Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HOLLAND, HUGH (1569 - 1633), poet and traveller attributed to Hugh Holland, probably due to a confusion with Henry Holland, the son of Philemon Holland. Hugh Holland of Denbigh was a scholar and poet well esteemed in his day; he was a member of the Mermaid Club and his sonnet to the first folio suggests that he may have known Shakespeare personally. Anthony Wood saw a copy of his epitaph, made by Holland himself - 'Miserimus peccator, musarum et
HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY (1844 - 1889), poet and priest more ascetic way of life, one that would lead him to convert to Roman Catholicism, a move that led to his estrangement from his family. After graduation he was helped by (Cardinal) John Henry Newman, the leader of the Oxford Catholic converts to obtain a teaching post. At this time he turned away from poetry, even burning his poems, and decided to enter the ministry as a Jesuit. While he was studying
HOWARD, JAMES HENRY (1876 - 1947), preacher, author and socialist
HOWELL, JOHN HENRY (1869 - 1944), pioneer of technical education in New Zealand
HUGHES, ANNIE HARRIET (Gwyneth Vaughan; 1852 - 1910), writer three of Henry Drummond's works: The Greatest Thing in the World; The City without Foundations; and 'The Christian Programme' (unpublished). From 1897 onward, much of her work in prose and verse is to be found in Cymru (O.M.E.). Yr Haul, Perl y Plant, Cymru'r Plant, Y Genhinen, Papur Pawb, Y Cymro, Celtia, Celtic Review, Young Wales, etc.; she edited the women's page in Yr Eryr, 1894-5, Y Cymro, 1906
HUGHES, CLEDWYN (BARON CLEDWYN OF PENRHOS), (1916 - 2001), politician Cledwyn Hughes was born on 14 September 1916 at 13 Plashyfryd Terrace, Holyhead, the elder son of Henry David Hughes and Emma Davies, née Hughes, who was a young widow with a little son, Emlyn, when she re-married in 1915. Through his father, Cledwyn Hughes was descended from several generations of slate quarrymen in Caernarfonshire. Henry Hughes, widely known as Harri Hughes, left school at the
HUGHES, EMRYS DANIEL (1894 - 1969), politician, journalist and author Born 10 July 1894, the son of Rev. J.R. Hughes, 94 Henry Street, Tonypandy, Glamorganshire, minister (C.M.) and Annie (née Williams) his wife. He was educated at the council school at Abercynon, Glamorganshire, Mountain Ash secondary school and Leeds college of education. As a schoolmaster and journalist at Pontypridd and the Rhondda, he became an enthusiastic member of the Labour Party and came
HUGHES, HENRY (1841 - 1924), Calvinistic Methodist minister and historian Williams, Llecheiddior, by Richard Eames and Henry Hughes (Bangor, 1885). He was also a considerable authority on the old families of Caernarvonshire. He died 13 August 1924.
HUGHES, HENRY BAILEY (1833 - 1887), Roman Catholic priest Born at Caernarvon, 1833, where his father, Howell Hughes, was curate, afterwards rector of Trefriw (1833-9) and of Rhoscolyn, Anglesey (1839-48). Henry Bailey Hughes joined the Roman Catholic Church when he was about sixteen. He studied at the Dominican College in Lisbon and, after entering the priesthood, travelled as a missioner in Europe, Africa, and the United States. On returning to Wales
HUGHES, HENRY HAROLD (1864 - 1940), archaeologist
HUGHES, HENRY MALDWYN (1875 - 1940), Wesleyan minister and theologian
HUGHES, HUGH ROBERT (1827 - 1911) Kinmel, Dinorben,, genealogist genealogy. He was particularly interested in the history of the ancient families of North Wales, as is shown by his frequent and valuable contributions to Bye-Gones and his correspondence with fellow enthusiasts. He married, 1853, Florentia Emily Liddell, second daughter of Henry Thomas, 2nd lord Ravensworth, by whom he had issue Hugh Seymour Bulkeley Lewis Hughes, the heir to the estate, one other son

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