Dictionary of Welsh Biography

IEUAN ap HYWEL SWRDWAL (fl. 1430-1480), poet son of the poet Hywel Swrdwal. Both were associated with the Cydewain district of Powys and with Newtown. They are reputed to have lived for a time at Machynlleth. Among the poems attributed to Ieuan is an awdl to the Virgin Mary written in English but using the strict metres and orthography of Welsh. Its title is ' Owdyl i Fair a wnaeth kymbro yn Rhudychen ' etc. and its first line - 'O meichti
IEUAN ap RHYDDERCH ap IEUAN LLWYD (fl. 1430-1470), gentleman and poet probably graduated B.A., M.A., and B.C.L. (Llanstephan MS 155 - written about 1583 - asserts that he was ' a doctor of laws'). Ieuan boastfully maintains that he was a good athlete, capable of numerous feats, that he was very wealthy, and that he had held numerous offices (probably under the Crown). He wrote an awdl to Mary - wherein Latin and Welsh are interwoven in perfect cynghanedd. B.M. Add. MS
IEUAN BRYDYDD HIR HYNAF (fl. c. 1450), poet said to have been a native of Ardudwy, Meironnydd. No details regarding his life are known, but many of his poems remain in manuscript, and at least two of them have been printed. Included in his work are two poems to God, one to God and the Virgin Mary, another to S. Winefred, one written by the poet in his old age, a begging poem, and two poems of controversy, or ymryson, addressed to the poet
IEUAN DYFI (1461? - 1500), poet Nothing is known about the life history of this poet and, indeed, little is known about his work. According to Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd, he hailed from Aberdovey and flourished about 1490. He was, above all, a poet of love and sang to a maiden called ' Anni Goch.' He wrote a cywydd to show how false women were through all the ages, which, judging from the number of copies still available in
IFOR HAEL, patron of bards mother was Angharad, daughter of Morgan ap Meredudd, lord of Tredegar (the Tredegar mentioned above). Her second husband was Dafydd ap Llywelyn, of Rhydodyn; see Peniarth MS 176 (399) where Morgan ap Dafydd is described as 'vnvam ac ifor hael' (uterine brother of Ifor Hael). Angharad's father died c. 1331 (J. H. Davies, in The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1907, 68); in an
INNES, JAMES DICKSON (1887 - 1914), artist Born at Llanelly, 27 February 1887, was the youngest of the three sons of John Innes, accountant, and his wife, Alice Anne Mary (née Rees). He was educated at Christ College, Brecon, and then studied at the Carmarthen School of Art. In 1905 he won a scholarship at the Slade School of Art, London, where he stayed for two years. Innes was never of robust health and, in 1908, the doctors diagnosed
INNES, JOHN (1853? - 1923), accountant and antiquary Mary, only child of the Alfred C. G. Rees of Oystermouth, and between 1884 and 1887 three sons were born to them. In July 1913, for health reasons, he removed to Whitchurch, near Tavistock, Devon, where he died 7 May 1923, aged 70. He was a pioneer of the Mechanics' Institute which was later taken over by the borough as the Llanelly Public Library. He rendered good service as chairman of the library
INSOLE, GEORGE (1790 - 1851), colliery proprietor George Insole was baptized in Worcester on 5 December 1790, the fifth of six children of William Insole (1757-1811), a tenant farmer, and his wife Phebe (née Stinton, 1757-1824). George married Mary (née Finch (1791-1866) in Worcester on 11 August 1819 and they had six children: Helen (1820-1895), James Harvey (1821-1901), Emma (1823-1906), Julia (b. and d. 1825), Julia Ann (1830-1904), and
INSOLE, JAMES HARVEY (1821 - 1901), colliery proprietor James Harvey Insole was born in Worcester on 30 April 1821. He was the second of six children of George Insole (1790-1851) who was then a Worcester carpenter and later a South Wales colliery proprietor, and his wife Mary (née Finch, 1791-1866). In 1828, the family moved to Cardiff, Glamorganshire, and James attended schools there and in Melksham, Wiltshire. Upon reaching his majority in 1842, he
IOLO GOCH (c. 1325 - c. 1400), poet Iolo was educated as a church chorister, most likely at St Asaph's Cathedral. That education would have included reading and writing Latin and Welsh, and in a contemporary fragment of a grammar book he is described as a poet who could 'write poetry correctly'. It is possible that the lines from his ode to the Virgin Mary which were inserted on the margin of the Book of the Anchorite of Llanddewibrefi
ISAAC, DAVID LLOYD (1818 - 1876), cleric and author also engaged in controversy with Dissent. He published in 1859 a volume, Siluriana, on the history of Monmouthshire and Glamorgan, a rather unskilful piece of quarrying in the manuscripts of William Davies of Cringell (on this matter, see D. R. Phillips in Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, ii, 29-33); and in 1860 an eisteddfodic prize-essay Hanes Llanbedr a'r Gymmydogaeth; according to
JACKSON, Sir CHARLES JAMES (1849 - 1923), businessman and collector Born in Monmouth on 2 May 1849, the son of James Edwin Jackson (sometimes referred to as Edwin James Jackson) and Mary Ann Bass. The son of a leading builder in Monmouth, James Jackson had joined his father's firm at a young age. Around 1860, Jackson moved to Cardiff and his son, Charles, became a builder with his father. Both father and son designed and constructed buildings, which allowed

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