Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
HUGHES, GAINOR (1745 - 1780), fasting woman information provided in the contemporary sources. Gainor Hughes was buried at Llandderfel cemetery on 14 March 1780. As suggested by the evidence cited, which was drawn from oral testimony, interest in her persisted locally. Her story was notable enough to draw the attention of the artist Edward Pugh (c.1761-1813), who mentioned her in his posthumously-published Cambria Depicta: A Tour through North Wales
HUGHES, HUGH (1790 - 1863), artist and author live in London (a lecture of his to the Cymreigyddion Society is printed in Seren Gomer, 1831), but by 1835 he was living at Caernarvon, assisting William Williams (Caledfryn, 1801 - 1869) in bringing out Y Seren Ogleddol, and issuing the short-lived Papur Newydd Cymraeg, 1836. After that, he lived at Chester (1839), Barmouth (1841), Aberystwyth, and finally Malvern, where he died 11 March 1863. His
HUGHES, HUGH (Cadfan Gwynedd, Hughes Cadfan; 1824 - 1898), one of the Welsh pioneers in Patagonia justice of the peace and, in 1875, governor of the settlement. He adopted the pseudonym Cadfan Gwynedd and was known in the colony as ' Hughes Cadfan.' He died 7 March 1898.
HUGHES, HUGH DERFEL (1816 - 1890), poet Born 7 March 1816 at Melin-y-Cletwr in the parish of Llandderfel, Meirionethshire, son of Hugh Hughes (died 1829) who was the miller there until 1822, when he moved to the village of Llandderfel. He worked on farms here and there for some years but eventually obtained employment as a weigher in the Penrhyn Quarry. He married in 1846 and settled at his wife's home, Pen-dinas, Tre-garth, near
HUGHES, HUGH JOHN (1912 - 1978), schoolteacher, author, editor and reviewer throughout his career. He served in the Army (with the Royal Engineers) during November 1940 - March 1946. The University of Wales Press published his volume Gwerthfawrogi Llenyddiaeth (1959) which consists of 'a selection of poetry and prose chosen as suitable for use as exercises…by senior pupils in secondary schools and first year students in colleges'. As well as being a most useful tool for the
HUGHES, HYWEL STANFORD (1886 - 1970), cattle breeder, benefactor and Welsh nationalist breeding generally and to seek independence for Wales. He died on 19 March 1970 at Bogota and was buried there.
HUGHES, JOHN HENRY (Ieuan o Leyn; 1814 - 1893), Congregational minister and poet to his wife's ill-health. He became minister successively at West Hartlepool, Horsley-upon-Tyne, Newent, and Cefn-mawr, Denbighshire. He died 7 March 1893 at Wrexham. His poems in the free metres brought him into some prominence, and he became well known as the author of ' Beth sy'n hardd? ' A volume of his English sermons, under the title The Hand that Saves, and other Sermons, was published in
HUGHES, JOHN (1615 - 1686), Jesuit Born June 1615, youngest son of Hugh Owen (1575? - 1642) of Gwaenynog. In his younger days he appears to have spent some time with his father in Raglan castle but on 25 December 1636 he became a student at the English College in Rome. He was ordained priest, 16 March 1640-1, and returned to England, 28 September 1643. In 1648 he joined the Society of Jesus at Watten, near S. Omer and in 1650 came
HUGHES, JONATHAN (1721 - 1805), poet Born 17 March 1721 at Pengwern, near Llangollen. He is said to have written poetry at the age of fifteen, and in the course of a long life he produced a large number of poems, mainly of the type common in the 18th century, i.e. poems containing a good deal of cynghanedd and intended to be sung to the popular melodies of the time. Such poems by him appear regularly in the almanacs published by

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