Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, ROBERT (Robin Ddu yr Ail o Fôn; 1744 - 1785), poet Born at Ceint Bach, Penmynydd, Anglesey. He was taught by Ellis Thomas, curate of Llanfair Mathafarn Eithaf and was trained as a lawyer's clerk in Emrys Lewis of Trysglwyn's office at Beaumaris. He was a schoolmaster successively at Penmynydd, Heneglwys, Cerrig-ceinwen, Bodedern, and Amlwch; from 1763 to 1783 he was clerk to Ratcliffe Sidebottom, barrister-at-law, of Essex Court, Temple, London
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, ROBERT RICHARD (1872 - 1957), minister (Presb.), and author Born 2 January 1872, in Pont Myfyrian, a cottage near the railway, not far from Brynsiencyn and Gaerwen, Anglesey, son of Thomas and Margaret Hughes. He was educated in Llanidan British school; St. John's School, Menai Bridge; Oswestry High School; University College, Bangor (where he obtained a B.A. degree of the University of London); and Bala College. He was brought up in Brynsiencyn church
HUGHES, THOMAS ISFRYN (1865 - 1942), Wesleyan minister ), Mynydd Seion, Liverpool (1902), Blaenau Ffestiniog (1905), Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant (1908), Mynydd Seion, Liverpool (1911), Oakfield, Liverpool (1914), Porthmadog (1919), London (1922), Porthmadog (1925), and Beaumaris (1928). He retired in 1931 and died at Trearddur Bay, Anglesey, 27 December 1942. He married 11 September 1894, Catherine, daughter of Thomas and Margaret Jenkins of Aberdovey. He was
HUGHES, THOMAS JONES (1822 - 1891), cleric and grammarian Llanfaes, Anglesey, and, in July 1850, he went as curate to Northop, Flintshire. From there he was preferred, in August 1860, to the vicarage of Llanasa, and he spent ten years there, before moving to Llanfair-Dyffryn-Clwyd. He died at Llanfair, 5 February 1891, and was buried there. He married Eleanor, daughter of W. H. Brown of Chester, on 27 June 1865, and they had one son. Hughes served as diocesan
HUGHES, WILLIAM (d. 1794?), clock-maker A native of Llanfflewin, Anglesey, he proceeded to London before 1755 and had a business at 119, High Holborn. He was elected a honorary Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in 1781. A musical watch which he made for the Emperor of China was discovered during the sacking of Pekin in 1860. He was in business until 1794 at the Dial near King Street, High Holborn, and also at Lower
HUGHES, WILLIAM BULKELEY (1797 - 1882), Member of Parliament Born 26 July 1797, eldest son of Sir William Bulkeley Hughes of Plas Coch, Llanidan, Anglesey, and Brynddu, Llanfechell, and Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Rice Thomas of Coed Alun, Caernarvon. His family, which claimed descent from Llywarch ap Bran, lord of Menai, had since the middle of the 15th century played a leading part in the local administration of Anglesey. Hugh Hughes (died 1609
HUGHES, WILLIAM ROGER (1898 - 1958), cleric and poet Born 27 May 1898, son of John and Ann Hughes, Sain-y-gog, Llangristiolus, Anglesey. As a young man he worked for a few years in Liverpool. During World War I he served with the army in France and Egypt. He entered the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in 1922, and graduated in 1925. In the same year he was licensed as curate of Mold, moving to Holywell in 1929. In 1930 he was presented
HUGHES, MARGARET (Leila Megáne; 1891 - 1960), singer Anglesey eisteddfod at Beaumaris in 1910 she entered a competition for the first time and won first prize for singing ' Gwraig y pysgotwr ' (Eurgain), with Thomas Price (1857 - 1925) and T. Osborne Roberts adjudicating. Also that year (against more than 50 competitors) she won the open contralto solo in the national eisteddfod at Colwyn Bay, and was highly praised by the adjudicator, David Evans (1874
HUMPHREYS, EDWARD OWEN (1899 - 1959), educationalist the influence of sociological conditions on schoolchildren. In 1928, he became a lecturer in the Normal College, Bangor, chiefly in Agricultural Science, and then, in 1935 he became Director of Education for Anglesey. In Anglesey, he worked to realise his ideals. He believed passionately that as the result of the Welsh Intermediate and Technical Education Act of 1889 Wales lost a golden opportunity
HUMPHREYS, HUMPHREY (1648 - 1712), bishop, antiquary, historian, and genealogist . Much against his inclination he was translated to Hereford in November 1701; there he died on 20 November 1712. In 1681, Humphreys married Elizabeth, daughter of bishop Robert Morgan of Henblas, Anglesey, a family of which bishop William Lloyd, one of the 'Seven Bishops,' was a distinguished member. Bishop Humphreys's episcopate was one of marked activity, and even after his translation to Hereford
HUMPHREYS, ROBERT (fl. c. 1720), poet and native (apparently) of Rhagat, near Corwen, Meironnydd. Some of his work is preserved in manuscripts, and this includes 'begging poems' written to Thomas Carter of Kinmel and Thomas Holland of Teirdan, and various englynion which include praises to John Rhydderch, the Shrewsbury printer, two upon the grave of Huw Morys, the poet, a number satirizing Newborough in Anglesey; these last drew

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