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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, Sir THOMAS (1614 - 1692), chief justice was of Welsh descent (of the tribe of Ednowain Bendew, for which see Arch.Camb., 1876, 1877, and more directly, 1878), but the family had long been associated with Shropshire, and Sir Thomas himself acquired Welsh denizenship only after his marriage (with Jane Barnard, of Chester), when he took up his residence at Carreghwfa ('Carreghova') Hill, Montgomeryshire. His career is described in D.N.B
JONES, Sir THOMAS (bu farw 1731), treasurer and secretary of the 'Society of Antient Britons' in London, and author notice, without however indicating its source: '1731, on 11 January, died Sir Thomas Jones, at his house in Boswel Court, Treasurer and Secretary of the Most Honourable Society of Ancient Britons; a Justice of the Peace and Register of Memorials relating to Estates for the County of Middlesex.'
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 (1819 - 1882), Independent minister from time to time published poems in Welsh; a volume of his sermons, The Divine Order, was published in 1884, with a preface by Browning and a biographical introduction. His three sons Sir David Brynmor Jones, John Viriamu Jones and Leifchild Stratten Jones (later Leif-Jones)
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 (1910 - 1972), Welsh scholar honours in Latin in 1931 and with first-class honours in Welsh in 1932. He was appointed Assistant Lecturer in the department of Welsh at the University College of Wales Aberystwyth in 1933 and he spent some time in 1935 and 1936 in Ireland and in 1937-38 at L'École des Hautes Études in Paris with Edmond Faral, M.-L Sjœstedt-Jonval and Joseph Vendreyes. He served with the RAMC, mainly in Madagascar
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 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 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, 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, WALTER (bu farw 1819) Cefn Rug,, commissioner under land enclosure acts He was estate agent for Sir Robert Williames Vaughan which brought him into public notice in the county, e.g. as commissioner for the militia and trustee under the Barmouth Harbour Act (37 Geo, III. cap. 50). From 1806 onwards he served, almost continuously, as commissioner under the aegis of parliamentary acts dealing successively with land enclosure in the counties of Anglesey, Caernarfon

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