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JONES, TOM ELLIS (1900 - 1975), Baptist minister and college Principal Tom Ellis Jones was born in Princess Road, Rhosllannerchrugog on 4 August 1900, the son of Benjamin Jones and his wife. His father, a photographer by profession until he went blind, was a deacon in Penuel Welsh Baptist church in the village and the whole life of the home revolved around the chapel. Tom Ellis Jones went directly from the local school to work as a clerk in an accountant's office in
JONES, TREVOR ALEC (1924 - 1983), Labour politician He was born at Clydach Vale on 12 August 1924, the son of Alexander (Alec) Jones. He was educated at Rhondda County Boys' Grammar School, Porth. He worked as a clerk to the Rhondda UDC, 1940-42, and served in the RAF, 1942-45. He then attended Bangor Normal College, 1945-47, and worked as a teacher at Essex, 1947-49, and at Blaenclydach secondary school, 1949-67. Alec Jones had joined the Labour
JONES, WALTER (bu farw 1819) Cefn Rug,, commissioner under land enclosure acts
JONES, WALTER DAVID MICHAEL (1895 - 1974), painter and poet David Jones is one of the great literary artists of British modernism, as well as being an important engraver, illustrator and painter, and an accomplished essayist. He was born in Brockley, Kent, on 1 November 1895, the third child of James and Alice Jones, and baptized Walter David (by the age of nine he had succeeded in dropping his first name, which he considered too Anglo-Saxon). When he
JONES, WALTER IDRIS (1900 - 1971), Director General of Research Development for the National Coal Board (NCB) Idris Jones was born 18 January 1900, son of Frederick (rollerman at a local tin-works) and Elizabeth Jones, Old Castle Road, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire. Having gained a scholarship to the University College of Wales (UCW), Aberystwyth in 1918, he graduated BSc (Chemistry, 1st class honours) in 1921, and proceeded to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (1922-26), with Rhondda and Frank Smart
JONES, WATCYN SAMUEL (1877 - 1964), agricultural administrator and principal of a theological college Born 16 February 1877, son of Rees Cribin Jones, Unitarian minister, and Mari Jones (the daughter of Watcyn and Mari Jones, Ty'n-lofft, Betws Bledrws), in a house in Bridge Street, Lampeter known as Glasfryn Stores. He was one of four children, but the other three died in infancy. His father, like many other Unitarian ministers of the time, ran a school, and perhaps the son received some of his
JONES, WATKIN (Watcyn o Feirion; 1882 - 1967), postmaster, shopkeeper, folk poet, setter and tutor of cerdd dant Born 12 June 1882 in Tŷ'r nant, Capel Celyn, Merionethshire, son of Robert Jones and Elizabeth (born Watkin). He kept a shop and Post Office in Capel Celyn and carried the post in the Capel Celyn and Arennig area for more than fifty years, walking about 15 miles every day. In his cultured home he brought up a family of singers. He had a rich voice, and much musical creativity, and, being well
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JONES, WILLIAM (1764 - 1822), hymn writer
JONES, WILLIAM (Ehedydd Iâl; 1815 - 1899), farmer and poet and public house about a mile from Llandegla village; here he was a farmer and an unwilling inn-keeper until eight years later when the inn was converted into a farmhouse. He stayed there until he died 15 February 1899. His works were published in 1898 under the title, Blodau Iâl, sef Cynyrchion Barddonol William Jones (Ehedydd Iâl). Wedi Eu Casglu a'u Trefnu gan y Parch. John Felix.
JONES, WILLIAM (1755 - 1821), Evangelical cleric One of the friends of Thomas Charles; born 18 November 1755 at Abergavenny, son of John Jones, clockmaker. He went to Jesus College, Oxford, in 1773 or 1774, and remained there till 1777 (Charles was there in 1775, and Jones was then his ' very intimate friend'); Jones, as his diaries begun at Oxford show, was a tolerably good scholar. Early in 1778, he became tutor in a Government servant's
JONES, WILLIAM (Gwilym Myrddin; 1863 - 1946), poet Born Llwyndinawed farm, Cil-y-cwm, near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, 12 April 1863, son of Evan Jones and his wife. His schooldays were restricted by the needs of the farm. In 1886 he married Elizabeth Jones of Pumsaint and about the end of 1898 he left his native area and settled at Betws, Ammanford. For a time he was bailiff on a farm near Ammanford and later secured a post as lampman at the

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