E. K. Jones Papers,

Papers of the Rev. E. K. Jones, 1780-1949, including correspondence, 1887-1931; family papers, 1891-1936; diaries, 1885-1936; sermons, [c. 1890]-[c. 1930]; press cuttings, 1885-[1930s]; papers relating to his publications, 1877-1950; and records collected by the Rev. Jones relating to baptism in Wales, 1780-1949, including records of the Welsh Baptist Union, 1896-1944; records of the Denbigh, Flint, and Merioneth Baptist Association, 1864-1949; Welsh Baptist yearbooks, 1843-1946, and sermons and papers relating to various Welsh Baptist ministers and chapels, 1780-1942.

The Rev. E. K. (Evan Kenffig) Jones (1863-1950) was a staunch Baptist minister and social and educational reformer. He was born at Bryn Du, Kenfig Hill, Glamorgan, and was educated at Pontypool Baptist College and University College Cardiff. He was ordained at Merthyr Vale, Glamorgan, in 1889, before moving to Brymbo, Denbighshire, in 1891, and to Cefnmawr, Denbighshire, in 1913. He was secretary of the Denbigh, Flint, and Merioneth Association, president of the Baptist Union of Wales in 1928, and President of the Baptist Missionary Society in 1934. He was a member of the Wrexham Board of Guardians and a prominent member of the Denbighshire Education Committee. His main literary works included The Baptists of Wales and Ministerial Education (1902), Y Beibl a Dirwest (1906), A Short Sketch of the History of the Baptist Church in Llanidloes(1908), and Hanes Cymdeithas Genhadol y Bedyddwyr (1944). He retired in 1934 and died in 1950.

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Purchased from the library of Reverend Evan Kenffig Jones, D.D., Wrexham, 1950. Further papers donated by his daughter, Mrs Bessie Vaughan Davies, Wrexham, 1969.

The Rev. E. K. (Evan Kenffig) Jones (1863-1950) was a staunch Baptist minister and social and educational reformer. He was born at Bryn Du, Kenfig Hill, Glamorgan, and was educated at Pontypool Baptist College and University College Cardiff. He was ordained at Merthyr Vale, Glamorgan, in 1889, before moving to Brymbo, Denbighshire, in 1891, and to Cefnmawr, Denbighshire, in 1913. He was secretary of the Denbigh, Flint, and Merioneth Association, president of the Baptist Union of Wales in 1928, and President of the Baptist Missionary Society in 1934. He was a member of the Wrexham Board of Guardians and a prominent member of the Denbighshire Education Committee. His main literary works included The Baptists of Wales and Ministerial Education (1902), Y Beibl a Dirwest (1906), A Short Sketch of the History of the Baptist Church in Llanidloes(1908), and Hanes Cymdeithas Genhadol y Bedyddwyr (1944). He retired in 1934 and died in 1950.

Title supplied from contents of fonds. Some of the records acquired by the Rev. Evan Kenffig Jones pre-date his birth.

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March 2003

Compiled by Richard Burman for the ANW project. The following source was used for the compilation of this description: National Library of Wales, Catalogue of E. K. Jones Papers.

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