Thomas Jones (minister)

After attending the village school, he was apprenticed about 1831 to a flannel manufacturer named Winstone at Llanwrtyd; in 1837 he obtained work at Brynmawr, first as a collier and then as a check weigher; and in 1839 moved to Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.

[1] After attending three or four years of school at Llanelli, Jones was ordained first pastor of Bryn Chapel, nearby, in July 1844.

[1] In September 1858 Jones accepted the pastorate of the nonconformist congregation at Albany Chapel, Frederick Street, in north-west London.

There Robert Browning was a seat-holder, and stated that Jones attracted listeners by the "outpour of impetuous eloquence" and his "liberal humanity".

[1] In failing health, Jones returned to Wales, and in January 1870 took on the new Congregational church at Walter's Road, Swansea.

A short volume of selections, Lyric Thoughts of the late Thomas Jones, with Biographical Sketch, edited by his Widow was published in London in 1886.