Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, WILLIAM JOHN (1833 - 1879), musician and schoolmaster
HUGHES, WILLIAM JOHN (GARETH HUGHES; 1894 - 1965), actor William John Hughes was born on 23 August 1894 at Halfway, Dafen, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, the elder son of John Elias Hughes, a tinplate boxer, and Ann Hughes (née Morgan). His father was an accomplished orator who won many prizes at local eisteddfodau. His younger brother was Brinley Hughes. The family subsequently moved to Princess Street, Llanelli. William John was educated at the Higher
HUGHES, WILLIAM LEWIS Kinmel (1767 - 1852), M.P. - see HUGHES, HUGH ROBERT
HUGHES, WILLIAM LEWIS Kinmel (1821 - 1852) - see HUGHES, HUGH ROBERT
HUGHES, WILLIAM MELOCH (1860 - 1926), colonist and writer
HUGHES, WILLIAM ROBERT (1798? - 1879), healer of cancer and cancerous warts
HUGHES, WILLIAM ROGER (1898 - 1958), cleric and poet
HUGHES, MARGARET (Leila Megáne; 1891 - 1960), singer French opera (sung in French), works by Handel, Welsh songs, and Elgar's Sea pictures, with the composer himself conducting the performance. She married (2), 6 October 1951, in Llanrwst, William John Hughes, Efailnewydd, one of her contemporaries who had performed in many concerts with her before she went to the Royal Academy of Music. In Pwllheli national eisteddfod, 1956, a scholarship bearing her
HUMPHREYS, EDWARD MORGAN (1882 - 1955), journalist, writer and broadcaster . After a short period on the staff of a Runcorn newspaper he had the experience of following the revival meetings of Evan Roberts as correspondent for the Liverpool Courier. His impressions also appeared in Y Genedl Gymreig. He became friendly with the evangelist but was not moved in the heat of the revival. He was also correspondent for the North Wales Observer under the editorship of William Eames
HUMPHREYS, HUMPHREY (1648 - 1712), bishop, antiquary, historian, and genealogist . Much against his inclination he was translated to Hereford in November 1701; there he died on 20 November 1712. In 1681, Humphreys married Elizabeth, daughter of bishop Robert Morgan of Henblas, Anglesey, a family of which bishop William Lloyd, one of the 'Seven Bishops,' was a distinguished member. Bishop Humphreys's episcopate was one of marked activity, and even after his translation to Hereford
HUMPHREYS, JAMES (c. 1768 - 1830), legal writer Born at Montgomery, he was the sixth child of Charles Gardiner Humphreys, solicitor. Educated at Shrewsbury school, he was articled to William Pugh, Caerhowell, Montgomeryshire, going later to the office of a solicitor named Yeomans at Worcester. In November 1887 he went to London. He became a pupil of Charles Butler and was entered at Lincoln's Inn. He was called to the Bar on 25 June 1800 and
HUMPHREYS, RICHARD (1790 - 1863), Calvinistic Methodist minister amongst his friends. Although he took no very prominent part in politics he is believed to have been one of the first ministers of his denomination to support Liberalism. He married in 1822, Ann, daughter of captain William Griffith, Y Cei, Barmouth; they had two daughters, one, Jennette, being the wife of the Rev. Edward Morgan, Dyffryn (1817 - 1871). His first wife died in 1852 and he married in 1858

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