Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HOOSON, HUGH EMLYN (1925 - 2012), Liberal politician and public figure Sessions, 1960-67, and then its Chairman, 1967-72. He was appointed Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil early in 1971 and Recorder of Swansea in July of the same year. He was elected Leader of the Wales and Chester Circuit, 1971-74. Hooson was elected Liberal MP for Montgomeryshire at a keenly contested by-election in May 1962 caused by the death of the former party leader Clement Edward Davies. His initial
HOOSON, ISAAC DANIEL (1880 - 1948), solicitor and poet Born 2 May 1880, at Rhosllannerchrugog, Denbighshire, son of Edward and Harriet Hooson. His father's family originally came from Cornwall. I. D. Hooson was educated at the Rhos board school and Ruabon grammar school. In 1897 he entered the service of Messrs Morris and Jones in Liverpool, where he stayed until 1904 when his father died. He was afterwards articled to a Wrexham solicitor and he
HOOSON, TOM ELLIS (1933 - 1985), Conservative politician He was born on 16 March 1933, the son of David Maelor Hooson, a farmer, and his wife, Ursula Ellis Hooson. He was a cousin to Emlyn Hooson (born 1925), the former Liberal MP for Montgomeryshire, 1962-79, and a grand-nephew to Thomas Edward Ellis (1859-1899), the Liberal MP for Merionethshire, 1886-99, and to the Welsh poet I. D. Hooson (1880-1948). He was educated at Rhyl Grammar School and
HOPKIN, LEWIS (c. 1708 - 1771), poet influence on the literary life of Glamorgan in that period. He was also the bardic teacher of Edward Evan, and Iolo Morganwg admits that Hopkin taught him. He was a well-read and cultured man; it is claimed that he was well-acquainted with English literature of the 18th century; he had Latin and French books in his library. He was buried at Llandyfodwg; Iolo Morganwg published an elegy to him in 1772
HOWELL, JAMES (1594? - 1666), author as Edward, lord Herbert of Cherbury and Ben Jonson. On Jonson's death in 1637 he wrote a tribute in the form of an elegy. His political allegory, Dodona's Grove, was translated into French and Latin, and England's Teares, an appeal for peace in 1644, was rendered into Latin and Dutch. In his political pamphlets he espoused the king's cause while he lived, but when Cromwell was made Protector
HOWELL, JOHN (Ioan ab Hywel, Ioan Glandyfroedd; 1774 - 1830), weaver, schoolmaster, poet, editor, and musician (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion), James Davies (Iago ap Dewi), D. Rowland (Dewi Brefi) of Carmarthen, Edward Richard of Ystradmeurig, Evan Thomas of Llanarth, D. Lloyd of Llwynrhydowen, D. Jones of Llanwrda, John Jenkins (Ioan Siengcyn) of Cardigan, Francis Thomas ('y Crythwr Dall o Geredigion'), Ifan Gruffydd of Tŵr-gwyn, and others. Some of the material for his anthology was obtained by him from what is now
HOWELL, LLEWELYN DAVID (1812 - 1864), Congregational minister, author, and eisteddfodwr this society in 1842. He won a prize at the Utica eisteddfod, 2 January 1860, for an essay which was published the same year, at Rome, N.Y., under the title of Traithawd ar Ddechreuad a Chynnydd y Cymry yn Utica a'i Hamgylchoedd. He died 13 July 1864; a memoir, by Edward Davies, Waterville, was published in 1866.
HOWELLS, MORGAN (1794 - 1852), Calvinistic Methodist minister time the debt incurred on it nearly overwhelmed him, but he collected money over the whole country to pay for it. In 1903 a new chapel was built at Newport to his memory. In 1858, Gweithiau Morgan Howells … pregethau a thraethodau, was published under the editorship of Edward Matthews.
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, DAVID EDWARD (1829 - 1900), physicist and inventor
HUGHES, EDWARD (1856 - 1925), general secretary and agent of the North Wales Miners Association
HUGHES, EDWARD (d. 1862), harpist

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