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JONES, ROBERT (1745 - 1829), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter and author Born 13 January 1745, son of John and Margaret Williams of Suntur, Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire. He was taught to read by his mother, and he attended one of Griffith Jones's circulating schools, kept by Thomas Gough. Robert Jones succeeded in persuading Bridget Bevan to reopen the circulating schools in North Wales, and he himself was a teacher at Llangybi (1766), Beddgelert (1767), Capel Curig
JONES, ROBERT (1806 - 1896), Baptist minister and author Garn, 1842; Bedydd y Testament Newyddyn yn cael ei Amddiffyn, 1846, an answer to William Roberts of Clynnog's book on infant baptism; Casgliad o Hymnau ar Destynau Efengylaidd, 1851, containing 918 hymns, many of them by Robert Jones himself; Ystyriaethau ar Fedydd, 1853; Traethawd ar Babyddiaeth, 1855 - this was the book to which he devoted most time; Gemau Duwinyddol, 1865, a collection of notes
JONES, ROBERT (1706? - 1742), country gentleman Born at Fonmon Castle, Glamorganshire, son of Robert Jones (1681 - 1715?), M.P. for Glamorgan (1710, 1713, and 1714), and great-grandson of colonel Philip Jones. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was a contemporary of Charles Wesley (matriculated 24 April 1724), but returned to his estate at Fonmon without graduating. He was sheriff of Glamorgan in 1729. In 1732 he married Mary
JONES, ROBERT (1560 - 1615), priest, of the Society of Jesus several libraries in Europe. Early in 1595 he was placed by the Jesuit General, Aquaviva, at the disposal of Fr. Robert Persons, the Prefect of the English Jesuit mission, who had long hoped to provide for the needs of the Roman Catholics in Wales. Passing through Spain, Jones arrived in England by July 1595. By 1605 he had set up an organization, centred in Monmouthshire and extending along the Marches
JONES, ROBERT (WILFRID) (1862 - 1929), musician
JONES, ROBERT (1891 - 1962), aerodynamicist March 1962 at Stanwell. Robert Jones ' early work at the National Physical Laboratory was on the mathematical theory of aeroplane stability. Later he did much theoretical and wind tunnel work on airships and became one of the leading experts in the world on the stability of these craft. In 1923 he was awarded the R.38 Memorial Prize of the Royal Aeronautical Society for a classic paper on airship
JONES, ROBERT, poet - gweler JONES, LEWIS
JONES, ROBERT ALBERT (1851 - 1892), barrister and educationist Born 16 September 1851, son of the Rev. John Jones, Pen-y-bryn, Wrexham, Denbighshire, and great-grandson of Robert Jones, Rhoslan. He was a cousin of ' Ioan Maethlu ' [ John Maethlu Jones, 1839 - 1866 ]. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, and entered Corpus Christi, Oxford, in 1870, where he graduated B.A. with first class in Mathematics in 1874. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's
JONES, ROBERT AMBROSE (1848 - 1906), Calvinistic Methodist minister, man of letters, and publicist his translation of Renan's Job. As a literary critic, his chief work was to trace the main stream of Welsh classical prose tradition, and he strove to restore simplicity and purity in prose, in accordance with the standards which he found exemplified in the Welsh prose classics - a task similar to that of Sir John Morris-Jones in the field of Welsh verse. Emrys ap Iwan was strongly influenced by
JONES, Sir ROBERT ARMSTRONG- - gweler ARMSTRONG-JONES, Sir ROBERT
JONES, ROBERT EVAN (1869 - 1956), collector of books and manuscripts Born 22 May, 1869, one of seven children of John and Catherine Jones, High Street, Penrhyndeudraeth, Merionethshire. His father was a grocer, and soon after Robert Evan's birth the family moved to Meirion House, Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Ffestiniog. He received his early education in the boys' school, Tanygrisiau and later spent five years there as a pupil-teacher before becoming an assistant teacher
JONES, ROBERT ISAAC (Alltud Eifion; 1813 - 1905), pharmacist, littérateur and printer

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