Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HILL family, Plymouth iron-works, Merthyr Tydfil capital of £20,000. Work now proceeded briskly at the Plymouth iron-works where Richard Hill I was ably assisted by his sons, Richard II and ANTHONY HILL (1784 - 1862). But on 20 April 1806, Richard Hill I passed away leaving all his estate to his widow, Mary, his three sons, Richard II, John Hill (of London), and Anthony Hill, and his two daughters, Elizabeth, and Mary, the wife of J. N. Miers (of
HUGHES, DAVID (EOS IAL; 1794? - 1862), poet and publisher
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, THOMAS MCKENNY (1832 - 1917), geologist Adam Sedgwick as Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge in 1873, holding the office until 1917. He was elected vice-president of the Geological Society in 1862, F.R.S. in 1889, and was awarded the Lyell Medal by the Geological Society in 1891. His research publications (more than fifty) relate mainly to the pre-Cambrian and Palaeozoic rocks of Wales and the borders of Lakeland and to glacial
HUMPHREYS, HUGH (1817 - 1896), printer and publisher Telegraph, which does not appear to have lived for more than a few weeks. In September 1862 appeared the first number of a monthly magazine, Golud yr Oes, but this was also given up in December 1864, the publisher, who was also the editor, stating that it stood in the way of other publishing ventures which he had at heart. As his business grew he built Paternoster Buildings at the corner of Castle Square
HUMPHREYS, THOMAS JONES (1841 - 1934), Wesleyan minister Born 16 May 1841 at Darowen, Montgomeryshire, grandson on his father's side of one of the first trustees of Tŷ-cerrig Wesleyan chapel. He was educated at the Normal College, Swansea (1861-2), and became first a salaried preacher in the Pwllheli circuit (1862-5) and then a minister in the following circuits: Amlwch (1865), Abergele (1867), Blaenau Ffestiniog (1869), Llanberis (1872), Bagillt (1874
HUWS, RHYS JONES (1862 - 1917), Independent minister Born 13 June 1862 at Tal-y-wern Fach, Penegoes, near Machynlleth. His father was the superintendent of the lead-washings at the Dyfngwm and Dylife works; his mother hailed from the line of Eos Morlais (Robert Rees). The family went to live at Llechwedd-du, Dylife, and it was there, in the National school, that he received his early education. When he was about thirteen he embarked on his career
INSOLE, JAMES HARVEY (1821 - 1901), colliery proprietor of Mines. He also maintained that he would never refuse money for safety (however, it was not until the 1870s that each miner in his collieries was provided with a secure safety lamp). James became a Justice of the Peace and Borough Magistrate in the same year. Whilst the Cymmer colliery supplied bituminous coal, its steam coal seams lay expensively deep. Therefore, in 1862, James sank a pit at
JAMES, DAVID (1787 - 1862), musician
JAMES, JOHN LLOYD (Clwydwenfro; 1835 - 1919), Congregational minister and historian ,' appeared in Seren Cymru, 1856-7. He edited Cyfaill y Werin, 1862, and the poetry column in Y Twr (Aberdare) for some time. He wrote much to Y Beirniad, Y Tywysydd, Y Diwygiwr, and Cennad Hedd. He specialized in local and religious history. His two chief published works were Hanes Cymanfaoedd yr Annibynwyr (1867-9, in five parts, unfinished), and Hanes Eglwys Glandwr, 1902. His novel Habakkuk Crabb was
JAMES, THOMAS (1834 - 1915), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and schoolmaster Born at Verwick near Cardigan; his father (a blacksmith) was an Anglican, his mother a Calvinistic Methodist. At about 20, desiring to enter the ministry, he went to a school at Blaenannerch nearby, and thence (1858) to Trevecka. In 1862 he won a Dr. Daniel Williams scholarship, which took him to Glasgow, where he graduated in 1866. After spending some months at Edinburgh, he returned in 1867 to
JAMES, THOMAS DAVIES (Iago Erfyl; 1862 - 1927), clergyman, and popular preacher and lecturer Son of Thomas James and his wife; born at Manafon, Montgomeryshire, 13 August 1862. Soon afterwards the family moved to Wyddi-goed, Llanfechain, but his parents died when he was young and he was brought up by his grandparents at Garth Isaf, Rhosybrithdir, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant. He began preaching with the Methodists at Rhosybrithdir, went to Didsbury College, Manchester, and after passing his

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