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JONES, THOMAS (Glan Alun; 1811 - 1866), Calvinistic Methodist minister and man of letters Born 11 March 1811 at 'Cefn-y-gadair shop,' Mold, son of John Jones, formerly of Cefn-y-gadair in Llanelidan, and before that of Hendre, Derwen, Denbighshire, who was son of JOSEPH JONES, of Y Seinad near Ruthin. ' Joseff y Seinad,' an Antinomian, was one of the sectaries who found a following after the Methodist disruption of 1750 - see on him J. H. Morris, Hanes Methodistiaeth Liverpool, i, 226
JONES, THOMAS (1742 - 1803), landscape painter Jenkin Jenkins, and proceeded thence to Jesus College, Oxford, where he matriculated 11 July 1759. It was intended that he should take holy orders, but on the death of John Hope, his mother's uncle, in 1761, he left Oxford and devoted himself to painting. He entered William Shipley's drawing school in the Strand, London, then directed by Henry Pars, in November 1761, and in March 1763 he became Richard
JONES, THOMAS GRUFFYDD (Tafalaw Bencerdd; 1832 - 1898), musician minister of a Congregational church at Slatington in 1867, and in 1869 became teacher of the fine arts in Emporia College. He served several churches in the U.S.A.; he died 17 March 1898.
JONES, THOMAS GWYNN (1871 - 1949), poet, writer, translator and scholar , Aberystwyth, in 1913, and promoted to the Gregynog Chair in Welsh literature in 1919 - its only occupant ever - which he held until his retirement in 1937. He married in June 1899 Margaret Jane Davies : they had a daughter and 2 sons. He died at his home in Aberystwyth 7 March 1949 aged 77 and was buried in Aberystwyth cemetery. T. Gwynn Jones was influenced by Emrys ap Iwan (R. Ambrose Jones), early in his
JONES, THOMAS IVOR (1896 - 1969), solicitor Hughes, of Solway, Buarth, Aberystwyth. Never one to seek the limelight, he was a quiet man but with mischievous humour and a steadfast nature. He died 29 March 1969, aged 72, and was buried at Llanuwchllyn.
JONES, THOMAS JERMAN (1833 - 1890), missionary for twenty years with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists (1863-9). He married, and sailed for India, 1869, reaching the Khasi Hills by March 1870. After ministering at Jowai for a time, he moved to Shillong in 1875, where he served with distinction during the cholera epidemic of 1879. Returning to his native land to recuperate, he died 14 April off Dungeness, and was buried in Smithdown Road cemetery, Liverpool, 18 April 1890.
JONES, THOMAS PARRY (1935 - 2013), inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist Tom Parry Jones was born on 27 March 1935 at Dwyran, Anglesey, and was brought up at Carreglefn in the same county, the eldest of three children of Owen Thomas Jones (1916-1999, a farmer, and Grace Parry (1917-2018), his wife. He attended Carreglefn Primary School and the Sir Thomas Jones School, Amlwch. After leaving school he worked at an ICI factory in Northwich, Cheshire, subsequently
JONES, TREVOR ALEC (1924 - 1983), Labour politician Party in 1945. He had been chairman of the Wood Green CLP and secretary of the Rhondda West CLP, 1965-67, and of the Rhondda branch of the National Association of Labour Teachers. He was also a member of the Wood Green Borough Council. He acted as political agent to Iori Thomas MP in the general election of March 1966. When Thomas died the following year, Jones was chosen as his successor, and held
JONES, Sir WILLIAM (1566 - 1640), judge Griffith II, Cefnamwlch, over a royal order to transport ordnance from the coast of Llŷn for defence of the border, which Jones maintained would leave the coast dangerously exposed; after that he appears to have taken little active part in public affairs till in June, 1647 - after the county had fallen to Parliament - he was appointed by the Rump to the county assessment committee. On 6 March 1649 the
JONES, WILLIAM (1770 - 1837), Calvinistic Methodist minister widow, of Mathafarn (the ancestral home of Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn) in Llanwrin, Montgomeryshire, and removed there, setting up as a cattle dealer. He began preaching in 1802. In 1805, he removed to the neighbouring farm of Dôl-y-fonddu, where he died 1 March 1837. There is a memoir (1840) by John Hughes of Pontrobert.
JONES, WILLIAM (1834 - 1895), Baptist minister , London, 1883; and once again at the end of 1884 to Hermon, Fishguard, where he remained until his death on 24 March 1895. He was buried in Hermon burial ground. His wife predeceased him by a year, and he left two sons. His denomination honoured him with the chair of the Welsh Baptist Union, 1894. He was a man of wide reading, and his preaching was remarkable for the philosophical nature of his sermons
JONES, WILLIAM ELLIS (Cawrdaf; 1795 - 1848), poet and man of letters parts of the world, written in a highly didactic vein, has often been described as the first Welsh novel, but has none of the attributes of a novel. He died 27 March 1848.

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