Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HINDS, JOHN DARWIN VIVIAN (1922 - 1981), politician and community activist John Darwin Hinds was born on 28 December 1922 in Maerdy, Glamorganshire, and grew up on Morgan Street in Barry. His mother, Gwenllian (née Lloyd), born in Barry, was a resolute homemaker, and his father, Leonard Hinds (1887-1942), a merchant seaman turned coal miner, had come to the United Kingdom from Barbados. Leonard served as a fireman on merchant ships in the First World War and earned the
IEUAN GYFANNEDD (fl. 1450-60), poet Details concerning his life are unknown, but one example of his work has been found in NLW MS 728D (113), this being a cywydd in praise of his patrons Phylip ap Rhys of Cenarth in the parish of St. Harmon, Radnorshire, and his wife Gwenllian, daughter of Owain Glyn Dwr.
IORWERTH FYCHAN ap IORWERTH ap ROTPERT (fl. c. 1300), poet Nothing is known about him, but two of his love poems remain, one being addressed to Gweirful and the other to Gwenllian; see NLW MS 6680: Llawysgrif Hendregadredd' (123, 123b), and The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 1870, 279.
JAMES, DANIEL (Gwyrosydd; 1847 - 1920), poet - fifteen years in one of Nixon's collieries, and then (in failing health) under the local authority. He returned to Morriston in 1918 to live with his daughter and son-in-law, died there 11 March 1920, and was buried at Mynydd-bach; a memorial tablet was placed on the Tre-boeth Public Hall in 1936. He was twice married, to Ann Hopkin, and then to a widow, Gwenllian Parry (née Morgan), in Swansea in 1888
JONES, DAVID (1736 - 1810), Methodist cleric Born 10 July 1736, at Aberceiliog, Llanllwni, Carmarthenshire, son of Richard and Gwenllian Jones. He was educated at the Carmarthen grammar school. He is probably the 'David Jones of Llanvernach' who was ordained deacon by the bishop of S. Davids in 1758; he is known to have been curate of Tydweiliog, Llyn, in 1758-9, and he officiated at Llanafanfawr, Brecknock, in 1759-60. He was ordained
JONES, EDGAR WILLIAM (1868 - 1953), educationalist and broadcaster keenly interested in sport. At Aberystwyth he was the athletic champion and a member of the soccer team (which he captained) and of the first fifteen, and as headmaster there were few school games at which he was not present. On 22 December 1894 he married Ann Gwenllian, daughter of Thomas Jones of Dowlais, and a fellow student at Aberystwyth. She was a lady of considerable ability who at the age of 20
JONES, GARETH RICHARD VAUGHAN (1905 - 1935), journalist Gareth Jones was born on 13 August 1905 at Eryl, Romilly Road, Barry, the youngest of three children of Edgar William Jones (1868-1953), a schoolmaster, and his wife Ann Gwenllian (née Jones, 1867-1965). He was first educated at home by his mother, and then attended Barry County School where his father was headmaster. His mother had worked as a tutor to the grandchildren of the industrialist John
JONES, JOSEPH (1877 - 1950), principal of the Memorial College, Brecon , Brecon. He began duties in October 1907. At the close of his first year as professor, he was ordained to the ministry. In 1909, he married Miss Gwenllian de Lloyd, Aberystwyth. He was granted leave of absence by the college in 1911 to pursue special New Testament courses at Heidelberg. He spent his life in the service of the Memorial College; 1907-1943 as professor and, in 1943 on the retirement of
JONES, ROBERT TUDUR (1921 - 1998), theologian, church historian and public figure the Department of Theology and Religious Studies in the University. It is commonly acknowledged that Tudur Jones was the most eminent historian of religion in Wales in the twentieth century. He was an important religious figure and one of her foremost scholars. Tudur Jones married Gwenllian Edwards from Porthmadog in 1948 and they had three sons and two daughters. The sons followed in their father's
JONES, THEOPHILUS (1759 - 1812), historian of Brecknock contributed several papers to the Cambrian Register and to Archaeologia. In 1905, Edwin Davies published a volume, Theophilus Jones, Historian, containing these papers, Jones's letters to Edward Davies and Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), and a biography by Gwenllian E. F. Morgan. To this day, Jones's work is the best of our Welsh county histories - a work of diligent and careful research. The author's
KADWALADR, SION (fl. 1750-1765), writer of ballads and interludes stealing half-a-crown, says Ioan Pedr. His interludes appear to have been written after his return; they are: (1) 'Einion a Gwenllian' (NLW MS 552B), written c. 1756 - the suggestion that it was written jointly with Huw Jones may be dismissed; (2) 'Gaulove a Clarinda' between 1756 and 1762 (Cwrtmawr MS 39B); (3) Y Brenin Dafydd a Gwraig Urias, published at Chester c. 1765, written jointly with Huw Jones
LACY (DE) family, lords Ewyas, Weobley, (died 1233), son of Hugh II by a daughter of Roderick O'Connor, married Gwenllian, daughter of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, who, like her brother Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, was the child of an irregular union contracted before Llywelyn's marriage with Joan. During a long widowhood (she died in 1281), she may have resided at Llys Gwenllian on the royal manor of Ystrad Owain in the commote of Cinmeirch, supported

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