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IFOR CERI - gweler JENKINS, JOHN
JENKINS, JOHN (Ifor Ceri; 1770 - 1829), cleric and antiquary eisteddfodau was held in the Ivy Bush inn, Carmarthen, on 8 and 9 July 1819; that was how the provincial eisteddfodau came into being. Ifor Ceri directed all of them until the 1829 eisteddfod at Denbigh when he opined that English influence was gradually creeping in and that they were becoming an 'Anglo-Italian farce.' He wrote articles in The Cambrian Quarterly Magazine and the Gwyliedydd. His manuscripts
JOHNES, ARTHUR JAMES (1809 - 1871), county court judge at one time his district extended from Holyhead to Hay. He devoted himself to his work with great earnestness, but his interests were by no means confined to his professional duties. He was associated with such literary clerics as Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri), and Thomas Richards, and was one of the promoters of the Cambrian Quarterly Magazine (1830-3). In 1831 he won
JONES, EZZELINA GWENHWYFAR (1921 - 2012), artist and sculptor , a joint exhibition with Seren Bell in Oriel Ceri Richards Swansea and an appearance with the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The highlight of the decade was the appearance of the bronze head of a collier. Commissioned by the Welsh Miners Museum in Afan Argoed Park in the Afan Valley and cast in a London foundry it was presented to the Museum in 1983. As the decade marched on Ezzelina produced
JONES, GWILYM CERI (1897 - 1963), minister (Presb.) and poet
JONES, JOHN (1773 - 1853), cleric Tremeirchion, 1797-99, and then in Llanyblodwel near Oswestry. While he was there he met Walter Davies, ' Gwallter Mechain ', John Jenkins, ' Ifor Ceri ' and others of the circle of 'literary parsons' and thereafter he became one of the circle. From Llanyblodwel he went to Wrexham as a curate but in 1811 he was ordained vicar of Llansilin parish. In 1819 he was appointed secretary of the Cambrian Society of
JONES, RICHARD LEWIS (1934 - 2009), poet and farmer 1960, and was followed by six other collections. Following Dic's death Ceri Wyn Jones edited a definitive collection of the poet's works, entitled Cerddi Dic yr Hendre, whilst Elsie Reynolds edited Yr un hwyl a'r un wylo, a collection of his unpublished poems, mainly of a social nature. As a poet Dic Jones preferred the traditional metres. He won the hearts and minds of a large audience, many of whom
JONES, THOMAS LLOYD (Gwenffrwd; 1810 - 1834), poet some verse translations from the English, done by him, and is dedicated to William Owen Pughe. An elegy of his on Ifor Ceri (John Jenkins, 1770 - 1829) won the prize at the Beaumaris eisteddfod of 1832. He moved from Holywell to Denbigh - it was from here that he wrote a letter to R.L. Morris, Holywell, which was published in Adgof uwch Angof, and it was there that he wrote ' Llinellau for Y
LEVY, MERVYN MONTAGUE (1914 - 1996), writer and broadcaster on the visual arts and two sons, one of whom is the documentary film maker Ceri Levy. He died in London on 14 April 1996.
teulu LLOYD Rhiwaedog, Rhiwedog, extended at Rhiwaedog to itinerating bards (clerwyr), particularly during the 16th and 17th century. Griffith Roberts (Gwrtheyrn, 1845 - 1915), Bala, gives (in two of his manuscripts, now NLW MS 7411C, NLW MS 7421B) the names of many bards who wrote poems to various members of the Rhiwaedog family and who visited the house. Amongst them are Gruffudd Hiraethog, Siôn Ceri, Bedo Hafhesp, Siôn Mawddwy, Siôn
OWEN, WILLIAM (Gwilym Ddu Glan Hafren;; 1788 - 1838), schoolmaster and musician exposition of the art of congregational singing and a collection of hymn-tunes; this book was dedicated to John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri), incumbent of Kerry, Montgomeryshire. He died 8 October 1838, and was buried at Newtown.
PAYNE, FRANCIS GEORGE (1900 - 1992), scholar and literary figure sons, Ifan and Ceri. He moved first to Rhiwbina, Cardiff, and then to a flat in St Fagans Castle when the Folk Museum was opened in 1948. During World War II he was seconded to the Art Department of the National Museum where he became familiar with the paintings of Welsh artists such as Hugh Hughes and was the first to draw attention to the work of Thomas Jones, Pencerrig, Radnorshire, in an article

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