Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HOWELL, THOMAS FRANCIS (1864 - 1953), businessman and barrister making this his career. The law triumphed, however, and he was called to the Bar at Inner Temple (1889) and practised for a time on the South Wales Circuit. On the death of his father in 1909, he took over management and control of the family business and Cardiff store founded by James Howell, and under his direction the store developed and became well known throughout south Wales, and beyond. He
HOWELLS, THOMAS (Hywel Cynon; 1839 - 1905), collier, printer, poet, preacher, and musician Born 12 October 1839, at Glyn Neath, Glamorganshire. The family moved to Rhymney and the son began to work as a collier's boy when he was only seven years old. Later, at Aberaman, whither the family had moved from Rhymney, he was able to receive some education and he began to attend an evening class conducted by the Rev. John Davies. In 1858 John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt) came to Aberdare and Hywel
HUGHES GRIFFITHS, ANNIE JANE (1873 - 1942), peace campaigner , Thomas Iorwerth Ellis, on 19 December 1899, with the Queen's physician, Sir John Williams, being summoned from Buckingham Palace to attend to her. A family legend has him directing the midwife, after the birth to 'Give him a slap on his behind, so she can hear him cry'. Calling her a 'single mother', with all its contemporary connotations, would be misleading. She had means, and the support of her
HUGHES, DAVID EDWARD (1829 - 1900), physicist and inventor Born 18 June 1829 in London (some authorities contend that he was born in Green y Ddwyryd, near Corwen), son of David Hughes, originally of Bala, afterwards of London. Migrating with the family to Virginia in 1840, he was educated at S. Joseph's College, Bardstown, Kentucky. At 19 years of age he was appointed professor of music at the college, and the next year was given also the chair of
HUGHES, DEWI ARWEL (1947 - 2017), Christian leader and theologian Dewi Arwel Hughes was born on 1 January 1947 at Bugeilfod, Llangwm, Denbighshire, the youngest of four children of Gruffudd Evans Hughes (1912-1975), agricultural merchant, and his wife Annie (née Edwards, 1908-1957), a seamstress. He had three sisters, Elen Haf, Lona Wyn and Gwenan Arwel. A year after his birth the family moved to Garth Isa, Frongoch, near Bala. His mother died in 1957, when
HUGHES, EZEKIEL (1766 - 1849), one of the early Welsh settlers in the far west of the U.S.A. Born 22 August 1766, son of Richard Hughes, Cwm Carnedd Uchaf, Llanbryn-mair. He appears to have had some little education at Shrewsbury. At the age of twenty he was bound apprentice to John Tibbott (see Tibbott family) the clock-maker of Newtown. When his apprenticeship was over, he opened his own clock-making establishment at Machynlleth (1789), where he came under the influence of William
HUGHES, HENRY (1841 - 1924), Calvinistic Methodist minister and historian Born 23 April 1841 at Cefn Isa, Rhos-lan, Llanystumdwy, the ninth child of Owen and Ann Hughes. His father died before he was born and the family moved to Portmadoc, where he was given an elementary education at Pont-ynys-galch British school. He followed his craft as a sail-maker until he was 25 years of age, when he began to preach. He received additional training at Clynnog school (1866-7) and
HUGHES, HUGH ROBERT (1827 - 1911) Kinmel, Dinorben,, genealogist Born 6 June 1827, son of Hugh Robert Hughes of Bache Hall, Cheshire, by his second wife, Anne, daughter of Thomas Lance of Wavertree Hall, Lancashire His grandfather, the Rev. EDWARD HUGHES, M.A. (1738 - 1815), was the first of the family to settle at Kinmel, an ancient seat of the Holland family (7), acquiring the estate through purchase at the end of the 18th century. He was the son of HUGH
HUGHES, JOHN (1796 - 1860), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author that city. He died at Abergele, 8 August 1860. He wrote several books; the most important is his history, Methodistiaeth Cymru (3 vols., 1851-6), a remarkable work for the time at which it was written, and indispensable even today in spite of its shortcomings. John Hughes, indeed, was a more important man than has yet been fully realized. For various reasons, the Methodism of his family was of a more
HUGHES, JOHN RICHARD (1828 - 1893), Calvinistic Methodist minister and celebrated evangelist Born at Tredegar, 1828, and brought up at Aber-carn, Monmouthshire, son of Nathan Hughes. On his father's side he was descended from [ Evan Hughes, printer,] one of the 'Family' which Howel Harris gathered round himself at Trevecka [see Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, ix, 40-1], and he had inherited to a considerable extent the devotional and missionary zeal of his line
HUGHES, OWEN (d. 1708), attorney son of Thomas Hughes of Porthllongdy by a daughter of Maesoglan; his wife was Margaret, daughter of squire Evan Wynn of Penllech in Llŷn (they were married in 1661). For years there were excellent relations between him and the Bulkeley family of Baron Hill; he held a lease on the Abermenai ferry, with their blessing; and it was he in 1683 that drew up the marriage settlement of one of the
HUGHES, PRYCE (c. 1687 - 1715), American colony planner Pryce Hughes of Llanllugan, Montgomeryshire, was the eldest of three sons and three daughters of Richard Hughes (1663-1700) of Frongoch, chief steward at Powis Castle, and Mary Pryce (1663-1700). The Llanllugan estate came to the Hughes family through this marriage. Pryce succeeded his father as agent to William Herbert, the second Marquess of Powis, while the latter was in exile as a suspected

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