Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HOPKINS, BENJAMIN THOMAS (1897 - 1981), farmer and poet the Welsh language. Their meetings, which were usually held in Morfa Du, the home of Prosser Rhys in Trefenter, came to an end when J. M. Edwards moved to Barry in the late thirties. By then, B. T. Hopkins had established another home, having married Jane Ann Phillips (1905-1988), Brynwichell, in 1937. They had two sons, Emyr (1939-2015) and Eilian (1941-2007). Triael and Brynwichell were merged
HOWARD, JAMES HENRY (1876 - 1947), preacher, author and socialist and Mary Davies, Bonymaen, Llansamlet, and he was a collier himself for some time. He had received his early education in the school at Cockett, but when he decided to become a minister, he went for further education to Gwynfryn School, Ammanford, kept by ' Watcyn Wyn ' (Watkin Hezekiah Williams and then to the Academy at Newcastle Emlyn, kept by John Phillips, son of the famous Evan Phillips. From
HOWELL, JOHN (Ioan ab Hywel, Ioan Glandyfroedd; 1774 - 1830), weaver, schoolmaster, poet, editor, and musician of his life. His greatest service to music was rendered by visiting local churches to instruct the choristers in psalmody. He competed against Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) at the Carmarthen eisteddfod of 1819; his ode celebrating the prowess of Thomas Picton on the battle fields in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo, 'On the death of the outstanding military officer, Sir Thomas Picton' was
HUGHES, ELIZABETH PHILLIPS (1851 - 1925), educationalist Born 12 July 1851 at Carmarthen, daughter of John Hughes, surgeon, and Anne Hughes (née Phillips). Her paternal grandfather was Hugh Hughes (1778 - 1855), a famous preacher; on her mother's side her descent was partly Jewish. To this admixture of races her brother, Hugh Price Hughes, one time president of the Wesleyan conference, attributed the liveliness of mind of himself and his sisters, who
HUGHES, HUGH PRICE (1847 - 1902), Wesleyan Methodist minister Born 8 February 1847, son of John Hughes, surgeon, Carmarthen, and Anne his wife (grand-daughter of Samuel Levi Phillips). On his mother's side he was related to David Charles I and II. Educated at schools at Carmarthen and Swansea, he went to Richmond College, London, and graduated B.A. in 1869 in the University of London, taking his M.A. in 1884. His first charge was at Dover, and after
HUGHES, RICHARD (1794 - 1871), printer and publisher continued to work it under the name of Hughes and Phillips. He married Anne Jones (1797 - 1827). In 1820 he opened a paper-store in Bank Street, Wrexham; by 1823 he had established a bookshop and printing-press at 1 and 2, Church Street, Wrexham. Appointed the first registrar of marriages for the division in 1837, he became the town postmaster three years later. In 1848 his son Charles joined him, and
HUGHES, ROBERT GWILYM (1910 - 1997), poet and minister with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist denomination began his studies for the degree of BD which he obtained in 1936. He gained an MA for his work on William Wynn of Llangynhafal in 1940; part of his dissertation was published in Llên Cymru I (1950). He spent a year in pastoral studies at Bala College, under the Reverend Professors David Phillips and G. Arthur Edwards. He was ordained at Dolgellau in November 1938, and received a call to two chapels
HUGHES, ROYSTON JOHN (BARON ISLWYN), (1925 - 2003), politician Pontllan-fraith Primary School and Pontllan-fraith Secondary School, ended at the age of fifteen, he remembered these schools with affection and paid tribute to the influence of a master at the secondary school, Edgar Phillips (Trefin). Finding his first job at the local colliery office tedious, Hughes moved to work underground as a coal miner until he was conscripted in 1944. He served as a private in a
ISAAC, DAVID LLOYD (1818 - 1876), cleric and author students. In 1838 he became pastor at Neath, and founded new churches at Aberdylais, Glyn Neath, and Pontardawe; he also initiated a Cymreigyddion Society at Neath. But internal disputes arose, and Isaac was also suspected of unorthodoxy (D. R. Phillips, Hist. of the Vale of Neath, 155), so in 1841 he moved to Trosnant church in Pontypool. His career there was stormy (Bradney, Monmouthshire, I, ii, 455
JAMES, EDWARD (1569? - 1610?), cleric and translator another by Nicander (Morris Williams) in 1847. As there are no extant Llandaff diocesan records of this period, the date of James's death is not known; J. C. Morrice gives it as 1610, but no successor was appointed until 1620 (D. R. Phillips, Hist. of the Vale of Neath, 76).
JOHN, DAVID (1782? - 1853), Unitarian minister, a Chartist, and, by trade, a smith of St Clears, Carmarthenshire. He left the Independents to join the Unitarian church founded at St Clears by Benjamin Phillips, and received financial help from Unitarians to become one of their ministers, but was not at an academy. In 1816 he was serving, with Benjamin Phillips, the congregation that later settled at Capel y Graig, St Clears. In 1826 he became minister of the Unitarian church at
JOHN, WALTER PHILLIPS (1910 - 1967), minister (B)

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