Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, JANE (Deborah Maldwyn; 1811 - 1878), hymnist are written in too long and heavy a metre to be suitable for congregational singing. Of a total of some fifteen published works, mostly slight 16mos of from twelve to forty-eight pages, perhaps the most important are: Llyfr Hymnau (Carmarthen, 1846), Galargan am y diweddar Barch. Henry Rees, Liverpool (Carmarthen, 1869), Yr Epha lawn o ymborth ysprydol i bererinion Seion (Caernarvon, 1877), Telyn y
HUGHES, JOHN (1796 - 1860), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author - Calvinists of his presbytery doubted his orthodoxy. His chief motive in deserting his school for shop-keeping at Adwy'r Clawdd and afterwards (1838) at Liverpool had been the gaining of greater leisure for preaching; and soon after his removal to Liverpool it was arranged that with Henry Rees, he should be released from other cares to undertake the pastoral charge of the Calvinistic Methodist causes in
HUGHES, JOHN (Glanystwyth; 1842 - 1902), Wesleyan minister February 1902. He married Emily, daughter of the Rev. Henry Wilcox; Henry Maldwyn Hughes was their son. He edited Y Winllan, 1874-7; Y Gwyliedydd, 1890-2; and Yr Eurgrawn, 1897-1902. He also edited the new hymn book, 1900. He was the author of Arwrgerdd John Penri, Oesau Boreu y Byd, Bywyd Crist, Delw y Nefol (sermons), Esponiad ar y Colosiaid, and Cofiant Isaac Jones. He was the initiator of the
HUGHES, JOHN (1787 - 1860), archdeacon, Evangelical cleric, and writer , near Oxford. There, the students at the university, among them John Henry Newman, flocked to hear him. Returning to Wales, he became incumbent of Aberystwyth and, at the same time, curate of Llanbadarn-fawr, of which latter place he became vicar in 1833. His first task at Aberystwyth was to build the church of S. Michael's. Before that, however, he had been invited to succeed the popular evangelist
HUGHES, JOHN HENRY (Ieuan o Leyn; 1814 - 1893), Congregational minister and poet
HUGHES, STEPHEN (1622 - 1688), early Nonconformist i'w Fab by Henry Evans. With three other men he translated John Bunyan's famous work and this was published in 1688 under the title of Taith neu Siwrnai y Pererin. It is evident that he did very much to help forward the plans of Thomas Gouge in regard to Wales whilst continuing to preach to the scattered congregations of Carmarthenshire and its surrounding district. He died at Swansea in 1688, his
HUGHES, WILLIAM BULKELEY (1797 - 1882), Member of Parliament Inn, from which in 1824, he was called to the Bar. But while still actively engaged on the Oxford and Chester circuits, he came forward as Tory candidate in the Caernarvon boroughs election of 1837, and defeated captain Charles Henry Paget. Thus began his long parliamentary connection with this constituency, extending, but for a short hiatus between 1859 and 1865, over a period of nearly forty years
HUGHES, MARGARET (Leila Megáne; 1891 - 1960), singer Choral Society, and in 1907 she made her first solo appearance singing ' Gwlad y delyn ' (John Henry). Soon afterwards she received her first contract to sing in a concert, in Abersoch, for which she received an acknowledgement of 15 shillings. One of those who heard her sing in that concert was Harry Evans, who prophesied that she would become a famous singer if she had a competent tutor. In the
HUMPHREYS, HENRY (fl. 1819-1824), harpist
HUW LLŶN (fl. c. 1552-1594), poet there is no proof that they were the same person. Some of Huw Llŷn's poetry remains, and this includes poems to Walter Devereux (earl of Essex), Henry Rowland (bishop of Bangor), Simon Thelwall of Plas y Ward, and to the South Walians Thomas Vaughan (Pembrey), Gruffudd Dwnn (Ystrad Merthyr), William and George Owen (Henllys), and John Lloyd (Cilgwyn). A bardic controversy occurred between him and Siôn
HYWEL ab OWAIN GWYNEDD (d. 1170), soldier and poet against Henry II. In 1159 he accompanied a Norman force from Carmarthen against the lord Rhys, then in revolt against Henry II. This move was probably prompted by Owain Gwynedd's desire to keep on good terms with the Crown. We hear little more of Hywel until his death in battle against his half-brothers near Pentraeth, Anglesey (1170), in the strife that followed the death of Owain Gwynedd. Hywel was
IEUAN ap HYWEL SWRDWAL (fl. 1430-1480), poet ladi our leding tw haf.' Elegies to him were written by Hywel ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys, Llywelyn Goch y Dant and Gruffydd ap Dafydd Fychan. There is a tradition that he, like his father, wrote a history of Wales from the time of Cadwaladr to that of Henry VI, but the work is not extant.

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