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JAMES, JOHN (fl. second half of the 18th century and the early part of the 19th), poet and hymnwriter
JEFFREYS, JOHN (1718? - 1798), musician Born at Llanynys, Denbighshire, c. 1718. A contemporary of John Williams (Ioan Rhagfyr), he was a good musician. His hymn-tune ' Hero ' appeared in Haleliwia Drachefn (G. Harries) and a ' Traethdon ' (chant) in Y Cerddor Cymreig, August 1867; he is better known, however, for the hymn-tune called ' Dyfrdwy.' He died in 1798.
JENKIN, JOHN (Ioan Siengcin; 1716 - 1796), poet and schoolmaster
JONES, ANEURIN (Aneurin Fardd; 1822 - 1904), man of letters . He soon became a recognized authority on the Welsh classical metres and was preceptor and friend of Islwyn. He organized eisteddfodau at Gelli-groes, in one of which (1850) Ioan Tegid awarded the prize to Robert Ellis (Cynddelw) for an essay on Tafol y Beirdd; Aneurin, however, made it a condition of its publication in book form (1852) that he should be allowed to write the introduction. He
JONES, DAVID (1736 - 1810), Methodist cleric short booklets; (a) Llythyr oddi wrth Dafydd ab Ioan y Pererin at Ioan ab Gwilim (Trevecka, 1784) which contains a short memoir of Christopher Bassett, and (b) A Funeral Sermon … of the late Countess Dowager of Huntingdon (London, 1791).
JONES, DAVID MORRIS (1887 - 1957), minister (Presb.) and professor Davies Lecture (in Welsh) delivered by him in 1953 on ' God the Creator and God the Saviour ' was not published. He published Llên a dysgeidiaeth Israel hyd gwymp Samaria (1929), Efengyl Ioan a'i Hystyr (1944), and a commentary on the first epistle to the Corinthians (1952).
JONES, EVAN (PAN) (1834 - 1922), Independent minister outspoken championship of temperance made him unpopular and he moved to Blaina, Monmouth, where, within a year, he began to preach in Berea chapel. In 1857 he was admitted to the Bala Independent College, and in 1860, on the advice of Ioan Pedr (John Peter), went on a visit to Germany. In 1862 he was admitted to the Presbyterian College at Carmarthen; but, at the end of his course there, as he did not
JONES, JOHN (Ioan Bryngwyn Bach; 1818 - 1898), working man, astronomer, and linguist
JONES, JOHN (Ioan Brothen; 1868 - 1940), poet Born 10 June 1868, son of John and Jane Jones of Cae'r Gorlan, Llanfrothen, Meironnydd. The family went to live at Hafod Mynydd and it was as ' John Hafod Mynydd ' that Ioan Brothen was known to his friends. He was one of five children; his sister Meirionwen also wrote poetry. He was given a little education at the local day school, but was more grateful for the education he received at the
JONES, JOHN (EMLYN) (Ioan Emlyn; 1818 - 1873), Baptist minister, poet, and man of letters
JONES, JOHN (Tegid, Ioan Tegid; 1792 - 1852), cleric and man of letters
JONES, JOHN EDWARD (IOAN MAESGRUG; 1914 - 1998) Red Cross, a governor of Aigburth Vale comprehensive school 1985-88. He was a director of the Chatham Building Society 1955-59 and the Welsh Calvinistic Assurance Trust 1953-59. He was a member of the Gorsedd of Bards (white robe) taking the name 'Ioan Maesgrug', a Fellow of the Merseyside Eisteddfod and an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Wales at Heathfield Road, serving as Moderator of the

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