Jones, Arthur, Dd

Jones, Arthur, D.D.

a Welsh Congregational minister, was born at Llanrwst, Denbighshire, February 12, 1776. He was converted when about eighteen years of age, joined the Calvinistic Methodists, and soon became an exhorter and preacher. He was ordained at Bangor in 1810, where he labored earnestly as pastor; in 1815 he removed to the Welsh churches at Deptford and Woolwich, Kent; in 1823 he returned to his former charge at Bangor; in 1854 he retired to Chester, where he died, February 29, 1860. He published several tracts and sermons, besides his work entitled, Pyngeian Athrawiaethol (doctrinal points). See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1861, page 215.