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INSOLE, JAMES HARVEY (1821 - 1901), colliery proprietor had been a director since its formation in 1856, opened the new dock at Penarth to by-pass the congestion besetting the Bute docks. In 1866 James was elected as the inaugural President of the Cardiff Chamber of Commerce, and he became a magistrate for the county in the following year. During the 1870s James withdrew from business in favour of his sons, but promoted an employee, William Henry Lewis
IORWERTH ap MADOG (fl. 1240?-1268?), jurist cognate of the family which later became known as the Glyn family of Glynllifon, Caernarfonshire, and which in later days produced lawyers of some note. Iorwerth's family connections have been carefully investigated in N.L.W. Jnl. (see reference below). Even before his time, the family had been prominent in law and administration; for example, Iorwerth's grandfather's cousin, CYFNERTH (fl. c. 1210), was
IORWERTH FYNGLWYD (fl. c. 1480-1527), bard cywyddau were among the most popular in Wales in the 16th century, and quotations from them are given in John Davies's collection of notable lines from the works of the bards, in his Flores Poetarum Britannicorum (first published in 1710). Iolo Morganwg sought to make Iorwerth Fynglwyd a famous stonemason, one of the ancestors of those alleged stonemasons, Richard and William Twrch, by whom, he
ISAAC, DAVID LLOYD (1818 - 1876), cleric and author students. In 1838 he became pastor at Neath, and founded new churches at Aberdylais, Glyn Neath, and Pontardawe; he also initiated a Cymreigyddion Society at Neath. But internal disputes arose, and Isaac was also suspected of unorthodoxy (D. R. Phillips, Hist. of the Vale of Neath, 155), so in 1841 he moved to Trosnant church in Pontypool. His career there was stormy (Bradney, Monmouthshire, I, ii, 455
JACOB, WILLIAM (1777 - 1845), musician
JAMES, ANGHARAD (fl. 1680?-1730?), poet that when she was 20 years of age she married William Prichard who was then aged 60. John Jones of Tal-y-sarn (1796 - 1857) was her great-grandson through her eldest daughter Catherine, and her great-great-grandson through her youngest daughter Gwen. One of her poems takes the form of a dialogue between her and her sister Margared as to the choice of a husband, the one advocating the choosing of a
JAMES, CHARLES HERBERT (1817 - 1890), M.P. Born 16 June 1817, youngest son of William James, maltster, of Merthyr Tydfil, who was a brother of Christopher James (see James, Sir William Milbourne). He was educated at Taliesin Williams's school at Merthyr and at Goulstone's boarding school, Bristol (1830-2). On leaving school he was articled to William Perkins (afterwards his partner) and admitted solicitor in 1838. He married Sarah
JAMES, DAVID EMRYS (Dewi Emrys; 1881 - 1952), minister (Congl.), writer and poet to the Presbyterian College in 1903. He served for a short while in the Welsh Free Church, Liverpool, founded by William Owen Jones, before accepting a call to Bryn Seion, Dowlais, in 1907. In 1908 he went to the English church in Buckley, Flintshire. In July of that year he married Cissie Jenkins in the English Congl. chapel in Carmarthen. He moved again in 1911 to Gelliwastad English church
JAMES, EDWARD (1839 - 1904), Congregational minister Born at Llanfachraeth, Anglesey, 12 June 1839, the eldest child of John and Margaret James, and brother of O. Waldo James. He became a member at Bodedern in 1853, and started to preach at Tabernacle, Holyhead, in 1858, under the ministry of William Griffith. In 1859, at the request of his intimate friend William Ambrose (Emrys), Portmadoc, he moved to Gorseddau, near Penmorfa, to conduct
JAMES, EVAN (Ieuan ap Iago, Iago ap Ieuan; 1809 - 1878), author of the words of 'Hen Wlad fy Nhadau' Pontypridd) and Mountain Ash; he also lived for a time with his son at the Swan Hotel, Aberaman. He died 11 January 1902 at 6 Hawthorne Terrace, Aberdare, and was buried in the Aberdare cemetery. A memorial to father and son, the work of Sir William Goscombe John, R.A., was unveiled in Ynysangharad Park, Pontypridd, 23 July 1930.
JAMES, FRANK TREHARNE (1861 - 1942), solicitor, art connoisseur Merthyr Museum Committee. He became a M.B.E. in 1919. He died on 15 February 1942. A bronze bust of him, by Sir William Goscombe John, is in the National Museum of Wales.
JAMES, ISAAC (1766 - 1840), Calvinistic Methodist preacher Rees averred that he was 'a great preacher, though few thought so'. He died, aged 74, 14 April 1840, and was buried at Llanfihangel-genau'r-glyn.

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