Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUW MACHNO (fl. 1585-1637), poet MS 727D, which contains much of his own poetry. He gave this book to Evan Lloyd of Dulasau, father of Sir Richard Lloyd, 1606 - 1676. Among elegies composed by him are poems on the death of Katherine of Berain, 1591, John Tudur, 1602, bishop William Morgan, 1604, Siôn Phylip, 1620, and Thomas Prys of Plas Iolyn, 1634. He had at least three children, Owain (who died 1619, aged eleven, when his
HUW PENNANT Syr (fl. second half of the 15th century), cleric, poet, and antiquary Son of David Pennant of Bychton near Holywell, Flintshire, and brother of Thomas Pennant, abbot of Basingwerk. Some of his poems, all vaticinatory, exist in manuscript. Peniarth MS 182, written by 'Syr' Huw himself c. 1514, includes, among other items, genealogies, poetry, and his Welsh translation of the Latin text of a life of S. Ursula.
HUW, THOMAS (fl. c. 1574-1606), poet
HUXLEY, THOMAS (fl. 1765-1788), printer
HYWEL DDA (d. 950), king and legislator according to the classification of A. W. Wade-Evans) is the one which has preserved most accurately the contents and the arrangement of the original. This 'code' and some other manuscripts mention Blegywryd as the man chosen by the king with 'twelve of his wisest lieges to determine and expound to him and his kingdom the laws and customs in their perfection and as near as may be to truth and justice
IEUAN ap HUW CAE LLWYD (fl. 1475-1500), one of the minor poets of the 15th century son of Huw Cae Llwyd, born in all probability in Brecknock. He did not write much in the way of poetry and, as he himself avers, laid ho claim to being a great poet. In 1475 he accompanied his father to Rome. He sang the praises of Sir Thomas Vaughan, but it is obvious that his poems are, for the most part, mere exercises and that he was not as competent a poet as his father.
IEUAN ap RHYS ap LLYWELYN (fl. beginning of 16th century), poet At least two examples of his work are preserved in manuscripts, these being a poem written, apparently, on an outbreak of smallpox, and another addressed to Sir Rhys ap Thomas of Dynevor.
IEUAN FYCHAN ap IEUAN ab ADDA (d. 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 RUDD (fl. 1470), a Glamorgan bard who sang in the second half of the 15th century. Two cywyddau by him survive, the one upon the marriage-feast of Sir Rhys ap Thomas and Sioned (Janet), daughter of Thomas Mathew of Radyr, Glamorganshire, and the other to the 'paderau main crisial' (the crystal paternosters). There is a reference to him in a cywydd which Llywelyn Goch y Dant wrote c. 1470 to invite Hywel ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys
INSOLE, GEORGE (1790 - 1851), colliery proprietor Ireland. In the same year, he pioneered the introduction of South Wales steam coal, in particular Waun Wyllt steam coal from Robert Thomas's mine at Abercanaid, Glamorganshire (see Lewis, Sir William Thomas), to the London market where Tyneside coal had held sway since Tudor times. After the partners were bankrupted in 1831, George received another family inheritance and set up at the mouth of the
IORWERTH FYNGLWYD (fl. c. 1480-1527), bard Thomas where he met Tudur Aled. His elegy was sung by Lewis Morgannwg, son of his old bardic teacher. He himself was the father of Rhisiart Iorwerth (or Rhisiart Fynglwyd), one of the most important Glamorgan bards of about the middle of the 16th century. Iorwerth Fynglwyd can be regarded as the greatest of the Glamorgan cywyddwyr. He was master of the conventional eulogy as practised by the bards
ITHEL ap RHOTPERT or ROBERT (fl. 1357-1382), archdeacon ; but nothing is known of him before 1357, when the chapter of Bangor elected him bishop in succession to his uncle - the pope, however, quashed the election, and 'provided' otherwise. Ithel was canon of Bangor and a 'portioner' of Llanynys in the vale of Clwyd. In 1375 he petitioned the pope for a canonry at S. Asaph, to be held along with his Bangor preferments, and succeeded (Thomas, A History of

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