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IEUAN ap BEDO GWYN (fl. c. 1530-1590?), poet and owner of the Llysyn estate, Llanerfyl, Montgomeryshire, before its purchase by the Herbert family; descendant of one of the younger branches of the family of Neuadd Wen (a neighbouring estate), and therefore of Maredudd, brother of Gruffudd ap Cynan. A little only of his work remains, and this includes a cywydd written to Dafydd ap Ieuan Llwyd of Nantmynach, in 1538.
IEUAN ap GRUFFUDD LEIAF (fl. latter half of 15th century), poet A member of a Denbighshire family, son of Gruffudd Leiaf ap Gruffudd Fychan ap Gruffudd ap Dafydd Goch, and a descendant of Owain Gwynedd (Peniarth MS 127 (19)). Some examples of his work remain in manuscript, including cywyddau and awdlau to members of the Penrhyn and Nanconwy families, vaticinatory and religious poems, a poem on Aberconwy, a satire on the Llugwy river for hindering the poet
IEUAN ap LLYWELYN FYCHAN (bu farw 1532), poet A member of the family of Llannerch, Vale of Clwyd, and father of Gruffydd ap Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan. Some of his work remains, and this includes vaticinatory and love poems.
IEUAN DDU ap DAFYDD ab OWAIN (fl. c. 1440-1480), poet Nothing is known about him, and no proof exists for connecting him, as Iolo Morganwg does, with Ieuan Ddu, ancestor of the family of Dyffryn, Aberdare. A number of cywyddau are attributed to him in manuscript, but the only certain example of his work appears to be the cywydd to Ieuan Gethin ap Ieuan ap Lleision.
IEUAN DEULWYN (fl. c. 1460), poet Llwyd ap Gwilym of Castell Hywel, Llywelyn ap Dafydd ab Einion of Llanllawddog, and his family, Siôn ap Dafydd of Llys Newydd, and John Lewys and his father of Prysaddfed in Anglesey. He composed religious and love poetry, and also one poem of controversy, or ymryson, addressed to Bedo Brwynllys; Ieuan was himself a keen Yorkist, and he accused Bedo of being hypocritical in this matter. An elegy
IEUAN FYCHAN ap IEUAN ab ADDA (bu farw c. 1458), poet An ancestor of the family associated with Mostyn Hall, Flintshire. Ieuan Fychan lived at Pengwern, Denbighshire, before he married Angharad, heiress of Mostyn. Lord Mostyn and T. A. Glenn, in their History of the Family of Mostyn of Mostyn (London, 1925), give some details about the career of Ieuan Fychan; e.g. he was an esquire in the retinue of Thomas Fitz Alan, earl of Arundel and lord of
IEUAN GETHIN ap IEUAN ap LLEISION (fl. c. 1450) Baglan, poet and gentleman A descendant of the family of Caradog ap Iestyn ap Gwrgant. According to some genealogists (e.g. Gruffudd Hiraethog in Peniarth MS 178, i (43)) he married the daughter of Tomas ab Ifor Hael. Bards from North and South Wales were entertained at his court at Baglan, and two cywyddau addressed to him remain in manuscript, one by Ieuan Ddu ap Dafydd ab Owain, and the other by Iorwerth Fynglwyd. A
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
IEUAN TUDUR OWEN (fl. c. 1627), poet Nothing is known of his life. Some of his work remains in manuscript, and this includes religious and moral cywyddau and englynion, a cywydd describing a dream the poet had when drunk, a cywydd on the palsy, and a cywydd of praise to Huw Nannau (1580 - 1620, see the article on the family) when the latter became sheriff. In addition to this poetry written in strict metre, one of his poems in free
ILLINGWORTH, LESLIE GILBERT (1902 - 1979), political cartoonist Leslie Illingworth was born on 2 September 1902 in Harbour Road, Barry, the youngest son of Richard Illingworth, a quantity surveyor from Cheshire, and his wife Helen (née MacGregor), a teacher from Yorkshire. Uncle Frank Illingworth was a minor cartoonist who published in Punch in 1914. The family moved in 1904 to Cadoxton, where Illingworth attended Palmerston Road Infants School. In 1912 they
INSOLE, GEORGE (1790 - 1851), colliery proprietor George Frederick (1836-1837). George Insole worked as a carpenter/cabinet-maker in Worcester until at least 1825, and then, assisted by family loans and inheritances, he moved to Cardiff, Glamorganshire in 1828, and by 1829 was trading in bricks, timber and coal, in partnership with Richard Biddle (1799-1896). In 1830 he was developing markets for house coal along the Severn estuary coasts and in
INSOLE, JAMES HARVEY (1821 - 1901), colliery proprietor James Harvey Insole was born in Worcester on 30 April 1821. He was the second of six children of George Insole (1790-1851) who was then a Worcester carpenter and later a South Wales colliery proprietor, and his wife Mary (née Finch, 1791-1866). In 1828, the family moved to Cardiff, Glamorganshire, and James attended schools there and in Melksham, Wiltshire. Upon reaching his majority in 1842, he

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