Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig

IORWERTH FYNGLWYD (fl. c. 1480-1527), bard of S. Bride's Major, Glamorganshire. The cywyddau written in the course of a bardic controversy with Rhisiart ap Rhys Brydydd in John Stradling's house in Merthyr Mawr prove that Rhisiart ap Rhys Brydydd was Iorwerth Fynglwyd's bardic teacher. Over fifty of his compositions survive in manuscripts and there was much transcribing of them, not only by Glamorgan copyists but by scribes in North Wales
ITHEL ap RHOTPERT or ROBERT (fl. 1357-1382), archdeacon . On both sides, he was of the family which, in more modern times, has borne the surname Mostyn; his father, Rhotpert ap Iorwerth ap Rhirid, had a brother, Madog, otherwise known as ' Matthew de Englefield,' who was bishop of Bangor 1327-57 (Browne Willis, Bangor, 74-5; Le Neve, Fasti, i, 99); his mother, Adles, was cousin to Dafydd ap Bleddyn, bishop of St Asaph. Ithel is styled B.C.L. in one record
ITHEL DDU (fl. second half of 14th century), poet rather a quasi-squire, a mighty hunter and a boon companion (according to Iolo), and like the rest of his class a patron of bards. It was by his command (says Iolo) that Iolo Goch composed the very scurrilous lampoon, printed by Charles Ashton in his edition of Iolo (no. xl), upon the mother of the poet Gruffydd Gryg - see further the article on Gruffydd. An 'elegy' by Iolo, on Ithel's supposed death
JAMES, DAVID EMRYS (Dewi Emrys; 1881 - 1952), minister (Congl.), writer and poet adult education, and ' Y Bwthyn ' became the haunt of poets and writers. He was one of the masters of cerdd dafod, winning among many other prizes at the national eisteddfod the crown in Swansea, 1926 (for ' Rhigymau'r ffordd fawr'), and the chair four times - Liverpool, 1929 ('Dafydd ap Gwilym'); Llanelli, 1930 ('Y Galilead'); Bangor, 1943 ('Cymylau amser'); and Bridgend, 1948 ('Yr Alltud'). He was
JAMES, EVAN (Ieuan ap Iago, Iago ap Ieuan; 1809 - 1878), author of the words of 'Hen Wlad fy Nhadau'
JAMES, JAMES (SPINTHER) (1837 - 1914), Baptist historian , however, he displayed unbounded energy; he wrote poetry, and published collections of hymns, but his fame rests rather upon his historical work, more especially in the field of Baptist history. He contributed many articles or chapters to such works as Owen Jones's Cymru, Gweirydd ap Rhys's Hanes y Brytaniaid a'r Cymry, and Enwogion y Ffydd. With John Emlyn Jones he completed Y Parthsyllydd, 1870-5 (see
JAMES, JAMES (Iago ap Iago; 1818 - 1843), poet
JAMES, JOHN (fl. second half of the 18th century and the early part of the 19th), poet and hymnwriter
JAMES, THOMAS EVAN (Thomas ap Ieuan; 1824 - 1870), Baptist minister, and author
JENKINS, DAVID (1912 - 2002), librarian and scholar Celtic Studies (vol. 8, 1925-37, 140-5) on the personal and place-names in the poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym. The subject had been suggested to him by his teacher, T. Gwynn Jones, as one who knew the topography and place-names of the area and the result was a study that places the poet and his associations firmly in the commote of Genau'r Glyn, an important step in reclaiming the historical poet. David
JENKINS, DAVID LLOYD (1896 - 1966), writer, poet and schoolmaster Chapel where he served as the precentor and, on occasions, preached. Two of his hymns are included in the school's service book - the school hymn and the St. David's Day hymn. He married on 29 December 1929, Arianwen Elizabeth Ann (Ane), the eldest daughter of Gruffydd Thomas Lewis, the school's headmaster, and they had a daughter. He died 5 August 1966.
JENKINS, ROBERT THOMAS (1881 - 1969), historian, man of letters, editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig and the Dictionary of Welsh Biography Apêl at hanes), and from 1922 he contributed without intermission to Y Llenor until 1951. The Cardiff years were exceedingly fruitful. In 1928 there appeared a history of Wales in the 18th cent, Hanes Cymru yn y Ddeunawfed Ganrif (in the series entitled Y Brifysgol a'r Werin), which won him a secure place amongst Welsh historians, and in 1930 Yr Apêl at hanes, Ffrainc a'i Phobl and Gruffydd Jones

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