Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HOWELLS, HOWELL (1750 - 1842), Methodist cleric Born 12 May 1750 at Ystrad-gynlais, Brecknock. As a young man he joined the Methodist society and began to preach when he was travelling in North Wales with John Evans (died 1784) of Cil-y-cwm. He was educated at Llanddowror school c. 1778 and was ordained deacon in 1781; when he was ordained priest in 1782 he was referred to as 'curate of Ystradgynlais.' After that, he is said to have served at
HOWELLS, MORGAN (1794 - 1852), Calvinistic Methodist minister carpenter. The vital importance of religion was brought home to him under the ministry of John Rees, minister of Gobaith (Hope) chapel, and he joined that church. He began to preach in 1815 and was ordained at the Llangeitho association, 1824. He was married twice: (1) to Mary Lewis, sister of Richard Lewis ('Dic Penderyn'), 1827 and (2) to Ann Morgan of Ebbw Vale, 1843. At the time of his second marriage
HOWELLS, REES (1879 - 1950), missionary and founder of the Bible College, Swansea use as a hospital and boarding school for the children of serving missionaries. The estate of John Dillwyn-Llewelyn in Penlle'rgaer was acquired at the end of the 1930s and he intended adapting the building as a school for Jewish refugees but the war thwarted this plan. Haile Selassie, emperor of Abyssinia (as it then was), spent a period in Penlle'rgaer on Howells ' invitation in 1939 when he was
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
HOWELLS, WILLIAM (1818 - 1888), Calvinistic Methodist minister and second principal of Trevecka College (1857-65), where he was succeeded in turn by two other men who became college principals, David Charles Davies and Thomas Charles Edwards In September 1865 he was appointed principal and tutor in divinity at Trevecka, with John Harris Jones as tutor in classics. He was a successful teacher and an exceptionally acceptable preacher, although he confined his activities to the small English churches and
HUGHES CADFAN - see HUGHES, HUGH
HUGHES FAWR - see HUGHES, EVAN
HUGHES GRIFFITHS, ANNIE JANE (1873 - 1942), peace campaigner Annie Jane Davies was born on 5 April 1873, at Cwrt Mawr, Llangeitho, Ceredigion, the sixth of ten children of Robert Joseph Davies (1839-1892) and his wife Frances (née Humphreys, 1836-1918). She had three sisters, Sara Maria (1864-1939), Mary (1869-1918) ac Eliza ('Lily', 1876-1939), and six brothers, Robert Brian ('Bertie', 1865-1879), David Charles (1866-1928), Edward (1867-1869), John
HUGHES, ALFRED WILLIAM (1861 - 1900), surgeon and professor Born 31 July 1861 at Aberllefenni, Meirionethshire, youngest son of Robert Hughes, quarry manager. He was educated at the National School, Corris, and Dolgelley grammar school. He was apprenticed to a draper at Dolgelley, but returned to work in the slate quarries at Aberllefenni. He started his medical career with Dr. J. Jones at Corris, and later became a student at Edinburgh University where
HUGHES, ANNA MARIA - see HARRIS, JOSEPH
HUGHES, ANNIE HARRIET (Gwyneth Vaughan; 1852 - 1910), writer Born at Bryn-y-felin, Talsarnau, Meironnydd, daughter of Bennet Jones, miller; educated at Llandecwyn school. In 1876 she married John Hughes Jones, a physician, of Clwt-y-Bont, Caern., but the surname Jones was dropped. She lived at one time or another in London, at Treherbert, and, until the death of her husband in 1902, at Clwt-y-bont. She then moved to Bangor and, in spite of her poverty
HUGHES, ARTHUR (1878 - 1965), writer Born 2 January 1878 at Bryn Melyn near Harlech, Meironnydd, the son of John Hughes Jones, a physician, of Clwt-y-Bont, Caernarfonshire (who dropped the surname Jones) and his wife, Annie Harriet (née Jones; Gwyneth Vaughan, novelist. He became a ' Welsh scholar ' at St. David's College, Lampeter, where he graduated. He edited two anthologies of poetry which in their day were extremely useful to

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