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JONES, DANIEL (1908 - 1985), Labour politician and polled an impressive total of 19,722 votes. Daniel Jones was the Labour MP for Burnley, 1959-83. He was a member of the Estimates Committee, 1964-66, and a PPS, 1964-67, to Rt. Hon. Douglas Jay, the President of the Board of Trade under Harold Wilson. A native Welsh speaker, he keenly supported the activities of CND. He married in 1932 Phyllis, the daughter of John Williams of Maesteg, and they
JONES, DAVID (1736 - 1810), Methodist cleric built a chapel (Salem, Pen-coed) in the parish of Coychurch for the use of his followers. He was a honey-tongued preacher; according to Williams of Pantycelyn he could melt the rocks with his warmth and 'make the stoutest oaktree bend as humbly as the reed.' He is said to have opposed the movement for ordaining Methodist ministers, but he died before the final decision to ordain. He published two
JONES, DAVID (1741 - 1792), Baptist minister which had hived off in 1775 from the older and 'drier' church at Pant Teg. And his closest friends in the neighbourhood were Methodists - David Morris (1744 - 1791) and Peter Williams (1723 - 1796). In September 1786, Jones conceived the idea of a Welsh edition of the ' pocket Bible ' (with notes) of John Canne (died 1667?), which in its English form had been widely sold by Howel Harris and Miles
JONES, DAVID (1772 - 1854), General Baptist minister Born in the Ceidrych valley, Llangadock, Carmarthenshire; a mason. He was baptized, at 27, by Moses Williams (died 1819), in 1799. In the West Wales Baptist schism of that year, the Arminian party in Salem church at Llangyfelach (near Swansea) took possession of a small meeting-house at Clydach (Swansea valley) known as ' Capel-y-Cwar,' which members of Salem had built in 1795. In 1804, at Moses
JONES, DAVID HUGH (Dewi Arfon; 1833 - 1869), minister (CM), schoolmaster and poet a teacher in the British School, Llanrwst. He became a close friend of Trebor Mai (Robert Williams) and other local poets. While in Llanrwst he became interested in poetry. He was the teacher when John Lloyd Williams, musician and botanist, was a pupil there. Towards the end of this period, he began to preach. However, it was in Capel Coch, Llanberis, in 1861, that he was officially accepted by
JONES, DAVID JAMES (Gwenallt; 1899 - 1968), poet, critic and scholar Born 18 May 1899 at Pontardawe, Glamorganshire, the eldest of three children of Thomas ('Ehedydd') Jones and his wife Mary. His parents were from Carmarthenshire and his consciousness of his roots was an important element in his personality, as is seen in his essay on Rhydycymerau in the D.J. Williams presentation Festschrift (ed, J. Gwyn Griffiths, 1965). The family moved to Allt-wen and
JONES, DAVID JOHN (1906 - 1978), opera singer recordings. According to those who heard him it was a sonorous voice, which could fill the largest halls without the aid of a microphone. Bruce Dargavel said that his voice combined the size of the Amazon with the clarity of a Welsh mountain stream. His varied career is a good example of success in the world of singing without the advantage of formal education. He married in 1934 Mary Phillips (b. 1912
JONES, DAVID LLOYD (1843 - 1905), Calvinistic Methodist minister became minister of the English church at Llandinam (1875) where he remained for the rest of his life. He married (1) Sophie Williams of Bootle, 1874, and (2) Annie, daughter of the Rev. Evan Jones, 1883; he had two sons by his first marriage and four by his second. He was moderator of the North Wales C.M. Association, 1899, of the General Assembly, 1904, and chairman of the Conference of English C.M
JONES, DAVID MORRIS (1887 - 1957), minister (Presb.) and professor until he retired in 1953. In 1916 he married Esther Ann Williams, Pwllheli, and they had two sons and two daughters. He died 8 October 1957, during his year of office as Moderator of the Association in the South. Morris was a thorough scholar. He became president of the theology section of the Guild of Graduates of the University of Wales, and was the first editor of its periodical Diwinyddiaeth. The
JONES, DAVID STANLEY (1860 - 1919), Congregationalist minister extent that he was offered the pastorate of a small church nearby. But he preferred the Welsh ministry; and after spending some time at Cardiff University College he was ordained pastor of Porth (Rhondda) church in October 1887; there he married Florence, daughter of Idris Williams, a prominent Congregationalist at Porth; they had four children. In the summer of 1891, he accepted a call to the churches
JONES, DILLWYN OWEN PATON (1923 - 1984), jazz pianist held at Nice in 1949, and subsequently in Vic Lewis's band and on board the liner Queen Mary, which enabled him to visit jazz clubs in New York. He also played with several other bands in London and presented the pioneering BBC programme 'Jazz Club'. From 1958 he led his own London-based trio. In 1961 he emigrated to the USA and spent the rest of his life in New York, playing with a number of
JONES, DORA HERBERT (1890 - 1974), singer and administrator University College of Wales, Aberystwyth to study Welsh. During her time at Aberystwyth she came under the influence of the folk-song collector Mary Davies, and was a member of a quartet which sang folk-songs and performed at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1911. After graduating in 1912 she took a year's course in palaeography before her appointment as secretary to John Herbert Lewis, the M. P. for Flintshire

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