Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, MARGARET (Leila Megáne; 1891 - 1960), singer Born in Bethesda, Caernarfonshire, 5 April 1891, one of the ten children of Thomas Jones, a member of the Caernarfonshire police force, and Jane Phillip (née Owen) his wife. In 1894 the family moved to Pwllheli but her mother died when she was 7 years old. Her father sacrificed much to give her a musical education. She had singing lessons for a period with John Williams, conductor of Caernarfon
HUMPHREYS, HUGH (1817 - 1896), printer and publisher . He took a prominent part in the life of the town and was mayor in 1876-7. He was a local preacher among the Wesleyans. Politically he was a Conservative. He married 5 June 1845, a Cornishwoman, Mary Crane Davy, daughter of captain Davy, Llandudno, an engineer; died 2 May 1896, and was buried at Llanbeblig.
HUMPHREYS, HUMPHREY (1648 - 1712), bishop, antiquary, historian, and genealogist Gruffydd (1643 - 1730), wrote cywyddau in his honour, and the prose-writers Ellis Wynne, Edward Samuel, and Samuel Williams acknowledged their indebtedness, the first and last by dedicating to him their works, Rheol Buchedd Sanctaidd and Amser a Diwedd Amser. To Edward Lhuyd, the bishop was ' incomparably the best skill'd in our Antiquities of any person in Wales.' James Tyrrell (1642 - 1718), the
HUMPHREYS, ROBERT (fl. c. 1720), poet . T. H. Parry-Williams, 1931, 201).
HUMPHREYS, Sir SALUSBURY PRYCE (1778 - 1845), rear-admiral Born in November 1778, son of Evan Humphreys, rector of Montgomery and of Clungunford; his mother (Mary) was daughter of Salusbury Pryce, for fifty-three years rector of Meifod. He is recorded here because as captain of the Leopard in 1807, he seized the American warship Chesapeake, an act which provoked a grave crisis in the U.S. attitude towards Britain, and also led to his own temporary
HUWS, ALUN 'SBARDUN' (1948 - 2014), musician and composer went on to become a member of another very popular contemporary folk group, Mynediad Am Ddim, touring to Brittany and Ireland on several occasions. In 2005/06 Alun produced a documentary film for the Welsh language TV channel S4C called 'Llythyrau Ellis Williams'. He co wrote the script and composed the music for the film with his life-long friend and contemporary in the Tebot Piws and Mynediad Am
HYWEL YSTORM (or YSTORYN) (fl. first half of the 14th century), clerwr or composer of lampoons In Mostyn MS. 118 (509) his name is given as 'Ystoryn,' but in R.B.H. Poetry, col. 1337 we find 'Ystorym' above a scurrilous poem of his to 'Adam the tinker.' G. J. Williams (in Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg, 6-8) attributes to him all the anonymous abusive verse which follows to the end of col. 1348, and on these grounds he makes him contemporary with Casnodyn - see col. 1341, 1. 42. If all
IEUAN ap HYWEL SWRDWAL (fl. 1430-1480), poet son of the poet Hywel Swrdwal. Both were associated with the Cydewain district of Powys and with Newtown. They are reputed to have lived for a time at Machynlleth. Among the poems attributed to Ieuan is an awdl to the Virgin Mary written in English but using the strict metres and orthography of Welsh. Its title is ' Owdyl i Fair a wnaeth kymbro yn Rhudychen ' etc. and its first line - 'O meichti
IEUAN ap RHYDDERCH ap IEUAN LLWYD (fl. 1430-1470), gentleman and poet probably graduated B.A., M.A., and B.C.L. (Llanstephan MS 155 - written about 1583 - asserts that he was ' a doctor of laws'). Ieuan boastfully maintains that he was a good athlete, capable of numerous feats, that he was very wealthy, and that he had held numerous offices (probably under the Crown). He wrote an awdl to Mary - wherein Latin and Welsh are interwoven in perfect cynghanedd. B.M. Add. MS
IEUAN BRYDYDD HIR HYNAF (fl. c. 1450), poet said to have been a native of Ardudwy, Meironnydd. No details regarding his life are known, but many of his poems remain in manuscript, and at least two of them have been printed. Included in his work are two poems to God, one to God and the Virgin Mary, another to S. Winefred, one written by the poet in his old age, a begging poem, and two poems of controversy, or ymryson, addressed to the poet
IFOR HAEL, patron of bards ; Lewis Glyn Cothi in the 15th century believed that Dafydd ap Gwilym had predeceased his patron - 'Aeth Dafydd gwawdydd drwy gwr/I Nefoedd o flaen Ifor.' For a further consideration of the matter consult Williams and Roberts, Cywyddau Dafydd ap Gwilym, 1914, xvii-xx, and for Bassaleg see Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, vii, 277, and see further the article on Dafydd ap Gwilym.
INNES, JAMES DICKSON (1887 - 1914), artist Born at Llanelly, 27 February 1887, was the youngest of the three sons of John Innes, accountant, and his wife, Alice Anne Mary (née Rees). He was educated at Christ College, Brecon, and then studied at the Carmarthen School of Art. In 1905 he won a scholarship at the Slade School of Art, London, where he stayed for two years. Innes was never of robust health and, in 1908, the doctors diagnosed

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