Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, THOMAS MCKENNY (1832 - 1917), geologist both junior and senior members of the university. He married, 1882, Mary Caroline, daughter of canon G. F. Weston. He died at Cambridge, 9 June 1917.
HUGHES, THOMAS ROWLAND (1903 - 1949), poet and novelist summer of 1934 he was appointed principal of the Mary Ward Settlement, London, and in 1935 organiser of feature programmes for the B.B.C. in Cardiff. He won the chair at the Machynlleth national eisteddfod in 1937 for an ode ' Y Ffin ' and that of the radio national eisteddfod (which was to have been held at Mountain Ash) in 1940, on an ode 'Pererinion'. About this time he composed his drama, Y Ffordd
HUGHES, WILLIAM (1849 - 1920), cleric and author Born 11 February 1849 at Bangor, son of David Hughes, master mariner, and Elizabeth his wife. Educated at S. David's College, Lampeter, he was curate of Glasinfryn 1872-5, chaplain of the Welsh church at Chester 1875-80, and vicar of Llanuwchllyn from 1880 till his death there on 29 March 1920; he married Mary Thomas, and had several children. He was a most diligent historical writer; of his
HUMPHREYS, HUGH (1817 - 1896), printer and publisher . He took a prominent part in the life of the town and was mayor in 1876-7. He was a local preacher among the Wesleyans. Politically he was a Conservative. He married 5 June 1845, a Cornishwoman, Mary Crane Davy, daughter of captain Davy, Llandudno, an engineer; died 2 May 1896, and was buried at Llanbeblig.
HUMPHREYS, Sir SALUSBURY PRYCE (1778 - 1845), rear-admiral Born in November 1778, son of Evan Humphreys, rector of Montgomery and of Clungunford; his mother (Mary) was daughter of Salusbury Pryce, for fifty-three years rector of Meifod. He is recorded here because as captain of the Leopard in 1807, he seized the American warship Chesapeake, an act which provoked a grave crisis in the U.S. attitude towards Britain, and also led to his own temporary
IEUAN ap HYWEL SWRDWAL (fl. 1430-1480), poet son of the poet Hywel Swrdwal. Both were associated with the Cydewain district of Powys and with Newtown. They are reputed to have lived for a time at Machynlleth. Among the poems attributed to Ieuan is an awdl to the Virgin Mary written in English but using the strict metres and orthography of Welsh. Its title is ' Owdyl i Fair a wnaeth kymbro yn Rhudychen ' etc. and its first line - 'O meichti
IEUAN ap RHYDDERCH ap IEUAN LLWYD (fl. 1430-1470), gentleman and poet probably graduated B.A., M.A., and B.C.L. (Llanstephan MS 155 - written about 1583 - asserts that he was ' a doctor of laws'). Ieuan boastfully maintains that he was a good athlete, capable of numerous feats, that he was very wealthy, and that he had held numerous offices (probably under the Crown). He wrote an awdl to Mary - wherein Latin and Welsh are interwoven in perfect cynghanedd. B.M. Add. MS
IEUAN BRYDYDD HIR HYNAF (fl. c. 1450), poet said to have been a native of Ardudwy, Meironnydd. No details regarding his life are known, but many of his poems remain in manuscript, and at least two of them have been printed. Included in his work are two poems to God, one to God and the Virgin Mary, another to S. Winefred, one written by the poet in his old age, a begging poem, and two poems of controversy, or ymryson, addressed to the poet
INNES, JAMES DICKSON (1887 - 1914), artist Born at Llanelly, 27 February 1887, was the youngest of the three sons of John Innes, accountant, and his wife, Alice Anne Mary (née Rees). He was educated at Christ College, Brecon, and then studied at the Carmarthen School of Art. In 1905 he won a scholarship at the Slade School of Art, London, where he stayed for two years. Innes was never of robust health and, in 1908, the doctors diagnosed
INNES, JOHN (1853? - 1923), accountant and antiquary Mary, only child of the Alfred C. G. Rees of Oystermouth, and between 1884 and 1887 three sons were born to them. In July 1913, for health reasons, he removed to Whitchurch, near Tavistock, Devon, where he died 7 May 1923, aged 70. He was a pioneer of the Mechanics' Institute which was later taken over by the borough as the Llanelly Public Library. He rendered good service as chairman of the library
INSOLE, GEORGE (1790 - 1851), colliery proprietor George Insole was baptized in Worcester on 5 December 1790, the fifth of six children of William Insole (1757-1811), a tenant farmer, and his wife Phebe (née Stinton, 1757-1824). George married Mary (née Finch (1791-1866) in Worcester on 11 August 1819 and they had six children: Helen (1820-1895), James Harvey (1821-1901), Emma (1823-1906), Julia (b. and d. 1825), Julia Ann (1830-1904), and
INSOLE, JAMES HARVEY (1821 - 1901), colliery proprietor James Harvey Insole was born in Worcester on 30 April 1821. He was the second of six children of George Insole (1790-1851) who was then a Worcester carpenter and later a South Wales colliery proprietor, and his wife Mary (née Finch, 1791-1866). In 1828, the family moved to Cardiff, Glamorganshire, and James attended schools there and in Melksham, Wiltshire. Upon reaching his majority in 1842, he

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