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JONES, ALAN TREVOR (1901 - 1979), health service administrator and Provost, Welsh National School of Medicine he later observed, 'an unnecessary exhibition of patriotism to those of us who were content with the easier and less arduous London Degree' - he proceeded to University College Hospital, London, obtaining the MB BS Lond. in 1924. After being a houseman to the distinguished Welsh physician, Sir Thomas Lewis, Trevor Jones held a series of hospital appointments in London and the provinces which
JONES, ALFRED ERNEST (1879 - 1958), psychoanalyst and Sigmund Freud's official biographer Born 1st January, 1879, in Gowerton, near Swansea, Glamorganshire, the son of Thomas and Mary Ann Jones. He was removed from the local school to schools in Swansea, and from there he won a scholarship to Llandovery College. Subsequently, he became a student at University College, Cardiff, and University College, London, and while he was there, in 1900, he gained the diplomas of the Conjoint Board
JONES, ALWYN RICE (1934 - 2007), Archbishop of Wales assistant tutor in religious education at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, joint secretary of the standing committee on theological education in Wales and a religious adviser to the Welsh committee of the Independent Broadcasting Authority. Later, in 1991, he became chair of the Religious Advisory Panel of S4C, the Welsh language channel. Jones married Meriel Thomas in 1968 and the couple
JONES, BASSETT (fl. 1634-1659), scholar and physician Son of Richard Jones, of Michaelston-super-Ely, and Jane, his wife, daughter of Thomas Bassett, esquire and high sheriff, of Miskin, Glamorganshire Bassett entered Jesus College, Oxford, in 1634, and afterwards the Dutch university of Franeker, and other seats of learning on the Continent, where he studied physics and chemistry. He returned home, and in 1648 (the year of the battle of St. Fagans
JONES, BENJAMIN (1865 - 1953), Chancellor of Bangor Cathedral Born in Minffordd, Llangeinwen, Anglesey, May 17, 1865, son of Thomas Jones, a farm labourer and his wife Ann (née Williams). After a period of student-teaching in St. Paul's School Bangor he decided to enter the Church. He was educated 1889-90 in Bangor school of theology where reading, preaching and ministering (under the wing of the church hostel) were taught, and in 1890 became a member of
JONES, BENJAMIN (P[rif] A[rwyddfardd] Môn; 1788 - 1841), poet, writer, and Baptist apologete Born 1788, son of William Jones, Treddaniel, one of the earliest Baptist deacons at Holyhead, and Elizabeth Roberts, daughter of William Roberts, Garreg-fawr. He was baptized at Holyhead by Christmas Evans in 1811, and spent his whole life there, as a draper, until his death on 19 February 1841. He married, 12 October 1810, Mary, daughter of Edward Parry of Holyhead, and thirteen children were
JONES, CAIN, almanac-maker MS 1891E, verses in NLW MS 1817E, psalm-tunes in NLW MS 1932E, a poem giving an account of a drunkard from Cymdu in NLW MS 6729B, and a poem greeting Edward Bennion, a physician, in NLW MS 12868B. John Cain Jones is said to have died in 1826, leaving a daughter, Leah Evans, a gifted poetess, at Glyn Ceiriog.
JONES, Sir CYNAN (ALBERT) EVANS (Cynan; 1895 - 1970), poet, dramatist and eisteddfodwr Born 14 April 1895, the son of Richard Albert Jones and Hannah Jane (née Evans), Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire. He received his education at the elementary school and the County School at Pwllheli, and University College, Bangor (on a Baptist scholarship), where he graduated in 1916. In the same year he enlisted in the R.A.M.C., serving in Salonika and France as a member of the 86th Field Ambulance
JONES, DAFYDD (Dafydd Siôn Siâms; 1743 - 1831), musician, poet, and book-binder built a chapel at Penrhyndeudraeth, at which he again took charge of the singing. Two hymn-tunes composed by him - ' Iago ' and ' Digonolrwydd ' - were published in Caniadau y Cysegr; it is sometimes said that he composed ' Priscilla ' also. In 1769 he was a schoolmaster; it is known that he kept school for a time at Beddgelert. He wrote an elegy (1786) on the death of his first wife, Elizabeth Thomas
JONES, DANIEL (1811 - 1861), Mormon missionary Born 4 August 1811, the son of Thomas and Ruth Jones, Tan-yr-ogof, Abergele. His eldest brother, John Jones (1801 - 1856), was celebrated as an anti-Baptist controversialist. After emigrating to America, Daniel Jones became a convert to Mormonism through conveying believers on a river boat of which he was in charge. Jones was with the prophet Joseph Smith on the night of 26 June 1844, when he was
JONES, DANIEL (1813 - 1846), Calvinistic Methodist missionary .) College, and in 1844 took a further course of training in missionary work in London. Later he was ordained, and after serving churches for some time from Rossett, near Wrexham, he and his wife, Ann Evans, sailed for India in 1845, reaching the Khasi Hills in the following year. After a survey of the hinterland, he returned for supplies to the station at Cherrapoonjee, where he died of jungle fever. He
JONES, DANIEL (1788 - 1862), Baptist minister Born at Cwm-sarn-ddu, near Llandovery, 24 February 1788. He was baptized by Timothy Thomas of Aberduar, in 1807, and began preaching, continuing to do so even during his service in the militia. He was one of the founders of the meeting-house at Cwm-sarn-ddu; and when a church was incorporated there (1814) he was ordained pastor, serving as such even during his two years at the Abergavenny Baptist

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