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JONES, SHÂN EMLYN (1936 - 1997), singer lecturer Ceridwen Lloyd Davies of Bangor, who offered to teach her, and as a pupil at Pwllheli Grammar School she was strongly influenced by the music master John Newman. While still in her teens she appeared on radio and television, travelling to London at the age of fifteen to sing on a TV programme. She featured on the front page of the Welsh newspaper Y Cymro on 26 February 1954, dressed in her Welsh
JONES, TERENCE GRAHAM PARRY (1942 - 2020), actor, director, writer and popular historian Terry Jones was born on 1 February 1942 in Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire, the second son of Alick George Parry-Jones, a bank clerk, and his wife Dilys Louisa (née Newnes). He first met his father on the platform of Colwyn Bay railway station when he returned from India after serving with the RAF during World War Two. When Terry was four, the family moved to Surrey where he attended primary school in
JONES, THEOPHILUS (1759 - 1812), historian of Brecknock . He was educated at Christ College school under David Griffith (1726 - 1816); Edward Davies (1756 - 1831), his lifelong friend, was his schoolmate. Jones practised in law for a considerable period, but on being appointed deputy-registrar of the archdeaconry he gave up his private practice and devoted himself to historical research. He married Mary Price, daughter of Rhys Price of Porth-y-rhyd (near
JONES, THOMAS (1870 - 1955), university professor, civil servant, administrator, author Management of Music and the Arts as it was first known. During his term of office in the Cabinet Secretariat he rendered great service during the Irish troubles in the negotiations that led to the 1921 settlement and likewise during the General Strike crisis in 1926. Three of the Prime Ministers whom he served, viz. Lloyd George, Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin placed great confidence on his judgement. His
JONES, Sir THOMAS (bu farw 1731), treasurer and secretary of the 'Society of Antient Britons' in London, and author Author of the pamphlet The Rise and Progress of the … Society of Antient Britons, 1717, frequently reprinted (in part) by that society. He was knighted in 1715 when the society presented a loyal address to George I, and is then described as 'Thomas Jones, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at Law.' The only entry in that Inn's admission Register which seems to suit is that of 'Thomas Jones, of Chancery
JONES, THOMAS (Twm Shôn Catti; 1532 - 1609), landowner, antiquary, genealogist, and bard described in 1559 as 'Thomas Johns alias Catty.' The name of his first wife is unknown; his second, whom he married in 1607, was Joan, widow of Thomas Williams of Ystrad-ffin and daughter of Sir John Price of Brecon Priory (1502?-1555). His manuscripts begin about 1570. He assisted George Owen and Lewys Dwnn and the officers of the Heralds College. He was steward of Caron in 1601. He died in 1609, the
JONES, THOMAS (1819 - 1882), Independent minister from time to time published poems in Welsh; a volume of his sermons, The Divine Order, was published in 1884, with a preface by Browning and a biographical introduction. His three sons Sir David Brynmor Jones, John Viriamu Jones and Leifchild Stratten Jones (later Leif-Jones)
JONES, THOMAS (1848 - 1900), surgeon Born at Derlwyn, Carmarthenshire, son of David Jones who kept school there. From Swansea Normal College he went to the Northern Hospital, Liverpool; he graduated in London University, and was F.R.C.S. Settling down in 1873 at Manchester, he soon became consultant and operating surgeon (one of the first to set up in that capacity). In 1880 he was appointed lecturer in surgery at Owens College, and
JONES, THOMAS (1756 - 1820), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Jones of Mold, a devout and wealthy woman who died in 1797 leaving him most of her property; (2) 1804, A. Maysmor of Llanelidan; (3) 1806, Mary Lloyd of Llanrwst. In 1784 he met Thomas Charles of Bala, and their close friendship brought him into touch with the religious world outside Wales and with such movements as the Bible Society, the London Missionary Society, and the circulating schools. He
JONES, THOMAS (1648? - 1713), almanack maker, bookseller, printer, and publisher Collection of all the Material News, Printed and sold by Thomas Jones in Hill's Lane (?) near Mardol. Price 1d.), possibly in 1705; if this was the case then Shrewsbury was one of the places where the earliest provincial newspapers were published (Francis Burges's Norwich Post began publication in September 1701; see Llewelyn C. Lloyd, op. cit.). Thomas Jones died 6 August 1713; this date is deduced from a
JONES, THOMAS (1761 - 1831), Calvinistic Methodist minister and Biblical commentator Williams, published in 1770, but the dates show that this cannot be right, and D. E. Jenkins has suggested that Jones was concerned rather with the press-correcting of ' John Canne's Bible,' in the edition published in 1796 to compete with Peter Williams and David Jones's edition of the same work. Thomas Jones became a pillar of Calvinistic Methodism in the town, and was one of the trustees of the 1813
JONES, THOMAS (1756 - 1807), mathematician Llifior.) In 1760 a case was brought against 'Catherine, wife of Mathew Jones of Trefeen, Kerry'; who had been in service in Tynycoed Llifior. However in Glansevern papers (NLW) 17840 there is a note concerning 'Jones of Trefeen illegitimate son of Davies of Ty'ncoed cousin to Miss Davies who married Owen "Welsh Uncle" to David Owen Senior Wrangler'. From Shrewsbury School he went up in 1774 to S

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