JONES
,
JOHN EDWARD
(
1801
-
1866
),
Unitarian minister, schoolmaster, and first editor of
Yr Ymofynydd
;
b.
7 July 1801
at
Carmarthen
, where his father was a
deacon
at
Lammas Street chapel
. He was educated at
David
Peter
's (q.v.) school and at
Carmarthen Academy
(
1817-21
). At the end of his course he received a call from the churches of
Bridgend
and
Betws
, where he spent the remainder of his life and where he
kept a school
until 1842
. When
Yr Ymofynydd
was started he was appointed its first
editor
, a position he held for thirteen years in all (
Sept. 1847 to April 1854
;
Jan. 1859 to June 1865
). He was
tutor
at
Carmarthen
for six months in the early part of
1860
. He was useful in his circle and did a good day's work. Apart from his articles in
Yr Ymofynydd
, he published a
Welsh
sermon,
Grist yn un a'r Tad
,
1847
. He d.
25 Feb. 1866
and was buried at
Carmarthen
.
Bibliography:
-
Yr Ymofynnydd
,
1894
, 265;
-
Yr Athraw
,
1866
, 185, 360;
-
The Unitarian Students at the Presbyterian
College, Carmarthen…1796–1901
, 1901
, 25;
-
Oriel Coleg Caerfyrddin
, 1909
, 36-7;
-
Monthly Repository
,
1821
, 317;
1822
, 64.
Author:
Rev. Thomas Oswald Williams, M.A., (1888-1965), Lampeter
