JONES
,
GRIFFITH ARTHUR
(
1827
-
1906
),
cleric
;
b. at
Ruabon
and christened
16 July 1827
, only son and fifth child of
John
Jones
(
curate
of
Ruabon
1819-30
, and
rector
of
Llangwm
1830-72
) and of
Charlotte Harriett
, his wife. He matriculated at
Oxford
from
Jesus College
in
April 1847
, graduated
B.A.
in
1851
and
M.A.
in
1853
. He was ordained
deacon
by
bishop
Bethell
of
Bangor
on
21 Dec. 1851
, and licensed to the curacy of
Trewalchmai
and
Heneglwys
in
Anglesey
. He was offered the vicarage of
Llangorwen
, near
Aberystwyth
, in the
spring of 1852
, but declined it; on
19 Dec. 1852
he was ordained
priest
. On
18 July 1857
he was appointed
vicar
of
Llanegryn, Mer.
, and remained there till
1872
, when he was appointed to
S. Mary's
,
Cardiff
, being instituted
27 Feb
. Here he served till his retirement in
1903
. He d.
22 Sept. 1906
, and was buried at
Cardiff
.
Jones
was at
Oxford
in the heyday of the
Oxford Movement
, and he gave himself unsparingly in the course of his ministry to the diffusion of its teaching and practices in
Wales
.
Sources:
-
John Wollaston Ward
and
Hector Albert Coe
,
Father Jones of Cardiff a memoir of the Rev.
Griffith Arthur Jones, for over thirty years vicar of S.
Mary's, Cardiff
(London, 1907)
,
1907
;
-
William Davies
,
Hanes plwyf Llanegryn
(1948)
,
1948
;
- Bangor and Llandaff episcopal registers in N.L.W.
Author:
Thomas Iorwerth Ellis, M.A., (1899-1970), Aberystwyth
