Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, JAMES (Iago ap Dewi; 1800 - 1869), printer and poet Thomas (Gwilym Mai, 1807 - 1872), and together they developed their knowledge of cynghanedd and of the free metres. About 1840 Davies left Carmarthen to join Josiah Thomas Jones's printing office at Cowbridge, and for the rest of his life remained a faithful and trustworthy printer with J. T. Jones, removing with him to Carmarthen in 1842, and to Aberdare in 1854. He was a constant competitor in
DEWI MAI o FEIRION - see ROBERTS, DAVID JOHN
GWILYM MAI - see THOMAS, WILLIAM
HARKER, EDWARD (Isnant; 1866 - 1969), quarryman, poet and preacher (Congl.) three weeks of formal schooling at the British School, Llanrwst, before going to work in the leadmines when he was nine. His father took an interest in writing poetry and he was a neighbour and friend of the poet-tailor Trebor Mai (Robert Williams, 1830 - 1877 and it was said that he made Isnant's first suit. However he died when Isnant was 11 so it is unlikely that he had any great influence on the
IOAN MAI - see WILLIAMS, JOHN
JONES, DAVID HUGH (Dewi Arfon; 1833 - 1869), minister (CM), schoolmaster and poet a teacher in the British School, Llanrwst. He became a close friend of Trebor Mai (Robert Williams) and other local poets. While in Llanrwst he became interested in poetry. He was the teacher when John Lloyd Williams, musician and botanist, was a pupil there. Towards the end of this period, he began to preach. However, it was in Capel Coch, Llanberis, in 1861, that he was officially accepted by
JONES, GLADYS MAY (1899 - 1960), pianist, composer and producer of light programmes on radio
JONES, HERMAN (1915 - 1964), minister (Congl.) and poet was published (1967). On 14 August 1946 he married Ffion Mai, daughter of David Thomas, Bangor (1880 - 1967), and they had two sons.
JONES, MAI - see JONES, GLADYS MAY
JOSHUA, SETH (1858 - 1925), minister (Presb.) Born 10 April 1858 in Ty Capel, Trosnant Uchaf, Pontypool, Monmouth, son of George Joshua and Mary (née Walden) his wife. He married Mary Rees, Llantrisant, in Neath, Glamorganshire, 23 September 1883, and they had eight children (one son, Peter, was a minister and a popular evangelist in America; another son, Lyn, was responsible with Mai Jones for the radio programme ' We'll keep a welcome in
MORGAN, WILLIAM (JOHN) (Penfro; 1846 - 1918), cleric, eisteddfodwr, and hymn-writer englynwr, Trebor Mai, but also with the eccentric Gwilym Cowlyd, whose 'opposition' eisteddfodau on the shores of lake Geirionydd he frequented - indeed, Penfro never became acclimatized in the 'orthodox' national eisteddfod, although in later years he was a prominent figure in the provincial Powys eisteddfod. From 1875 till 1878 he was curate at S. Asaph, where he acquired some repute as a preacher. In
PHILIPPS, OWEN COSBY (Baron Kylsant), (1863 - 1937), ship-owner did not stand at the December 1910 election. He left the Liberal Party and stood in 1916, unopposed, as the Conservative candidate in the Chester constituency, which he held at a contested election in 1918. Philipps strengthened his links with Wales when he married Mai Alice Magdalene Morris of Coomb, Llangynog, Carmarthenshire on 16 September 1902; Mai Morris inherited 5000 acres and around

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