Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HOWELL, JENKIN (1836 - 1902), printer, writer, musician many Welsh books, besides the newspaper Y Gweithiwr Cymreig which he owned and edited. He was an authority on the folklore and the dialect of eastern Glamorgan, and at the Pontypridd national eisteddfod of 1893 he shared with T. C. Evans the prize for an essay on ' Glamorgan Folklore.' Two years before his death, he began a series of articles, in Y Geninen, on the older history of the Aberdare Valley
HOWELL, JOHN (Ioan ab Hywel, Ioan Glandyfroedd; 1774 - 1830), weaver, schoolmaster, poet, editor, and musician ; it is still of interest and use as a source-book for information on the literature of Wales, and on the history of the provincial eisteddfodau. Besides examples of the work of the editor (some of them written for the Carmarthen and Brecon eisteddfodau) the volume contains a selection of poems by Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir), Jenkin Thomas, Cwm-du, Cardiganshire, Eliezer Williams, Daniel Evans
HOWELLS, HOWELL (1750 - 1842), Methodist cleric Born 12 May 1750 at Ystrad-gynlais, Brecknock. As a young man he joined the Methodist society and began to preach when he was travelling in North Wales with John Evans (died 1784) of Cil-y-cwm. He was educated at Llanddowror school c. 1778 and was ordained deacon in 1781; when he was ordained priest in 1782 he was referred to as 'curate of Ystradgynlais.' After that, he is said to have served at
HOYLE, WILLIAM EVANS (1855 - 1926), first director of the National Museum of Wales
HUGHES, ARTHUR (1878 - 1965), writer a home for a long period at the home of Barbara Llwyd (Mrs. J.O. Evans) and maintained his own 'batch', i.e. a bachelor's cottage, until his marriage, 10 January 1918, to a widow, Mrs. H.M. Durrouzet, daughter of Erw Fair farm, and grand-daughter of W.E. Williams, founder of the district of Treorci in Chubut. They had 3 daughters, two of them good poets, one of whom, Irma, became a chaired bard of
HUGHES, CLEDWYN (BARON CLEDWYN OF PENRHOS), (1916 - 2001), politician disaster, Hughes took swift and decisive action: Judge Edmund Davies was appointed to head a public enquiry and a Derelict Lands Unit was established within the Welsh Office to prevent similar disasters. To the end of his life, Hughes described the Aberfan disaster as the darkest days of his life and the memories remained painful. At the 1966 general election the Labour Party issued a separate Welsh
HUGHES, DAVID ROWLAND (Myfyr Eifion; 1874 - 1953), secretary of the National Eisteddfod '. After returning to Wales he was elected treasurer (1941) and president (1944-45) of Undeb Cymru Fydd. He was one of the pioneers and a founding member both of the Caernarfonshire and of the Denbighshire Historical Societies (1925-50). His main contribution was as secretary of the National Eisteddfod Association in 1935-36, and as joint secretary (1937-47) with Cynan (Sir Cynan Albert Evans Jones
HUGHES, DEWI ARWEL (1947 - 2017), Christian leader and theologian Dewi Arwel Hughes was born on 1 January 1947 at Bugeilfod, Llangwm, Denbighshire, the youngest of four children of Gruffudd Evans Hughes (1912-1975), agricultural merchant, and his wife Annie (née Edwards, 1908-1957), a seamstress. He had three sisters, Elen Haf, Lona Wyn and Gwenan Arwel. A year after his birth the family moved to Garth Isa, Frongoch, near Bala. His mother died in 1957, when
HUGHES, EDWARD ERNEST (1877 - 1953), first Professor of history at the University College, Swansea, and a notable intermediary between the university and the public J.C. Evans, to whom he acknowledged his great indebtedness, as well as to the school. In 1895 he went to U.C.W., Aberystwyth, graduating with first-class honours in history in 1898. Then he went to Jesus College, Oxford, and graduated with second-class honours in modern history in 1902. He often talked of the kindness of Sir John Rhŷs to him and of his enjoyment of the meetings of the Dafydd ap
HUGHES, GARFIELD HOPKIN (1912 - 1969), university lecturer and Welsh scholar attention to the 17th c. He published Rhagymadroddion 1547-1659 (1951); an edition of Theophilus Evans, Drych y prif oesoedd, 1716 (1961); Theophilus Evans a Drych y prif oesoedd (1963); Gweithiau William Williams, Pantycelyn, II, prose (1967); and numerous articles in Welsh journals, as well as a number of contributions to The Dictionary of Welsh Biography. His other main fields of research included the
HUGHES, HUGH (1790 - 1863), artist and author Born at Pwll-y-gwichiad, Llandudno (christened 20 February 1790), son of Thomas and Jane Hughes, and educated in a school kept by his grandfather Hugh Williams at Meddiant, Llansantffraid-Glan-Conwy. His mother died in 1802, and his father shortly afterwards at Liverpool, where Hugh Hughes learned wood-engraving and oil-painting; the first known work of his is the portrait of John Evans, Bala
HUGHES, HUGH JOHN (1912 - 1978), schoolteacher, author, editor and reviewer poems were included in Awen Meirion (1961) in which Emlyn Evans, the general editor, paid him a special tribute in the preface for his thorough work in connection with this volume. A translation by him of an unknown English hymn was included (no.128) in Caneuon Ffydd (2001). He also enjoyed tracing the meanings of Welsh place-names and the derivation of words, but this is not surprising since he was a

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