JONES
,
LEWIS
(
1808
-
1854
),
Calvinistic Methodist minister and author
;
b. at
Melin Cae'r Berllan
,
Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Mer.
When a lad, he went to
Bala
to assist in
bookbinding
, under
Robert
Saunderson
(q.v.)
. He began
preaching
; went to the school kept by
John
Hughes
(
1796
-
1860
) (q.v.)
at
Wrexham
; and was ordained in
1838
. He lived in the house attached to
Llwyneinion
chapel
, and there he d.,
29 March 1854
, aged 46; he was buried in the graveyard of
Llidiardau C.M. chapel
. A copious writer, he published in
1841
a biography of the
Rev.
Richard
Jones
(
1784
-
1840
) of
Bala
, on whom see
Enw. F.
and
William
Williams
,
Methodistiaeth Dwyrain Meirionydd
, 577-9; besides this, he published other books. There are good articles by him in
Y Drysorfa
; and he was chiefly responsible for the little monthly
Y Geiniogwerth
(
1847-51
) and its short-lived continuation
Y Methodist
(
1851
).
Bibliography:
-
Y Drysorfa
,
1854
, 173;
-
Y Goleuad
,
18 Sept. 1875
(by
Dr. Lewis Edwards
);
-
T. M. Jones
,
Llenyddiaeth fy Ngwlad
, 1893
, 100;
-
Y Seren
(Bala),
1 Nov. 1952
.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
