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JONES, THOMAS GRIFFITHS (Cyffin; 1834 - 1884), antiquary son of David and Elizabeth Jones; was born at Llansantffraid, Montgomeryshire, 12 January 1834. His father, a shopkeeper, died when he was 14 and he carried on the business until his own death, 10 September 1884. Since he had received very little schooling, owing to ill-health, he undertook to educate himself by extensive reading and writing. He took great delight in collecting books and
JONES, THOMAS GWYNN (1871 - 1949), poet, writer, translator and scholar career and inspired to look beyond the 19th c. for the foundations of Welsh literature. Ap Iwan strengthened his interest in languages and awoke in him the desire to look further than England for literature to read and study. Before the end of the 19th c. he was also influenced by Daniel Rees (1855 - 1931). Jones's memorial essay in Cymeriadau (1933) reveals the close relationship and mutual influence
JONES, THOMAS HUGHES (1895 - 1966), poet, writer and teacher answer during the public examination held at the close of the Sunday school and which required a sound knowledge of the Bible. He also excelled above his contemporaries at Tan-y-garreg elementary school, Blaenpennal, where his schoolteacher until 1903 was John Finnemore, followed by David Davies who persuaded Jones's father that the boy should go to Tregaron county school. He entered the county school
JONES, THOMAS IVOR (1896 - 1969), solicitor particular Undeb y Cymdeithasau and the Welsh School, but above all perhaps in the Merionethshire Society. He assisted Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards and Lady Edwards with legal work in the formation of Urdd Gobaith Cymru, and remained its legal adviser. He also assisted Sir David James with legal work and was a member of the Pantyfedwen Trust. He married Jane Gwyneth, the eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas
JONES, THOMAS JOHN RHYS (1916 - 1997), teacher, lecturer and author T. J. Rhys Jones was born in Ystradgynlais, Breconshire, on 19 June 1916, the eldest of the three sons of Evan Thomas Jones (1879-1948), a miner who later became an insurance collector, and his wife Elizabeth (Bessie) Jones (née Rees, 1884-1962), a milliner. Brought up in Gellinudd on the outskirts of Pontardawe, he attended Pontardawe Grammar School before moving on to University College of
JONES, THOMAS ROCYN (1822 - 1877), bonesetter percha splints for keeping the hand at rest and fully extended in cases of paralysis and severe tendon injuries; and he added wedges to inner sides of shoes for foot strain. All these belonged to his common practice at least fifty years before they became part of orthodox professional treatment. Many people affirmed that he had saved their limbs from amputation. He married Mary Rees, a descendant of
JONES, WALTER DAVID MICHAEL (1895 - 1974), painter and poet David Jones is one of the great literary artists of British modernism, as well as being an important engraver, illustrator and painter, and an accomplished essayist. He was born in Brockley, Kent, on 1 November 1895, the third child of James and Alice Jones, and baptized Walter David (by the age of nine he had succeeded in dropping his first name, which he considered too Anglo-Saxon). When he
JONES, WATCYN SAMUEL (1877 - 1964), agricultural administrator and principal of a theological college Born 16 February 1877, son of Rees Cribin Jones, Unitarian minister, and Mari Jones (the daughter of Watcyn and Mari Jones, Ty'n-lofft, Betws Bledrws), in a house in Bridge Street, Lampeter known as Glasfryn Stores. He was one of four children, but the other three died in infancy. His father, like many other Unitarian ministers of the time, ran a school, and perhaps the son received some of his
JONES, WILLIAM (bu farw 1679), Puritan minister Grefydd Christianogol. Later he seems to have moved from Plas Teg to Hope, where he died in February 1679. His funeral sermon was preached by Dr. David Maurice, a 'conforming Minister of Abergeley,' who also penned a Latin inscription to be placed on his gravestone (this ' minister ' was during William Jones's latter years vicar of Llanasa, Flintshire; the ' conforming minister ' and William Jones had
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 (1726 - 1795), antiquary and poet Son of William John David and Catherine his wife. The father was a guard on the coach which ran between Shrewsbury and Machynlleth but also farmed Dôl Hywel, Llangadfan, Montgomeryshire, where William Jones lived all his life. He was christened in Llangadfan parish church, 18 June 1726. The only education he had was when one of Griffith Jones's schools was set up for a short time in the
JONES, WILLIAM (1814? - 1895), Wesleyan Reformer,' afterwards Independent minister Bunting; unlike the ' Little Wesleyan ' movement it took little root in North Wales (where Thomas Aubrey, was strong enough to check it), but in South Wales it was more successful, and received the benediction of Independents and Baptists, but not Calvinistic Methodists, save for individuals like David Charles III. William Jones was pastor of four 'Reformer' churches : Elim (Tredegar, Monmouth), Merthyr

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