Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, MEGAN WATTS (1842 - 1907), vocalist Hughes, as she now was, accompanied Joseph Parry on a musical tour of North Wales. She took part twice in ' Orpheus ' (Gluck); she also sang duets with Jenny Lind. Soon after her marriage she founded a home for necessitous and homeless boys. She wrote several hymn-tunes, some of which are included in Tonau, Salmau ac Anthemau (David Jenkins); of these ' Wilton Square ' continues to be popular. Her
HUGHES, MARGARET (Leila Megáne; 1891 - 1960), singer the famous singer Jean de Reszke, who had been a student of Cotagni in Turin. After adopting the name Leila Megáne (on de Reszke's advice) she received her first professional contract, a two-year agreement to sing Massenet in the Opera Comique, Paris. The dress which she wore in the Paris opera is now in the Musuem of Welsh Life at St. Fagans. At the beginning of World War I she was in France and
HUMPHREYS, HUMPHREY (1648 - 1712), bishop, antiquary, historian, and genealogist his defence of archbishop John Williams cannot now be traced.
INSOLE, JAMES HARVEY (1821 - 1901), colliery proprietor customers in France, the Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and South America. James took sole control of the business after his father's death in 1851. By 1852 the family had moved just out of town to the more rural Penhill and in 1855 James began building Ely Court (now known as Insole Court) near the newly-fashionable cathedral village of Llandaff. Disaster struck the Cymmer mine in 1856 when 114 men and
IORWERTH BELI (fl. early in the 14th century) Gwynedd, poet fall of Llywelyn the Last. Poets who took pride in the old court tradition were turning to the bishop, expecting him now to give the leadership and patronage which had been the role of the Welsh prince, and reminding him of the dignity of the poet in the court of Maelgwn. But the bishop does not choose to assume this role. He neglects the poets, and gives honour and fine raiment to the ' dregs of art
JAMES, CARWYN REES (1929 - 1983), teacher, rugby player and coach glossary of rugby terms in Welsh - as well as first rugby columnist of the Guardian, but there was a price to pay. For someone as much at home presenting the day's highlights from the National Eisteddfod as explaining tactics, happier in a classroom taking a sonnet apart than editing a rugby video, there was now an uneasy imbalance. His diary was full but there was a void, a lack of fulfilment, a lost
JANNER, BARNETT (BARON JANNER), (1892 - 1982), politician and when Gareth Jones died, Mrs Edgar Jones commented 'Now Barney is our only son'. Janner returned in May 1953 to pay a moving tribute at the funeral of Edgar Jones. He won a scholarship in 1911 to the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire where he graduated with a BA honours degree in 1914. At university, he was elected president of the Students Representative Council and became
JEFFREYS, GEORGE (1st baron Jeffreys of Wem), (1645 - 1689), judge point of making him viscount Wrexham and earl of Flint (October 1685). On 26 March 1688 he had the distasteful duty of conveying to his old rival Williams (now solicitor general) royal orders to suggest names of local Dissenters suitable to serve as magistrates - a preliminary step towards the issue of the Declaration of Indulgence nine days later. He finally surrendered the Great Seal (which James
JENKINS, DAVID ERWYD (1864 - 1937), Calvinistic Methodist minister and historian ) appeared his valuable little book, Calvinistic Methodist Holy Orders, which in fact is a better representative of his quality as an historian than is the unwieldy and somewhat undiscriminating book on Charles. He was now appointed by the C.M. Historical Society to copy, and to edit for publication as supplements to its Historical Journal, the correspondence and diaries of Howel Harris, but the plan
JENKINS, DAVID LLOYD (1896 - 1966), writer, poet and schoolmaster XVIIeg), 1931, which is now a rare book. This work was based on his Master's thesis in the early 1920s and it is probable that the burdens of his teaching career hindered him from pursuing further scholarly research. In politics he was a radical Liberal, serving for a time as president of the Cardiganshire Liberals and speaking on election platforms. He was an elder of Bwlch-gwynt Calvinistic Methodist
JENKINS, EVAN (1794 - 1849), cleric and schoolmaster doubt learnt English, Latin and Greek under the headmaster Rev. John Williams. It is likely that after some years at ysgol Ystrad Meurig, Evan followed in his brother's footsteps to Chelsea to teach the Classics until he reached the age of twenty-three, the earliest age that a man could be ordained. The Cheyne House Academy was now run by the Felix brothers, one of whom had surely been at school with
JENKINS, ROY HARRIS (1920 - 2003), politician and author Park from 1944 until war's end. He met Jennifer Morris (1921-2017) at a Fabian Summer School in Devon in 1940, and they married on 20 January 1945 in London. They had two sons, Charles and Edward, and a daughter, Cynthia. Now 24, Jenkins attempted to get himself elected to Parliament. Despite trying in several Midlands constituencies, he was only able to secure the candidacy in Solihull for the 1945

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