Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, EDWARD (d. 1862), harpist son of William Hughes, harpist, Llansantffraed, Montgomeryshire ' Eos Maldwyn ' won a valuable harp at one of the eisteddfodau organised by Cymreigyddion y Fenni (Abergavenny). He died of tuberculosis in Liverpool, 9 December 1862.
HUGHES, EDWARD (Y Dryw; 1772 - 1850), eisteddfodic poet Bodfari from 1818 to 185 0. His awdl ' Elusengarwch ' was judged to be the best in the Denbigh eisteddfod of 1819 by William Owen Pugh, Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn), and David Richards (Dewi Silin). This adjudication started a bitter controversy which raged for a very long time, for the general opinion among the poets and littérateurs of Wales was that the prize should have gone to David Owen (Dewi
HUGHES, EDWARD ERNEST (1877 - 1953), first Professor of history at the University College, Swansea, and a notable intermediary between the university and the public but entrusted the work to Glyn Roberts who had the research qualifications that were impossible for him to attain with his poor and deteriorating eyesight. He restricted himself to his own special field, namely that of the constitutional history of England in the Middle Ages. He prepared those lectures with the help of his wife, who read for him. He lectured to the first-year students on Europe
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, 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, GRIFFITH WILLIAM (1861 - 1941), accountant and musician
HUGHES, HUGH (Tegai; 1805 - 1864), Independent minister and man of letters a call to be minister of Rhos-lan and later officiated as a minister at Manchester and at Chwilog. At the end of his term at Chwilog he set up his own printing press at Pwllheli where a penny newspaper, Yr Arweinydd, and several of his literary works were printed and published. In 1859, he became minister of Bethel, Aberdare [for which see under William Jones, 1814? - 1895 ] where he spent the
HUGHES, HUGH (Huw ap Huw, Y Bardd Coch o Fôn; 1693 - 1776), gentleman and poet Of Llwydiarth Esgob in the parish of Llandyfrydog, Anglesey, a corresponding member of the Cymmrodorion Society and a friend of the Morrises. According to J. E. Griffith he was the son of Hugh Hughes and Margaret, daughter of David ap William Parry of Beaumaris, tanner, born 1 August 1693. About 1719 he married Ann, daughter of Edward Jones of Rhydyrarian, and they had several children; she died
HUGHES, HUGH (1790 - 1863), artist and author live in London (a lecture of his to the Cymreigyddion Society is printed in Seren Gomer, 1831), but by 1835 he was living at Caernarvon, assisting William Williams (Caledfryn, 1801 - 1869) in bringing out Y Seren Ogleddol, and issuing the short-lived Papur Newydd Cymraeg, 1836. After that, he lived at Chester (1839), Barmouth (1841), Aberystwyth, and finally Malvern, where he died 11 March 1863. His
HUGHES, HUGH ROBERT (1827 - 1911) Kinmel, Dinorben,, genealogist into possession of the moiety of the western part of Parys mountain, Amlwch, and of the rich deposits of copper which were discovered there during the latter half of the 18th century. As principal proprietor of the Parys Mine, from which he drew considerable profits, Edward Hughes was succeeded by his son WILLIAM LEWIS HUGHES (1767 - 1852), M.P. for Wallingford, Berks., 1802-26 and 1830-31, who in
HUGHES, JOHN (1775 - 1854), Calvinistic Methodist minister, author, and hymn-writer , he yet had a remarkable personality, and his piety was never in doubt. He was a regular contributor to the periodicals of his day, and published memoirs, collections of hymns, and sermons. His most celebrated memoir is that of Ann Griffiths, which appeared in Y Traethodydd, 1846, and in book form in 1854. He also published Cofiant Owen Jones o'r Gelli, 1830; Cofiant William Jones, Dol-y-fonddu, ac
HUGHES, JOHN (1827 - 1893), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 27 September 1827 in the Calvinistic Methodist chapel-house at Llannerch-y-medd, Anglesey, son of John and Ellen Hughes. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to a boot-maker and, in due course, became a master boot-maker. He was taught Greek by William Roberts (1784 - 1864) of Amlwch. His application to enter the ministry was considered at the Cemaes monthly meeting, 20 December 1847

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