HUGHES, HUGH (1693 - 1776; 'Huw ap Huw' or 'Y Bardd Coch o Fôn'), gentleman and poet

Of Llwydiarth Esgob in the parish of Llandyfrydog, Anglesey, a corresponding member of the Cymmrodorion Society and a friend of the Morrises. According to J. E. Griffith he was the son of Hugh Hughes and Margaret, daughter of David ap William Parry of Beaumaris, tanner, born 1 August 1693. About 1719 he married Ann, daughter of Edward Jones of Rhydyrarian, and they had several children; she died early in 1759. Some years before the end of his life he moved from Llwydiarth Esgob to Mynydd y Gof Du, Holyhead; he died at Holyhead 6 May 1776 and was buried there. His will is extant.

Some autograph poems by Hugh Hughes are to be found in Wynnstay MS 8 . A collection of his work (including his 'Cywydd Annerch' to Goronwy Owen and the latter's celebrated reply) was published along with the poems of Goronwy Owen and Lewis Morris in Diddanwch teuluaidd , Hugh Jones of Llangwm, 1763, and some religious verse by him, mainly in the free metres, appeared in Diddanwch, iw Feddiannydd (Dublin, 1773). Another cywydd may be found in Dewisol Ganiadau yr Oes Hon, 1759, and a carol plygain in Blodeu-gerdd Cymry, 1759. He also translated two, possibly three, books into Welsh. These are Deial Ahaz, wedi ei Hysprydoli (Caerfyrddin, 1773), a translation of a work by David Tucker, and Rheolau Bywyd Dynol (Dublin, 1774), a translation of Robert Dodsley, The Oeconomy of Human Life; 'Deddfau Moesoldeb Naturiol. Wedi ei gyfieithu gan Hugh ab Hugh,' 1773, is listed in Rowlands, Cambrian Bibliography, but of this no copy appears to have survived. Letters to and from Hugh Hughes have been printed in Add. M.L. (index).

Author

• Rhiannon Francis Roberts, (1923 - 1990)

Sources

• J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families (1914), 101
• J. H. Davies (ed.), The Letters of Lewis, Richard, William, and John Morris, of Anglesey, (Morrisiaid Môn) 1728-1765 (1907–9), vol. I, vol. II (indexed by Hugh Owen)
• The National Library of Wales Journal, ii, 32
• Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales
• Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1841–1845 (London 1850)
• Bangor Manuscript at University College North Wales Library, Bangor 5944

Further Reading

• Wikipedia Article: Hugh Hughes

Works

• David Tucker, Peter Williams (ed.), Hugh Hughes (trnsl.), Deial Ahaz, wedi ei hysprydoli (Caerfyrddin 1773)

Additional Links

• VIAF: 44166158
• Wikidata: Q13129169

Published date: 1959

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