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122 YR YMOFYNYDD. wnelo a chynydd crefyddol dyn. Nid yw addysg ynddi ei hun yn ddigon i wneud dyn yn grefyddol; ond y mae yn elfen bwysig yn nghynyrchiad y bywyd crefyddol. Ac y mae Undodiaid wedi bod erioed yn gefnogwyr addysg ; maent felly heddyw. Nid oes genym ond pob peth sydd yn ffafriol i ddisgwyl oddiwrth ledaeniad addysg a gwybodasth ; a thra mae ein cydymdeimlad mwyaf llwyr ag un- rhyw ymgais i wneud ein cyfundrefn addysgol yn fwy perffaith ac effeithiol, yr ydym hefyd yn wrthwynebwyr aiddgar i unrhyw ym- gais i'w gwneud yn fwy aneffeithiol ac unochrog. CARMARTHEN COLLEGE. By Principal Evans, M.A. (Continued from the May Number, 1901.) 14. John Jones, Ll.D. (1792—4). f-OHN JONES was born at Werufelen n\ the parish of Llan- dingat, near Llandovery (Carm.) in 1764.* He received his Grammar-school education at Christ's College, Brecon (1780—3), and was trained for the ministry at New College, Hackney, where he studied for six years (1786—92). The interval, 1783—6, he appears to have spent at home in farm labour,2 his father's death having necessitated his removal from Brecon. His Tutorship at Swansea extended over two and a half years,— from Mids. 1792 to Christmas 1794 ; and is remembered chiefly for his unfortunate disagreements with his colleague, Mr. Howell,8 result- ing as they did in the closing of the Academy. 1 Teste George D. Jones, B.A., Barrister-at-law, a son of the Tutor by his second wife, Anna Dyer. 2 Mr. George D. Jones informed the writer in 1897 that his father and Lewis Lloyd " were sent young to a College at Swansea, where they were friends and companions together, and where they both imbibed Unitarian doctrines." If so, John Jones was at the Academy during 1785—6. But Dr. Charles Lloyd, in his Particulars, makes no reference to him, and his language on p. 59 (quoted suprä) would even appear to exclude him. 8 The quarrel has been attributed to Tutor Jones's peculiarities of temper ; but theological differences may have been the cause at root. Mr. Jones was fond of controversy ; and it is certain that the new Unitarianism was obnoxious to Mr. Howell.