famous Welsh business personalities listing...

John Hughes
In 1872 he moved to Ukraine, to the province (Oblast) of Donetsk and founded an ironworks at the headwaters of the Kalmius river. He helped to improve and expand the Russian rail road. The town's pre-revolutionary name was from his own surname, Yuzovka. After the Revolution it was called Stalino, changed in 1961 to Donetsk.
John Hughes, Welsh industrialist from Merthyr Tydfil.
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Sion Hughes
Chief executive of 'Cyfle'.
Born in Wrexham.
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Sir John Jones Jenkins (Lord Glantawe)
He was in the tin plate industry; knighted by King Edward VII in 1881 becoming Lord Glantawe in 1895.
Born Morriston, Swansea, 10th May, 1835. The son of Welsh parents, Jenkin Jenkins and Sarah Jones.
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Nia Jenkins
'More than Soap' has won the 'Ceredigion Business Award in 2001' for manufacturing and in 2003 for export. Nia is also a national winner for two competitions in the Eisteddfod, the Mezzo Soprano open solo and the Welsh traditional solo 'Yr Hen Ganiadau'.
Nia Jenkins is the owner of 'More Than Soap', established in 2001. A Welsh based company manufacturing handmade, natural, organic, aroma-therapy soap and innovative bath and body products.
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Selwyn Jenkins
Secretary of the Welsh FA for fifteen years. President of the Welsh FA 1984, Chairman of FIFA Technical Committee c1985.
Born Merthyr, lived for seventy years in Port Talbot.
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Edward Jones
Founder of the Welsh Wesleyan Methodists (1800)
Born near Ruthin, Denbighshire in 1777 and died at Leek, (presumably Staffordshire, England) in 1837.
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Ira Jones
World War One air fighter ace. Known as Ira 'Taffy' Jones. D. S. O. , M. C. , D. F. C. And Bar, M. M. Author of an air-fighter's scrapbook (1938) 'Tiger Squadron' (1954) a history of RAF 74 (tiger) squadron.
Born 18th april 1896, in Llanddowror, near Staint Clears, Carmarthenshire. Died Morriston Hospital in 1960.
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Major Thomas Jones
Major Thomas Jones is the namesake of Jones Beach State Park in New York. It is the second largest state park in the United States, and became part of the United States Park system in 1929, after a dedication by then governor of New York, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Briefly,the family of Major Thomas Jones, whose descent from a noble Irish family which intermarried with one from Wales, is supposed to have originated in Merionethshire or Glamorganshire. Major Thomas Jones was born in approximately 1665.
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