Dictionary of Welsh Biography

IOLO GOCH (c. 1325 - c. 1400), poet are in his own hand. Iolo Goch received patronage from churchmen of the diocese of St Asaph's throughout his career, including two bishops, Dafydd ap Bleddyn in the 1340s and Ieuan Trefor in the 1390s, Archdeacon Ithel ap Robert and Dean Hywel Cyffin. Other prominent patrons of his were the Penmynydd family (see Ednyfed Fychan) in Anglesey, Sir Hywel y Fwyall, constable of Cricieth Castle, and Owain
IOLO GOCH (c. 1320 - c. 1398), poet to Iolo in the manuscripts the oldest which can be dated is the awdl to Dafydd ap Bleddyn, bishop of St Asaph from 1314 to 1346, and one of the latest is the cywydd to Ieuan Trevor II, bishop of St Asaph, composed, in all probability, in 1397. Between these two poles we can trace the following cywyddau written by him: panegyric upon Edward III, end of 1347; elegy upon Sir Rhys ap Gruffydd who died
JAMES, EVAN (Ieuan ap Iago, Iago ap Ieuan; 1809 - 1878), author of the words of 'Hen Wlad fy Nhadau'
JAMES, THOMAS EVAN (Thomas ap Ieuan; 1824 - 1870), Baptist minister, and author
JEFFREYS, THOMAS TWYNOG (1844 - 1911), poet his house for more than fifteen years before his death, on his birthday, in 1911. He published in 1904 a small volume of his poetry, Tannau Twynog; and in 1911 a memorial volume, Twynog, appeared, edited by Dyfed (Evan Rees). Thomas Ieuan Jeffreys-Jones was his grandson.
JEFFREYS-JONES, THOMAS IEUAN (1909 - 1967), scholar, lecturer, and warden of Coleg Harlech
JENKIN, JOHN (Ioan Siengcin; 1716 - 1796), poet and schoolmaster was greatly influenced by the Gramadeg of John Roderick. He addressed poems both in the classical and in the free metres, to the gentry and, more particularly, to his patron, Thomas Lloyd of Cwm-gloyn. He visited the Llanidloes eisteddfod, 1772, and made the arrangements for the Cardigan eisteddfod, 1773. He knew Ieuan Brydydd Hir (Evan Evans, 1731 - 1788) and wrote an englyn intended for Lewis
JENKINS, JOHN (1821 - 1896), editor and translator Reform, 1845; National Education, 1848; The Laws Relating to Religious Liberty, 1880; The Laws Concerning Religious Worship, 1885. His paper on ' The Feudal System ' was printed in the second edition of Ieuan Brydydd Hir, Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards. Translated into English, with Notes (Llanidloes, O. Mills, 1862). In 1873 Jenkins published his translations of Welsh poetry
JONES family Llwyn-rhys, added at right angles to the house to serve, it is said, as the meeting house. Preaching continued there until 19 October 1735. The house became an irreparable ruin about 1918. John Jones (1640? - 1722) traced his descent, through his father, John ap Ieuan Lloyd, from the Clements, lords of Caron, and through his mother, Angharad, daughter of Ieuan ap Thomas, from Rhydderch of Glyn Aeron (Golden Grove
JONES, DAVID (c. 1630 - 1704?), Puritan Ieuan Gwyn Vaughan of Moelifor, Llanrhystyd, and widow of Ernestus Musgrave of Llanina. They had one daughter, Anne, wife of Philip Pugh of Hendre, Blaenpennal (died 1687); Philip Pugh (1679 - 1760), another of the Cilgwyn ministers, was therefore David Jones's grandson.
JONES, DAVID (Dafydd Brydydd Hir, Dafydd Siôn Pirs; 1732 - 1782?), poet, tailor, and schoolmaster Christened 29 October 1732, son of John Pierce and his wife Anne who kept the 'Harp' inn at Llanfair-talhaearn, Denbighshire. The poet Talhaiarn quotes David Jones's self-portrait: 'long, lanky, hirsute, and thirsty.' He was the boon-companion of Ieuan Fardd when Ieuan was curate of Llanfair; other cronies of his were Robert Thomas and John Powel - according to Additional Letters of the Morrises
JONES, EDMUND (1702 - 1793), Independent minister, and author devoid of poetic feeling but an incessant recorder and chronicler of religious developments, and his name recurs in almost every work dealing with 18th century Wales. An excellent article on him appeared in Yr Adolygydd, 1850, by Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd), reprinted later in his collected works.

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