Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, WILLIAM (1757 - 1846), Independent minister, hymn-writer, and composer Second son of Hugh Jones and Jane Williams (widow) of Gadlys, Llanwnda, Caernarfonshire; he was christened 25 June 1757. He married Jane Jones, 20 February 1783, at Llanwnda, where too their son John was christened, 2 December 1784. He joined the Independents at Caernarvon when George Lewis was resuscitating Independency there, and in 1788 was set apart to be a lay preacher. After the departure
HUGHES, WILLIAM JOHN (GARETH HUGHES; 1894 - 1965), actor worked as dialect coach to Bette Davis and the cast of the Emlyn Williams play The Corn Is Green, before accepting an offer to serve as a Lay Minister for the Order of the Holy Cross on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Reservation at Nixon, Nevada. Brother David served at Nixon, at nearby Wadsworth and at Fort McDermitt on the Nevada Oregon border until 1956. The methods he employed in his service were
HUGHES, WILLIAM ROBERT (1798? - 1879), healer of cancer and cancerous warts Born at Tanyrallt, in the parish of Abererch, Caernarfonshire, of a family reputed to have an exceptional ability to cure cancerous warts, etc. After marriage he moved to live at Mur Crysto, Llangybi, in 1821. He was a friend of David Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion'), Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'), and Robert Williams ('Robert ap Gwilym Ddu'). So great was his power that he became known as ' Dewin y
HUGHES, MARGARET (Leila Megáne; 1891 - 1960), singer Born in Bethesda, Caernarfonshire, 5 April 1891, one of the ten children of Thomas Jones, a member of the Caernarfonshire police force, and Jane Phillip (née Owen) his wife. In 1894 the family moved to Pwllheli but her mother died when she was 7 years old. Her father sacrificed much to give her a musical education. She had singing lessons for a period with John Williams, conductor of Caernarfon
HUMPHREYS, HUGH (1817 - 1896), printer and publisher which included printing, bookselling and photography amongst its activities. His first apprentice was Griffith Parry. Hugh Humphreys became a pioneer of cheap books in Wales with his series of penny books, on the lines of Chambers's Miscellany, and he also published a series of sixpenny books. Amongst the most important books which he issued were the edition (1883) of Pennant's Tours in Wales, which
HUMPHREYS, HUMPHREY (1648 - 1712), bishop, antiquary, historian, and genealogist Gruffydd (1643 - 1730), wrote cywyddau in his honour, and the prose-writers Ellis Wynne, Edward Samuel, and Samuel Williams acknowledged their indebtedness, the first and last by dedicating to him their works, Rheol Buchedd Sanctaidd and Amser a Diwedd Amser. To Edward Lhuyd, the bishop was ' incomparably the best skill'd in our Antiquities of any person in Wales.' James Tyrrell (1642 - 1718), the
HUMPHREYS, ROBERT (fl. c. 1720), poet . T. H. Parry-Williams, 1931, 201).
HUWS, ALUN 'SBARDUN' (1948 - 2014), musician and composer went on to become a member of another very popular contemporary folk group, Mynediad Am Ddim, touring to Brittany and Ireland on several occasions. In 2005/06 Alun produced a documentary film for the Welsh language TV channel S4C called 'Llythyrau Ellis Williams'. He co wrote the script and composed the music for the film with his life-long friend and contemporary in the Tebot Piws and Mynediad Am
HUWS, WILLIAM PARI (1853 - 1936), Independent minister Born 27 September 1853 at Penrhyndeudraeth, son of Gwilym Prysor, a cultured poet and writer. The family moved to Dolwyddelan where he and his brothers, the Rev. G. Parry Hughes (Calvinistic Methodist) of Morfa Nefyn and the Rev. Rowland Hughes of Cardiff, were brought up. After leaving elementary school he worked for a time in the Blaenau Ffestiniog quarries, after which he went to Llanrwst
HYWEL YSTORM (or YSTORYN) (fl. first half of the 14th century), clerwr or composer of lampoons In Mostyn MS. 118 (509) his name is given as 'Ystoryn,' but in R.B.H. Poetry, col. 1337 we find 'Ystorym' above a scurrilous poem of his to 'Adam the tinker.' G. J. Williams (in Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg, 6-8) attributes to him all the anonymous abusive verse which follows to the end of col. 1348, and on these grounds he makes him contemporary with Casnodyn - see col. 1341, 1. 42. If all
IFOR HAEL, patron of bards ; Lewis Glyn Cothi in the 15th century believed that Dafydd ap Gwilym had predeceased his patron - 'Aeth Dafydd gwawdydd drwy gwr/I Nefoedd o flaen Ifor.' For a further consideration of the matter consult Williams and Roberts, Cywyddau Dafydd ap Gwilym, 1914, xvii-xx, and for Bassaleg see Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, vii, 277, and see further the article on Dafydd ap Gwilym.
ISAAC, DAVID LLOYD (1818 - 1876), cleric and author Born at Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, 10 February 1818. He was a member of Aberduar Baptist church (Llanybydder, Carmarthenshire) (D. Jones, Hanes Bed. Deheubarth, 336), and went to Abergavenny Baptist Academy in 1835 (Rufus Williams, Hanes Athrofeydd y Bedyddwyr, 35), and thence to the newly-opened Baptist College at Pontypool (Hanes Athrofeydd y Bedyddwyr, 65) - his name is the first on the list of

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