JONES
,
JOHN
(
1776
-
1857
),
Calvinistic Methodist minister
;
b. in
Sept. 1776
to
John
and
Ellen
Jones
, of
Tŷ Mawr
,
Penmorfa, Caerns.
, and educated at
Botwnnog grammar school
. He began to
preach
in
1803
, and was ordained in
1814
; he is usually known as ‘
John
Jones
of
Tremadoc
.’ He was reckoned a powerful
preacher
; his views were very conservative, and he was one of
John
Elias
's henchmen. In
1834
he published a small biography of
Richard
Jones
(
1772?
-
1833
) (q.v.)
‘of
Wern
.’ He d.
30 Jan. 1857
, and was buried at
Penmorfa
.
Sources:
-
J. Jones (‘Myrddin Fardd’)
,
Enwogion Sir Gaernarfon
(1922)
.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
