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IEUAN LLWYD ab Y GARGAM (fl. 14th century), poet One of the last of the 'Gogynfeirdd.' No details of his career are known, but an awdl composed by him to Hopcyn ap Tomas of Ynysdawy, Glamorganshire, is preserved in the 'Red Book of Hergest' and some other manuscripts. It is also contained in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, but there the poet's name is given as Iorwerth Llwyd ab y Gargam.
IEUAN LLWYD BRYDYDD (fl. c. 1460-1490), poet some examples of whose work remain in manuscript. These include an elegiac cywydd to Ifan ap Tudur ap Gruffudd Llwyd of Henllan parish, Denbighshire, a cywydd to Hywel Coetmor, and a 'blind man's cywydd.' His work is found in the following manuscripts: Brogyntyn MS 2; NLW MS 552B, NLW MS 644B, NLW MS 6471B, NLW MS 6495D, NLW MS 6681B, NLW MS 9166B; Wynnstay MS. 1. According to Cymru (O.J.) this
IEUAN LLWYD SIEFFRAI (fl. c. 1599-1619), poet Born in 1575, son and heir of Sieffrai ab Ieuan Llwyd, Dyffryn Ereithlyn, Eglwys-bach, Denbighshire, of the Lloyd family of Hafod Unnos. On 12 July 1591, at Llandrillo church, Meironnydd, when he was 16 years old and she only 11, he married Margred, daughter and sole heiress of Morus ap Siôn ab Elis of Palau. They had ten daughters and two sons, some born at Palau and others at Dyffryn. The
IOLO GOCH (c. 1325 - c. 1400), poet poem to king Edward III. But a poem in the form of a dialogue between his body and his soul maps out a bardic circuit to the south-west of the country naming a number of patrons there, including the abbots of Whitland and Strata Florida and Rhydderch ab Ieuan Llwyd. Iolo Goch was one of a group of poets who were the first to employ the cywydd metre, and his elegy to Dafydd ap Gwilym, about 1350
IORWERTH LLWYD ab Y GARGAM - gweler IEUAN LLWYD ab Y GARGAM
ISAAC, DAVID LLOYD (1818 - 1876), cleric and author industrious (though unsystematic and uncritical) writer on history, antiquities, and philology. When a Baptist, he wrote much in Seren Gomer; as an Anglican, even in his Lampeter days, he was a voluminous contributor to Yr Haul - one may specify his articles on antiquities (Haul, 1854-5) and on the translators of the Bible (ibid., 1856), and the miscellany ' Llyfrgell Llwyd o Langathen ' (ibid., 1858-9); he
ISAAC, EVAN (1865 - 1938), Wesleyan minister retirement fifteen years later. He was elected president of the Wesleyan assembly (1917) and, in this capacity, went as a delegate to the conferences of the Ecumenical Methodists held at Toronto. He was elected a member of the Legal Hundred of his denomination (1917). He published Prif Emynwyr Cymru, Yr Hen Gyrnol, Coelion Cymru, Humphrey Jones a Diwygiad '59, and ' Daniel Owen,' a series of twelve
JAMES, JAMES (SPINTHER) (1837 - 1914), Baptist historian Born in April 1837 at Braichgarw, Tal-y-bont, Cardiganshire, second son of Humphrey and Catherine James; the family removed, in his childhood, to Bwlch-y-dderwen at some distance, but retained their Baptist membership at Tal-y-bont, where James James (the 'Spinther' came later on) was baptized at 13. Before he migrated (1854) to a colliery at Aberdare, he was a shepherd-boy and a cattle drover
JENKINS, JENKIN (bu farw 1780), tutor of Carmarthen Academy Nothing is known of his origins or indeed of his career before he entered the Academy at Llwyn-llwyd under Vavasor Griffiths - for that matter, we do not even know when he went there; again, as he did not accompany the Academy when it migrated to Haverfordwest (1741), we are in the dark as to his further education - it is believed that he went to Scotland. But in 1747 (according to the Cilgwyn
JOHN ap JOHN (1625? - 1697), the apostle of the Quakers in Wales Called Siôn ap Siôn by Ellis Pugh in his Annerch i'r Cymru (1721); born at Pen-y-cefn in the township of Coed Cristionydd, Ruabon. He joined the Puritans in the days of the Commonwealth and became a member of the congregation at Wrexham which was under the care of Morgan Llwyd. On 21 July 1653 he and another man journeyed on Morgan Llwyd's behalf to Swarthmore, Lancashire, to meet George Fox, the
JONES, DAVID RICHARD (1832 - 1916), poet D.R. Jones to be a good poet. Before this the author had published Hanes Bywyd yr 'Hen Sion Llwyd' (Cambria, Wisconsin, 1897), whilst ' Rhiangerdd Mona'r Gelli,' (which had taken the prize at an eisteddfod in Cambria) appeared in Y Drych, 30 July and 6 August 1903, and a poem ' Yr Ysgrwd yn y Gilgell ' in the same newspaper on 24 July 1902.
JONES, DILLWYN OWEN PATON (1923 - 1984), jazz pianist local concerts in the evenings. During service in the Navy between 1942 and 1946 he was given the opportunity of performing on the Armed Forces' network. In 1946 he enrolled at Trinity College of Music London to study piano and organ and the following year joined a band led by the drummer Carlo Krahmer, where he played alongside Duncan White and Humphrey Lyttleton. He played at the first Jazz Festival

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