DAVIES, JOHN IDRIS (Ioan Idris; 1821 - 1889), Welsh-American poet

Name: John Idris Davies
Pseudonym: Ioan Idris
Date of birth: 1821
Date of death: 1889
Parent: John Davies
Gender: Male
Occupation: Welsh-American poet
Area of activity: Poetry
Author: Robert (Bob) Owen

Born at Bala, Meironnydd, son of John Davies, bookbinder and stationer, he attended school at Dolgelley and was afterwards apprenticed to his uncle, Morris Davies (Meurig Ebrill, 1780 - 1861), carpenter, who, together with John Jones (Idris Fychan, 1825 - 1887), taught him the Welsh bardic rules. At the age of 21 he emigrated to Utica, N.Y., where he became an elder in the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist church and married. He removed to Cambria, Wisconsin, and afterwards (1868) to Judson, Minnesota, where he died 13 January 1889. Ioan Idris was considered a good poet, and many of his compositions were published in Welsh-American newspapers and journals; others remain in manuscript.

Author

Robert (Bob) Owen, (1885 - 1962)

Sources

Thomas E. Hughes, David Edwards, Hugh G. Roberts, and Thomas Hughes, Hanes Cymry Minnesota, Foreston a Lime Springs, Ia. (Minnesota 1895)

Additional Links

Wikidata: Q20733461

Published date: 1959

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