Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUMPHREYS, ROBERT (1779 - 1832), Wesleyan minister Born at Llanelidan, Denbighshire. Spiritual conviction broke upon him under the ministry of Edward Jones (1778 - 1837) of Bathafarn (1801). He began to preach in 1804 at Llangynog, Montgomeryshire, whither he had gone to work in order to help the churches there, and at Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant and Llanfyllin. He was admitted to the ministry in 1805. He married the niece of squire Vaughan of
HUMPHREYS, ROBERT (fl. c. 1720), poet replies by Evan Jones, a former parson of the place. The following manuscripts contain examples of his poetry: Cwrtmawr MS 206B, Cwrtmawr MS 463D; NLW MS 276A, NLW MS 436B, NLW MS 783B, NLW MS 1238B: Barddoniaeth, NLW MS 1244D, NLW MS 1579C, NLW MS 1580B, NLW MS 1666B: Llyfr Silin, NLW MS 4697A, NLW MS 11993A, NLW MS 12449E. One stanza, in free metre, is printed in Llawysgrif Richard Morris o Gerddi (ed
HUMPHREYS, THOMAS JONES (1841 - 1934), Wesleyan minister
HUW ARWYSTLI (fl. 1550), poet Little is known of his career. He is believed to have been a native of the parish of Trefeglwys in the cantref of Arwystli, Montgomeryshire, and to have spent most of his life in that area. He composed a considerable 'amount of verse to the landed families of that neighbourhood. For his works, see J. Afan Jones ' Gweithiau Barddonol Huw Arwystli ' (M.A. dissertation, University of Wales, 1926
HUWS, ALUN 'SBARDUN' (1948 - 2014), musician and composer career in television, working in turn as a researcher, producer and director for HTV Wales and the BBC. He married Gwenno Peris Jones on 29 May 1978. In spite of a long and successful career in broadcasting, Alun, or 'Sbardun' as he was known to all, will be best remembered for his musical talent and his important and prolific contribution to the contemporary Welsh language music scene. During his time
HUWS, RHYS JONES (1862 - 1917), Independent minister
HYWEL ap DAFYDD ap IEUAN ap RHYS (fl. c. 1450-1480) Raglan, poet (Neath) and members of the Herbert family of Pembroke and Raglan. It appears from one of the two bardic controversies between him and Guto'r Glyn that he was family poet at Raglan. Other ymrysonau were composed between Bedo Brwynllys and Hywel, and also between Gruffudd ap Dafydd Fychan, Llywelyn Goch y Dant and Hywel. According to Edward Jones (apparently on the authority of Rhys Cain) he was an M.A
HYWEL CILAN (fl. c. the end of the 15th century), poet of whose work many examples remain in manuscript. It appears that he was a native of Edeirnion; Cwrtmawr MS 454B (140) states that he was from Llandderfel; Owen Jones gives him as the owner of Llawr y Cilan in Llandrillo - thus providing a possible explanation for the poet's name. The large majority of his poems are addressed to members of various landed families of North Wales, including
HYWEL GETHIN (fl. c. 1485), poet a native, it is said, of Clynnog-fawr, Caernarfonshire. No details concerning his life remain, but the dates given him, by Owen Jones, Gweirydd ap Rhys, Myrddin Fardd, and Wiliam Owen (viz. 1570-1600) are obviously too late, because a cywydd written by him in praise of the four sons of Rhys ap Hywel ap Madog of Llanystumdwy remains in manuscript; these four persons lived at the end of the 15th
HYWEL SWRDWAL (fl. 1430-1460), poet Hugh Swrdwal who is said to have been granted the manor of Aberyscir for services rendered to Bernard Newmarch when the latter conquered Brecknock (Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., i, 61). However, it is said that Hywel Swrdwal spent the greater part of his life in Cydewain, Montgomeryshire, that he was the bailiff of Newtown between 1454 and 1456, and that apart from
INSOLE, JAMES HARVEY (1821 - 1901), colliery proprietor entered into partnership with his father as George Insole and Son, colliery proprietors and coal shippers. He also received an inheritance left him by his great-uncle, a wealthy saddler's ironmonger of Birmingham, Warwickshire, who had died in 1831. James married Mary Ann (née Jones, 1818-1882), the daughter of his great-uncle's business partner, in Edgbaston, Warwickshire, on 23 December 1843. James
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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