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JAMES, DANIEL (Gwyrosydd; 1847 - 1920), poet Morgannwg (D. W. Jones), he began to write verse over the pseudonym Dafydd Mynyddbach, but at D. W. Jones's suggestion he later assumed the name Gwyrosydd. His lyrics, and his pieces for recitation, became very well known. In his middle age the Landore works closed down, and he found work successively at Tredegar, Dowlais, and then Blaengarw by 1891, and eventually (for twenty years) Mountain Ash
JAMES, DAVID (Dewi o Ddyfed; 1803 - 1871), cleric and author Character of the Rite of Confirmation (2nd ed. 1851). Thomas James (Llallawg) was a brother, and H. A. James was his son.
JAMES, DAVID (1863 - 1929), Rugby football players brothers who were the most brilliant pair of half-backs of their day and rendered invaluable service to Welsh Rugby football. They were the great initiators of the half-back tactics which were developed and improved by R. M. Owen, Richard Jones, and W. J. Trew. In 1892 they went North and became professionals. They later returned to Wales, were reinstated, and subsequently figured in the Swansea
JAMES, DAVID (Defynnog; 1865 - 1928), schoolmaster, educationist, organiser of summer schools, and author Born 17 August 1865 in Libanus in the parish of Defynnog, Brecknockshire. He was the son of David James, Baptist minister and his wife Mary, sister of ' Myfyr Emlyn ' (Benjamin Thomas), the poet-preacher. They had four sons and four daughters. Defynnog was educated in Cynwyl Elfed, Carmarthenshire, and Dinas, Pembrokeshire, where his father was minister. He was intent on becoming a teacher, and
JAMES, DAVID EMRYS (Dewi Emrys; 1881 - 1952), minister (Congl.), writer and poet Born 26 May 1881 at Majorca House, New Quay, Cardiganshire, son of Thomas Emrys James, a Congl. minister in Llandudno at the time, and Mary Ellen (née Jones), his wife, the daughter of a master mariner. The mother returned to New Quay to give birth to the child who was named David Edward, but the name Emrys was adopted later. When he was 7 years old his father received a call to be pastor of
JAMES, Sir DAVID JOHN (1887 - 1967), businessman and philanthropist Born 13 May 1887 in London, one of the two sons of Cathryn (née Thomas) and John James. The family returned to the old home in Pantyfedwen, Pontrhydfendigaid, Cardiganshire when the boys were young. In 1903 David John went to St. John's College, Ystrad Meurig, to prepare for the ministry but remained there for one term only. He returned to London to run the family dairy business and spent the
JAMES, ISAAC (1766 - 1840), Calvinistic Methodist preacher Born in Cardiganshire, either in the parish of Lledrod or in that of Llanilar; his father, Richard James (on whom see Methodistiaeth Cymru ii, 56-7), was a shoemaker. Married at 17, the son moved to Pen-y-garn, and there began to preach. His sermons and prayers, full of striking remarks, were greatly appreciated by such men as Ebenezer Richard, Evan Harris, and Richard Jones of Wern; and Henry
JAMES, IVOR (1840? - 1909), first registrar of the University of Wales researcher and the scholar. He believed that the hero of S. T. Coleridge's poem, 'The Ancient Mariner,' was a Welshman, Captain Thomas James (D.N.B.), and published (Cardiff, 1890), The Source of the Ancient Mariner. He devoted special attention to a study of the history, literature, religion, and education in the Wales of the 16th and 17th century, and published in 1887 a pamphlet The Welsh Language in
JAMES, JAMES (SPINTHER) (1837 - 1914), Baptist historian . At Aberdare, he threw himself into the literary activities fostered by his minister Thomas Price (1820 - 1888); but it was at Tal-y-bont, during a period of unemployment in the Aberdare mines, that he began to preach. In 1859 he went to Haverfordwest Baptist College; in 1861 he was ordained minister at Llanelian, Denbighshire; he built chapels at Old Colwyn and Llanddulas, and married Elizabeth
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, JOHN (1779 - 1864), the first Unitarian minister in Cardiganshire, and schoolmaster 1824 he published a translation, Ymofyniad tawel i'r Athrawiaeth Ysgrythurol am Berson Crist, of a work by Thomas Belsham. He died 1 September 1864 at the age of 85 and was buried in Pantydefaid cemetery.
JAMES, JOHN (1777 - 1848), Baptist minister, hymn writer, bookbinder, and printer Born at Aberystwyth 29 August 1777, the eldest of eight children of James David John and Elizabeth Jones. He was baptized there on 27 March 1796, and became a member of Bethel church. He was apprenticed to a shoemaker, but started to preach in September 1799, and after a course of study of some months at Cardigan and Aberystwyth, he became co-pastor, with Samuel Breeze, of Bethel church and its

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