Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BEBB, LLEWELLYN JOHN MONTFORD (1862 - 1915), cleric principal of St. David's College, Lampeter. He was made an honorary canon of St. David's in 1910. He married Louisa Fraser of London in 1886 and they had four sons and three daughters. He died 22 November 1915 and was buried at Lampeter. One of his daughters was Gwyneth Marjory Bebb (1889-1921) who campaigned for the admission of women to the legal profession.
DAVIES, GWILYM ELFED (Baron Davies of Penrhys), (1913 - 1992), Labour politician married on 16 December 1940 Gwyneth, the daughter of Daniel and Agnes Janet Rees, and they had two sons and one daughter. His wife had predeceased him. They lived at Maes-y-Ffrwd, 18 Ferndale Road, Tylorstown in the Rhondda valley. He died at Llwynypia Hospital on 28 April 1992 having suffered from chest problems for several years. His remains were cremated at Glyntaff Crematorium, Pontypridd.
EVANS, EMYR ESTYN (1905 - 1989), geographer , Evans was appointed lecturer in Geography at The Queen's University, Belfast, with responsibility for establishing a new department; he was promoted to Reader in 1944 and Professor from 1945 until his retirement in 1968. In the same year as taking up his new post, he had met, and in 1931 married, Gwyneth, daughter of Abel E. Jones, Professor of Agriculture at Aberystwyth and his wife Bessie, their
EVANS, MORRIS EDDIE (1890 - 1984), composer they had one daughter, Megan. After the death of his first wife in 1934, he married Gwyneth Mills Jones (1910-1981) from Liverpool in 1944, and they had one daughter, Ann. At the age of 92 he married Ethel Dunkerley. By then he was living in Oldham, Lancashire, and he died there on 30 May 1984. His remains were cremated at Oldham Crematorium.
GRIFFITH, GWILYM WYNNE (1914 - 1989), physician and Medical Officer of Health , his translation of Hanes Môn yn y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg (1927), written by his aunt, Elizabeth Ann Williams. Gwilym Wynne Griffith married Gwyneth Rees Hughes of Liverpool in 1939 and they had 3 children. He died on April 16 1989 and is buried in the church of Llangwyfan on Anglesey.
GWYNETH VAUGHAN - see HUGHES, ANNIE HARRIET
HUGHES, ANNIE HARRIET (Gwyneth Vaughan; 1852 - 1910), writer
HUGHES, ARTHUR (1878 - 1965), writer Born 2 January 1878 at Bryn Melyn near Harlech, Meironnydd, the son of John Hughes Jones, a physician, of Clwt-y-Bont, Caernarfonshire (who dropped the surname Jones) and his wife, Annie Harriet (née Jones; Gwyneth Vaughan, novelist. He became a ' Welsh scholar ' at St. David's College, Lampeter, where he graduated. He edited two anthologies of poetry which in their day were extremely useful to
HUGHES, HUGH JOHN (1912 - 1978), schoolteacher, author, editor and reviewer teacher, this volume also reflects the author's obvious scholarship, culture and literary taste. He revised O Gorlannau y Defaid (1905), the historical novel by Annie Harriet Hughes. ('Gwyneth Vaughan') This new edition, for libraries only, was published by Gwasg Gee in 1969. He also edited and contributed to the volume Gŵr wrth Gerdd: John Hughes 1896-1968 (1973). Between November 1955 and December
JENKINS, DAVID ARWYN (1911 - 2012), barrister and historian of Welsh law National Library of Wales were no doubt enlivened by the presence of a member of its staff, Gwyneth Owen, whom he married in 1942. Gwyneth died in 1962. Their son Rhys went on himself to an academic career. It was in this field of academic legal study, which was underwritten by his appointment to a lectureship in Law at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1965 and then to a Personal Chair ten
JONES, ALAN TREVOR (1901 - 1979), health service administrator and Provost, Welsh National School of Medicine professional people. After one meeting he wrote in his diary: 'A very good dinner and very good conversation, as one would expect from a crowd of this kind. I like it very much'. In 1931 he married Gwyneth Evans, and they had a son who became a consultant paediatrician and a daughter who became a nurse. He died on 10 June 1979 and, though a staunch Presbyterian throughout his life, he was buried in Gelligaer
JONES, EDGAR WILLIAM (1868 - 1953), educationalist and broadcaster , went as a tutor to the grandchildren of John Hughes (1814 - 1889), the pioneer in the development of Russian metallurgy, at Yuzovka, in the Donets basin. They had three children, Gareth and two daughters, Gwyneth and Eirian. He died 1 May 1953.

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