Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HALL, AUGUSTA (Lady Llanover), (Gwenynen Gwent; 1802 - 1896), patron of Welsh culture and inventor of the Welsh national costume Jones (Tegid) and John Williams (ab Ithel). Traffic increased after 1857, when Lady Llanover purchased the manuscript collection of Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) from his son Taliesin Williams (Taliesin ab Iolo) in order to preserve it for the nation. Lady Llanover's most lasting contributions are connected with the series of Abergavenny Cymreigyddion eisteddfodau held between 1834 and 1853
HIMBURY, DAVID MERVYN (1922 - 2008), minister (Bapt) and college principal Australia in 1959. Eleven years later, Ithel Jones, the Principal of the Baptist College in Cardiff, also emigrated to Australia to become pastor of the Baptist church meeting in Collins Street, Melbourne. In Australia, Mervyn Himbury's task was to guide the Baptist College in Victoria in its quest to become a residential college affiliated to the University of Melbourne. This was accomplished in 1965
HOLLAND family . Pennant Ereithlyn, Eglwys-bach, Denbighshire - see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 24). A son of his, John Holland (sheriff of Anglesey in 1461), married Elinor, daughter of Ithel ap Hywel of Berw in Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog, Anglesey, and founded the family of (4) Holland of Berw, separately noticed; DAVID HOLLANT I (b)(see J. E. Griffith, op. cit., 259); his eldest son, GRIFFITH HOLLAND, lived at (5
HOLLAND family Berw, Towards the middle of the 15th century, the Berw estate in Anglesey was in the hands of ITHEL AP HOWELL AP LLEWELYN, a descendant of Llywarch ap Bran, lord of Menai at the end of the 12th century. Ithel had a daughter named ELINOR and a son called OWEN. The Holland family first became connected with Berw when JOHN HOLLAND, described as one of the household servants of Henry VI, married Ithel's
HUGHES, JOSEPH (Carn Ingli; 1803 - 1863), cleric and eisteddfodic poet 1863; he lies buried in S. Bartholomew's churchyard, Meltham, with his wife and his only child, Jane Gwenhwyfar. He was known in Wales as Carn Ingli. He used to return to Wales nearly every year for the national eisteddfod. He conducted it on many occasions, and was always in great demand during the period of the 'clerical' eisteddfodau; he and Ab Ithel were the chief promoters of the remarkable
HUW ap DAFYDD (fl. 1550-1628), poet From the fact that the objects of his panegyrics and elegies were North Wales gentry it appears that the poet, too, was from that part of Wales though according to Cambrian Biog., Cymru (O.J), Enwogion Cymru: a Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen, and Blackwell he was from Ewyas, Herefordshire. A number of his poems remain in manuscripts, including some to Hywel ap Siôn ap Dafydd ab Ithel
IESTYN ap GWRGANT (fl. c. 1081-1093), last independent ruler of Glamorgan Son of Gwrgant ab Ithel. Little is known with certainty about him. Cardiff seems to have been his seat of government, but the extent of his territory is unknown. He cannot have become supreme in Glamorgan until 1081, when Caradog ap Gruffydd, who ruled Glamorgan from c. 1075, was slain. In 1080, Iestyn was sufficiently insignificant to appear as a minor witness attesting a grant of land made to
IOCYN DDU ab ITHEL GRACH (fl. c. 1380), poet
IOLO GOCH (c. 1325 - c. 1400), poet Iolo Goch was a poet from the Vale of Clwyd, son of Ithel Goch ap Cynwrig ab Iorwerth ap Cynwrig Ddewis Herod from the lineage of Hedd ab Alunog of Uwch Aled, one of the Fifteen Tribes of Gwynedd. His mother was Ithel Goch's second wife, and is not named in his genealogy [?]. The names of two brothers are recorded, Gruffudd and Tudur Goch. Iolo was originally a hypocoristic form of Iorwerth (the
IOLO GOCH (c. 1320 - c. 1398), poet A native of the Vale of Clwyd, son of Ithel Goch ap Cynwrig ap Iorwerth Ddu ap Cynwrig Ddewis Herod ap Cywryd. According to Hugh de Beckele's Extent of Denbigh (1334), Ithel Goch rented a small portion of the family's ancient patrimony in the township of Llewenni where he possessed a dwelling house. He also rented from the lord small parcels of land in Llechryd and Berain. Of the works attributed
ITHEL ap RHOTPERT or ROBERT (fl. 1357-1382), archdeacon . On both sides, he was of the family which, in more modern times, has borne the surname Mostyn; his father, Rhotpert ap Iorwerth ap Rhirid, had a brother, Madog, otherwise known as ' Matthew de Englefield,' who was bishop of Bangor 1327-57 (Browne Willis, Bangor, 74-5; Le Neve, Fasti, i, 99); his mother, Adles, was cousin to Dafydd ap Bleddyn, bishop of St Asaph. Ithel is styled B.C.L. in one record
ITHEL DDU (fl. second half of 14th century), poet He was most probably an Anglesey man - 'of the land of Meilyr,' says Iolo Goch, though Iolo also locates him in Llŷn, and indeed further transports him to Bardsey. Iolo styles him 'a famous poet,' but all that we have to substantiate that claim is a single cywydd, preserved in two copies, Peniarth MS 77 (441) and Peniarth MS 78 (135). It would indeed seem that Ithel was no professional bard, but

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