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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
JONES, DAVID (1797 - 1841), missionary ordained at Neuaddlwyd, 20 and 21 August 1817. He married Louisa Darby of Gosport. Directed to Madagascar instead of Stephen Laidler, he landed in 1818, and was laid low with fever; he buried his wife and child at Tamatave. He settled at Antananarivo in 1820, and in conjunction with David Griffiths translated the Bible into Malagasy; he also, with the help of David Johns, published a Spelling Book, a
JONES, DAVID (1808 - 1854), Baptist minister and editor
JONES, DAVID (1788 - 1859), Independent minister
JONES, DAVID (1803 - 1868), ballad-writer and strolling ballad-singer Born in 1803 on the estate of Dolau Bach, Llanybyther, Carmarthenshire, son of David Jones, carpenter. He was blinded by accident, and was hence known as 'Dewi Dywyll' ('Blind Davy') - he was also called 'Dewi Medi.' He was a very well known singer throughout Wales, and is described in Cymru (O.M.E.), xxix, 158. He died at Lampeter in 1868. We have seventy of his ballads.
JONES, DAVID (Dewi Wyllt; 1836 - 1878?), musician Born in 1836 at Mallwyd, Merionethshire. His father was a weaver who gave him a good education. ' Dewi Wyllt ' played the organ in Mallwyd church and at the age of 23 published a collection of 142 tunes under the title Udgorn Seion, which included works by Ambrose Lloyd, ' Owain Alaw ' and ' Eos Llechid '. The family moved from Mallwyd to Caernarfon c. 1859. He was apprenticed as a medical
JONES, DAVID (1881 - 1968), poet - gweler JONES
JONES, DAVID - gweler JONES, JOHN WILLIAM
JONES, DAVID BEVAN (Dewi Elfed; 1807 - 1863), minister (B, and Church of Christ and Latter Day Saints - Mormons)
JONES, Sir DAVID BRYNMOR (1852 - 1921), lawyer and historian

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