Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HYWEL SWRDWAL (fl. 1430-1460), poet Hugh Swrdwal who is said to have been granted the manor of Aberyscir for services rendered to Bernard Newmarch when the latter conquered Brecknock (Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., i, 61). However, it is said that Hywel Swrdwal spent the greater part of his life in Cydewain, Montgomeryshire, that he was the bailiff of Newtown between 1454 and 1456, and that apart from
IEUAN (IFAN) ap SION (fl. c. 1612-1636), poet Some examples of his work remain in manuscript; they include an elegy to Tomas Llwyd ap Rhobert of Penllyn (Llanstephan MS 133 (292)), a begging poem to Master William Wyn of Gwydir (Cardiff MS. 83 (485)), and englynion, including some on Llanrwst bridge (NLW MS 3049D (449, 507))
IEUAN LLAFAR (fl. c. 1594-1610), poet A native apparently of Glyn Ceiriog, Denbighshire. Nothing is known about him, but a number of cywyddau and englynion composed by him, c. 1594 to 1610, have survived. He wrote poems to various contemporary North Wales gentry, including Owain Holant of Plas Berw, Anglesey, Hwmffrai ap Huw of Gwerclys, Rhobert Wyn of Foelas, Edwart ap Dafydd of Rhiwlas, Edwart ap Morus of Llansilin, Owain Bruwtwn
ILLINGWORTH, LESLIE GILBERT (1902 - 1979), political cartoonist 1968. From 1940 until 1963 he lived in Knightsbridge with his housekeeper and companion Enid Ratcliff, later moving to Horley in Sussex. He never married. He was voted political and social cartoonist of the year by the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain in 1962, was first President of the British Cartoonists' Association in 1966 and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Kent in 1975
INSOLE, JAMES HARVEY (1821 - 1901), colliery proprietor entered into partnership with his father as George Insole and Son, colliery proprietors and coal shippers. He also received an inheritance left him by his great-uncle, a wealthy saddler's ironmonger of Birmingham, Warwickshire, who had died in 1831. James married Mary Ann (née Jones, 1818-1882), the daughter of his great-uncle's business partner, in Edgbaston, Warwickshire, on 23 December 1843. James
ISAAC, DAVID LLOYD (1818 - 1876), cleric and author Born at Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, 10 February 1818. He was a member of Aberduar Baptist church (Llanybydder, Carmarthenshire) (D. Jones, Hanes Bed. Deheubarth, 336), and went to Abergavenny Baptist Academy in 1835 (Rufus Williams, Hanes Athrofeydd y Bedyddwyr, 35), and thence to the newly-opened Baptist College at Pontypool (Hanes Athrofeydd y Bedyddwyr, 65) - his name is the first on the list of
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
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, CARWYN REES (1929 - 1983), teacher, rugby player and coach was an immediate influence; even his headmaster in primary school, W. J. Jones, had a full Welsh cap. As a boy, he was regularly taken along Heol y Baw by Lloyd Morgan, his father's best friend, to support Cefneithin RFC carrying the boots of Haydn Jones, the club's elegant outside half. He often referred to Lloyd and Haydn, whose fate reminded him daily of his privileges of opportunity and choice
JAMES, DANIEL (Gwyrosydd; 1847 - 1920), poet Morgannwg (D. W. Jones), he began to write verse over the pseudonym Dafydd Mynyddbach, but at D. W. Jones's suggestion he later assumed the name Gwyrosydd. His lyrics, and his pieces for recitation, became very well known. In his middle age the Landore works closed down, and he found work successively at Tredegar, Dowlais, and then Blaengarw by 1891, and eventually (for twenty years) Mountain Ash
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 EMRYS (Dewi Emrys; 1881 - 1952), minister (Congl.), writer and poet Born 26 May 1881 at Majorca House, New Quay, Cardiganshire, son of Thomas Emrys James, a Congl. minister in Llandudno at the time, and Mary Ellen (née Jones), his wife, the daughter of a master mariner. The mother returned to New Quay to give birth to the child who was named David Edward, but the name Emrys was adopted later. When he was 7 years old his father received a call to be pastor of

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