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  • John Owen Jones (ap Ffarmwr) was born at Trefdraeth, Anglesey, in 1861. He is best remembered for his unsuccesful attempts to establish a trade union on behalf of farm workers. Ap Ffarmwr was himself a farmer's son, but although he received some formal education he was largely self-taught. In 1884-5, after periods of study at Aberystwyth and Manchester, he became the first full-time Welsh-language parliamentary correspondent to be employed by a Welsh newspaper in London. His employer, the Welsh National Newspaper Company, published Liberal newspapers such as 'Y Genedl Gymreig' and 'The North Wales Observer and Express'. He returned to Anglesey in the late 1880s to establish a private grammar school at Dwyran and it was during this period that he began voicing his concerns regarding the plight of the tenant farmers of the island. He wrote a number of articles to 'Y Genedl Gymreig' under the pseudonym 'ap Ffarmwr' [farmer's son] in which he called for a reduction in rents, rates and tithes and a fair wage for agricultural labourers. His attempts to establish a union on behalf of the agricultural workers was unsuccessful, however, and in 1894 he left Anglesey for south Wales when he was appointed editor of the 'Merthyr Times'. In 1897 he moved to Nottingham where he died in March 1899. He was buried at Dwyran, Anglesey. Further reading: David A. Pretty, 'The Rural Revolt that Failed: Farm Workers' Trade Unions in Wales, 1889-1950' (Cardiff, 1989).
John Owen Jones (Ap Ffarmwr), c.1890s
  • Photographed by John Thomas, c. 1875. William Lewis Lewis (Llew Llwyfo) (1831-1901) was a native of Llawenllwyfo, Anglesey. He was a poet, journalist, novelist and raconteur, and was an extremely popular public figure as a singer and conductor of eisteddfodau in Wales, Liverpool and America. He was struck by illness at the age of 47 and died in abject poverty in Rhyl in 1901. Further reading: Meic Stephens (ed.), 'The New Companion to the Literature of Wales' (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1988). Eryl Wyn Rowlands, 'Y Llew oedd ar y Llwyfan' (Gwasg Pantycelyn, Caernarfon, 2001).
Lewis William Lewis (Llew Llwyfo, 1831-1901)
  • Owen Morgan (Morien) (?1836-1921) was a reporter with the 'Western Mail' newspaper. He made his journalistic name reporting the Tynewydd colliery rescue at Porth in 1877. His 'History of Pontypridd and Rhondda Valleys' was published in 1903. He had a keen interest in freemasonry, druidism and mythology.
Owen Morgan (Morien), journalist and local historian, c. 1910
  • Robert David Rowlands (Anthropos) (1853?-1944) entered the college on 19 January 1886. He had previously attended the Theological College at Bala and worked as a journalist in Caernarfon until 1884, notably with the 'Herald Cymraeg' and 'Genedl Gymreig' newspapers. Between 1890 and 1933 he was a minister at Caernarfon. He published numerous articles in the Welsh-language press and was the editor of 'Trysorfa'r Plant' between 1912 and 1932.
1st Admissions Register of the University College of North Wales, Bangor, 1884-92 [p. 126, image 15 of 22]
  • A collection of items relating to H. M. Stanley (1841-1904), explorer and journalist, who was born in Denbigh.
H. M. Stanley (1841-1904), explorer and journalist