Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GWYNN, HARRI (1913 - 1985), writer and broadcaster matter on radio and television, Harri's portrait appeared in the Picture Post, and a postcard was dispatched from Westminster by his old college friend Goronwy Roberts (by now a Labour MP): 'A thousand congratulations on stirring up the stagnant pond of Welsh poetry a little (or a lot).' Harri Gwynn did nor compete again after 1954. As Gwynn ap Gwilym wrote on his connection with the Eisteddfod, 'He
GWYNNE family Garth, Maes-llech, Llanlleonfel (1643? - 1712), a careerist of the first water. He went up to Gray's Inn in 1665, was 'called' in 1667, and married a daughter of Peter Gwilym of Glascwm, Radnorshire, a London merchant; she brought him £20,000. Returned M.P. for Radnorshire in 1680, he escaped unseating only by the Dissolution of 1681. In 1706, he became second justice of North-west Wales, but was removed from office in 1708. He was
HARKER, EDWARD (Isnant; 1866 - 1969), quarryman, poet and preacher (Congl.) young boy. Gwilym Cowlyd (William John Roberts had only recently set up Gorsedd Geirionydd and a series of eisteddfodau on the banks of Llyn Geirionydd and it is against this background that the boy took seriously to learning the cynganeddion, mastering the handbook Yr Ysgol Farddol by Dafydd Morganwg (David Watkin Jones, and to competing in eisteddfodau. After giving up work at Nant, he worked for 15
HARRI, WILLIAM (Gwilym Garw-dyle; 1763 - 1844), poet
HERBERT, WILLIAM (1460 - 1491), earl of Pembroke, later earl of Huntingdon all Welsh rebels except Jasper Tudor. He served with the king in France, 1475, and was commissioned to arrest Walter ap Gwilym and others (October 1477). At the king's request he exchanged the earldom of Pembroke for that of Huntingdon (July 1479). In 1483 he was commissioned to raise troops in South Wales to suppress Buckingham's revolt against Richard III. He received an annuity of 400 marks
HOWELL, GWILYM (1705 - 1775), almanac-maker and poet
HUGHES, EDWARD ERNEST (1877 - 1953), first Professor of history at the University College, Swansea, and a notable intermediary between the university and the public Gwilym Society. His first appointment was as history master in Llanelli boys' secondary school; then in 1905 he moved to lecture in the history department of University College, Cardiff, where he acted as professor during the long illness of Professor Bruce. During these years, before the college had an extramural department, he began to lecture under the W.E.A. in Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire
HUGHES, HUGH (Tegai; 1805 - 1864), Independent minister and man of letters ; and Dawn ar Bob Dyn. Tegai worked unceasingly as a preacher, author, and poet and may be justly regarded as a very notable example of a poor country boy who, lacking the advantages of birth and education, taught himself and acquired an honoured position among his contemporaries; Dr. Lewis Edwards praised his Gramadeg and 'J.R.' of Llanbryn-mair and Gwilym Hiraethog paid tributes to the excellence of
HUGHES, ROBERT GWILYM (1910 - 1997), poet and minister with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist denomination Gwilym Hughes was born 17 August 1900 in Bethesda, Caernarfonshire, the second son of Robert John and Elisabeth Hughes. His father hailed from Waen Pentir, and his mother from Trefdraeth in Anglesey. His father worked in the Penrhyn Quarry, after the great strike (1900-1903), and he and his brother, Richard Môn Hughes, experienced at firsthand the poverty that followed the industrial conflict at
HUGHES, WILLIAM JOHN (GARETH HUGHES; 1894 - 1965), actor , a socialist agitator but, at the end of the tour in Chicago, took over the part of Gwilym Price, an invalid and one of the three sons in the play. Gareth's performance as Gwilym won him high praise and, as a result, he remained in America at the end of the engagement. Between May 1914 and August 1915 he worked variously with Guy Bates Post, Ben Greet's Woodland Players, James O'Neill (father of
HUGHES, WILLIAM ROBERT (1798? - 1879), healer of cancer and cancerous warts Born at Tanyrallt, in the parish of Abererch, Caernarfonshire, of a family reputed to have an exceptional ability to cure cancerous warts, etc. After marriage he moved to live at Mur Crysto, Llangybi, in 1821. He was a friend of David Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion'), Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'), and Robert Williams ('Robert ap Gwilym Ddu'). So great was his power that he became known as ' Dewin y
HUMPHREYS, EDWARD MORGAN (1882 - 1955), journalist, writer and broadcaster Born 14 May 1882 in Dyffryn Ardudwy, Merionethshire, eldest son of John and Elizabeth Humphreys. His brothers were Humphrey Llewelyn and John Gwilym. His mother was the niece of Edward Morgan, Dyffryn, preacher and writer, and a cousin of R.H. Morgan, Menai Bridge, pioneer of short-hand in Welsh. His great-grandfather was Richard Humphreys, a preacher noted for his wit, a teetotaller and a

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