About Nathaniel Jones
Lived 1832 – 1905 (aged 73). Nathaniel Jones was a poet.
Nathaniel Jones (19 April 1832 – 14 December 1905) was a Welsh Calvinistic Methodist minister and poet.
Nathaniel Jones took his bardic name of "Cynhafal" from his birthplace of Llangynhafal, near Ruthin in Denbighshire, where the church is dedicated to Saint Cynhafal. He worked as a tailor, and later as a sales assistant, before becoming a preacher in 1859. He attended the Calvinistic Methodist College at Bala before becoming a minister at Penrhyndeudraeth in 1865.
Works Fy Awenydd (1859) Elias y Thesbiad (1869) Y Messiah (1895) Charles o'r Bala (1898)
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Who was Nathaniel Jones?
British poet (1832-1905)
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Nathaniel Jones was born on 19 April 1832 in Llangynhafal.
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Nathaniel Jones died on 14 December 1905.
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Nathaniel Jones was a poet.
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