HUGHES, DAVID (died 1609) founder of Beaumaris grammar school

Born in the parish of Llantrisant, Anglesey, he may have been the David Hughes of county Caernarvon, born 1561, who entered Gray's Inn from Magdalen College, Oxford, 28 January 1583 (Foster, Alumni. Oxon.; Gray's Inn Admission Register, 28 January 1582-3), but another account of him, claiming to be based on sources not now available, suggests that he was born about 1536 and received no university education (John Morgan, David Hughes, Founder of Beaumaris Free Grammar School … 1883; see also Poetical Works of Richard Llwyd, 21n). Settling in Norfolk, he was appointed steward of the manor of Woodrising about 1596. In 1602 he established the Free Grammar School at Beaumaris. His will, dated 30 September 1609, endowed the school and made provision for the establishment of an almshouse at Llannerch-y-medd. The almshouse was actually built at Beaumaris.

Author

• Professor Glyn Roberts, (1904 - 1962)

Sources

• David Hughes, M. A., and his free grammar school at Beaumaris an historical essay (Bangor 1864), 1864, reissued (ed. by Vaughan Bowen) 1933
• E. Madoc Jones, 'The Free Grammar School of Beaumaris' in Anglesey Antiquarian Society & Field Club Transactions, 1922
• Reports of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, Gawdy MSS., Tenth Report, Appendix II, 67, 68, 96
• Report of the Charity Commission, part I, xli, 725
• J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families (1914), 52
• NLW Archives: NLW MS 1527E (Kinmel MS. 27)

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• Wikidata: Q20203339

Published date: 1959

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