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JONES, SARAH RHIANNON DAVIES (1921 - 2014), author and lecturer Rhiannon Davies Jones was born on 4 November 1921 in Llanbedr, Meirioneth, the second daughter of Hugh Davies Jones (1872-1924), a Baptist minister, and his wife Laura (née Owen, 1887-1977), a teacher. She had one sister, Annie Davies Evans (née Jones). Her father was brought up near Oswestry, but his original family home was Derwen Fawr farm, Corwen, which the family had to leave in the 1880s
JONES, TERENCE GRAHAM PARRY (1942 - 2020), actor, director, writer and popular historian Esher and the Royal Grammar School in Guildford before going on to read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford,, though, as he put it, he 'strayed into history', the subject in which he graduated. During his time at Oxford he met Michael Palin with whom he performed comedy in The Oxford Revue. Graduating in 1964, Jones and Palin joined a team of writers and performers on Twice a Fortnight, a BBC sketch
JONES, THEOPHILUS (1759 - 1812), historian of Brecknock Born 18 October 1759 at Brecon, son of Hugh Jones, at that time curate of Llanfaes there, later vicar of Llangamarch (1763-8) and of Llywel (1768-99), and prebendary of Christ College, Brecon - his wife Elinor (died 1786) was daughter of Theophilus Evans, and the historian spent much of his boyhood at Llwyn Einion, Llangamarch, his grandfather's home, and inherited historical documents from him
JONES, THOMAS (1648? - 1713), almanack maker, bookseller, printer, and publisher Welsh version of the Thirty-nine Articles, and the metrical psalms of Edmund Prys. Another substantial London publication was Y Gymraeg yn ei Disgleirdeb, 1688, a Welsh - English dictionary. By about this time Thomas Jones was working up a substantial business as a bookseller with selling-agents at Chester, Abergavenny, Bala, Dolgelley, Llanfyllin, Oswestry, Welshpool, and Shrewsbury. When he actually
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 (1818 - 1898), parish clerk ) was presented to the National Library of Wales in 1919 by archdeacon Albert Owen Evans. It is of value because it is representative of what was being composed by contemporaries, known and lesser-known, of Thomas Jones. He died 25 March 1898.
JONES, THOMAS OWEN (Gwynfor; 1875 - 1941), librarian, dramatist, actor and producer a keen follower of eisteddfodau and he was a drama adjudicator at the national eisteddfod many times. His office at the library became a popular meeting place for leading literary figures in the area, like E. Morgan Humphreys, Meuryn (R.J. Rowlands) and Cynan (Sir Cynan (Albert) Evans-Jones). He was one of the first to broadcast in Welsh from Manchester in the 1930s. He died 22 August 1941 and was
JONES, TREVOR ALEC (1924 - 1983), Labour politician , Jones had a deep and abiding interest in issues like housing and social services. He married on 12 August 1950 Mildred Maureen, the daughter of William T. Evans, and they had one son. They lived at 58 Kenry Street, Tonypandy, Rhondda. He died at his home on 20 March 1983 having suffered from heart trouble for several years and cremated at Glyntaff Crematorium. His wife and son survived him.
JONES, WILLIAM (bu farw c. 1700) south-western Wales, Baptist minister . The church of Rhydwilym [the chapel bearing that name is on the Carmarthenshire bank of the eastern Cleddau ] had a wide geographical ambit, from mid-Cardigan to Amroth by the sea, from Haverfordwest to Llanllawddog; by 1715, according to the lists of Dr. John Evans, it had 900 members in Pembrokeshire alone - an obvious exaggeration, but a great tribute to the power and persistence of the
JONES, WILLIAM (Gwrgant; 1803 - 1886), lawyer and writer name of Gwilym Brwynog. He published a book called Gwreiddiau yr Iaith Gymraeg. Gwrgant was a popular adjudicator at eisteddfodau; as one of the three adjudicators at the Rhuddlan eisteddfod (1850) he read the adjudication awarding the chair prize for a poem in the open metres to Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd). Gwrgant took an active part in London Welsh activities all his life; he was a member
JONES, Sir WILLIAM (1566 - 1640), judge from the time of his son William. Anthony Wood's statement (corrected by Humphrey Humphreys in the Bliss edition of Athenae Oxonienses) that William Jones was educated at Beaumaris grammar school is manifestly wrong: as a rising barrister he helped and advised David Hughes (died 1609) in its foundation and acted as feoffee of the school and the almshouses. He entered S. Edmund Hall, Oxford (1580
JONES, WILLIAM (1675? - 1749), mathematician were bought by Sir John Williams and catalogued by J. Gwenogvryn Evans - they are today (with Richard Morris's notes and indexes) in the National Library of Wales. William Jones's youngest child Sir WILLIAM JONES (1746 - 1794), philologist and an authority on Hindu law Literature and Writing Scholarship and Languages Law There is a biography (Memoirs of Sir W. Jones, 1804) by lord Teignmouth, and a

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