Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HOLLAND, WILLIAM (1711 - 1761), early Methodist and Moravian Born at Haverfordwest 16 January 1711, son of Nicholas Holland, of the Hollands of Walwyn's Castle - see Holland families (2); Nicholas Holland was great-great-grandson of Robert Holland. According to Moravian tradition, William Holland was at Haverfordwest grammar school at the same time as bishop John Gambold; he does not seem to have been Welsh -speaking. Before 1732 he was in London, and had
HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY (1844 - 1889), poet and priest and Gerard was sent to board at Highgate School. He considered himself to be half-Welsh on the basis of his surname, which is common in south Wales. In 1863, Hopkins went up to Oxford where he graduated with a First in Classics. Here he met one of his closest friends, Robert Bridges, who would become the Poet Laureate and the editor of his poetry. It was while he was at Oxford that he turned to a
HOWE, ELIZABETH ANNE (1959 - 2019), ecologist Liz Howe was born on 27 October 1959 in Kingstanding in the West Midlands, one of two children of Robert Pulford, an electrical engineer, and his wife Margaret (née Davis). She had one brother, Robert. She attended Aldridge Grammar School in Walsall (1971-78) and went on to Queen Elizabeth College, University of London, where as an undergraduate studying mammalian physiology she won the Cheesman
HOWEL, HARRI (fl. 1637-1671), bard (near Dolgelley) and to Dolau-gwyn near Towyn, Meironnydd. It is probable that, like Siôn Phylip, he farmed his own land - there survives to this day a 'Ffridd Harri Howel' on the borders of the parishes of Dolgelley and Llanfachreth. He composed an elegy on the death of John Myddelton, Gwaenynog, in 1637 and a cywydd on the marriage of Robert Owen, parson of Llangelynnin, Meironnydd, 1671.
HUGHES GRIFFITHS, ANNIE JANE (1873 - 1942), peace campaigner Annie Jane Davies was born on 5 April 1873, at Cwrt Mawr, Llangeitho, Ceredigion, the sixth of ten children of Robert Joseph Davies (1839-1892) and his wife Frances (née Humphreys, 1836-1918). She had three sisters, Sara Maria (1864-1939), Mary (1869-1918) ac Eliza ('Lily', 1876-1939), and six brothers, Robert Brian ('Bertie', 1865-1879), David Charles (1866-1928), Edward (1867-1869), John
HUGHES, ALFRED WILLIAM (1861 - 1900), surgeon and professor Born 31 July 1861 at Aberllefenni, Meirionethshire, youngest son of Robert Hughes, quarry manager. He was educated at the National School, Corris, and Dolgelley grammar school. He was apprenticed to a draper at Dolgelley, but returned to work in the slate quarries at Aberllefenni. He started his medical career with Dr. J. Jones at Corris, and later became a student at Edinburgh University where
HUGHES, EDWARD (Y Dryw; 1772 - 1850), eisteddfodic poet Bodfari from 1818 to 185 0. His awdl ' Elusengarwch ' was judged to be the best in the Denbigh eisteddfod of 1819 by William Owen Pugh, Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn), and David Richards (Dewi Silin). This adjudication started a bitter controversy which raged for a very long time, for the general opinion among the poets and littérateurs of Wales was that the prize should have gone to David Owen (Dewi
HUGHES, EVAN (d. 1800), cleric and author on friendly terms with the Methodist Robert Jones (1745-1829), Rhos-lan. In 1779 he left Llanfihangel to become curate of Ysbyty Ifan, Denbighshire, and whilst there he often preached in the homes of Methodists. Some time about 1783 he became curate at Trawsfynydd which he left on 23 June 1792 to become curate of Llanuwchllyn, where he died about the middle of May 1800. He published Duwdod Crist
HUGHES, GAINOR (1745 - 1780), fasting woman tradition in north Wales. It is in these sources that we find contemporary information about her life; they may be supplemented by oral tradition as preserved many years after her death in the writings of Robert Edwards (Derfel Meirion; 1813-1889), a local Methodist stone-mason. Contemporary interest in Gainor Hughes centred on her fast of almost six years' duration, during which time she refused
HUGHES, HENRY (1841 - 1924), Calvinistic Methodist minister and historian Calfinaidd yn Nosbarth Eifionydd (Caernarvon, 1886); (2) Amddiffyniad i'r Methodistiaid Cymreig - a translation of T. Charles's Vindication (Caernarvon, 1894); (3) Robert Dafydd, Brynengan (Caernarvon, 1895); (4) Trefecca, Llangeitho, a'r Bala (Caernarvon, 1896); (5) Owen Owens, Cors-y-Wlad (Dolgelley, 1898); (6) Hanes Diwygiadau Crefyddol Cymru (Caernarvon, 1906); (7) Adgofion amy diweddar Barch. John
HUGHES, HUGH (1778 - 1855), Wesleyan minister Born at Llannor, Caernarfonshire, 1778. He worked as a gardener at Abererch and Liverpool where, through his brother Robert who was a lay preacher, he came into contact with the Wesleyans, joining their society in 1805, the year in which his brother Griffith entered the Wesleyan ministry. In 1807, he himself became a minister and worked the following circuits: Dolgelley (1807), Aberystwyth (1808
HUGHES, HUGH (Huw ap Huw, Y Bardd Coch o Fôn; 1693 - 1776), gentleman and poet Hysprydoli (Caerfyrddin, 1773), a translation of a work by David Tucker, and Rheolau Bywyd Dynol (Dublin, 1774), a translation of Robert Dodsley, The Oeconomy of Human Life; 'Deddfau Moesoldeb Naturiol. Wedi ei gyfieithu gan Hugh ab Hugh,' 1773, is listed in Rowlands, Cambrian Bibliography, but of this no copy appears to have survived. Letters to and from Hugh Hughes have been printed in Add. M.L. (index).

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