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577 - 588 of 1760 for "enid wyn jones"

577 - 588 of 1760 for "enid wyn jones"

  • JONES, DAVID (1708? - 1785) Trefriw, poet, collector of manuscripts, publisher, and printer Jones and Gwenna Prichard, 27 January 1734/5. David Jones wrote a considerable amount of verse, but did not attain great eminence as a poet. He is best known in this respect as editor of an anthology of poems entitled Blodeu Gerdd Cymry, sef Casgliad o Caniadau Cymreig gan amryw Awdwyr o'r oes ddiwaethaf, 1759. He also edited such works as Histori Nicodemus, 1745, an old Welsh translation of the
  • JONES, DAVID (1736 - 1810), Methodist cleric Born 10 July 1736, at Aberceiliog, Llanllwni, Carmarthenshire, son of Richard and Gwenllian Jones. He was educated at the Carmarthen grammar school. He is probably the 'David Jones of Llanvernach' who was ordained deacon by the bishop of S. Davids in 1758; he is known to have been curate of Tydweiliog, Llyn, in 1758-9, and he officiated at Llanafanfawr, Brecknock, in 1759-60. He was ordained
  • JONES, DAVID (1741 - 1792), Baptist minister Born at Ynys-domlyd, Cwmaman, Carmarthenshire, he worked as a tailor in Monmouthshire. Converted by Howel Harris, he was throughout his life a Methodist in temperament, though he joined the Baptists at Pen-y-garn, where he began to preach and was in 1773 ordained as assistant to Miles Harry - he is indeed generally referred to as ' David Jones of Pontypool.' He had published in 1758 Pererindod
  • JONES, DAVID (1772 - 1854), General Baptist minister Williams's suggestion, David Jones was ordained pastor there - it should be noted that neither man (nor indeed their congregations) ever abandoned Trinitarianism. Jones was in office for fifty years, preaching at the ' Cwar,' at Foxhole (Llansamlet), at Morriston, and at Pontardawe; he also kept school at the 'Cwar' and at Foxhole (W. Samlet Williams, Hanes Llansamlet, 94). He received a grant from the
  • JONES, DAVID (Welsh Freeholder; 1765 - 1816), barrister and author
  • JONES, DAVID (Dafydd Brydydd Hir, Dafydd Siôn Pirs; 1732 - 1782?), poet, tailor, and schoolmaster
  • JONES, DAVID (1770 - 1831), Congregational minister, hymnist, and musician
  • JONES, DAVID (1663 - 1724?), cleric son of Matthew Jones, of Caerfallwch, Northop, Flintshire. From Westminster School he went up at 18 to Christ Church, Oxford, and graduated in 1685. He held several livings in England, as a rule for very short periods - the details are given in D.N.B. - and was remarkable for the wildness of his preaching and for his violent temper, which indeed at times became insane. He died in great poverty
  • JONES, DAVID (1789? - 1841), Baptist historian severely criticized - for its uncritical reliance on 'sources,' its untidy arrangement, its insufficiency of cross-references, its lack of an index, which makes for trouble when one is trying to follow a minister's career (that of David Jones himself, to give one instance). Again, down to 1788 it is for the most part a mere reproduction of the work of Joshua Thomas. Yet it is quite indispensable for a
  • JONES, DAVID (1793 - 1825), minister in the countess of Huntingdon's connexion, an able linguist, and one of the joint authors (with Thomas Keyworth) of Principia Hebraica, 1817 he was the son of Thomas Jones (1761 - 1831) of Carmarthen, and was born at Cwmcreigiau-fach in the parish of Llanfihangel Iorath, Carmarthenshire, 11 February 1793. He received a good education, privately to begin with and then at David Peter's school, Carmarthen, the Presbyterian Academy in the same town, and Cheshunt College, Hertfordshire; he studied Arabic, Syriac, and Persian in addition to
  • JONES, DAVID (1805 - 1868), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 2 June 1805 at Dolwyddelan, brother of John Jones of Tal-y-sarn (1796 - 1857). Before beginning to preach in 1826 he had had no education except that given at the Sunday school. Afterwards he went to the school kept by John Hughes (1796 - 1860) at Wrexham. After coming to live at Caernarvon in 1832 he married Mrs. Owen of Siop-y-pendist. He was ordained in 1834 and ministered to Moriah as
  • JONES, DAVID (1797 - 1841), missionary