Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HOWELL, JENKIN (1836 - 1902), printer, writer, musician and Dan Isaac Davies. He gave up shoe-making, and from 1854 till 1861 worked with his brother-in-law as a sawyer. But on the advice of his pastor Thomas Price (1820 - 1888) he became a printer, opening works of his own in 1867. His frequent contributions to the press won him repute in all parts of Wales - much poetry of his appeared in Yr Ymofynydd, Seren Gomer, and Y Geninen. He himself printed
HOWELL, JOHN (Ioan ab Hywel, Ioan Glandyfroedd; 1774 - 1830), weaver, schoolmaster, poet, editor, and musician of his life. His greatest service to music was rendered by visiting local churches to instruct the choristers in psalmody. He competed against Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) at the Carmarthen eisteddfod of 1819; his ode celebrating the prowess of Thomas Picton on the battle fields in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo, 'On the death of the outstanding military officer, Sir Thomas Picton' was
HOWELL, JOHN HENRY (1869 - 1944), pioneer of technical education in New Zealand married in September 1894 Nellie Wheeler, a prominent figure in socialist circles at Bristol, who shared fully his own ideals. They had no children, and when he died on 20 June 1944, he left a third of the residue of his estate to the U.C.W., Aberystwyth in memory of the principal who had befriended him in 1889. He had two sisters, Esther Mary (Ettie) who was a deaconess in Dudley, 1897-1900, Manchester
HOWELL, LLEWELYN DAVID (1812 - 1864), Congregational minister, author, and eisteddfodwr this society in 1842. He won a prize at the Utica eisteddfod, 2 January 1860, for an essay which was published the same year, at Rome, N.Y., under the title of Traithawd ar Ddechreuad a Chynnydd y Cymry yn Utica a'i Hamgylchoedd. He died 13 July 1864; a memoir, by Edward Davies, Waterville, was published in 1866.
HOWELL, THOMAS FRANCIS (1864 - 1953), businessman and barrister Born in London 22 October 1864 son of James Howell and Fanny (née Davies Logan), later of Cardiff. He was educated at Cardiff, and at St. John's College, Cambridge (1883-87), where he obtained degrees in classics and law. Music, however, was one of his greatest interests at an early age, and he studied the piano, cello, singing and elocution at the Guildhall School of Music with the view of
HOWELLS, GERAINT WYN (Baron Geraint), (1925 - 2004), farmer and politician Born on 15 April 1925, the son of David John and Mary Blodwen Howells, of Brynglas, Ponterwyd, Cardiganshire. He was educated at Ponterwyd Primary School and Ardwyn Grammar School, before he returned to farm with his father. Howells and his parents used Welsh as their first language and they were closely involved in the cultural life of the village; David John Howells served as secretary of the
HOWELLS, MORGAN (1794 - 1852), Calvinistic Methodist minister carpenter. The vital importance of religion was brought home to him under the ministry of John Rees, minister of Gobaith (Hope) chapel, and he joined that church. He began to preach in 1815 and was ordained at the Llangeitho association, 1824. He was married twice: (1) to Mary Lewis, sister of Richard Lewis ('Dic Penderyn'), 1827 and (2) to Ann Morgan of Ebbw Vale, 1843. At the time of his second marriage
HOWELLS, THOMAS (Hywel Cynon; 1839 - 1905), collier, printer, poet, preacher, and musician Born 12 October 1839, at Glyn Neath, Glamorganshire. The family moved to Rhymney and the son began to work as a collier's boy when he was only seven years old. Later, at Aberaman, whither the family had moved from Rhymney, he was able to receive some education and he began to attend an evening class conducted by the Rev. John Davies. In 1858 John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt) came to Aberdare and Hywel
HOWELLS, WILLIAM (1818 - 1888), Calvinistic Methodist minister and second principal of Trevecka College (1857-65), where he was succeeded in turn by two other men who became college principals, David Charles Davies and Thomas Charles Edwards In September 1865 he was appointed principal and tutor in divinity at Trevecka, with John Harris Jones as tutor in classics. He was a successful teacher and an exceptionally acceptable preacher, although he confined his activities to the small English churches and
HUET, THOMAS (d. 1591), Biblical translator , Cardiganshire, 21 April 1560; the rectory of Disserth, 27 April 1560; the precentorship of S. Davids, and (30 April 1561) a canonry there; in 1565, the prebend of Ystrad, Cardiganshire, and the prebend of Llandegla, Radnorshire. He was unsuccessfully recommended for the bishopric of Bangor by Richard Davies and archbishop Parker in January 1566. He subscribed to the Thirty-nine Articles in 1562. He translated
HUGHES GRIFFITHS, ANNIE JANE (1873 - 1942), peace campaigner Annie Jane Davies was born on 5 April 1873, at Cwrt Mawr, Llangeitho, Ceredigion, the sixth of ten children of Robert Joseph Davies (1839-1892) and his wife Frances (née Humphreys, 1836-1918). She had three sisters, Sara Maria (1864-1939), Mary (1869-1918) ac Eliza ('Lily', 1876-1939), and six brothers, Robert Brian ('Bertie', 1865-1879), David Charles (1866-1928), Edward (1867-1869), John
HUGHES, ARWEL (1909 - 1988), musician popular orchestral piece. He composed two notable choral works to libretti by his BBC colleague Aneirin Talfan Davies (1909-1980), namely Dewi Sant for the Festival of Britain in 1951, and Pantycelyn, which was performed at the National Eisteddfod in Swansea in 1964. He also composed two operas which were performed by the Welsh National Opera: Menna (1954), to a libretto by Llewelyn Wyn Griffith, which

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