Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GWYNN, EIRWEN MEIRIONA (1916 - 2007), scientist, educator and author in painting portraits and landscapes. By this time the family had left Rhos-lan and moved first to Isgaer, Upper Garth Road, Bangor (1962-1970) and then to Tyddyn Rhuddallt, Llanrug (1970-1987) before moving after Harri's death in 1985 to Tal-y-bont, Ceredigion (1987-2007) to be closer to Iolo and the family. Iolo inherited many of his mother's values. A nationalist, he was a senior lecturer in
GWYNN, HARRI (1913 - 1985), writer and broadcaster Harri Gwynn was born at 63, Maryland Road, Wood Green, north London, on 14 February 1913, son of Hugh Jones (d. 1916), who worked as a letter-sorter on the mail train between London and Holyhead, and his wife Elizabeth (Beti) (née Williams), both originally from Penrhyndeudraeth. Following his father's death from a heart condition in December 1916, mother and son moved to Garth Celyn
GWYNNE family Garth, Maes-llech, Llanlleonfel See the pedigrees in Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., ii, 238-40, iv, 269-70. This family, though not originally belonging to the Glanbrân clan (see Gwynne of Llanelwedd), became later connected with it. The surname ' Gwyn ' first appears in the Garth family c. 1545. A REES GWYNNE of Garth was coroner of Brecknock in the 17th century, and had a son MARMADUKE GWYNNE
GWYNNE family Llanelwedd, 'within the Fleet,' i.e. in impoverished circumstances. What then became of Llanelwedd is nowhere satisfactorily explained, but it emerges later as a property of the Gwynnes of Garth.
HOWELL, DAVID (Llawdden; 1831 - 1903), dean Canterbury; in 1885 he became prebendary of Garth Felyd and honorary canon of S. Asaph; in 1889 he became archdeacon of Wrexham. In 1897 he was appointed dean of S. Davids. In his younger days Llawdden, like his father, had turned out englynion and other poems. He became well known as a fluent eisteddfod orator, as a public lecturer, and as a preacher. He published a couple of pamphlets - Foreign missions
HUGHES, DEWI ARWEL (1947 - 2017), Christian leader and theologian Dewi Arwel Hughes was born on 1 January 1947 at Bugeilfod, Llangwm, Denbighshire, the youngest of four children of Gruffudd Evans Hughes (1912-1975), agricultural merchant, and his wife Annie (née Edwards, 1908-1957), a seamstress. He had three sisters, Elen Haf, Lona Wyn and Gwenan Arwel. A year after his birth the family moved to Garth Isa, Frongoch, near Bala. His mother died in 1957, when
HUGHES, HUGH (BRYTHON) (1848 - 1913), school-teacher and author Born 8 April 1848 at Tre-garth, near Bangor, only son of Hugh Derfel Hughes. After completing his training at the Bangor Normal College he held scholastic appointments at Walsall, Aber-carn, Gwalchmai, Parc (Bala), Leicester and Llanelian. He was a frequent contributor to Welsh literary periodicals and newspapers, and the author of several Welsh school books and readers. Tlysau Ynys Prydain, 1902
HUGHES, HUGH (Tegai; 1805 - 1864), Independent minister and man of letters Born at Llandygái, Caernarfonshire, 1805, the son of Thomas and Barbara Hughes, two Anglesey people who were ardent Independents. When the Cororion Independent chapel at Tre-garth, Llandygái, was closed down, he joined the Wesleyans at Shiloh, Tre-garth, and became a lay preacher. He never attended a day school and the only education he received was at the Cororion and Shiloh Sunday schools. He
HUGHES, HUGH DERFEL (1816 - 1890), poet Born 7 March 1816 at Melin-y-Cletwr in the parish of Llandderfel, Meirionethshire, son of Hugh Hughes (died 1829) who was the miller there until 1822, when he moved to the village of Llandderfel. He worked on farms here and there for some years but eventually obtained employment as a weigher in the Penrhyn Quarry. He married in 1846 and settled at his wife's home, Pen-dinas, Tre-garth, near
HUGHES, ROBERT ARTHUR (1910 - 1996), medical missionary in Shillong, Meghalaya, north-east India, and an influential leader in the Presbyterian Church of Wales He and his twin brother, John Harris Hughes, were born at Oswestry on 3 December 1910, the sons of the Reverend Howell Harris Hughes, Welsh Presbyterian minister in the town, and his wife Annie Myfanwy Hughes (née Davies), a native of Garth, near Llangollen who served as a headmistress in Rhosllanerchrugog. The family soon moved to Bangor where their father was minister of Tabernacl chapel and
HUGHES, THOMAS (1854 - 1928), Wesleyan minister , Caernarfonshire (1882), Bootle (1883), Birmingham (1884), Meifod (1886), Llanfairfechan (1887), Wrexham (1890), Tre-garth (1893), Shaw Street circuit, Liverpool (1896), Tregarth (1899), Mount Zion, Liverpool (1902), Shaw Street, Liverpool (1905), Bangor (1908), Llandudno (1911), Port Dinorwic (1914), Abergele (1918), and Llangefni (1921). He retired in 1924 and died 15 December 1928. He married in 1887 Blanche
HUGHES, THOMAS ISFRYN (1865 - 1942), Wesleyan minister Born 16 October 1865 at Clocaenog, Denbighshire, son of John Hughes, an enlightened layman and a strong theologian. He began preaching at the age of eighteen, was accepted for the ministry in 1887, and having studied for a term at the Handsworth theological college, he served the circuit of Abergele (1890), Llanfaircaereinion (1891), Rhyl (1893), Tywyn (1895), Coed-poeth (1896), Tre-garth (1899

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