Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, LOT (1787 - 1873), Wesleyan minister and historian ), Beaumaris (1837), Dolgelley (1839), Machynlleth (1841), Brecon (1843), Swansea (1846), and Liverpool (1849). He married (1) 1816, Jennett Jones of Brecon (died 1856) and (2) 1857, Mrs. Elizabeth Evans (died 1872). He was superannuated in 1850 and died at Chester, 13 July 1873. His biographer states that he was 'an experiential, pleasant, and very successful preacher…' He could remember the early days of
HUGHES, MICHAEL (1752 - 1825), industrialist wife) of part of the land on which the Parys mountain copper mine, Anglesey, was to be established a little later - see the articles on H. R. Hughes (1827 - 1911), Kinmel, and Thomas Williams (1737 - 1802), Llanidan. He married (1) 3 November 1788, Mary, daughter of the Rev. William Bellingham Johnson, Prescot, Lancashire, and (2) 21 January 1808, Ellen, daughter of John Pemberton, Sutton Place
HUGHES, RICHARD (1794 - 1871), printer and publisher continued to work it under the name of Hughes and Phillips. He married Anne Jones (1797 - 1827). In 1820 he opened a paper-store in Bank Street, Wrexham; by 1823 he had established a bookshop and printing-press at 1 and 2, Church Street, Wrexham. Appointed the first registrar of marriages for the division in 1837, he became the town postmaster three years later. In 1848 his son Charles joined him, and
HUGHES, ROBERT ARTHUR (1910 - 1996), medical missionary in Shillong, Meghalaya, north-east India, and an influential leader in the Presbyterian Church of Wales useful. He published a number of articles in Y Goleuad, Y Cenhadwr, The Treasury. He was the leader of the Cymry ar wasgar (Overseas Welsh) at the Llandudno National Eisteddfod in 1963. R. Arthur Hughes died on Saturday morning, 1 June 1996 at the Cardiothoracic Hospital, Broadgreen, Liverpool and the funeral service took place at Bethel Chapel, Heathfield Road, Liverpool on 10 June 1996 and afterwards
HUGHES, THOMAS JONES (1822 - 1891), cleric and grammarian Born at Bangor, 11 June 1822. He was educated at Friars School, Bangor, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1840; he became a scholar of his college, and a wrangler. He took his B.A. in 1844 and his M.A. in 1847. He was ordained deacon by bishop Bethell of Bangor, 1 February 1846, and received priest's orders on 20 December in the same year. He was licensed to the curacy of
HUGHES, THOMAS MCKENNY (1832 - 1917), geologist Born at Aberystwyth, 17 December 1832, son of Joshua Hughes, afterwards bishop of St Asaph. Educated at Leamington, Llandovery, and Trinity College, Cambridge, [from which he matriculated in 1853, graduated in 1857, and proceeded M.A. 1867; in 1883 he became Fellow of Clare College.] He became secretary to the British consul at Rome, 1860-1, served on the Geological Survey 1861-73, and succeeded
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 he had starred in Forget Me Not in 1922. Suffering from byssinosis, fibre on the lung caused by years of sorting the gifts of second hand clothing donated to his beloved Paiutes, he died at the home on 1 October 1965, aged 71. He was cremated at the Chapel of the Pines, Reno, on 4 October and buried at the Masonic Cemetery, Reno. His legacy as an actor is undeniable; the extent of his career and
HUGHES, MARGARET (Leila Megáne; 1891 - 1960), singer audience. In 1920 she sang for the first time in a concert in the Aeolian Hall, and for eight years she sang regularly in the Queen's Hall under the direction of Sir Henry Wood. After a successful tour of Europe, where she sang in La Scala (Milan) and Moscow, she was invited in 1923 to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. She married (1) in New York, 21 March 1924, T. Osborne Roberts who had
HUW ap RHYS WYN (fl. c. 1550), poet , called Bwrdi. A bardic controversy between him and Rhydderch ap Rhisiart is also found. His poems are found in the following manuscripts - Bodewryd MS 2B; Glyn Davies MS. 1; Llanstephan MS 118, Llanstephan MS 125; NLW MS 3056D; NLW MS 832E, NLW MS 9166B. A cywydd of praise to him, composed by Dafydd Alaw, is found in Peniarth MS 63 (132).
HUW ARWYSTLI (fl. 1550), poet ; Brogyntyn MSS. 1, 5; Bodewryd MS 1D; Bodewryd MS 2B; Cwrtmawr MS 200B, Cwrtmawr MS 206B, Cwrtmawr MS 242B, Cwrtmawr MS 244B, Cwrtmawr MS 454B; Swansea MS. 1; Esgair MS. 81; Wynnstay MSS. 1, 2; and Gwysaney MS. 25 - all in the National Library of Wales.
HYWEL YSTORM (or YSTORYN) (fl. first half of the 14th century), clerwr or composer of lampoons In Mostyn MS. 118 (509) his name is given as 'Ystoryn,' but in R.B.H. Poetry, col. 1337 we find 'Ystorym' above a scurrilous poem of his to 'Adam the tinker.' G. J. Williams (in Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg, 6-8) attributes to him all the anonymous abusive verse which follows to the end of col. 1348, and on these grounds he makes him contemporary with Casnodyn - see col. 1341, 1. 42. If all

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