Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, THOMAS ISFRYN (1865 - 1942), Wesleyan minister Moderator of the Wesleyan Assembly in 1918. He contributed many articles (mainly on theological topics) to Yr Eurgrawn Wesleaidd ('Papurau Diwinyddol ' 1911; ' Y Tu Hwnt i'r Llen ', 1921-2; and other shorter series) under his own name and under the nom-de-plume ' Ifor Glyn', articles for Y Geiriadur Beiblaidd, a commentary on Philippiaid a Philemon, and a theological catechism, Yr Arweinydd.
HUGHES, THOMAS JONES (1822 - 1891), cleric and grammarian inspector of schools to bishop Short of S. Asaph, and wrote a number of articles to Welsh Church publications. Amongst these were two series in Yr Haul, one on the vocabulary of the Welsh Bible (1885-6) and the other on the Welsh of the Book of Common Prayer (1887-8). At the Aberffraw eisteddfod of 1849 he won a prize for an essay on the syntax and characteristics of the Welsh and English languages.
HUGHES, WILLIAM (1757 - 1846), Independent minister, hymn-writer, and composer Second son of Hugh Jones and Jane Williams (widow) of Gadlys, Llanwnda, Caernarfonshire; he was christened 25 June 1757. He married Jane Jones, 20 February 1783, at Llanwnda, where too their son John was christened, 2 December 1784. He joined the Independents at Caernarvon when George Lewis was resuscitating Independency there, and in 1788 was set apart to be a lay preacher. After the departure
HUGHES, WILLIAM BULKELEY (1797 - 1882), Member of Parliament its absorption by the L.N.W.R. Co. It was he, moreover, who organised the banquet given to Robert Stephenson at the George Hotel, Bangor, in August 1851, to commemorate the opening of the Britannia tubular bridge. He was twice married: (1) in 1825, to Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Jonathan Nettleship of Mattersey Abbey, Northampton, and widow of Henry Wormald of Woodhouse, Leeds, and (2) to
HUGHES, MARGARET (Leila Megáne; 1891 - 1960), singer French opera (sung in French), works by Handel, Welsh songs, and Elgar's Sea pictures, with the composer himself conducting the performance. She married (2), 6 October 1951, in Llanrwst, William John Hughes, Efailnewydd, one of her contemporaries who had performed in many concerts with her before she went to the Royal Academy of Music. In Pwllheli national eisteddfod, 1956, a scholarship bearing her
HUMPHREYS, EDWARD MORGAN (1882 - 1955), journalist, writer and broadcaster gift of composing acute biographical articles. He published Dirgelwch yr anialwch (1911); Rhwng rhyfeloedd (n.d.); Yr etifedd coll (n.d.); Y llaw gudd (1924); Cymru a'r wasg (1924); Dirgelwch Gallt y Ffrwd (1938); Detholiad o lythyrau'r hen ffarmwr (1939); D. Lloyd George (1943); Ceulan y llyn du (1944); Y wasg yng Nghymru (1945); Gwŷr enwog gynt, (1950), 2 (1953); Profiadau golygydd (1950); and
HUMPHREYS, EDWARD OWEN (1899 - 1959), educationalist Born 2 November 1899, in Hendre, Cefnddwysarn, Merionethshire. He was educated in Sarnau school, Bala grammar school, and Bangor University College, where he graduated in chemistry and agricultural science in 1922. From 1923 to 1928, he taught in Banks Road elementary school, and Lister Drive Technical Institute in Liverpool. He was awarded an M.A. by Liverpool University in 1930 for a thesis on
HUMPHREYS, HUGH (1817 - 1896), printer and publisher . He took a prominent part in the life of the town and was mayor in 1876-7. He was a local preacher among the Wesleyans. Politically he was a Conservative. He married 5 June 1845, a Cornishwoman, Mary Crane Davy, daughter of captain Davy, Llandudno, an engineer; died 2 May 1896, and was buried at Llanbeblig.
HUMPHREYS, THOMAS JONES (1841 - 1934), Wesleyan minister Born 16 May 1841 at Darowen, Montgomeryshire, grandson on his father's side of one of the first trustees of Tŷ-cerrig Wesleyan chapel. He was educated at the Normal College, Swansea (1861-2), and became first a salaried preacher in the Pwllheli circuit (1862-5) and then a minister in the following circuits: Amlwch (1865), Abergele (1867), Blaenau Ffestiniog (1869), Llanberis (1872), Bagillt (1874
HUW ap RHISIART ap DAFYDD (fl. second half of 16th century) Cefn Llanfair, Llŷn, bard father of the more famous bard Richard Hughes (died 1618). In NLW MS 16B (239) are six englynion composed by the bard when he was imprisoned in London (with other men from Llŷn) in the time of trouble with the earl of Leicester over Forest of Snowdon lands, whilst in N.L.W. Glyn Davies MS. 2 (15) and NLW MS 3048D (203) is an elegy on John Smith, Caernarvon. Other examples (or copies) of his poems
HUW ARWYSTLI (fl. 1550), poet ; Brogyntyn MSS. 1, 5; Bodewryd MS 1D; Bodewryd MS 2B; Cwrtmawr MS 200B, Cwrtmawr MS 206B, Cwrtmawr MS 242B, Cwrtmawr MS 244B, Cwrtmawr MS 454B; Swansea MS. 1; Esgair MS. 81; Wynnstay MSS. 1, 2; and Gwysaney MS. 25 - all in the National Library of Wales.
HUW LLIFON (fl. c. 1570-1607), poet and sexton of Llanefydd, Denbighshire. Some of his work remains in manuscripts and this includes religious englynion, a cywydd to the Holly Tree at Meifod, another begging a gown for the poet from David Holland of Kinmel, and an elegy upon the death in 1607/8 of Ffowc ap Rhobert of Meiriadog, Denbighshire. It is evident that he lived to a fairly great age; references to this are found in the last two of

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