Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, RICHARD SAMUEL (1855 - 1893), musician Born 14 July 1855 at Aberystwyth, son of Benjamin and Ann Samuel Hughes, who kept an ironmonger's shop near the town clock. He showed musical talent and could play the piano when he was only 5 years of age. When he was 10 years old he took the prize for piano-playing at the Aberystwyth eisteddfod of 1865, the adjudicators - Brinley Richards, Owain Alaw, and John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), giving him
HUGHES, ROBERT (1811 - 1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister London with a cattle-drove, intending to enlist the support of Griffith Davies the mathematician, who was related to his mother. Davies found him work of sorts in London, and he became a member of Jewin Calvinistic Methodist church, where Hugh Owen was his Sunday-school teacher. But in 1833 his father placed him in the large (and badly rundown) farm of Uwchlaw'r-ffynnon, where he had to struggle hard
HUGHES, ROBERT ARTHUR (1910 - 1996), medical missionary in Shillong, Meghalaya, north-east India, and an influential leader in the Presbyterian Church of Wales . Arthur Hughes began his life's work on St David's Day 1939 at the Welsh Mission Hospital in Shillong as assistant to Dr H. Gordon Roberts. He took responsibility for all the wards, with Dr H. G. Roberts in charge of the administration until his retirement in 1942. He subsequently became the Senior Medical Officer, the administrator, as well as the finance officer. He gave substantial medical assistance
HUGHES, ROBERT GWILYM (1910 - 1997), poet and minister with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist denomination taught at Cae Top School from 1919 to 1921, where he sat a scholarship for Friars School. This was a school for boys which had a great reputation for its classics-teaching. The headmaster W. St Bodvan Griffith combined expertise in classics as well as in science. R. Gwilym Hughes came under the influence of R. E. Hughes, the Welsh teacher, grandfather of the Welsh author and campaigner, Angharad Tomos
HUGHES, ROBERT OWEN (Elfyn; 1858 - 1919), journalist and poet Born 8 October 1858 in Plough Street, Llanrwst, son of Charles and Elizabeth Hughes. After attending the British School at Llanrwst he was apprenticed to the banking firm of Pugh Jones and Co. Afterwards he began to prepare for the Calvinistic Methodist ministry; later, however, he went to London to work for Kirby and Endean, publishers. In 1883 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Roberts
HUGHES, THOMAS (1854 - 1928), Wesleyan minister Wesleyaidd, 1927. He was elected to the Legal Hundred of his denomination (1910). He was also the means of establishing a fund to enable candidates for the ministry in his denomination to go to a Welsh university college. He edited Y Winllan, 1894-7, and Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd, 1912-28. He published Esboniad ar yr Actau; Ymneilltuaeth Eglwys Loegr; Cofiant John Evans, Eglwysbach (jointly with J. P. Roberts
HUGHES, THOMAS ROWLAND (1903 - 1949), poet and novelist , on the Rebecca riots, which was translated into English : he was the first to write a radio play in Welsh. He also edited Storïau'r Henllys Fawr, a collection of short stories by W.J. Griffith (1938). He adapted R. Hughes Williams's Yr Hogyn Drwg as a radio play. About 1937 he contracted multiple sclerosis, but he continued to work for several years hoping for a recovery. During his illness he
HUGHES, WILLIAM (1838 - 1921), printer and publisher , in 1868, with Samuel Roberts ('S.R.') as its editor, and Richard Davies (Mynyddog) assisting him. He issued Y Dysgedydd for fifty-six years; he also published Dysgedydd y Plant, and Cronicl Bach J.R. for a period. He took an interest in public and religious affairs; he was an ardent Liberal, an alderman of the Merioneth county council, a justice of the peace, and was a deacon for fifty-five years
HUGHES, WILLIAM JOHN (1833 - 1879), musician and schoolmaster assisted John Roberts of Henllan with his collection of hymn-tunes called In Memoriam. He died June 1879 at Rhyl.
HUGHES, MARGARET (Leila Megáne; 1891 - 1960), singer Anglesey eisteddfod at Beaumaris in 1910 she entered a competition for the first time and won first prize for singing ' Gwraig y pysgotwr ' (Eurgain), with Thomas Price (1857 - 1925) and T. Osborne Roberts adjudicating. Also that year (against more than 50 competitors) she won the open contralto solo in the national eisteddfod at Colwyn Bay, and was highly praised by the adjudicator, David Evans (1874
HUMPHREYS, EDWARD MORGAN (1882 - 1955), journalist, writer and broadcaster . After a short period on the staff of a Runcorn newspaper he had the experience of following the revival meetings of Evan Roberts as correspondent for the Liverpool Courier. His impressions also appeared in Y Genedl Gymreig. He became friendly with the evangelist but was not moved in the heat of the revival. He was also correspondent for the North Wales Observer under the editorship of William Eames
HUMPHREYS, HUGH (1817 - 1896), printer and publisher which included printing, bookselling and photography amongst its activities. His first apprentice was Griffith Parry. Hugh Humphreys became a pioneer of cheap books in Wales with his series of penny books, on the lines of Chambers's Miscellany, and he also published a series of sixpenny books. Amongst the most important books which he issued were the edition (1883) of Pennant's Tours in Wales, which

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