Dictionary of Welsh Biography

IDWAL ab IDWAL FOEL - see IEUAF ab IDWAL FOEL
IDWAL ap MEURIG (d. 996), prince of Gwynedd Son of Meurig ab Idwal Foel. He died in exile during the period of Maredudd ab Owain's hegemony over Gwynedd. His son, Iago, later became king of Gwynedd.
IDWAL FOEL (d. 942), king of Gwynedd
IEUAF (or IDWAL) ab IDWAL FOEL (d. 985), joint king of Gwynedd For an outline of his life see under Iago ab Idwal. He died in captivity. Two sons, Hywel ap Ieuaf and Cadwallon were, later, kings in Gwynedd.
JENKINS, EVAN (1895 - 1959), poet for military service during World War I but apparently worked in a munitions factory. In 1919 he went to the University College, Aberystwyth and graduated B.A. in 1921. It is said in Cofiant Idwal Jones, by D. Gwenallt Jones (D. James Jones ' Gwenallt '), that he and Philip Beddoe Jones, composed cywyddau in a poetic contention when they were students of T. Gwynn Jones. He taught for a period in
JONES, DAVID JAMES (Gwenallt; 1899 - 1968), poet, critic and scholar spent two years from June 1917 to May 1919, in Wormwood Scrubs and Dartmoor prisons. He went to the University College of Wales Aberystwyth in 1919, at a particularly brilliant time in the social life of that institution. He met there Idwal Jones whose biography he wrote in 1958. Following his degrees in Welsh and in English he was appointed Welsh master at Barry County School and then in 1927
JONES, GWILYM EIRWYN (EIRWYN PONTSHÂN; 1922 - 1994), carpenter, entertainer, nationalist failed his medical examination and became a coalminer in the Cross Hands area. In 1947 he married Elizabeth Mary Thomas from Trisant. They had two children, a daughter Blodeuwedd and a son Idwal who became a carpenter like his father. The former was named in tribute to Saunders Lewis and the latter after another hero, the author and comedian Idwal Jones. The couple lived for a while in two rooms in a
JONES, IDWAL (1899 - 1966), educationist and university professor
JONES, IDWAL - see JONES, RICHARD IDWAL MERVYN
JONES, JAMES IDWAL (1900 - 1982), headteacher and Labour politician
JONES, RICHARD IDWAL MERVYN (1895 - 1937), schoolmaster, poet, and dramatist March 1919. He entered the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in the autumn of 1919, and graduated three years later with second class honours in English. Afterwards he was a schoolmaster at Devil's Bridge and, later, tutor of extra-mural classes conducted under the auspices of Aberystwyth College. Idwal Jones contributed to such journals as Y Llwyfan, Y Ford Gron, Welsh Outlook, Manchester
JONES, THOMAS WILLIAM (Baron Maelor of Rhos), (1898 - 1984), Labour politician He was born at Ponciau on 10 February 1898, the son of James Jones and Elizabeth Bowyer. He was a brother to James Idwal Jones MP (1900-1982). He received his early education at Ponciau Boys' School and began work as a coalminer at the Bersham colliery at fourteen years of age, earning just twelve shillings a week. He thus followed in the footsteps of his father. It was this background which made

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