Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, OWEN (d. 1708), attorney , husband of the attorney's niece Ann; Madryn in Llŷn fell to a grand-daughter of his sister Jane; and the house of Llysdulas in Anglesey was much indebted to the fact that the mother of squire William Lewis was another niece of Owen Hughes.
HUGHES, ROBERT (Robin Ddu yr Ail o Fôn; 1744 - 1785), poet Born at Ceint Bach, Penmynydd, Anglesey. He was taught by Ellis Thomas, curate of Llanfair Mathafarn Eithaf and was trained as a lawyer's clerk in Emrys Lewis of Trysglwyn's office at Beaumaris. He was a schoolmaster successively at Penmynydd, Heneglwys, Cerrig-ceinwen, Bodedern, and Amlwch; from 1763 to 1783 he was clerk to Ratcliffe Sidebottom, barrister-at-law, of Essex Court, Temple, London
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, ROBERT RICHARD (1872 - 1957), minister (Presb.), and author under the ministry of John Williams (1854 - 1921), and when the latter was called to Liverpool he himself was called to succeed him for a short while (1896-97). He was ordained in 1898, and became minister of Ebeneser, Kingsland, Holyhead (1898-1913), Chatham St., Liverpool (1913-22), and Newborough (1922-47). In 1897 he married Margaret Ann Lewis from Bootle, but who was originally from Bontnewydd
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 JOHN (GARETH HUGHES; 1894 - 1965), actor seen as controversial by many of his colleagues and his ability to cater to the needs of the Paiute people, whom he called 'his children', was regularly challenged. It was a difficult path, but his ability to reach the Paiutes in a way no other white man had to date was recognised by Bishop Lewis, Head of the Protestant Diocese of Nevada. He was greatly loved by the Paiutes he cared for. There was a
HUGHES, WILLIAM LEWIS Kinmel (1767 - 1852), M.P. - see HUGHES, HUGH ROBERT
HUGHES, WILLIAM LEWIS Kinmel (1821 - 1852) - see HUGHES, HUGH ROBERT
HUW LLIFON (fl. c. 1570-1607), poet and sexton these poems, and also in two englynion addressed to him by Lewis Lloyd. No details of his life are known.
HYWEL BANGOR (fl. 1540), an itinerant bard written by Huw Bangor or Hugh ap William Bangor in 1537, but he may have been a member of the Bangor family, the pedigree of which is given by Lewis Dwnn (ii, 252).
IFOR HAEL, patron of bards ; Lewis Glyn Cothi in the 15th century believed that Dafydd ap Gwilym had predeceased his patron - 'Aeth Dafydd gwawdydd drwy gwr/I Nefoedd o flaen Ifor.' For a further consideration of the matter consult Williams and Roberts, Cywyddau Dafydd ap Gwilym, 1914, xvii-xx, and for Bassaleg see Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, vii, 277, and see further the article on Dafydd ap Gwilym.
INSOLE, GEORGE (1790 - 1851), colliery proprietor Ireland. In the same year, he pioneered the introduction of South Wales steam coal, in particular Waun Wyllt steam coal from Robert Thomas's mine at Abercanaid, Glamorganshire (see Lewis, Sir William Thomas), to the London market where Tyneside coal had held sway since Tudor times. After the partners were bankrupted in 1831, George received another family inheritance and set up at the mouth of the

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