JAMES, JOHN (Ioan ap Iago), poet and hymnwriter, who lived in the second half of the 18th century and the early part of the 19th

there is considerable uncertainty about the dates of his birth and death. He lived in the Cil-y-cwm district of Llandovery and was a carpenter by trade. He never received formal schooling, but through his own efforts became a good scholar, his main interests being history, political economy, and poetry. He turned to religion at an early age, was a member of Soar Calvinistic Methodist chapel at Cil-y-cwm for forty-six years and an elder for twenty-five years. He was generally known as 'Jacki Siams.' He became a fairly well known poet in his day and wrote a number of hymns. In 1828, after his death, J. Jones of Llandovery published a small volume of his works, Ehediadau Barddonol.

Author

• Reverend Daniel Evans, (1962)

Sources

• Ehediadau Barddonol ar amryw destunau yn cynnwys sylwadau ar Gwymp a Chodiad Dyn, Teyrnas y Cyfryngwr, myfyrdodau ar ryfeloedd, ac amserau caledion a therfysgol; ynghyd ag amryw destunau duwiol a dyddanol ereill, 1828

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Published date: 1959

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