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JONES, TERENCE GRAHAM PARRY (1942 - 2020), actor, director, writer and popular historian Terry Jones was born on 1 February 1942 in Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire, the second son of Alick George Parry-Jones, a bank clerk, and his wife Dilys Louisa (née Newnes). He first met his father on the platform of Colwyn Bay railway station when he returned from India after serving with the RAF during World War Two. When Terry was four, the family moved to Surrey where he attended primary school in
JONES, Sir THOMAS (1614 - 1692), chief justice . and in Williams, Montgomeryshire worthies. The son of Edward Jones, of Sandford (Salop), he went from Shrewsbury school to Emmanuel College, Cambridge (B.A. 1632), but had entered Lincoln's Inn in 1629, and was called in 1634. During the Civil War and the Commonwealth, he 'trimmed,' but after 1660 he rose rapidly: serjeant, 1669; king's serjeant and knight, 1671; judge of the King's Bench, 1676
JONES, Sir THOMAS (bu farw 1731), treasurer and secretary of the 'Society of Antient Britons' in London, and author Lane, Gent.', admitted 17 February 1707-8. But in the Gray's Inn register, under 20 November 1713, we find 'Thomas Jones, of Newcastle, co. Glamorgan, gent (admitted to Lincoln's Inn, February 10, 1707, by certificate of John Hungerford, Treasurer.' Despite the week's discrepancy, this would seem to be our man; if so he came from Bridgend. In Old Wales, i, 38, W. R. Williams prints the following
JONES, THOMAS (Twm Shôn Catti; 1532 - 1609), landowner, antiquary, genealogist, and bard described in 1559 as 'Thomas Johns alias Catty.' The name of his first wife is unknown; his second, whom he married in 1607, was Joan, widow of Thomas Williams of Ystrad-ffin and daughter of Sir John Price of Brecon Priory (1502?-1555). His manuscripts begin about 1570. He assisted George Owen and Lewys Dwnn and the officers of the Heralds College. He was steward of Caron in 1601. He died in 1609, the
JONES, THOMAS (1761 - 1831), Calvinistic Methodist minister and Biblical commentator Williams, published in 1770, but the dates show that this cannot be right, and D. E. Jenkins has suggested that Jones was concerned rather with the press-correcting of ' John Canne's Bible,' in the edition published in 1796 to compete with Peter Williams and David Jones's edition of the same work. Thomas Jones became a pillar of Calvinistic Methodism in the town, and was one of the trustees of the 1813
JONES, THOMAS (1756 - 1807), mathematician Born at Berriw, Montgomeryshire, 23 June 1756, an illegitimate child. There remains uncertainty as to his parents. According to the tradition recorded by Williams, Montgomeryshire worthies, he was the illegitimate son of Owen Owen, Llifior, Berriew and there is an entry in Berriew register of baptisms 29 June 1756 'Thomas son of Catherine Evans of Llivior'. (Owen had married the heiress of
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
JONES, Sir THOMAS ARTEMUS (1871 - 1943), journalist, judge and historian Anglia and Manchester. In 1896 he joined the Parliamentary staff of the Daily Telegraph, later transferring to the Daily News. He studied Law in his spare time, and in 1898 became a student of the Middle Temple : he was called to the bar there in 1901, and the following year he joined the Welsh Circuit. He took part in the libel action Lord Penrhyn v W. J. Parry (1903) and the trial of Sir Roger
JONES, THOMAS GWYNN (1871 - 1949), poet, writer, translator and scholar . Upon his retirement in 1937 he was awarded hon. D. Litt. degrees by the two universities closest to his heart - Wales and Ireland - and made a C.B.E. A special memorial number of Y Llenor (28, 2) was published in 1949. There is a good bibliography to 1937 in Owen Williams, A bibliography of Thomas Gwynn Jones (1938), with a supplement by David Thomas (1956). Both are now superseded by D. Hywel E
JONES, THOMAS HUGHES (1895 - 1966), poet, writer and teacher in September 1909, together with William Ambrose Bebb, Evan Jenkins, D. Lloyd Jenkins and Griffith John Williams. All of these boys came under the influence of outstanding teachers, especially Samuel Morris Powell, to whom generations of pupils owed a great debt. At this time, Thomas Hughes Jones made a name for himself by winning chairs at local eisteddfodau for his poetry. He was given the
JONES, THOMAS IVOR (1896 - 1969), solicitor year), 1939 and 1946 and for many years one of the two Honorary Legal Advisers of the Association. He was one of the Trustees appointed by Sir Howell J. Williams in 1937, to hold the properties which Sir Howell had provided in Grays Inn Road for the purposes of a London-Welsh Centre, and retained that responsibility until his death. He was also active in many other London - Welsh interests, in
JONES, THOMAS MORRIS (Gwenallt; 1859 - 1933), Calvinistic Methodist minister, writer and journalist newspaper and periodical (Holywell, 1893), and his biography of Roger Edwards of Mold (Wrexham, 1908). He was successful at the national eisteddfod in 1890 and in 1891 with essays on the Welsh press and on the newspaper and periodical in the Welsh language. He collaborated with Thomas Parry to write the history of the origins and growth of Calvinistic Methodism in Colwyn Bay and district (Dolgelley, 1909).

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