Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JAMES, IVOR BARNOLD ROBERT - see JAMES, IVOR
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
JONES, JOHN BOWEN (1829 - 1905), Congregational minister and writer Hedd (1866-1903) and Y Beirniad (1875-9). He published Y Blodeuglwm, 1876, and edited Casgliad o Hen Emynau (1877 and 1883). He contributed much to Welsh periodical journals, was a powerful and original preacher, of a philosophical cast of mind, and was an excellent scholar. He died 10 December 1905. His son, Ivor Bowen, is separately noticed.
JONES, THOMAS IVOR (1896 - 1969), solicitor
LEWIS, IVOR (1895 - 1982), consultant surgeon Ivor Lewis was born on 27 October 1895 at Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, the only child of Lewis Lewis, a farmer steeped in Welsh culture, and his wife Mary (née Davies). Educated at Llandeilo Grammar School, though his devout mother cherished the hope that her son would one day enter the ministry, Ivor Lewis aspired to be a doctor. After spending the years between 1915 and 1918 pursuing
LLEWELYN, DESMOND WILKINSON (1914 - 1999), actor Desmond Llewelyn was born on 12 September 1914 at Blaen-y-Pant House in Bettws, Newport, Monmouthshire, the eldest child of Ivor Llewelyn, a mining engineer, and his wife Mia (née Wilkinson). He had a sister Mia Noreen born in 1918. Desmond's grandfather Llewelyn Llewelyn was the General Manager of the Powell-Dyffryn Steam Coal Company, and High Sheriff of Monmouthshire from 1913. Llewelyn was
LLOYD, JOHN (d. 1679), Roman Catholic priest entered the seminary at Valladolid in 1649. He was ordained priest on 7 June 1653, and sent to England on 17 April 1654. Nothing definite is known of his life for nearly a quarter of a century after this, but it may be deduced from the informations laid against him that he visited the houses of Walter James of Tre-ivor, Monmouth, and Howel Carne of Colwinston, Glamorganshire, as well as the
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1717 - 1777), cleric and translator Fardd in 1767 that all eight were then alive. Certainly, one at least survived him, namely WILLIAM LLOYD, one of twins christened at Bangor 1 April 1749. He went up to University College, Oxford; Ieuan Fardd and Richard Morris (Additional Morris Letters, p. 722) speak of his copying Nennius in Bodley (1767), and Foster (Alumni) gives him a B.A. 1769, M.A. 1773, B.D. and D.D. 1802. According to A. Ivor
NOVELLO, IVOR (1893 - 1951), composer, playwright, stage and film actor evening, and every spare moment writing and composing new works, nearly every one more brilliant than the one before. He was only 15 years old when, as Ivor Novello, his first song, 'Spring of the year', was published. At the age of 21 he became famous for his war-time song 'Keep the home fires burning', the lyrics written by Lena Guilbert Ford. He wrote approximately 60 ballads and songs, including
OWEN, JOHN (1698 - 1755), chancellor of Bangor Born at Llanidloes in 1698, son of Pierce Owen; according to Foster, he matriculated (as ' John Owens ') from Jesus College, Oxford, on 21 March 1718/9, at 21, but Foster's conjecture that he graduated in 1722 as ' Joseph Owen ' is extremely improbable. Indeed, in A. Ivor Pryce's Diocese of Bangor during Three Centuries, John Owen is given no degree at all in 1723, but by 1742 he is styled LL.B
OWEN, NICHOLAS (1752 - 1811), cleric and antiquary the younger, there were fourteen children (letter of 1785 in Bangor MS. 2408), but Bangor MS. 4607 has only thirteen, and Griffith only twelve - he omits Richard, born 22 May 1754. This Richard graduated from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1778 (Foster, Alumni Oxonienses), was licensed as curate to his father in 1777 (A. Ivor Pryce, Diocese of Bangor during Three Centuries, 115), and died 26 August 1780
PHILIPPS, Sir IVOR (1861 - 1940), soldier, politician and businessman Ivor Philipps was born at Warminster Vicarage, Wiltshire, on 9 September 1861, the second son of Sir James Erasmus Philipps and his wife, Mary Margaret Best. A more detailed account of the family will be found in the entry on his eldest brother, John Philipps, 1st Viscount St. Davids; two other brothers are noticed separately: Owen Cosby Philipps, Baron Kylsant and Laurence Richard Philipps, 1st

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