Isaac Daniel Hooson

His grandfather was one of a group of lead miners who left Cornwall for Wales and settled in Flintshire.

Hooson began work at the solicitors Messrs Morris and Jones in Liverpool in 1897.

[3] Following his call up for service in World War I, Hooson abandoned poetry for many years.

[1] Hooson is best known for his poems written for children and he also wrote a Welsh language adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin under the title Y Fantell Fraith in 1934.

[1] He was an active supporter of Urdd Gobaith Cymru, founded in 1922 by Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards in 1922 to protect the Welsh language.

Hooson was a member of the National Eisteddfod council and sat on numerous of its committees.