Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HOPKINS, BENJAMIN THOMAS (1897 - 1981), farmer and poet Alun Jones y Cilie, Evan Jenkins and Dafydd Jones from Ffair Rhos, T. Llew Jones, John Roderick Rees, Gwynfil Rees, Pennant, and Professor Gwyn Williams, Bethel, Mynydd Bach. B. T. Hopkins was reluctant to publish a volume of his poetry, but eventually gave in to persuasion from friends. Since he had not kept copies of his poems, Dyfnallt Morgan, T. Llew Jones and D. Ben Rees had to search for them
HUGHES, ARWEL (1909 - 1988), musician Crematorium. In a tribute Alun Guy said of him that he was 'one of the small company of composers who gave Welsh music self-respect.'
HUGHES, EDWARD (Y Dryw; 1772 - 1850), eisteddfodic poet Wyn o Eifion). Hughes was elected official 'bard' to the Society of Gwyneddigion, 1820-1, and won the prize offered by the Society of Cymmrodorion, 1822, for his cywydd ' Hu Gadarn.' In the Denbigh eisteddfod of 1828 he was again successful with his ' Ymdrech Buddug yn erbyn y Rhufeiniaid ' and also with his awdl ' Amaethyddiaeth ' - Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), John Blackwell (Alun), and
HUGHES, ROBERT GWILYM (1910 - 1997), poet and minister with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist denomination Calvinistic Chapel in Holyhead and he moved there in March 1948. This was a delight to him as he could enjoy fellowship with a number of Welsh poets, some from his college days, like Huw Llewellyn Williams and O. M. Lloyd, others who had strong links with the denomination, such as the Reverend J. O. Jones (Hyfreithon) and Alun Puleston Jones. He also became a staunch friend of a local solicitor, Cledwyn
HUGHES, WILLIAM BULKELEY (1797 - 1882), Member of Parliament Born 26 July 1797, eldest son of Sir William Bulkeley Hughes of Plas Coch, Llanidan, Anglesey, and Brynddu, Llanfechell, and Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Rice Thomas of Coed Alun, Caernarvon. His family, which claimed descent from Llywarch ap Bran, lord of Menai, had since the middle of the 15th century played a leading part in the local administration of Anglesey. Hugh Hughes (died 1609
HUWS, ALUN 'SBARDUN' (1948 - 2014), musician and composer Alun Huws was born in Bangor, Gwynedd, on 26 September 1948, the eldest son of Richard Wynne Hughes (1921-1989) and Catherine Anne Hughes (née Davies, 1920-1972). The family home was in Penrhyndeudraeth. His father worked at Cookes Explosives Ltd., part of the ICI Group, while his mother was a teacher. The couple had one other son, John Wyn Hughes. Alun changed the spelling of his surname to the
JONES family, smiths, poets, musicians and preachers Cilie, Alun Jeremiah - were poets skilled in the strict and in the free metres and much of their work has survived. Several anecdotes relating to the family can be found in Ail gerddi Isfoel a hunangofiant byr (1965), and in Awen ysgafn y Cilie. FREDERICK CADWALADR (Fred, 1877 - 1948), Independent minister, writer and nationalist Religion Literature and Writing Patriots Politics, Government and Political
JONES, ANEURIN (Aneurin Fardd; 1822 - 1904), man of letters adjudicated frequently at the eisteddfodau; and it was he who, at the Aberdare national eisteddfod (1861), awarded the prize to Ceiriog for his pastoral 'Alun Mabon.' In 1861 he started a printing-press for the purpose of printing a periodical, Y Bedyddiwr, and continued at this work for two and a half years. Then his circumstances became involved and he emigrated (1864) to America, first to Scranton, then
JONES, EMYR WYN (1907 - 1999), cardiologist and author for due recognition of the Welsh language within the health service. In 1936 he married Enid Llywelyn Williams (1909-1967), daughter of Dr David Llewelyn Williams and sister to Alun Llywelyn-Williams. They had one daughter, Carys (b. 1937) and one son, Gareth Wyn (b. 1940). During the intense bombing of Liverpool in the Second World War, the family moved first to Enid's parents' house in Old Colwyn
JONES, ENID WYN (1909 - 1967), a prominent worker in religious, social and medical fields Born 17 January 1909 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, daughter of Dr. David Llewelyn Williams and Margaret Williams. The poet Alun Llywelyn-Williams was her brother. The family moved to Cardiff just before World War I, but she was brought up at Rhyl during the war. She was a pupil at the Welsh Girls' School, Ashford, from 1919 to 1926, and afterwards was trained as a nurse at Cardiff Royal Infirmary. On
JONES, JOHN (1773 - 1853), cleric , ' Alun ' at the commencement of their careers. He was a scholar and in 1834 he published the second edition of British Antiquities Revived by Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt (1662). Occasional references in his letters reveal that he was also quite critical of the scholarship of John Williams, ' Ab Ithel ' affected by its Iolo mania and druidism. He paid for the monument to ' Dafydd Ionawr ' in Dolgellau old
JONES, JOHN PULESTON (1862 - 1925), Calvinistic Methodist minister, writer, and theologian . church, Princes Road, Bangor. In 1890 he married Annie Alun Jones, daughter of Thomas Jones (Glan Alun, 1811 - 1866) by whom he had two children. He was minister of the churches at Dinorwig and Fachwen (1895-1907), Penmount, Pwllheli (1907-18), and Llanfair Caereinion (1918-23). He published his Esboniad ar Epistol Iago in 1899, his 'Davies Lecture,' Until the Day Dawn, 1913, and a volume of sermons

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