colliery proprietor boys died in the first underground explosion in Wales to take more than 100 lives. At the subsequent inquest, James escaped later charges by claiming that all responsibility for the operation of the colliery lay in the hands of his mine manager. He denied that mine ventilation had been wilfully neglected, stating that he could not recall having received safety recommendation letters from HM Inspector
JONES, Syr THOMAS (bu farw 1622?), cleric and poet The older biographical dictionaries have wrongly associated him with Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd - perhaps confusing him with David Johns, who was vicar of that parish in 1573 and until c. 1598 - no other Johns or Jones appears in D.R. Thomas's list (A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph, ii, 100) of Llanfair D.C. incumbents during the relevant period. Every allusion to the cleric who is the subject
JONES, HARRY LONGUEVILLE (1806 - 1870), archaeologist and educationalist his most enduring achievements. Jones sought to make the study of Welsh archaeology and antiquities both more systematic and more critical than before, and his rejection of the fanciful Druidic interpretations of Ab Ithel led to the latter's resignation from the Association in 1853. Jones contributed almost 100 articles to Archaeologia Cambrensis and remained its editor until his death. On 16
JONES, HUW (1700? - 1782), poet, publisher, and one of the principal Welsh balladists of the 18th century He spent the whole of his working life as a farm labourer. He wrote over 100 poems which were published, together with one or two poems by other writers of the period, in 79 pamphlets, mostly of 8 pages and generally bearing some such title as ' Two New Poems ' or ' Three New Poems.' Of these, 19 are undated. With regard to the rest, the earliest bears the date 1727 and the last belongs to the
JONES, JOHN EIDDON (1841 - 1903), Calvinistic Methodist minister, eisteddfod enthusiast, and temperance advocate . Dawson Burns shared a prize of 100 guineas for an essay on ' The Drink Trade.' He founded a Good Templars lodge in Llan-rug and in this connection started a local eisteddfod in 1874. He was keenly interested in the national eisteddfod and won prizes for essays on its reform at Mold, Treherbert (1874), and Portmadoc (1878); during the years 1864-81 he was constantly making suggestions in the National
JONES, THOMAS LLEWELYN (1915 - 2009), poet and prolific writer T. Llew Jones, who published about 100 books for children and adults, was born at 1 Bwlch Melyn, Pentre-Cwrt, Carmarthenshire, 11 October 1915, the eldest son of James and Hannah Mary Jones and brother to Edwin Sieffre and Megan Eluned. His father was a weaver at the Derw Mill in Pentre-cwrt. T. Llew married Margaret Enidwen Jones, descended from the Cilie family and they had two children, Emyr
JONES, WILLIAM (bu farw 1679), Puritan minister Probably Merioneth -born, he first comes into prominence by an order of the Committee for Plundered Ministers settling him at Denbigh and allowing him £100 per annum out of the profits of the rectory (1647); he acted also as chaplain to the Parliament's garrison in the town; in 1650 he was named as one of the twenty-five 'approvers' to work the Propagation Act. In the years 1654-6 his profits
KROCH, HEINZ JUSTUS (1920 - 2011), engineer and businessman in 1951 to a small family company, AB Metal Products, employing no more than 100 people, which had been persuaded to move to Abercynon in the Cynon Valley as government sought to find new light manufacturing operations to absorb miners losing their jobs as the south Wales coalfield contracted. Kroch became a director of the company in 1959, rising to managing director in 1964 and chairman in 1978
LEWIS of CAERLEON (fl. 1491), mathematician, theologian, doctor of medicine, and teacher at Oxford a grant for life to be one of the knights of the king's alms in the chapel or church of S. Mary the Virgin, S. George the Martyr, and S. Edward the Confessor at Windsor castle, a grant which was repeated in the same terms 14 September 1491. The King's Book of Payments of May 1510 records a reward of £100 in gold to Master Lewis, the princess of Castile's physician, but it is not certain whether
LLOYD, JOHN (1749 - 1815), lawyer and dilettante with prices noted. The Wigfair MSS. (numbered NLW MS 12401-12513) now in N.L.W. (described in the Library's Annual Reports for 1925-6 and 1926-7, and in N.L.W. Jnl. i, 38, 76-82, 100-2, 115), include, besides a mass of family papers and letters, the only known holograph letter by the poet Siôn Tudur - and see Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, vii, 112-7, and the original of the 'Register
LLOYD, RICHARD (1771 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Nantdaenog, Llantrisant, Anglesey, sixth child of William Lloyd and his wife Jane - she was a daughter of the famous old dissenter William Prichard (1702 - 1773) of Clwchdernog. His paternal grandfather was David Lloyd ap Rhys (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 100), and in his articles in Goleuad Cymru, Richard Lloyd used to sign himself ' Rhisiart William Dafydd.' He joined the Methodist
LLWYD, MORGAN (1619 - 1659), littérateur, poet, mystic acceptance of the title 'Lord Protector' being known, his name was included or the protest known as A Word for God, but he definitely denies having any part in this document. In 1656, he was approved by the 'Triers' as a minister settled in Wrexham, and the Trustees for Maintenance are requested to pay him £100 per annum. He died in June 1659 and his remains were buried at the Rhos-ddu Dissenting burial

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