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JONES, ROBERT (1745 - 1829), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter and author William Prichard (1702 - 1773) of Clwchdernog's servants, the niece of Morris Griffiths, (1721 - 1769), and the grand-daughter of Francis Evans of Cae'r Tyddyn. They took a seven years lease of a cottage known as Tir Bach, Rhos-lan, where Robert Jones erected a building large enough to be used in part as a chapel and where he gathered round him a strong Methodist society. When the lease expired they
JONES, ROBERT (1806 - 1896), Baptist minister and author Garn, 1842; Bedydd y Testament Newyddyn yn cael ei Amddiffyn, 1846, an answer to William Roberts of Clynnog's book on infant baptism; Casgliad o Hymnau ar Destynau Efengylaidd, 1851, containing 918 hymns, many of them by Robert Jones himself; Ystyriaethau ar Fedydd, 1853; Traethawd ar Babyddiaeth, 1855 - this was the book to which he devoted most time; Gemau Duwinyddol, 1865, a collection of notes
JONES, ROBERT WILLIAM (Erfyl Fychan; 1899 - 1968), historian, litterateur and eisteddfodwr Born New Year's Day, 1899, in Penygroes, Caernarfonshire, the younger son of Robert William Jones, Brynllwyni, quarryman and small-holder, and Jane his wife, the daughter of Robert Thomas, Drws-y-coed, Nantlle. Educated at Pen-y-groes county school, he entered the teachers' training dept at U.C.W. after World War I and taught for 2 years in Birmingham. He was appointed head-teacher at Trisant
JONES, ROWLAND (1722 - 1774), philologist was inherited by his nephew, William Jones, Ysgubor Hen, Eifionydd. In 1859 there was a lawsuit in Chancery contesting the claim of the family of William Jones to the estate of Broom Hall; an attempt was made to prove that Rowland Jones was the son of William Jones, Crugan, near Llanbedrog, and not the son of John Williams, Bachellyn. In his day, Rowland Jones was regarded as an eminent scholar and
JONES, SAMUEL (1898 - 1974), journalist, broadcaster and Head of the BBC in Bangor of radio broadcasting. He left The Western Mail permanently in 1933. In 1935 the post of Programmes Director, BBC Welsh Region, was advertised. It was assumed, as he had already carried out those duties, that Sam Jones would be selected. It was not to be. He was bitterly disappointed at being overlooked in favour of William Hughes Jones (Elidir Sais). Sam Jones was offered the post of North Wales
JONES, SAMUEL (fl. 1715-1764), Congregational minister and tutor Born probably in the parish of Llanedy, Carmarthenshire (but Llangyfelach, Glamorganshire, has also been suggested). He was at the Carmarthen Academy, under William Evans, c. 1715, and it is thought that he looked after some church at the same time. He was minister of Capel Seion, Llanddarog, Carmarthenshire, 1720-52, and of Tirdoncyn, Llangyfelach, Glamorganshire, 1720-59. He resided at Pen-tŵyn
JONES, TERENCE GRAHAM PARRY (1942 - 2020), actor, director, writer and popular historian servant for the Mostyn family and his great-grandfather a Methodist minister. In later life, Jones took a keen interest in the fortunes of his home town's Victorian theatre, becoming its patron and officially re-opened Theatr Colwyn in 2011 after a £738,000 refurbishment. 'Theatr Colwyn means a lot to me,' he said, 'because my grandfather [William Newnes] conducted the orchestra for the Colwyn Bay
JONES, THOMAS (1848 - 1900), surgeon in 1890 professor of surgery in what was then the Victoria University. He became chief surgeon of the Welsh hospital (see Hughes, Alfred William) in South Africa during the Boer War, and died there 18 June 1900.
JONES, THOMAS (1910 - 1972), Welsh scholar Thomas Jones was born in Allt-wen, Pontardawe, Glamorganshire, the eldest of William and Elizabeth Jones's seven children: the father, who had emigrated from rural Carmarthenshire, worked in the local tinplate works. Educated in Ystalyfera grammar school, Thomas Jones entered the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1928 as the holder of a State Scholarship and graduated with first-class
JONES, THOMAS (1742 - 1803), landscape painter Jenkin Jenkins, and proceeded thence to Jesus College, Oxford, where he matriculated 11 July 1759. It was intended that he should take holy orders, but on the death of John Hope, his mother's uncle, in 1761, he left Oxford and devoted himself to painting. He entered William Shipley's drawing school in the Strand, London, then directed by Henry Pars, in November 1761, and in March 1763 he became Richard
JONES, THOMAS (1908 - 1990), trade unionist and Spanish Civil War veteran Although he was a proud Welsh-speaking Welshman, Tom Jones was in fact born in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, on 13 October 1908, the son of a Welsh collier and an English kitchen maid. His father, William Jones, was a native of the Mold area of Flintshire who had moved to Lancashire with his Staffordshire-born wife Mary (née Clayton) because of the higher wages paid at the Bryn Hall colliery
JONES, THOMAS (c. 1622 - 1682), Protestant controversialist Born at Oswestry, the son of John Williams (son of William ap Meredith of Pwllheli), and probably nephew of Henry Williams, town clerk of Oswestry in 1623. His studies at Jesus College, Oxford, interrupted by the Civil War, were resumed in 1646, when on taking the covenant he was awarded a Fellowship at University College by the parliamentary visitors before graduating (B.A. 23 February 1650, M.A

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