Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HOWELL, THOMAS (1588 - 1646), bishop promotions at the hands of Charles I, especially his appointment to the see of Bristol in 1644 at a critical juncture in the royal fortunes, and by the tributes paid him by David Lloyd and Thomas Fuller, is that he was the most loyal of Anglicans (he was the last bishop to be consecrated in England for sixteen years).
HOWELLS, GEORGE (1871 - 1955), principal of Serampore College, India Born 11 May 1871 at Llandafal Farm, Cwm, Monmouthshire, the son of George William and Jane Howells. He received his early education at the Board School, Cwm, and later went to the Grammar School, Pengam. Having won the Ward Scholarship, he entered Regent's Park Baptist College, London. He graduated at the University of London, and then pursued his studies in Oxford at Mansfield and Jesus Colleges
HUGHES GRIFFITHS, ANNIE JANE (1873 - 1942), peace campaigner Humphreys Davies (1871-1926), Walter Ernest Llewelyn (1874-1941), and George (b. and d. 1877). She received some of her education as a child at school in Llangeitho, and then at various schools in Aberystwyth, London and Chester. She enrolled at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1892, spending three years there, but did not intend to read for a degree. In 1895, she went to London to keep
HUGHES, ARWEL (1909 - 1988), musician Committee for the National Eisteddfod at Cardiff in 1960 and 1978. He rose to prominence as a composer at the National Eisteddfod at Machynlleth in 1937 when his Fantasia for Strings on an Old Ecclesiastical Welsh Melody was conducted by Adrian Boult. This work was dedicated to J. Lloyd Williams (1854-1945), who had given him the melody. It was published in 1949 as Fantasia for Strings and became a
HUGHES, CLEDWYN (BARON CLEDWYN OF PENRHOS), (1916 - 2001), politician , Aberystwyth, where he graduated in 1937 with a degree in law. Harri Hughes was a fervent supporter of David Lloyd George and of his daughter, Megan Lloyd George, the Liberal member for Anglesey from 1929. At university, Cledwyn Hughes followed his family's Liberal tradition and he was elected chairman of the Liberal Society. On leaving Aberystwyth, Hughes returned to Holyhead where he worked to obtain
HUGHES, EZEKIEL (1766 - 1849), one of the early Welsh settlers in the far west of the U.S.A. Jones (1726 - 1795) of Llangadfan. In mid-July 1795, he, Edward Bebb, George Roberts, and others left Llanbryn-mair and walked to Carmarthen and thence to Bristol; on the 6 August they sailed in the ' Maria ' for Philadelphia where they arrived on the 25 October After spending the winter in the city he, Edward Bebb, and one other set off in the spring on the long trail to the river Ohio. In three
HUGHES, HUGH JOHN (1912 - 1978), schoolteacher, author, editor and reviewer 1956 he published in Yr Athro a detailed series of '[Philological] notes on some of the poems in Blodeugerdd o'r Ddeunawfed Ganrif' aimed at Sixth Form pupils. He published many well-crafted reviews in Barddas, Barn, Journal of the Merioneth History & Record Society, Genhinen and Taliesin during 1967-78. D. Tecwyn Lloyd said of H. J. Hughes (in trans.): 'Reviewing was his main contribution and in
HUGHES, JAMES (Iago Trichrug; 1779 - 1844), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and Bible commentator opus' was his commentary, Esboniad ar y Beibl, published by Evan Lloyd (1800 - 1879), the printer at Mold. This work was begun in 1829 but Hughes died before it was finished. It was thought at one time that it was completed by Roger Edwards but it is now considered that this was done by John Jones (1790 - 1855) of Liverpool. 'Esboniad Siâms Huws,' as it was called, was held in high esteem for
HUGHES, JOHN GRUFFYDD MOELWYN (1866 - 1944), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 30 May 1866; son of Griffith and Elizabeth Hughes, at Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire. After leaving the board school he became a postman for a period, and then a clerk in a solicitor's office at Blaenau Ffestiniog. From there he went to Porthmadoc to the office of Messrs. William and David Lloyd George. He lived at the time at Pentrefelin and it was at Cedron chapel there
HUGHES, MEGAN WATTS (1842 - 1907), vocalist the Gwent and Morgannwg musical festival of 1863, she was able to receive lessons from Miss Sarah Ada Gedrych, Cardiff, and Mills, the organist at Llandaff cathedral. In 1864 she went to the Royal Academy of Music, London, where she studied under Garcia. Owing to ill-health, however, she was not able to complete the course. In 1871 she married a London bank-official named Lloyd Hughes. Mrs. Watts
HUGHES, OWEN (d. 1708), attorney him by revivifying the claims of that ancient borough, and before the sleepy citizens of Beaumaris had awakened to the fact, he was M.P. for the borough and enjoyed the honour for three years (1698-1700). He amassed a large sum-total of lands and an inordinate sum of money, so that his last will gave new life to decadent estates and put them on their feet. Bodfan by Llandwrog went to Lloyd Bodvel
HUGHES, ROBERT GWILYM (1910 - 1997), poet and minister with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist denomination . Contemporaries with him at Friars included Dr Carl Witton-Davies, who brought into existence the Council of Christians and Jews; W. R. P. George, poet and solicitor, Huw Wheldon, head of BBC television, and Professor A. O. H. Jarman, who was Professor of Welsh at the University College of Wales, Cardiff. R. Gwilym Hughes was accepted as a student at Bangor university college in October 1928 and he often spoke

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