Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, ARTHUR (1878 - 1965), writer a home for a long period at the home of Barbara Llwyd (Mrs. J.O. Evans) and maintained his own 'batch', i.e. a bachelor's cottage, until his marriage, 10 January 1918, to a widow, Mrs. H.M. Durrouzet, daughter of Erw Fair farm, and grand-daughter of W.E. Williams, founder of the district of Treorci in Chubut. They had 3 daughters, two of them good poets, one of whom, Irma, became a chaired bard of
HUGHES, ARWEL (1909 - 1988), musician Arwel Hughes was born on 25 August 1909 at 'Arwelfa', Rhosllannerchrugog, one of nine children of William and Catherine Hughes. His older brother was the musician John Hughes (1896-1968). He was educated at Ruabon Grammar School and the Royal College of Music in London, where he studied composition with C. H. Kitson and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Following a period as organist at St Margaret's
HUGHES, DAVID ROWLAND (Myfyr Eifion; 1874 - 1953), secretary of the National Eisteddfod worked hard for Urdd Gobaith Cymru in the capital, and gave talks on the radio, as well as popular lectures. He was editor of Our Notebook, the staff magazine of United Dairies, Ltd. (1920-39); and, with John Williams (1872 - 1944), he was joint editor (1926-38) of the London-Welsh periodical Y Ddolen, to which he contributed articles under the nom de plume ' Tafwys ', ' A way farer ', and ' Hafren
HUGHES, EMRYS DANIEL (1894 - 1969), politician, journalist and author Born 10 July 1894, the son of Rev. J.R. Hughes, 94 Henry Street, Tonypandy, Glamorganshire, minister (C.M.) and Annie (née Williams) his wife. He was educated at the council school at Abercynon, Glamorganshire, Mountain Ash secondary school and Leeds college of education. As a schoolmaster and journalist at Pontypridd and the Rhondda, he became an enthusiastic member of the Labour Party and came
HUGHES, GAINOR (1745 - 1780), fasting woman . After she became ill, we learn of her interactions with the community from the tranquillity of her bed: of the 'bunches of flowers which the children would gather and pin around it', giving her 'extraordinary pleasure'; of her acquaintances Thomas and Ellis Williams, Ty'n Llys, who would visit her early on a Sunday to hear her pray and to read selections from the Bible chosen by her; of her particular
HUGHES, GARFIELD HOPKIN (1912 - 1969), university lecturer and Welsh scholar attention to the 17th c. He published Rhagymadroddion 1547-1659 (1951); an edition of Theophilus Evans, Drych y prif oesoedd, 1716 (1961); Theophilus Evans a Drych y prif oesoedd (1963); Gweithiau William Williams, Pantycelyn, II, prose (1967); and numerous articles in Welsh journals, as well as a number of contributions to The Dictionary of Welsh Biography. His other main fields of research included the
HUGHES, HENRY (1841 - 1924), Calvinistic Methodist minister and historian Williams, Llecheiddior, by Richard Eames and Henry Hughes (Bangor, 1885). He was also a considerable authority on the old families of Caernarvonshire. He died 13 August 1924.
HUGHES, HOWEL HARRIS (1873 - 1956), minister (Presb.), principal of the Theological College, Aberystwyth Born 7 September 1873, in Brynteg, Llanfair Mathafarn Eithaf, Anglesey, son of J. Richard Hughes, a Presb. minister, and Jane his wife. He was educated at Beaumaris grammar school, the University College, Bangor (where he graduated B.A.), and the Theological College, Bala (where he graduated in theology-one of the first two to receive a B.D. degree of the University of Wales). He was ordained in
HUGHES, HUGH (1778 - 1855), Wesleyan minister denomination's ' Legal Hundred ' (1834). He retired in 1843 and made his home at Carmarthen where he died 17 December 1855. He founded many new chapels, and was a very successful minister. He was a frequent contributor to the Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd, which he edited for a time (1819-21). He and the Rev. John Williams ' the second ' were the authors of Y Goleuad Dwyreiniol, 1827, and the translators of John
HUGHES, HUGH (1790 - 1863), artist and author Born at Pwll-y-gwichiad, Llandudno (christened 20 February 1790), son of Thomas and Jane Hughes, and educated in a school kept by his grandfather Hugh Williams at Meddiant, Llansantffraid-Glan-Conwy. His mother died in 1802, and his father shortly afterwards at Liverpool, where Hugh Hughes learned wood-engraving and oil-painting; the first known work of his is the portrait of John Evans, Bala
HUGHES, HUGH JOHN (1912 - 1978), schoolteacher, author, editor and reviewer Hugh J. Hughes was born 18 August 1912 at Bwlch-gwyn, Garndolbenmaen, Caernarfonshire, the elder of the two sons of Thomas Hughes, farmer, and his wife Mary Jane (née Jones). (The brothers John Roberts, Llangwm, and Robert Roberts, Clynnog, eminent preachers with the Calvinistic Methodists in their day, were among his ancestors). He was educated at the council school Brynengan (1917-25), Pen-y
HUGHES, HYWEL STANFORD (1886 - 1970), cattle breeder, benefactor and Welsh nationalist Olwen Margaret Williams in Mile End chapel, London, with Thomas Charles Williams officiating. Born in London, she was the daughter of Owen Williams, Gwalchmai, Anglesey, one-time High Sheriff of that county and a prosperous London draper. She was a niece of Sir Vincent Evans. Their four children continued to farm in Colombia. Hywel Hughes never sought Colombian citizenship preferring always to

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