Jack Jones (novelist)

Jack Jones CBE was a Welsh miner, Trade Union official, politician, novelist and playwright.

Jack Jones was born in 1884 at TaiHarriBlawdd in Merthyr Tydfil, the eldest son of David Jones, a coal miner, and his wife Sarah Ann. He was educated at St Davids Elementary School, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. He married Laura Grimes Evans in 1908. They had four sons and one daughter.

Source: Wikipedia