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JONES, JOHN (1801 - 1856), Independent minister, and controversialist
JONES, JOHN (Tegid, Ioan Tegid; 1792 - 1852), cleric and man of letters which he prepared for the S.P.C.K. in 1828; strong protests came from W. Bruce Knight and John Roberts of Tremeirchion (1775 - 1829). Tegid had in 1820 published a tract, Traethawd ar Gadwedigaeth yr Iaith Gymraeg, championing Pughe's views; and now he published (1829) a reply to Roberts, a Welsh tract on 'the correct spelling of Welsh' (1830), and a reply (1831) to Knight. Fortunately the Old
JONES, JOHN (Ivon; 1820 - 1898), man of letters
JONES, JOHN (1650 - 1727), dean of Bangor, educationist, and antiquary Born at Plas Gwyn, Pentraeth, Anglesey, 2 June 1650, son of Rowland Jones and Margaret, daughter of John Williams of Chwaen Issa, Llantrisant, Anglesey. His brother's grandchild married Paul Panton, the antiquary. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A., 1668, and later B.D. and D.D., 1689, he took holy orders and was preferred in 1672 to Rhoscolyn and its chapelries of
JONES, JOHN (1766? - 1827), classical scholar and Unitarian divine Christ, 1812; A new version of the first three Chapters of Genesis, 1819; A series of … Facts, demonstrating the Truth of the Christian Religion, 1820; A Greek and English Lexicon, 1823; A Reply to … 'a New Trial of the Witnesses', 1824; The principles of Lexicography, 1824; Three Letters in which is demonstrated the Genuineness of 1 … John v. 7, 1825; The Tyro's Greek and English Lexicon, 2nd ed
JONES, JOHN (Vulcan; 1825 - 1889), Wesleyan minister
JONES, JOHN (1786 - 1865), printer and inventor Baptized 7 May 1786, son of Ismael Davies (son of Dafydd Jones, Trefriw (1708? - 1785)) and Jane, his wife. After Dafydd Jones died in 1785, Ismael Davies continued working his father's printing press at Bryn Pyll, Trefriw. According to family tradition, John Jones was apprenticed to a blacksmith, but he also learnt the printer's craft, and from 1810 onwards there is a noticeable improvement in
JONES, JOHN (1820 - 1907), minister (B) and historian by John's efforts at Evenjobb in 1849. John also conducted a day school in Gladestry chapel, the salary derived from the Edward Gough charity. In 1849 he married Anne Roberts (born 1825 in Cheltenham but of a Methodist family) of Abbey Cwmhir. For a few years before her death she kept a girls' school in Kington. She and her husband had eight children, six of whom died young. John Jones held
JONES, JOHN (Myrddin Fardd; 1836 - 1921), writer, antiquary, and collector of old letters and manuscripts Born on a small homestead called Tan-y-ffordd, in the parish of Llangïan, Llŷn, Caernarfonshire, son of John and Ann Owen. They had five children, three daughters and two sons, namely Owen Jones (Manoethwy) and John Jones (Myrddin Fardd). He married Ann Jones of the Ynys neighbourhood, Eifionydd, and their son was the musician Owen Gough Jones, who was organist of one of the Birmingham churches
JONES, JOHN (Talhaiarn; 1810 - 1869), architect and poet wrote lyrics for many of the airs in Welsh Melodies by John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia) and for songs by Brinley Richards, Blockley, Owain Alaw, and J.D. Jones. [In London he became in 1843 a member of the Cymreigyddion Society, and president in 1849; in 1855 he printed an account of its last days. His fame rests mainly on his songs and light verse, often satirical.]
JONES, JOHN (CYNDDYLAN) (1841 - 1930), preacher and theologian Born 27 February 1841, at Capel Dewi, Cardiganshire. He was for some time a pupil at the school of John Evans, Aberystwyth. He and John Rhys were both appointed pupil-teachers at Penllwyn because the schoolmaster could not choose between them. For a while he kept a school himself near the site of the town clock in Aberystwyth. His pupils were candidates for the ministry, young boys anxious to
JONES, JOHN (1786? - 1863), cleric and antiquary son of John Jones, Lleddfa, Machynlleth. He went up from Friars School, Bangor, to Jesus College, Oxford, in February 1804 (during the same year he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn), and graduated in 1808. From 1809 to 1815 he was curate of Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog (Anglesey), from 1815 to 1819 curate of Llanfair-is-gaer, and from 1819 rector of Llanllyfni (both in Caernarfonshire). He published seven

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