Jerman, Hugh (1836-1895)
Montgomeryshire artist. The son of a local carpenter of Great Oak Street, Llanidloes. His uncle Thomas Jerman was one of the three Chartists rescued from captivity in the Trewythen Arms during the disturbances of 1839. Hugh was one of the first pupils of the National School in Llanidloes before attending St. John's Training College in Battersea. As a teacher he taught in Lincolnshire before becoming Headmaster of the National School in Connah's Quay. A successful musician, he won First Prize at the Conwy National Eisteddfod for an anthem he composed. In 1862 he became Headmaster of Kerry School where he took up landscape painting. Moving on from there he taught at schools in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire before returning to his native Llanidloes in 1877, where he opened the Severn Grove Academy offering education along grammar school lines for local families. Whilst head of this establishment he was very active conducting local choirs and he formed a string ensemble and organised concerts. He developed his skill at both portrait and landscape paintings, three of which are now in the National Library of Wales.
[MC 72]
[MC 72]
Jerman, H. Noel (1909-1994)
Born at Dolforgan Gardens, Kerry, Montgomeryshire. His father was employed by John Bancroft Willans owner of the Dolforgan estate who encouraged the young Noel Jerman in his education at Newtown County Boy's School and University College of Wales, Aberystwyth where he gained a first class degree in Geography and an MA. On leaving the University he was appointed Keeper of the Department of Maps, Prints and Drawings at the National Library of Wales. After the war he became a civil servant concerned with town and country planning, rising to the post of Assistant Secretary at the Welsh Office. He retired from this in 1970 and took a post as Chief Officer of the Council for Small Industries in Rural Areas. He served on a multitude of committees and councils and was a Chairman of both the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust and the Powysland Club. He was a keen archaeologist and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
[MC 82; Obituary in 'The Times']
[MC 82; Obituary in 'The Times']
John, James (fl.1740s)
Of Crickhowell parish. Tried at the Breconshire Great Sessions 1741 for murder. In the parish of Llangattock on 4 January 1741 he seized Sarah Powell, age 2, and threw her into the River Usk where she drowned. He was condemned to death.
[Mossop]
[Mossop]
Jones, Albert Thomas (1883-1963)
Footballer from Talgarth. 2 international caps for Wales 1905-1906. He played full back for Builth Town; Talgarth; Harbone Lynwood; Swindon; Nottingham Forest; Notts County; Norwich; Wellington; and Swansea Town. After leaving professional football he ran a hotel in Wellington for a while before returning to Wales as a reinstated amateur on Swansea's books in 1910. Jones qualified as a pharmacist in 1931 and later opened his own business in Llantwit Vardre, Pontypridd.
[Davies & Garland]
[Davies & Garland]
Jones, Daniel Buallt (1841-1879)
Bard, tenor and choirmaster. He was the great pioneer of the Tonic Solfa method of music teaching in Cantref Buallt. Under his baton the Beulah Choir became one of the best in South Wales. His bardic name was Alaw Buallt and he was often referred to simply as Daniel Llwyncus;. He moved to Tonypandy in 1877.
[CAO B/X/13/1]
[CAO B/X/13/1]
Jones, Edward (d.1813)
Tried at the Montgomeryshire Great Sessions 1813 for the murder of Thomas Davies in the parish of Llanidloes on 2 August 1812, and executed. In a broadsheet of his execution his age is given as 25. His execution was reported in the Shrewsbury Chronicle.
[Mossop]
[Mossop]
Jones, Evan Hugh (d.1735)
Together with his wife Margaret, Hugh Jones was convicted at the Montgomeryshire Great Sessions in 1735 of (at least) two counts of murder to which they both pleaded guilty. They murdered John Rea of Llanfair Caereinion with an axe in February 1735, having already murdered one John Barley or Berkley the previous summer. The couple were hanged and their bodies gibbeted at the top of the hill. This was probably the Gibbet Hill South of Llanfair. They are also said to have murdered a Scots peddler.
[Mossop]
[Mossop]
Jones, Capt. Frederick (b.1758)
Born at Pencerrig in Llanelwedd parish, he was the sixth of the seven sons of Thomas Jones of Trefonnen in Cefnllys parish and thus younger brother of the artist Thomas Jones. He was sent to John Wesley's Kingswood School near Bristol to begin his education, and from there to the Presbyterian College in Carmarthen. In 1776 he went up to St Edmund's Hall, Oxford but seems to have left by the end of the year. With the help and influence of the family friend Walter Wilkins of Maesllwch Castle who had held high office in the civil service of the East India Company, Jones was able to enter the military service of the company. He served ten years in Bombay as an artillery officer, returning in 1788 with the rank of Captain and a considerable fortune.
