Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JAMES, JAMES (Iago Emlyn; 1800 - 1879), Congregational minister and poet competent scholar and a poet of some repute. A volume of his poems was published in 1848, as Cyfansoddiadau Buddugol a Cherddi Ereill, another volume in 1863 as Gweithiau Barddonol Iago Emlyn, and an essay on The Philosophical Construction of Celtic Nomenclature in 1869.
JONES, RHYS GWESYN (1826 - 1901), Congregational minister in Wales and the U.S.A., and author , Marrying, and Living, of which several editions appeared, Yr Eglwys Bur (1860), Y Teulu Dedwydd (Merthyr Tydfil, 1867, etc.), Llithiau ar Epistol Iago (Utica, 1874); he also edited Ellis Wynne's Gweledigaethau y Bardd Cwsc in 1867. He was one of the founders of ' Sefydliad Cymreig y Bala' in Powys Riley County, Kansas. He died 5 September 1901.
JONES, JAMES (fl. 19th century), poet and prose writer
JONES, DAFYDD (Dafydd Siôn Siâms; 1743 - 1831), musician, poet, and book-binder built a chapel at Penrhyndeudraeth, at which he again took charge of the singing. Two hymn-tunes composed by him - ' Iago ' and ' Digonolrwydd ' - were published in Caniadau y Cysegr; it is sometimes said that he composed ' Priscilla ' also. In 1769 he was a schoolmaster; it is known that he kept school for a time at Beddgelert. He wrote an elegy (1786) on the death of his first wife, Elizabeth Thomas
JAMES, THOMAS DAVIES (Iago Erfyl; 1862 - 1927), clergyman, and popular preacher and lecturer gorsedd under the name ' Iago Erfyl '. He contributed much to the local papers; for years he wrote the Welsh column, under the pseudonym Y Gigfran, in The Montgomery Express. At one time he was a staunch Tory and vehemently opposed the disestablishment of the church, though when it came about he accepted it, recognising in it a greater freedom for the church and its officers. During World War I he
HUGHES, JAMES (Iago Trichrug; 1779 - 1844), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and Bible commentator Blessings' and also in the controversy [see Hugh Hughes, 1790 - 1863 ] with regard to the emancipation of the Catholics. He died at his home at Rotherhithe 2 November 1844 and was buried in Bunhill Fields. He was a frequent contributor to the Welsh periodicals and became known in bardic circles by the name Iago Trichrug. His hymns alone have lived, many of them being sung to this day in Wales. His 'magnum
GRUFFUDD ap CYNAN (c. 1055 - 1137), king of Gwynedd Son of Cynan ap Iago, who was an exile in Ireland, and Rhagnell (Ragnhildr), a daughter of the royal house of the Scandinavians of Dublin. After 1039, when Iago was treacherously slain by his own men, Gwynedd was ruled by usurpers who were not of the royal line. One of these was Bleddyn ap Cynfyn. who was killed in 1075 and succeeded by his cousin, Trahaearn ap Caradog, king of Arwystli. In that
CADWALADR (d. 664), prince oldest form of the ' Pedigrees of the Saints,' the saint is said to be the son of Iago ap Beli (The Lives of the British Saints, iv, 369), i.e. great-uncle of the prince, and it is possible that two members of the same family have been confused. Geoffrey of Monmouth winds up his 'History of the Kings of Britain' with his own fanciful version of the doings of Cadwaladr and ends by tacking on to the
JAMES, EVAN (Ieuan ap Iago, Iago ap Ieuan; 1809 - 1878), author of the words of 'Hen Wlad fy Nhadau'
FRANCIS, ENOCH (1688/9 - 1740), Baptist minister Hengoed, and was living at Capel Iago in Llanybydder. His Association sermon in 1729 (at Llangloffan) was published - reprint in Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru, 1911-12. In the Arminian controversy of 1729, when his second-cousin Abel Francis went over to Arminianism, Enoch Francis was on the Calvinist side, and in 1733 published Gair yn ei Bryd, in defence of Calvinism. By that time, he had
HOWELL, JOHN (Ioan ab Hywel, Ioan Glandyfroedd; 1774 - 1830), weaver, schoolmaster, poet, editor, and musician (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion), James Davies (Iago ap Dewi), D. Rowland (Dewi Brefi) of Carmarthen, Edward Richard of Ystradmeurig, Evan Thomas of Llanarth, D. Lloyd of Llwynrhydowen, D. Jones of Llanwrda, John Jenkins (Ioan Siengcyn) of Cardigan, Francis Thomas ('y Crythwr Dall o Geredigion'), Ifan Gruffydd of Tŵr-gwyn, and others. Some of the material for his anthology was obtained by him from what is now
JONES, ROBERT WILLIAM (Erfyl Fychan; 1899 - 1968), historian, litterateur and eisteddfodwr Swansea national eisteddfod for the penillion solo in 1926. He became a member of the Gorsedd the same year. In the field of Welsh culture he owed much to the influence of T. Gwynn Jones, the Francis brothers of Nantlle, and T. D. James ('Iago Erfyl'), the talented and scholarly rector of Llanerfyl in the 1920s. At Bala in 1934 he founded the Cymdeithas Cerdd Dant and he was the society's secretary

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