Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JAMES, CHARLES HERBERT (1817 - 1890), M.P. Born 16 June 1817, youngest son of William James, maltster, of Merthyr Tydfil, who was a brother of Christopher James (see James, Sir William Milbourne). He was educated at Taliesin Williams's school at Merthyr and at Goulstone's boarding school, Bristol (1830-2). On leaving school he was articled to William Perkins (afterwards his partner) and admitted solicitor in 1838. He married Sarah
JAMES, EVAN (Ieuan ap Iago, Iago ap Ieuan; 1809 - 1878), author of the words of 'Hen Wlad fy Nhadau' , and elsewhere. According to Taliesin James, grandson of Evan James, it was the son James who, in 1856, composed the melody and the father who wrote the words. The subject is fully discussed by Percy A. Scholes, in the National Library of Wales Journal, iii, 1-10; see also the portraits of father and son reproduced there together with facsimiles of manuscript and printed versions. A later article in
JENKINS, EVAN (1895 - 1959), poet Taliesin and Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn schools. Being of poor health he left the teaching profession and in 1924 he became secretary to the Union of Cardiganshire Friendly Societies, a post which he held until 1948. He was primarily responsible for encouraging the work of poets in the Ffair-rhos district and was a member of the Cardiganshire team in bardic contests. He won the South Wales bardic chair at
JENKINS, JOHN DAVID (1828 - 1876), cleric, philanthropist Born at Merthyr Tydfil, 30 January 1828, the son of William David Jenkins (died 1834), Castellau Fach, Llantrisant, Glamorganshire, and Maria, widow of Thomas Dyke, druggist, Merthyr Tydfil. He was educated at Taliesin Williams's school at Merthyr, Cowbridge grammar school, and Jesus College, Oxford (B.A. 1850, M.A. 1852, B.D. 1859, and D.D. 1871). While at Oxford he became a good classical and
JOHN, MARY HANNAH (1874 - 1962), singer and revivalist young with the Band of Hope at Jerusalem. May John began singing competitively at the age of twelve, and made an immediate impact in local eisteddfodau in the Rhondda. She was taught initially by choir leader Taliesin Hopkins (1859-1906) from Cymer, and then by Clara Novello Davies in Cardiff. At the Pontypridd National Eisteddfod of 1893, she won the soprano duet competition with a rendition of 'Quis
JOHNS, DAVID (fl. 1569-1586), cleric and poet of an old poem formerly attributed to Taliesin. Both are to be found in his own handwriting in B.M. Add. MS. 14866. Even more interesting are the poems contained in the letter he sent to David Salysbury, 5 February 1587 (B.M. MS. 9817), although he describes them as the 'first beginning of my halting muse.' He also versified some of the psalms - see B.M. MS. 9817 (934) and B.M. Add. MS. 14896 (20
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, GWILYM EIRWYN (EIRWYN PONTSHÂN; 1922 - 1994), carpenter, entertainer, nationalist house in Borth. This experience was the basis for one of Eirwyn's classics, the modern parable 'Senedd Jôns y Ffish' (Twyll Dyn 8) about the failure of the 1979 referendum. The family lived in several places in north Cardiganshire, including Glyn Helyg in Bro Gynin, Y Bwthyn in Pen-y-garn and Troedrhiwfelen near Tre Taliesin, before eventually moving back to the south of the county to live at Pengelli
JONES, JOHN ROBERT (1911 - 1970), philosopher and patriot (1968); A rhaid i'r iaith ein gwahanu? (1967); Yr ewyllys i barhau (1969); Gwaedd yng Nghymru (1970); Ac Onide (1970); Welsh articles on philosophy and religion in Y Drysorfa, 1933, 1943, 1949; Credaf, 1944; Taliesin, 1967; Efrydiau Athronyddol, 1938, 1939, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1957, 1961, 1969; Diwinyddiaeth, 1969; Y Drysorfa 1956; Saith ysgrif ar grefydd (ed. Dewi Z. Phillips), 1967; in English
JONES, OWEN WYNNE (Glasynys; 1828 - 1870), cleric, antiquary, story-writer, and poet wrote articles for Y Brython, Baner y Groes, and Taliesin, and letters to the Herald Cymraeg under the pseudonym 'Salmon Llwyd o ben Moel Tryfan'; his short stories were published in Cymru Fu and some of his letters and essays in Y Geninen.
JONES, RHYS (1713 - 1801), antiquary and poet additions, by Cynddelw (Robert Ellis, 1812 - 1875). It should be observed that Rhys Jones was living at Tyddyn Mawr and not at Blaenau when he published his Gorchestion, which is a selection of the works of Aneirin, Taliesin, Llywarch Hen, and other poets; Rhys Jones wrote his awdl in praise of William Vaughan of Cors-y-gedol on the pattern of the awdlau by Gutun Owen and William Llŷn included in this
JONES, THOMAS (Taliesin o Eifion; 1820 - 1876), poet Born 13 September 1820 at Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire; son of a member of the band on H.M.S. Victory who was awarded the Trafalgar medal. In 1826 the parents, who gave their son a good education, settled at Llangollen. Taliesin followed the trade of plumber and decorator; many inn-signs were painted by him. He mastered cynghanedd in his early youth, and his strict-metre poems have proved to be

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