Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HOMFRAY family, iron-masters Penydarren and, in June 1818, M.P. for the borough of Stafford. He died 22 May 1822 in London and was buried at Bassaleg. His eldest son, SAMUEL GEORGE HOMFRAY (born 7 December 1795, died 16 November 1882) was high sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1841 and alderman of Newport (and mayor 1854-5).
HOOSON, HUGH EMLYN (1925 - 2012), Liberal politician and public figure , the daughter of Sir George Hamer, CBE, of Llanidloes, a prominent and influential figure in the locality and a powerful Liberal in the politics of Montgomeryshire where he served as its Lord Lieutenant. There were to be two daughters of the marriage, Sioned and Lowri, both educated at the Welsh School at London, where their father became the chairman of the Governing Body. He had served in the Royal
HOWARD, JAMES HENRY (1876 - 1947), preacher, author and socialist born 3 November 1876, in Swansea, son of Joshua George, and Catherine (née Bowen) Howard. His father claimed to be a direct descendant of John Howard, the prison reformer. He lost his parents when a child. For some time he was brought up in his mother's family and later he was put into the Cottage Homes at Cockett near Swansea. As an adolescent, he was taken in by a collier and his wife, Thomas
HOWELLS, GEORGE (1871 - 1955), principal of Serampore College, India Born 11 May 1871 at Llandafal Farm, Cwm, Monmouthshire, the son of George William and Jane Howells. He received his early education at the Board School, Cwm, and later went to the Grammar School, Pengam. Having won the Ward Scholarship, he entered Regent's Park Baptist College, London. He graduated at the University of London, and then pursued his studies in Oxford at Mansfield and Jesus Colleges
HUGHES GRIFFITHS, ANNIE JANE (1873 - 1942), peace campaigner Humphreys Davies (1871-1926), Walter Ernest Llewelyn (1874-1941), and George (b. and d. 1877). She received some of her education as a child at school in Llangeitho, and then at various schools in Aberystwyth, London and Chester. She enrolled at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1892, spending three years there, but did not intend to read for a degree. In 1895, she went to London to keep
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

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