John Daniel Jones
John Daniel Jones CH (13 April 1865 – 19 April 1942) was a Welsh Congregational minister.
He was born in Ruthin, Denbighshire, the son of Joseph David Jones (1827–70), a schoolmaster in the town and a respected musician and composer. The family moved to Tywyn, his mother's home town. In 1877, after the early death of his father, his mother married David Morgan Bynner, a Congregational minister at Chorley. After studying at Manchester University, Lancashire Independent College and St Andrews University, he was ordained at Newland Congregational Church, Lincoln in 1889.[1]
Jones became well known as the minister of Richmond Hill Church, Bournemouth where he was minister from 1898-1937. He was elected chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales in 1909–10, and again in 1925–6. In 1919 he was elected an honorary secretary of the union, a position which he held until his death.[2]
Politically a Liberal, Jones spoke regularly in support of his brother Henry Haydn Jones, MP for Merioneth from 1910-45. Lloyd George was a personal friend and in retirement a near neighbour and visitor.[3]
After his return to Wales to retire, he was the subject of a memorable satirical poem by Saunders Lewis.[4]
References
- ^ Binfield, Clyde; Taylor (eds), John (2007). Who They Were in the Reformed Churches of England and Wales. Shaun Tyas. p. 117. ISBN 978 1900289 825.
{{cite book}}:|last2=has generic name (help) - ^ S. M. Berry, ‘Jones, John Daniel (1865–1942)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 12 March 2013.
- ^ Binfield, Clyde; Taylor (eds), John (2007). Who They Were in the Reformed Churches of England and Wales. Shaun Tyas. p. 118. ISBN 978 1900289 825.
{{cite book}}:|last2=has generic name (help) - ^ Owen, Richard Griffith. John Daniel Jones, Welsh Biography Online; Gruffydd, R. Geraint. 1992. '"I'r Dr J. D. Jones, CH" Saunders Lewis', in J. E. Caerwyn Williams (ed.), Ysgrifau Beirniadol 18. Dinbych: Gwasg Gee, pp. 240-44.
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