Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HOOSON, HUGH EMLYN (1925 - 2012), Liberal politician and public figure Emlyn Hooson was born on 26 March 1925, the son of Hugh and Elsie Hooson of Colomendy, Denbighshire, to a notable local family. He was educated at Denbigh Grammar School and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he graduated in law in 1949. (He was years later to be appointed a Professorial Fellow of Aberystwyth University in 1997). In 1950 he married Shirley Margaret Wynne Hamer
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 Museum of Wales. He died 19 March 1754.
HOPKINS, BENJAMIN THOMAS (1897 - 1981), farmer and poet 1979, and was elected in 1964 to the Tregaron District Council. Politically he was a member of Plaid Cymru and was one of the founders of the Cardiganshire Constituency Executive Committee in October 1932. Prosser Rhys was elected President, he himself Vice President and J. M. Edwards Secretary. He organized a meeting for the national party in Blaenpennal as early as March 1933, and he had a high
HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY (1844 - 1889), poet and priest south of St Beuno's - of which the poet wrote in his diary: 'The Rock is a great resort of hawks and owls' - inspired the poem he considered in 1879 to be 'the best thing I ever wrote', 'The Windhover', dedicated 'to Christ Our Lord'. In a Dominican, a practice sermon for trainee Jesuits, delivered on 11 March 1877, Hopkins went so far as to compare the geography of the Vale of Clwyd with the Sea of
HORSFALL TURNER, ERNEST RICHMOND (1870 - 1936), schoolmaster and local historian movement in Montgomeryshire and his manuscripts are now at the National Library of Wales. He was elected a member of Llanidloes town council in 1901, and was twice mayor of the town, 1908 and 1927-28. In 1897 he married Annie, daughter of J.N. Crowther, and they had a son who was town clerk at Aberystwyth. His wife died in 1923. He died at Llanidloes, 13 March 1936, and was buried there.
HOWE, ELIZABETH ANNE (1959 - 2019), ecologist humour, while her efforts to increase access to music benefitted her local community. Liz Howe died of cancer in Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor on 31 March 2019, aged 59, and she was cremated at Bangor Crematorium on 10 April. Her ashes rest in a wild part of Anglesey.
HOWELL, DAVID (1797 - 1873), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Waunbrics, St Clears, Carmarthenshire, 31 March 1797, son of Dafydd Howell. While still young he was received into the communion of the Bancyfelin society by Thomas Charles of Bala. In 1814 he went to Swansea as a tailor's apprentice. He became a member of Crug-glas church and began to preach there in 1817. In 1821 he was sent by his Connexion to Radnorshire as a missionary and he settled
HOWELL, GWILYM (1705 - 1775), almanac-maker and poet unable to obtain astronomical instruments he made these very skilfully himself. He succeeded in setting on foot an annual eisteddfod in the district, the first being held at the Red Lion, Llanidloes, in 1772. He died 4 March 1775 and was buried in Llanidloes churchyard.
HOWELLS, GERAINT WYN (Baron Geraint), (1925 - 2004), farmer and politician election and won a surprising victory over the Labour member, Elystan Morgan. Eight months later, Howells held the seat against a challenge from Morgan. At both elections, his majority was around 2500. In 1979, Howells held the seat by a little over 2000 votes above the Conservative candidate. He made his maiden speech in the House of Commons on 14 March 1974 during that part of the debate on the Queen's
HOWELLS, MORGAN (1794 - 1852), Calvinistic Methodist minister he moved to Tredegar where he died 21 March 1852. In the course of his short life he became the chief ornament of Calvinistic Methodism in Monmouthshire and was celebrated throughout Wales as a preacher. The liveliness of his imagination, the ardour of his emotions, and the warmth of his genius inevitably kindled the fervour of his congregations. In 1829 he built a chapel at Newport, and at one
HUGHES, CHARLES (1823 - 1886), publisher Born 3 March 1823, the son of Richard Hughes (1794 - 1871), Wrexham and his wife, Anne. He was educated at Fairfield (Moravian) and Bridgnorth grammar schools. He served four years as publisher's apprentice with Simpkin & Marshall, London (1844-8), and returned to his father's publishing house in Church Street, Wrexham. He attended the Frankfurt-on-Main Peace Conference in 1848. He was borough

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