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JAMES, DANIEL (Gwyrosydd; 1847 - 1920), poet - fifteen years in one of Nixon's collieries, and then (in failing health) under the local authority. He returned to Morriston in 1918 to live with his daughter and son-in-law, died there 11 March 1920, and was buried at Mynydd-bach; a memorial tablet was placed on the Tre-boeth Public Hall in 1936. He was twice married, to Ann Hopkin, and then to a widow, Gwenllian Parry (née Morgan), in Swansea in 1888
JAMES, DAVID (Defynnog; 1865 - 1928), schoolmaster, educationist, organiser of summer schools, and author ill-health. He supported the establishment of a Secretaryship of State for Wales. He died on 1 December 1928 in Swansea and was buried in Llethr Ddu cemetery, Porth, Rhondda. The newspapers were loud in praise of his kindness, generosity, dedication and zeal for the Welsh language. He married Sarah Harries and they had one son. After her death he married Sarah Williams on 7 August 1920, a widow with
JAMES, EDWARD (1569? - 1610?), cleric and translator another by Nicander (Morris Williams) in 1847. As there are no extant Llandaff diocesan records of this period, the date of James's death is not known; J. C. Morrice gives it as 1610, but no successor was appointed until 1620 (D. R. Phillips, Hist. of the Vale of Neath, 76).
JAMES, JAMES (Iago ap Iago; 1818 - 1843), poet brother, Morgan James, wrote a short biography of him and collected his poetical works, in a volume edited by I. Jenkins, and published by Thomas Williams, Crickhowell, in 1844.
JAMES, ROBERT (Jeduthyn; 1825 - 1879), musician anthems were popular in the Merthyr area. One of his tunes, ' Aberafan,' is to be found in Rosser Beynon's Telyn Seion. In 1853 he married Ann Parry, sister of Joseph Parry (1841 - 1903), but she died in 1855. In 1857 he went to Australia where he lived for five years. Returning to Wales, he spent six months organizing a series of concerts. He then emigrated for the second time, this time to the U.S.A
JAMES, THOMAS (1834 - 1915), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and schoolmaster Born at Verwick near Cardigan; his father (a blacksmith) was an Anglican, his mother a Calvinistic Methodist. At about 20, desiring to enter the ministry, he went to a school at Blaenannerch nearby, and thence (1858) to Trevecka. In 1862 he won a Dr. Daniel Williams scholarship, which took him to Glasgow, where he graduated in 1866. After spending some months at Edinburgh, he returned in 1867 to
JAMES, THOMAS (bu farw 1751), early Methodist exhorter - some of his reports on these are printed in Methodistiaeth Cymru, i, 165, iii, 315, 331. Howel Harris in his diaries often mentions James, and the Trevecka collection (N.L.W.) contains ten letters of James's to Harris, a letter of his to Harris's future wife, and one to Whitefield, together with seventeen letters from Harris to James, and one from Anne Williams (Harris) to him; the correspondence
JAMES, THOMAS DAVIES (Iago Erfyl; 1862 - 1927), clergyman, and popular preacher and lecturer evening 7 August, when a memorial service was held in Llanerfyl church, every chapel and church in the vale of Banw was closed. In his funeral sermon the Reverend Canon J.R. Roberts, Llanfihangel (son of Ellis Roberts, ' Elis Wyn o Wyrfai') declared that he deserved to be reckoned among the chief stalwarts of the pulpit in Wales, together with the likes of John Elias and 'Williams o'r Wern ' (William
JARMAN, ALFRED OWEN HUGHES (1911 - 1998), Welsh scholar 1936. He was an extra-mural tutor on a year by year contract in Bangor between 1936 and 1946 when he was appointed lecturer in the Welsh department of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff. He was subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer and in 1957 he was appointed to the chair of Welsh and Head of department in succession to G. J. Williams. He was Dean of the Faculty of
JARMAN, ELDRA MARY (1917 - 2000), harpist and author a style which reflected her family's history of six generations of harpists. Specific names to the tunes which she played were rare, and as an accompanist she made use of improvisatory methods. Her work with Bryn-mawr Dancers, a group founded by Jessie and Hector Williams in 1952, for instance, saw her play a string of tunes until she fell on one which suited the dancers' needs, since neither she
JEFFREYS, GEORGE (1st baron Jeffreys of Wem), (1645 - 1689), judge point of making him viscount Wrexham and earl of Flint (October 1685). On 26 March 1688 he had the distasteful duty of conveying to his old rival Williams (now solicitor general) royal orders to suggest names of local Dissenters suitable to serve as magistrates - a preliminary step towards the issue of the Declaration of Indulgence nine days later. He finally surrendered the Great Seal (which James
JEFFREYS, JOHN (1718? - 1798), musician Born at Llanynys, Denbighshire, c. 1718. A contemporary of John Williams (Ioan Rhagfyr), he was a good musician. His hymn-tune ' Hero ' appeared in Haleliwia Drachefn (G. Harries) and a ' Traethdon ' (chant) in Y Cerddor Cymreig, August 1867; he is better known, however, for the hymn-tune called ' Dyfrdwy.' He died in 1798.

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