Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
HUGHES, CLEDWYN (BARON CLEDWYN OF PENRHOS), (1916 - 2001), politician Kinnock's parents in Holyhead; her father was to become chairman of the Labour Party in Anglesey. Hughes remained chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party during Callaghan's premiership; he assisted the Prime Minister by keeping an eye on the quarrelsome factions within the party and by carrying out a number of delicate tasks. In March 1977, Hughes took part in the negotiations that led to the Lib-Lab
HUGHES, EDWARD (1856 - 1925), general secretary and agent of the North Wales Miners Association Born 22 March 1856 at Trelogan, Flintshire, son of Hugh and Maria Hughes of Ffordd Faen, Trelogan. His father was an agricultural labourer. He spent three years at a village school at Trelogan. In 1863, at the age of seven, he began working in the washings at Trelogan mines; at the age of twelve he went to the old Mostyn Quay colliery to work for his brother. Later he obtained work at Hanmer
HUGHES, EMRYS DANIEL (1894 - 1969), politician, journalist and author Labour Party whip from November 1954 until April 1955 after voting against the readiness of the Conservative government to accept German rearmament rather than abstaining in keeping with Labour Party instructions. He again lost the Labour whip between March 1961 and May 1963 after he had chosen to vote against the armed service estimates. He was an unwavering pacifist, and spent a year in Caernarfon

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