Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, ROYSTON JOHN (BARON ISLWYN), (1925 - 2003), politician have to select a candidate. Alan Howarth, the Conservative member for Stratford-on-Avon who had joined the Labour Party, stood at Newport East and won the seat. The name 'Hughes' was already used as a title by a number of peers and Roy Hughes decided to be known, as Baron Islwyn, of Casnewydd in the county of Gwent, as a homage to Mynyddislwyn overlooking his childhood home. He was one of a small
ISLWYN - see THOMAS, WILLIAM
ISLWYN, Baron - see HUGHES, ROYSTON JOHN
JAMES, THOMAS (1827 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister . He was minister of 'Capel Newydd,' Llanelly, until his death. He was a frequent contributor to the Drysorfa and the Cylchgrawn and was for some time joint editor of the latter with Edward Matthews and Islwyn. He was a powerful and enlightened preacher, and a shrewd leader of his denomination. He did more than any one else to establish the settled pastorate among the Carmarthenshire Methodists. He
JENKINS, HERBERT (1721 - 1772), early Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister Born in Mynydd-islwyn parish, Monmouthshire. According to Bradney (Hist. of Mon., I, ii, 442), his father was Herbert Jenkins and his grandfather that William Jenkins of Aberystruth parish who was curate (and kept school) at Trevethin (Pontypool) from 1726 till 1736. It may be that the parents had 'dissented'; tradition asserts that they were attached to the church of Edmund Jones, and certainly
JENKINS, JABEZ EDMUND (Creidiol; 1840 - 1903), cleric and poet Born at Gelli-groes, in the parish of Mynydd-islwyn, Monmouthshire, 24 December 1840, he was christened 16 July 1858 by the minister of the Congregational chapel at Mynydd-islwyn. He was ordained deacon 25 February 1872, with a title to the curacy of Llanedy, Carmarthenshire, and priest 24 February 1877, with a title to Llanfihangel Cwm-du, Brecknock. On 17 April 1879 he was licensed to the
JONES, ANEURIN (Aneurin Fardd; 1822 - 1904), man of letters . He soon became a recognized authority on the Welsh classical metres and was preceptor and friend of Islwyn. He organized eisteddfodau at Gelli-groes, in one of which (1850) Ioan Tegid awarded the prize to Robert Ellis (Cynddelw) for an essay on Tafol y Beirdd; Aneurin, however, made it a condition of its publication in book form (1852) that he should be allowed to write the introduction. He
JONES, DAVID JAMES (Gwenallt; 1899 - 1968), poet, critic and scholar historian of the 19th c. In addition to numerous articles on individual poets he published Detholiad o ryddiaith Gymraeg R.J. Derfel (1945), Bywyd a Gwaith Islwyn (1948), Y Storm: dwy gerdd gan Islwyn (1954). Nevertheless, his greatest contribution was as a poet and writer. He was among the first members of Yr Academi Gymraeg and the first edition of its periodical Taliesin to 1964 (vol.9). His father had
JONES, DILLWYN OWEN PATON (1923 - 1984), jazz pianist Dill Jones was born on 19 August 1923 at Sunny Side, Newcastle Emlyn, the son of John Islwyn Paton Jones, a bank manager, and his wife Lavinia (née Bevan). He inherited musical gifts from both sides, his father being a good singer and his mother a gifted pianist. After attending Llandovery College where he heard jazz recordings for the first time, he worked in a bank while playing the piano at
JONES, OWEN WYNNE (Glasynys; 1828 - 1870), cleric, antiquary, story-writer, and poet the bishop of Bangor. He became curate of Llangristiolus, Anglesey, was transferred to Llanfaethlu in 1863, and to Pontlotyn, Monmouth, in the same capacity in 1866. There his stay was short, and he moved to Newport, Monmouth, as joint editor, with Islwyn, of the newspaper Y Glorian. He then went to Portmadoc and thence to Towyn, Meironnydd. He died 4 April 1870 and was buried in Llandwrog
LAKE, MORGAN ISLWYN (1925 - 2018), minister and pacifist Islwyn Lake was born on 14 March 1925 at Glasfryn, Llanwnda near Goodwick, Pembrokeshire, one of the three children of Morgan David Lake (1885-1982), headteacher, and his wife Annie Jessie (née Griffiths, 1894-1955). His grandfather on his mother's side, Ebenezer Griffiths, was one of the founder members of Ebeneser, the first Congregational chapel in the area. After primary school at Enner
LEVI, THOMAS (1825 - 1916), Calvinistic Methodist minister, editor of Trysorfa y Plant, and author y Plant, which ultimately reached 44,000 a month, was greater than had ever been known in Wales before. Its income was so great that it paid the entire cost of production of Y Drysorfa and Y Traethodydd. It was read by Welshmen all over the world and in it were published some of the earliest poems of Islwyn, Ceiriog, and others. Levi was moderator of the C.M. General Assembly in 1883 and of the

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