Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GOODWIN, JOHN (1681 - 1763) North Wales, Quaker minister Born 1681, possibly the son of Thomas Goodwin (formerly of Llanidloes) who was a member of the group of Friends who worshipped at Dolobran, Montgomeryshire. He joined, c. 1708, the Friends at Llangurig, Montgomeryshire, and became an active worker, the field of his ministry extending from Llangurig to the lower slopes of Aran Benllyn, Aran Fawddwy, and Cader Idris. In his middle age he frequently
GRIFFITH, ROBERT (1847 - 1909), musician , Pandy Tudur, carpenter, and followed that trade afterwards at Llanrwst and later (soon after 1870) at Manchester, where he worked for the Lancashire and Cheshire Railway Company. At Manchester he came under the influence of Ceiriog, Idris Vychan, and R. J. Derfel; he took a prominent part in founding ' Cymdeithas Genedlaethol Cymry Manceinion ' ('Manchester Welsh National Society'). He lodged at the
HIMBURY, DAVID MERVYN (1922 - 2008), minister (Bapt) and college principal David Mervyn Himbury was born in Ystrad Mynach, Glamorganshire, on 22 July 1922. His father, Reginald Harry Himbury, had come to Wales from Rampisham in Dorset to seek work in the coal mines. He married Olwen Thomas, whose family lived in Aberystwyth; the Reverend Idris Thomas, a Baptist minister in Cefn-mawr, was her brother. Mervyn had a younger brother, John (1932-1970). Reginald Himbury was
HUGHES, JOHN (CEIRIOG) (Ceiriog; 1832 - 1887), poet Born at Pen-y-bryn, Llanarmon-Dyffryn-Ceiriog, Denbighshire, 25 September 1832 [see Hughes, John, 1796-1860]. Early in 1849 he went to Manchester where, after about three months, he obtained a situation as clerk in the London Road goods station. At that time there were in Manchester Welshmen like Creuddynfab, R. J. Derfel, Idris Fychan, Meudwy Môn, and others; four of these - Creuddynfab, R. J
IDRIS FYCHAN - see JONES, JOHN
IOAN IDRIS - see DAVIES, JOHN IDRIS
JENKINS, ROBERT THOMAS (1881 - 1969), historian, man of letters, editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig and the Dictionary of Welsh Biography heritage. He believed that he had contributed to every issue of Cofion, and his short stories appeared under the pseudonym Idris Thomas, which he also used to disguise his authorship of Ffynhonnau Elim (Llyfrau'r Dryw, 1945), where the conversation is in a south Wales dialect. His other novel was the splendid masterpiece Orinda (1943), which recreates the troubled atmosphere of the Commonwealth and
JONES, DANIEL ANGELL (1861 - 1936), botanist and authority on ferns and mosses Born 14 July 1861, in Liverpool. He was a schoolmaster at Machynlleth and Harlech. He acquired specialist knowledge of plants in Merionethshire and Caernarfonshire, and he was an acknowledged expert on British mosses. He won a prize at Blaenau Ffestiniog national eisteddfod, 1898, for an essay on the plants of Merionethshire. He rediscovered, on Cader Idris, in 1901, the plant known as hairy
JONES, DAVID STANLEY (1860 - 1919), Congregationalist minister extent that he was offered the pastorate of a small church nearby. But he preferred the Welsh ministry; and after spending some time at Cardiff University College he was ordained pastor of Porth (Rhondda) church in October 1887; there he married Florence, daughter of Idris Williams, a prominent Congregationalist at Porth; they had four children. In the summer of 1891, he accepted a call to the churches
JONES, JOHN (Idris Fychan; 1825 - 1887), shoemaker and harpist
JONES, OWEN GLYNNE (1867 - 1899), mountaineer and schoolteacher Cyfrwy on Cadair Idris alone. In Snowdonia, rock-climbing had hardly begun in earnest but in the English Lakes W.P. Haskett Smith and others had been climbing for about 3 years. Jones visited Wasdale in 1890 and came to the notice of some of the pioneers. As a result of his exceptional strength, his 'almost supernatural' climbing ability and his scientific outlook he soon excelled not only in leading
JONES, WALTER IDRIS (1900 - 1971), Director General of Research Development for the National Coal Board (NCB) Idris Jones was born 18 January 1900, son of Frederick (rollerman at a local tin-works) and Elizabeth Jones, Old Castle Road, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire. Having gained a scholarship to the University College of Wales (UCW), Aberystwyth in 1918, he graduated BSc (Chemistry, 1st class honours) in 1921, and proceeded to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (1922-26), with Rhondda and Frank Smart

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