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JONES, OWEN THOMAS (1878 - 1967), Woodwardian Professor of Geology in the University of Cambridge the Geological Society in 1945, while the University of Wales awarded him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1958. In 1910 he married Ethel May, daughter of William Henry Reynolds of Haverfordwest, and they had two sons and a daughter. One son died in an aircraft accident in 1945. O.T. Jones died 5 May 1967.
JONES, (WILLIAM JOHN) PARRY (1891 - 1963), singer opera company and he was invited to sing in the Henry Wood promenade concerts in 27 consecutive seasons. He also sang at the chief festivals in London and on the continent after 1919, including the festivals at Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Oslo (1945-54). He was honoured in being chosen to be the principal tenor at the Beethoven centenary festival, 1927, and the Schubert centenary festival, 1928. He was
JONES (JOHNES), RICHARD (fl. 1564 to c. 1602), printer and bookseller , ballads, and such things, although he printed some more substantial works. He received licences from the Company of Stationers to print a Catechism in Welsh, 1566-7, a ' Sonett or a synners solace made by Hughe Gryffythe prysoner,' in Welsh and English, 1587, ' Epytaphe on the Death of Sir Yevan Lloyd of Yale knighte ' (by the same Hugh Gryffythe), 1587-8, ' Sermon preached by master Doctor Morgan at
JONES, RICHARD (1603? - 1673), schoolmaster and translator of religious works 1673. The first of his translations to be published was Galwad i'r Annychweledig, 1659, from Richard Baxter's Call to the Unconverted. In a composite volume published in 1672 by Stephen Hughes appears his Rhodfa Feunyddiol y Christion, translated from Henry Oasland's Christian's Daily Walk, and Amdo i Babyddiaeth, from Richard Baxter's A Winding Sheet for Popery. Hyfforddiadau Christionogol
JONES, ROBERT (1560 - 1615), priest, of the Society of Jesus , linking in close co-operation the recusant gentry, Welsh secular clergy and Welsh Jesuits, including Frs. Powell and Bennett. Money was provided through one of Fr. Jones's converts, lady Frances Morgan of Llantarnam, where he lived for long periods. The fund sufficed to maintain two Jesuits in North Wales and two in South Wales, and was later used by Frs. John Salusbury, S.J. and Charles Gwynne, S.J. to
JONES, ROBERT EVAN (1869 - 1956), collector of books and manuscripts adults, and his far-reaching influence in the society reflected his cultural interests and organisational talent. For a time he was active in the Liberal party in Meirionethshire, and the local M.P., Sir Henry Haydn Jones, was a close friend. Another friend, during a stint on the staff of Yr Herald Cymraeg, was T. Gwynn Jones, and they corresponded regularly. In 1921 he was very active, with others, in
JONES, ROBERT TUDUR (1921 - 1998), theologian, church historian and public figure John Morgan Jones, a prominent radical theologian, and in Christian doctrine by J. E. Daniel. Daniel was a nationalist and advocate of the neo-Calvinism of Karl Barth, and Tudur empathised with his ideas. After graduating with the highest marks ever recorded in the University of Wales Theology Faculty in 1945, he registered at Mansfield College, Oxford, for advanced studies. His subject was the
JONES, SAMUEL (fl. 1715-1764), Congregational minister and tutor , Llannon, Carmarthenshire, and kept a school there for twenty-two years; among his distinguished pupils were Richard Price, Owen Rees, Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799), and Noah Jones (Walsall). He moved to Morriston c. 1766; there also he opened a school, with his son as a tutor. He was suspected by some of being an Arian but his sermons testify to his evangelical spirit and opinion. He died 1767. The burial
JONES, THEOPHILUS (1759 - 1812), historian of Brecknock contributed several papers to the Cambrian Register and to Archaeologia. In 1905, Edwin Davies published a volume, Theophilus Jones, Historian, containing these papers, Jones's letters to Edward Davies and Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), and a biography by Gwenllian E. F. Morgan. To this day, Jones's work is the best of our Welsh county histories - a work of diligent and careful research. The author's
JONES, THOMAS (1870 - 1955), university professor, civil servant, administrator, author in 1945 and Chairman from 1952 to 1954. From 1934 to 1940 he was a member of the Unemployment Assistance Board. He was appointed C.H. in 1929. Jones was a man of exceptional drive and energy. Although he abandoned his intention of becoming a minister of the church, the social teaching of the Scriptures remained his chief inspiration. Thomas Charles Edwards, Joseph Mazzini, Sir Henry Jones and
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 (c. 1622 - 1682), Protestant controversialist Born at Oswestry, the son of John Williams (son of William ap Meredith of Pwllheli), and probably nephew of Henry Williams, town clerk of Oswestry in 1623. His studies at Jesus College, Oxford, interrupted by the Civil War, were resumed in 1646, when on taking the covenant he was awarded a Fellowship at University College by the parliamentary visitors before graduating (B.A. 23 February 1650, M.A

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