John Daniel Jones

John Daniel Jones (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, she mother married David Morgan Bynner, a Congregational minister at Chorley.

Jones became well known as the minister of Richmond Hill Church, Bournemouth. 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.[1]

After his return to Wales to retire, he was the subject of a memorable satirical poem by Saunders Lewis.[2]

References

  1. ↑ S. M. Berry, ‘Jones, John Daniel (1865–1942)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 12 March 2013.
  2. ↑ 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.