Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, JOSIAH THOMAS (1799 - 1873), publisher and Independent minister offices; Iago ap Dewi and Cawrdaf may serve as examples. David Griffiths (1756 - 1834) of Nevern was J. T. Jones's uncle.
JONES, JOHN PULESTON (1862 - 1925), Calvinistic Methodist minister, writer, and theologian . church, Princes Road, Bangor. In 1890 he married Annie Alun Jones, daughter of Thomas Jones (Glan Alun, 1811 - 1866) by whom he had two children. He was minister of the churches at Dinorwig and Fachwen (1895-1907), Penmount, Pwllheli (1907-18), and Llanfair Caereinion (1918-23). He published his Esboniad ar Epistol Iago in 1899, his 'Davies Lecture,' Until the Day Dawn, 1913, and a volume of sermons
GRUFFUDD ap LLYWELYN (d. 1063), king of Gwynedd and Powys, and after 1055 king of all Wales purpose. After Iago ab Idwal had been slain by his own men in 1039 Gruffudd ap Llywelyn became king of Gwynedd and Powys. Immediately afterwards, he struck a blow against the Saxons of Mercia in the battle of Rhyd-y-groes on the Severn and drove them to flight. This victory made him a prominent figure; and thenceforth until his death he continued to be the shield of his country and the terror of its
JAMES, JOHN (fl. second half of the 18th century and the early part of the 19th), poet and hymnwriter
THOMAS, RONALD STUART (1913 - 2000), poet and clergyman , conventional, poems of his began to appear in such periodicals as The Dublin Magazine and Wales from the late 1930s onwards, the first inkling of a significant originality came with the appearance from Keidrych Rhys's private Druid Press of The Stones of the Field in 1946. It is a collection particularly memorable for the debut appearance of Iago Prytherch, the gaunt, inexhaustibly enigmatic figure of a
GRUFFUDD AP LLYWELYN (d. 1064), king of Gwynedd 1039-1064 and overlord of all the Welsh father's name). The story claims that he was an indolent youth and one New Year's Eve, after his sister put him out of the house, he overheard from a neighbouring house the complaint that a piece of meat kept coming to the top of the cauldron, which he took as an omen of his future success. The killing of the king of Gwynedd named Iago ab Idwal in 1039 heralded the first appearance of Gruffudd in Annales
HUGHES, GAINOR (1745 - 1780), fasting woman Grace Roberts 'from Bettws y coed in the parish of Llanfor', who evidently knew Gainor, and Evan James (Ieuan ap Iago; died 1804) from Llanfachreth sang their poems to the fasting lady, the last in the cywydd metre. The reports published in the Chester Chronicle suggest how Gainor may have become a legend during her lifetime, with visitors travelling between forty and fifty miles to see her; by the
IAGO ap IAGO - see JAMES, JAMES
IAGO MOCHNANT - see JONES, JAMES
IAGO BENCERDD - see HUGHES, JAMES
IAGO EMLYN - see JAMES, JAMES
IAGO TRICHRUG - see HUGHES, JAMES

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