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JONES, LEIFCHILD STRATTEN LEIF (1862 - 1939), Liberal politician and temperance advocate Born in London 16 January 1862, son of Thomas Jones (1819 - 1882). He graduated with a 'first' in mathematics from Trinity College, Oxford. After repeated failures in other constituencies, he became M.P. for N. Westmorland (1905-10), Rushcliffe, Notts. (1910-18), and Camborne, Cornwall (1923-4 and 1929-31). He was raised to the peerage in 1932, as baron Rhayader. He died 26 September 1939 (Who
JONES, LEWIS (1793 - 1866), cleric Born 14 February 1793, son of William and Mary Jones, Penpontbren, Llanfihangel Geneu'r Glyn, Cardiganshire. Educated at Ystradmeurig under John Williams (1745/6 - 1818), he was afterwards a master in the Grammar School, Clitheroe, Lancashire. He became vicar of Almondbury, near Huddersfield, in 1822; he was also perpetual curate of Llandevaud, Monmouth, 1822-52. Taking advantage of the
JONES, LEWIS (1897 - 1939), communist agitator and author assistance committees in Bridgend, Pontypridd, and the Glamorgan County Council, and led the Welsh contingents on 'national hunger marches' to London in 1934 and 1936. Jones was elected a member of the Glamorgan County Council, 1934-9, and of the Welsh Committee of the Communist Party, 1931-9. He led campaigns in Wales against the Fascist attack on republican Spain, 1937-9, and died just after addressing
JONES, LEWIS (1702? - 1772), Independent minister Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru, ii, 206, gives him a pastorate at Dre-wen and Llechryd, Cardiganshire, 1739-40. Confronting this with another passage (iv, 167) of the same work, which gives a continuous list of Dre-wen pastors but says nothing about Jones, one conjectures that he was not a pastor there, but that he had begun preaching there (in which case it would probably be his native district), and gave
JONES, LEWIS (fl. 1703) Pandy, Llan-uwchllyn, poet Three examples of his work remain, these being ' Ymddiddan rhwng y Cybydd a'r Trugarog,' ' Cyngor i'r Gôf o Rôs y Gwaliau,' and ' Cerdd i ŵr ifanc oedd yn glaf o gariad merch.' It is not clear whether there was any connection between him and two other poets from Llanuwchllyn - ROBERT JONES and ROLANT JONES (fl. 1762). A love ballad composed by the former is found in NLW MS 645B (34b), and
JONES, LEWIS (Rhuddenfab; 1835 - 1915), printer, poet, and journalist Born 15 June 1835 in Stryd-y-Cerrig, near Llanfwrog church, Ruthin, son of John and Margaret Jones. On 8 April 1845 he was bound apprentice under Isaac Clarke, in the printing office of Mrs. Nathan Maddocks, Ruthin. He was a competitor at eisteddfodau over a long period; he also acted as adjudicator. In NLW MS 5515C are minutes, in his autograph, of committees which met at Ruthin in connection
JONES, LEWIS (1837 - 1904), pioneer in Patagonia, and writer Born at Caernarvon. He moved to Holyhead where, in conjunction with his fellow-printer Evan Jones (afterwards of Caernarvon) (1836 - 1915) he edited the Pwnsh Cymraeg. He then went to Liverpool where he became one of the leaders of the Welsh Colony movement. In 1862 he was sent with Capt. T. Love Jones-Parry to explore Patagonia, and returned with a report so highly coloured as to be misleading
JONES, Sir LEWIS (1884 - 1968), industrialist and politician Born 13 February 1884, the eldest son of Evan and Margaret Jones, Tegfan, College Street, Ammanford, Carmarthenshire. His father, who spent his whole life in the tinplate industry (he died in 1934) was a devoted Congregationalist, and one of the first members of the Ammanford Urban District Council. Lewis Jones was educated at Ammanford secondary school and Reading University, where he spent five
JONES, LEWIS (bu farw 1646), bishop - gweler JONES, MICHAEL
JONES, LEWIS (1808 - 1854), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author C.M. chapel. He was the son-in-law of the hymn-writer William Edwards, 1773 - 1853. A copious writer, he published in 1841 a biography of the Rev. Richard Jones (1784 - 1840) of Bala, on whom see Geirlyfr Bywgraffiadol o Enwogion Cymru and William Williams, Methodistiaeth Dwyrain Meirionydd, 577-9; besides this, he published other books. There are good articles by him in Y Drysorfa; and he was
JONES, LEWIS (bu farw 1646), bishop - gweler JONES, MICHAEL
JONES, LEWIS CARTER- - gweler CARTER-JONES, LEWIS

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