On his return he found that his brother Major John Jones had died whilst occupying the office of Sheriff of Radnorshire. Captain Frederick left a diary which records in detail a life spent travelling and calling on the houses of the gentry of Radnorshire and Breconshire. He settled in Brecon but was frequently in London, and had among his friends and acquaintances; Sir Bysshe Shelley, Sheriff of Radnorshire in 1784 and grandfather of the poet; Sir Joshua Reynolds, the artist and fellow mason Theophilus Jones. He invested in property in the area and became very much one of the local gentry. He helped Walter Wilkins fight in local elections and was active as a local magistrate.
[CAO R/D/LIB/2/1; RT 56, 60]
On his return he found that his brother Major John Jones had died whilst occupying the office of Sheriff of Radnorshire. Captain Frederick left a diary which records in detail a life spent travelling and calling on the houses of the gentry of Radnorshire and Breconshire. He settled in Brecon but was frequently in London, and had among his friends and acquaintances; Sir Bysshe Shelley, Sheriff of Radnorshire in 1784 and grandfather of the poet; Sir Joshua Reynolds, the artist and fellow mason Theophilus Jones. He invested in property in the area and became very much one of the local gentry. He helped Walter Wilkins fight in local elections and was active as a local magistrate.
[CAO R/D/LIB/2/1; RT 56, 60]
Jones, Jeffrey Woodward (1886-1976)
International footballer from Llandrindod Wells. 3 international caps for Wales 1908-1910. He played full back for Llandrindod Wells, Aston Villa, Northern Nomads, and Llandrindod Wells. After a career in football he trained as a doctor, qualifying in 1918. He worked at the Middlesex Hospital and later at the Edward VII Hospital in Cardiff.
[Davies & Garland]
[Davies & Garland]
Jones, Col. Jenkin (b.1623)
Born at Ty Mawr in the parish of Llanddeti, Breconshire. His father was John Jones or John ap John Howell a local Landowner. Jenkin himself matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford in 1639 where he no doubt came under the influence of fellow student and puritan Vavasour Powell. On his return to Breconshire he developed a reputation as the leading puritan of the county. On the outbreak of hostilities he declared for Parliament - unlike most of the Breconshire landowners - and raised and equipped a troop of 120 troopers from among his relations and tenants. With this force he was able to see off any royalist rising in Breconshire.
With the defeat of the King and the establishment of the Commonwealth, Col. Jones was appointed one of the "approvers" of those licensed to hold livings in the area and he became an itinerant preacher in the area and around Merthyr Tydfil. These roles he took very seriously and by 1657 he himself had become a licensed preacher and moved into the living of his own parish Llanddeti. He believed, like the Baptists, in baptism of adults only by complete immersion but he did exclude members of any sect from communion in his church. He used his influence and even force to achieve the election of a sympathetic candidate as bailiff of the town of Brecon. For this and other actions in support of the cause of the Commonwealth he was accused locally of being an Anabaptist although he is known to have thought Cromwell had taken too much power upon himself. His influence in the area may well have been responsible for his elder brother becoming Sheriff of Breconshire in 1658.
On the restoration in 1660 Col. Jones was said to fired his pistol through his own church door and cried "Ah, thou old whore of Babylon, thou'lt have it all thy own way now." Llanddeti church door is indeed pierced and a pistol ball was removed from the church wall in 1878. With the appointment of local officers loyal to Charles II, Col. Jones was ejected from his living and property and imprisoned in Carmarthen gaol. On his release he preached to a large open air gathering at Llanddeti assembled from Breconshire, Radnorshire, Glamorgan and Monmouth. Jones was said to have incited the crowd to attack the soldiers sent by local magistrates and he served a further month in prison. Little is known of his subsequent career but he is known to have suffered further incarceration for making inflammatory speeches.
[Thomas; DWB]
With the defeat of the King and the establishment of the Commonwealth, Col. Jones was appointed one of the "approvers" of those licensed to hold livings in the area and he became an itinerant preacher in the area and around Merthyr Tydfil. These roles he took very seriously and by 1657 he himself had become a licensed preacher and moved into the living of his own parish Llanddeti. He believed, like the Baptists, in baptism of adults only by complete immersion but he did exclude members of any sect from communion in his church. He used his influence and even force to achieve the election of a sympathetic candidate as bailiff of the town of Brecon. For this and other actions in support of the cause of the Commonwealth he was accused locally of being an Anabaptist although he is known to have thought Cromwell had taken too much power upon himself. His influence in the area may well have been responsible for his elder brother becoming Sheriff of Breconshire in 1658.
On the restoration in 1660 Col. Jones was said to fired his pistol through his own church door and cried "Ah, thou old whore of Babylon, thou'lt have it all thy own way now." Llanddeti church door is indeed pierced and a pistol ball was removed from the church wall in 1878. With the appointment of local officers loyal to Charles II, Col. Jones was ejected from his living and property and imprisoned in Carmarthen gaol. On his release he preached to a large open air gathering at Llanddeti assembled from Breconshire, Radnorshire, Glamorgan and Monmouth. Jones was said to have incited the crowd to attack the soldiers sent by local magistrates and he served a further month in prison. Little is known of his subsequent career but he is known to have suffered further incarceration for making inflammatory speeches.
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