Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HYWEL DDA (d. 950), king and legislator book of the law as devised at the White House. In the 19th century Aneurin Owen discovered that the earliest manuscripts should be separated into three distinct 'codes' differing materially one from the other. Between the 10th and 12th cents. these differences grew, for the unity of Hywel's kingdom did not survive his death in 950. It is considered that the 'Code of Dyfed' (The Book of Blegywryd
HYWEL GETHIN (fl. c. 1485), poet a native, it is said, of Clynnog-fawr, Caernarfonshire. No details concerning his life remain, but the dates given him, by Owen Jones, Gweirydd ap Rhys, Myrddin Fardd, and Wiliam Owen (viz. 1570-1600) are obviously too late, because a cywydd written by him in praise of the four sons of Rhys ap Hywel ap Madog of Llanystumdwy remains in manuscript; these four persons lived at the end of the 15th
IEUAN ap IEUAN ap MADOG (fl. 1547-1587), scribe contains a collection of Welsh prose texts, including the story of Owen ab Urien, the Seven Sages of Rome, and the story of the rudderless ship ('Y Llong Foel'). He also copied Llanstephan MS 178, an incomplete Welsh version of the English Voyage of the Wandering Knight. Egerton Phillimore dated this manuscript at about 1575, but, as William Goodyear's English version of Jehan de Cartheny's Le Voyage du
IEUAN TUDUR OWEN (fl. c. 1627), poet
ISAAC, EVAN (1865 - 1938), Wesleyan minister retirement fifteen years later. He was elected president of the Wesleyan assembly (1917) and, in this capacity, went as a delegate to the conferences of the Ecumenical Methodists held at Toronto. He was elected a member of the Legal Hundred of his denomination (1917). He published Prif Emynwyr Cymru, Yr Hen Gyrnol, Coelion Cymru, Humphrey Jones a Diwygiad '59, and ' Daniel Owen,' a series of twelve
JACKSON, Sir CHARLES JAMES (1849 - 1923), businessman and collector Ireland. A pocket edition was published in 1994. Charles Jackson was married twice. His first wife was Agnes Catherine Martin, described in the 1881 census returns for Cardiff as a British subject born in Boulougne. His second wife was Ada Elizabeth Williams, born at Cardiff in 1877, the daughter of Samuel Owen Williams, a railway weigher and later a hotel proprietor. When Jackson moved to London, he
JAMES, ANGHARAD (fl. 1680?-1730?), poet She lived at Y Parlwr, Penanmaen, Dolwyddelan. Some particulars concerning her are given by Owen Thomas in the first chapter of Cofiant John Jones, Tal-y-Sarn; he says that she was the daughter of James Davies and Angharad Humphreys, Gelli Ffrydau, Llandwrog, Caernarfonshire, that she received a good education, in the course of which she learned Latin, was proficient as a harpist, was a poet, and
JAMES, DAVID (1863 - 1929), Rugby football players brothers who were the most brilliant pair of half-backs of their day and rendered invaluable service to Welsh Rugby football. They were the great initiators of the half-back tactics which were developed and improved by R. M. Owen, Richard Jones, and W. J. Trew. In 1892 they went North and became professionals. They later returned to Wales, were reinstated, and subsequently figured in the Swansea
JAMES, DAVID (Defynnog; 1865 - 1928), schoolmaster, educationist, organiser of summer schools, and author English. He won prizes, too, in the National Eisteddfod. In the eisteddfod at Merthyr Tydfil (1901) he won for his study of ' Kymric Literature ' and in the eisteddfod at Bangor (1902) he was awarded first prize for his critical treatise on the novels of Daniel Owen. He was admitted to the Gorsedd of Bards; he also became a national adjudicator. He spent periods as a schoolteacher in Eglwyswrw, Cwmifor
JAMES, DAVID EMRYS (Dewi Emrys; 1881 - 1952), minister (Congl.), writer and poet to the Presbyterian College in 1903. He served for a short while in the Welsh Free Church, Liverpool, founded by William Owen Jones, before accepting a call to Bryn Seion, Dowlais, in 1907. In 1908 he went to the English church in Buckley, Flintshire. In July of that year he married Cissie Jenkins in the English Congl. chapel in Carmarthen. He moved again in 1911 to Gelliwastad English church
JAMES, EVAN (Ieuan ap Iago, Iago ap Ieuan; 1809 - 1878), author of the words of 'Hen Wlad fy Nhadau' N.L.W. Jnl., viii, 244-57 shows reasons for doubting the ascription of the air to James James. James James included the air, entitled 'Glanrhondda', in the collection of unpublished airs which he submitted for competition at the Llangollen national eisteddfod of 1858 under the pseudonym 'Orpheus' (Minor Deposit 150B). The adjudicator, John Owen (Owain Alaw), harmonized it and included it in the third
JAMES, JAMES (SPINTHER) (1837 - 1914), Baptist historian , however, he displayed unbounded energy; he wrote poetry, and published collections of hymns, but his fame rests rather upon his historical work, more especially in the field of Baptist history. He contributed many articles or chapters to such works as Owen Jones's Cymru, Gweirydd ap Rhys's Hanes y Brytaniaid a'r Cymry, and Enwogion y Ffydd. With John Emlyn Jones he completed Y Parthsyllydd, 1870-5 (see

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