Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, DAVID ROWLAND (Myfyr Eifion; 1874 - 1953), secretary of the National Eisteddfod '. After returning to Wales he was elected treasurer (1941) and president (1944-45) of Undeb Cymru Fydd. He was one of the pioneers and a founding member both of the Caernarfonshire and of the Denbighshire Historical Societies (1925-50). His main contribution was as secretary of the National Eisteddfod Association in 1935-36, and as joint secretary (1937-47) with Cynan (Sir Cynan Albert Evans Jones
HUGHES, EDWARD ERNEST (1877 - 1953), first Professor of history at the University College, Swansea, and a notable intermediary between the university and the public J.C. Evans, to whom he acknowledged his great indebtedness, as well as to the school. In 1895 he went to U.C.W., Aberystwyth, graduating with first-class honours in history in 1898. Then he went to Jesus College, Oxford, and graduated with second-class honours in modern history in 1902. He often talked of the kindness of Sir John Rhŷs to him and of his enjoyment of the meetings of the Dafydd ap
HUGHES, EMRYS DANIEL (1894 - 1969), politician, journalist and author bulldog (1955), studies which revealed their author's loathing of their subject. He was also the author of Pilgrim's progress in Russia (1957), Macmillan: portrait of a politician (1962), Sir Alec Douglas-Home (1964), Parliament and mumbo jumbo (1966), The prince, the crown and the cash (1969), and Sidney Silverman: rebel in Parliament (1970), a volume which appeared posthumously. Hughes was always
HUGHES, HUGH JOHN (1912 - 1978), schoolteacher, author, editor and reviewer former student and an enthusiastic admirer of Sir Ifor Williams. Needless to say, he was an ardent patron of all things Welsh within his community like the Talsarnau Eisteddfod from its inception as well as other cultural societies. According to John Ieuan Jones, a local poet and friend of his, H. J. Hughes was 'an interesting conversationalist who embodied the best of rural Eifionydd in his bearing
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
HUGHES, ISAAC (Craigfryn; 1852 - 1928), novelist contributions have been incorporated in Sir John Rhys's Celtic Folklore. He worked as a collier in the Deep Navigation Pit, Treharris, but for the last eighteen years of his life he had been afflicted with blindness. He was for many years local secretary of the South Wales Miners Federation and secretary of the Workers' Library, Treharris. Craigfryn, who was survived by three daughters and two sons, died 3
HUGHES, JOSEPH (Carn Ingli; 1803 - 1863), cleric and eisteddfodic poet
HUGHES, JOSEPH TUDOR (Blegwryd; 1827 - 1841), boy harpist
HUGHES, JOSHUA (1807 - 1889), bishop , a Church extension society in 1871, and a diocesan conference, 1878. He cultivated friendliness with Nonconformists despite the bitter religious controversy of those days, and was universally beloved. He died 21 January 1889 and was buried at S. Asaph. He married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas McKenny, bart. There were seven children: T. McKenny Hughes, Joshua Pritchard Hughes, bishop of
HUGHES, MEGAN WATTS (1842 - 1907), vocalist Hughes, as she now was, accompanied Joseph Parry on a musical tour of North Wales. She took part twice in ' Orpheus ' (Gluck); she also sang duets with Jenny Lind. Soon after her marriage she founded a home for necessitous and homeless boys. She wrote several hymn-tunes, some of which are included in Tonau, Salmau ac Anthemau (David Jenkins); of these ' Wilton Square ' continues to be popular. Her
HUGHES, MICHAEL (1752 - 1825), industrialist carrying coal and ore to and from Amlwch (e.g. the Amlwch Shipping Company), in the Amlwch Brewery Company, in Lancashire canals and collieries, in lime burning, in the sale of slag from his copper works, in quarries, in brick making, in the Bootle Bottle Company; he also made numerous loans to other Lancashire industrialists, e.g. to textile manufacturers and to landowners, including the first Sir
HUGHES, ROBERT GWILYM (1910 - 1997), poet and minister with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist denomination of his admiration for the scholar Sir Ifor Williams, the professor of Welsh, and over the years they became great friends. The scholar wrote him at the end of his life in 1962 a delightful letter from his home in Pontllyfni where he says: 'I have a longing to see my children of old. Hurry here, and we will have a wonderful conversation.' Another lecturer from that era who became a loyal friend was

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