Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, GAINOR (1745 - 1780), fasting woman , filing into her narrow room in 'ones or twos'. We hear more about her abhorrence of food and its odour, and how every nook and cranny had to be blocked to prevent the steam from reaching her when soup was being boiled; or how she fainted after her sister Gwen came into her chamber with a loaf of white bread under her apron, so intolerable was the effect of the bread's aroma. Contemporary accounts of
HUGHES, JOSEPH TUDOR (Blegwryd; 1827 - 1841), boy harpist all manner of audiences by his skill as a performer on the harp and concertina. He accompanied his father and brothers on a concert tour in various parts of the United States in 1840, performing in the White House (Washington), and in New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, etc. He died by drowning in the river Hudson, 12 May 1841. His brother, David Edward Hughes, is separately noticed.
HUGHES, THOMAS ROWLAND (1903 - 1949), poet and novelist in Aberdare, where he remained for two years. He took his M.A. and with a fellowship awarded by his old college he proceeded to Oxford where he obtained the degree of B.Litt. for research on English periodical literature in the 19th century. He was lecturer in English and Welsh at Coleg Harlech, 1930-33. He married, 26 August 1933, Eirene, daughter of Tom Williams, Ogmore Vale, and his wife. In the
HUGHES, WILLIAM JOHN (GARETH HUGHES; 1894 - 1965), actor seen as controversial by many of his colleagues and his ability to cater to the needs of the Paiute people, whom he called 'his children', was regularly challenged. It was a difficult path, but his ability to reach the Paiutes in a way no other white man had to date was recognised by Bishop Lewis, Head of the Protestant Diocese of Nevada. He was greatly loved by the Paiutes he cared for. There was a
HYWEL DDA (d. 950), king and legislator book of the law as devised at the White House. In the 19th century Aneurin Owen discovered that the earliest manuscripts should be separated into three distinct 'codes' differing materially one from the other. Between the 10th and 12th cents. these differences grew, for the unity of Hywel's kingdom did not survive his death in 950. It is considered that the 'Code of Dyfed' (The Book of Blegywryd
JAMES, Sir DAVID JOHN (1887 - 1967), businessman and philanthropist administration of the trusts to Aberystwyth but died before the official opening of the Trusts' offices there in 1968. He received an hon. LL.D. degree of the University of Wales in 1957, was knighted in 1959, became a member of the Order of the White Robe of the Gorsedd in 1965, and the following year he was granted the freedom of the borough of Aberystwyth. His wife died 20 February 1963 and he died 7 March
JEFFREYS, JUSTINA (1787 - 1869), gentlewoman Leslie (1790-1865). It was not uncommon at the time for men stationed in Jamaica to take a mistress for the duration of their postings and the illegitimate offspring were recorded in the baptismal registers as the 'supposed children' of their fathers. At the end of his Jamaica posting McMurdo went on to Canada where he married a well-connected white woman, and started a legitimate family, before
JENKINS, KATHRYN (1961 - 2009), scholar and hymnologist church in 1986 and she was a lay preacher. She was invested with the White Robe of the Gorsedd of Bards in 1993. She was an effective college lecturer and a popular guest speaker at many societies up and down the country. She was a member of the University of Wales Court from 1998 onwards and also of the University Board of Celtic Studies; she served as chair of the Presbyterian Church Education Board
JONES family Llwyn-rhys, is based on a misunderstanding of David Jones's title-page and preface to the Secret History of White Hall. What he says is that the author of the letters which he claimed to have arranged for publication, a kind of secret agent in the employment of an English nobleman, secured a position as English interpreter to Belou, clerk of dispatches to Louvois. Little reliance can be placed on the
JONES, DAVID LEWIS (1945 - 2010), Librarian of the House of Lords Eirene: A Tribute (2001), a warm personal tribute to the Baroness (Eirene) White of Rhymney, with whom for years he had enjoyed a close friendship. He also published the highly acclaimed Nelson and Parliament as a bi-centenary tribute in 2005. During his last years he was working assiduously on a detailed bibliography of the history of parliament which it is hoped will now be published posthumously. He
JONES, DILLWYN OWEN PATON (1923 - 1984), jazz pianist local concerts in the evenings. During service in the Navy between 1942 and 1946 he was given the opportunity of performing on the Armed Forces' network. In 1946 he enrolled at Trinity College of Music London to study piano and organ and the following year joined a band led by the drummer Carlo Krahmer, where he played alongside Duncan White and Humphrey Lyttleton. He played at the first Jazz Festival
JONES, ELEN ROGER (1908 - 1999), actress and teacher not go unnoticed. In the Caernarfon National Eisteddfod in 1979, Elen was accepted as a member of the Gorsedd and honoured with the white robe, and when the Eisteddfod came to Anglesey in 1983 she was presented with the Garmon prize and recognized as the Best Actress of the year. Religion was an unwavering influence on her life, and for her loyalty to the Sunday School she was awarded the Gee Medal

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