Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, CLEDWYN (BARON CLEDWYN OF PENRHOS), (1916 - 2001), politician , Aberystwyth, where he graduated in 1937 with a degree in law. Harri Hughes was a fervent supporter of David Lloyd George and of his daughter, Megan Lloyd George, the Liberal member for Anglesey from 1929. At university, Cledwyn Hughes followed his family's Liberal tradition and he was elected chairman of the Liberal Society. On leaving Aberystwyth, Hughes returned to Holyhead where he worked to obtain
HUGHES, EZEKIEL (1766 - 1849), one of the early Welsh settlers in the far west of the U.S.A. Jones (1726 - 1795) of Llangadfan. In mid-July 1795, he, Edward Bebb, George Roberts, and others left Llanbryn-mair and walked to Carmarthen and thence to Bristol; on the 6 August they sailed in the ' Maria ' for Philadelphia where they arrived on the 25 October After spending the winter in the city he, Edward Bebb, and one other set off in the spring on the long trail to the river Ohio. In three
HUGHES, JOHN GRUFFYDD MOELWYN (1866 - 1944), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 30 May 1866; son of Griffith and Elizabeth Hughes, at Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire. After leaving the board school he became a postman for a period, and then a clerk in a solicitor's office at Blaenau Ffestiniog. From there he went to Porthmadoc to the office of Messrs. William and David Lloyd George. He lived at the time at Pentrefelin and it was at Cedron chapel there
HUGHES, ROBERT GWILYM (1910 - 1997), poet and minister with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist denomination . Contemporaries with him at Friars included Dr Carl Witton-Davies, who brought into existence the Council of Christians and Jews; W. R. P. George, poet and solicitor, Huw Wheldon, head of BBC television, and Professor A. O. H. Jarman, who was Professor of Welsh at the University College of Wales, Cardiff. R. Gwilym Hughes was accepted as a student at Bangor university college in October 1928 and he often spoke
HUGHES, WILLIAM (1757 - 1846), Independent minister, hymn-writer, and composer Second son of Hugh Jones and Jane Williams (widow) of Gadlys, Llanwnda, Caernarfonshire; he was christened 25 June 1757. He married Jane Jones, 20 February 1783, at Llanwnda, where too their son John was christened, 2 December 1784. He joined the Independents at Caernarvon when George Lewis was resuscitating Independency there, and in 1788 was set apart to be a lay preacher. After the departure
HUGHES, WILLIAM BULKELEY (1797 - 1882), Member of Parliament its absorption by the L.N.W.R. Co. It was he, moreover, who organised the banquet given to Robert Stephenson at the George Hotel, Bangor, in August 1851, to commemorate the opening of the Britannia tubular bridge. He was twice married: (1) in 1825, to Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Jonathan Nettleship of Mattersey Abbey, Northampton, and widow of Henry Wormald of Woodhouse, Leeds, and (2) to
HUGHES, WILLIAM JOHN (GARETH HUGHES; 1894 - 1965), actor book Sentimental Tommy and, loaned to Famous Players Lasky for this role, he returned to the East Coast to film at the new Paramount Astoria Studios on Long Island. On his return to Hollywood in 1921 he purchased land for a home in Laurel Canyon and began work on the first of five films for Metro, directed by George Baker. He became a US citizen in 1922 and worked almost exclusively in film until
HUGHES, MARGARET (Leila Megáne; 1891 - 1960), singer - 1948). Soon afterwards she was brought to the attention of George Power (a successful singing tutor in London) by Mrs. Ernest Taylor, who had heard her sing in Llanbedrog, and she later entered the Royal Academy of Music. In London (under the name Megan Jones) she came into prominence in ballad concerts, and was assisted by David Lloyd George and others to study for a further six years in Paris under
HUMPHREYS, EDWARD MORGAN (1882 - 1955), journalist, writer and broadcaster widely. He married Annie Evans, daughter of E.J. Evans, former minister of Walton Park Welsh Presbyterian church, Liverpool, but they had no children. He won the friendship of some of the leaders of the nation and D. Lloyd George thought highly of his opinion. R.T. Jenkins 'enjoyed a quarter century of pure friendship' with him. He was one of the pioneers of the detective novel in Welsh and had the
HUMPHREYS, GEORGE (1747? - 1813), sexton, poet George Humphreys (NLW MS 6729B), copies of his poems.
HUW LLŶN (fl. c. 1552-1594), poet there is no proof that they were the same person. Some of Huw Llŷn's poetry remains, and this includes poems to Walter Devereux (earl of Essex), Henry Rowland (bishop of Bangor), Simon Thelwall of Plas y Ward, and to the South Walians Thomas Vaughan (Pembrey), Gruffudd Dwnn (Ystrad Merthyr), William and George Owen (Henllys), and John Lloyd (Cilgwyn). A bardic controversy occurred between him and Siôn
INSOLE, GEORGE (1790 - 1851), colliery proprietor George Insole was baptized in Worcester on 5 December 1790, the fifth of six children of William Insole (1757-1811), a tenant farmer, and his wife Phebe (née Stinton, 1757-1824). George married Mary (née Finch (1791-1866) in Worcester on 11 August 1819 and they had six children: Helen (1820-1895), James Harvey (1821-1901), Emma (1823-1906), Julia (b. and d. 1825), Julia Ann (1830-1904), and

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