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JONES, JOHN (Vulcan; 1825 - 1889), Wesleyan minister Born at Llandwrog, 26 December 1825, son of Richard Jones (Callestr Fardd). Father and son both joined the local Cymreigyddion and the Wesleyans at Bethesda. He had very little early schooling but managed to educate himself. He began to preach at Corris and then went for a time to the Normal College at Swansea. He was a minister in the following circuits: Mold (1854), Abergele (1856), Llanfyllin
JONES, JOHN (1786 - 1865), printer and inventor Baptized 7 May 1786, son of Ismael Davies (son of Dafydd Jones, Trefriw (1708? - 1785)) and Jane, his wife. After Dafydd Jones died in 1785, Ismael Davies continued working his father's printing press at Bryn Pyll, Trefriw. According to family tradition, John Jones was apprenticed to a blacksmith, but he also learnt the printer's craft, and from 1810 onwards there is a noticeable improvement in
JONES, JOHN (1820 - 1907), minister (B) and historian Born at Lower Trelowgoed Farm, Cefn-llys, Radnors., 10 May 1820, elder son of the second marriage of James Jones, tenant farmer and pastor (1829-60) of Rock Chapel, Llanbadarn Fawr, in the same county. After scant formal local schooling he farmed with his father and after his confession of Christ in 1840 assisted him in his church work, including preaching. Four years later on the recommendation
JONES, JOHN (Myrddin Fardd; 1836 - 1921), writer, antiquary, and collector of old letters and manuscripts Born on a small homestead called Tan-y-ffordd, in the parish of Llangïan, Llŷn, Caernarfonshire, son of John and Ann Owen. They had five children, three daughters and two sons, namely Owen Jones (Manoethwy) and John Jones (Myrddin Fardd). He married Ann Jones of the Ynys neighbourhood, Eifionydd, and their son was the musician Owen Gough Jones, who was organist of one of the Birmingham churches
JONES, JOHN (Talhaiarn; 1810 - 1869), architect and poet wrote lyrics for many of the airs in Welsh Melodies by John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia) and for songs by Brinley Richards, Blockley, Owain Alaw, and J.D. Jones. [In London he became in 1843 a member of the Cymreigyddion Society, and president in 1849; in 1855 he printed an account of its last days. His fame rests mainly on his songs and light verse, often satirical.]
JONES, JOHN (CYNDDYLAN) (1841 - 1930), preacher and theologian returned to London. In 1869 he took charge of the Congregational church in Offord Road, Pentonville, subsequently succeeding Thomas Jones as minister of Bedford Congregational church, Charrington Street, where Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson occasionally heard him preach. According to the Congregational Year Book for 1875 he was 'late Bedford Chapel ', having commenced his ministry at the English
JONES, JOHN (1786? - 1863), cleric and antiquary son of John Jones, Lleddfa, Machynlleth. He went up from Friars School, Bangor, to Jesus College, Oxford, in February 1804 (during the same year he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn), and graduated in 1808. From 1809 to 1815 he was curate of Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog (Anglesey), from 1815 to 1819 curate of Llanfair-is-gaer, and from 1819 rector of Llanllyfni (both in Caernarfonshire). He published seven
JONES, JOHN (Eos Bradwen; 1831 - 1899), musician, etc. Born 16 October 1831 in a cottage on the slopes above Tal-y-llyn, Meirionethshire, son of William and Elizabeth Jones. The family moved to the village of Tregorwyr and thence to Dolgelley, where Eos Bradwen published Y Seraph neu Gyfaill Y Cerddor Ieuanc, which contained hymn-tunes and airs. From Dolgelley the family moved in 1858 to Aberystwyth. In 1863 the son was appointed leader of the choir
JONES, JOHN (Jac Glan-y-gors; 1766 - 1821), satirical poet Born 10 November 1766 at Glan-y-gors farm, in the parish of Cerrig-y-drudion, son of Lawrence and Margaret Jones. It is thought that he was educated at the free school at Llanrwst. In his youth he worked on his father's farm and during this period wrote a number of love lyrics, displaying a natural gift for this kind of poetry which, later in life, he sought to develop. In 1789 he went to London
JONES, JOHN Maes-y-garnedd,, 'the regicide' John Jones (1597? - 1660), ' the regicide,' was a younger son of Thomas Jones, Maes-y-garnedd, Merionethshire, lineal descendant of Ynyr Vychan (lord of Nannau and ancestor of the family of Nannau, through a younger son who was also ancestor of the Vaughan family of Hengwrt. His mother was Elin, daughter of Robert Wynn of Taltreuddyn, Llanenddwyn, Meironnydd, descended on her mother's side from
JONES, JOHN (1802 - 1863), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster -y-felin. He was a good linguist, had a sound knowledge of Greek, Latin, and Welsh, and his school was celebrated for two generations. He married Anne Rees of Gilgellisaf; Rees Jenkin Jones was their son. He was probably the first person to conceive of a Welsh Unitarian denominational magazine, and that as early as 1835. He was a disciple of Priestley's and entirely opposed to war. He published
JONES, JOHN (1777 - 1842) Ystrad, politician Born at 38, King Street, Carmarthen, 15 September 1777, the son of Thomas Jones, solicitor, of Job's Well and Capel Dewi, and the grandson of Thomas Jones, R.N. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1803 and became the leading counsel on the South Wales circuit and recorder of Kidwelly. He unsuccessfully contested Carmarthen borough against the

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769 - 780 of 1754 for "enid wyn jones"