Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUW ap DAFYDD (fl. 1550-1628), poet Fychan of Bryn Cynddel, Siôn ap Hywel Fychan of Penllyn, Sir Roger Salusbury of Llewenni, Pierce Salusbury of Bachymbyd, Pirs Griffith of Penrhyn, Lewys Owain of Dolgelley, and Siôn ab Elis Eutun (Eyton) of Ruabon.
HUW TALAI (fl. c. 1550-1580), poet nothing is known of his life, but at least two examples of his work exist in manuscript. They are cywyddau of praise to Rhys ap Morys of Bryn y Beirdd, Llandeilo-fawr, and Gruffydd Dwnn of Kidwelly.
HUWS, ALUN 'SBARDUN' (1948 - 2014), musician and composer for many of the most popular and best known singers and performers of Welsh contemporary music. Many of his compositions are amongst the most famous and best known songs in the Welsh language: 'Cwsg Osian' for Sidan from the rock opera Nia Ben Aur; 'Strydoedd Aberstalwm' for Bryn Fôn; 'Dyddiau' for Linda Griffiths; 'Becci'n Chwarae'r Blues' for Heather Jones and a number of other popular songs for
HUWS, RHYS JONES (1862 - 1917), Independent minister to Bethel, Llanddeiniolen, Caernarfonshire, and in September 1905 to Bethesda, Caernarfonshire In 1912 he became the first minister of the new church at Bryn Seion, Ammanford, where he died 21 November 1917. He was buried in the Aberhosan chapel burial ground. He was a man of great energy and of quite unusual ability in many respects; it is difficult to think of anybody who accomplished more in so
HUWS, WILLIAM PARI (1853 - 1936), Independent minister grammar school and later to the Bala Independent College, 1874. In 1877 he was admitted to Yale University, U.S.A., where, in 1880, he graduated B.D. On his return to Wales he received a call to Beulah and Bryn-mair churches, Cardiganshire, where he was ordained in 1882. He soon came into the public eye as a zealous temperance reformer and, with his neighbour David Adams of Hawen, initiated a movement
ISAAC, EVAN (1865 - 1938), Wesleyan minister a minister was done in South Wales - Bryn Mawr (1891); Merthyr Tydfil (1894); Treorchy (1895); S. Davids (1896); Machynlleth (1897); Merthyr Tydfil (1900); Machynlleth (1903); Llanidloes (1904); Machynlleth (1907); Llanidloes (1910); Treorchy (1913); Merthyr Tydfil (1916); Aberystwyth (1919); Ferndale (1925); Llanidloes (1926). He retired from Llandeilo Fawr, Carmarthenshire in 1932 and lived for
JAMES, DAVID EMRYS (Dewi Emrys; 1881 - 1952), minister (Congl.), writer and poet to the Presbyterian College in 1903. He served for a short while in the Welsh Free Church, Liverpool, founded by William Owen Jones, before accepting a call to Bryn Seion, Dowlais, in 1907. In 1908 he went to the English church in Buckley, Flintshire. In July of that year he married Cissie Jenkins in the English Congl. chapel in Carmarthen. He moved again in 1911 to Gelliwastad English church
JARMAN, ELDRA MARY (1917 - 2000), harpist and author a style which reflected her family's history of six generations of harpists. Specific names to the tunes which she played were rare, and as an accompanist she made use of improvisatory methods. Her work with Bryn-mawr Dancers, a group founded by Jessie and Hector Williams in 1952, for instance, saw her play a string of tunes until she fell on one which suited the dancers' needs, since neither she
JONES, DAFYDD RHYS (1877 - 1946), schoolmaster and musician Born 10 June 1877 in Maes Comet, Drofa Dulog, Patagonia, one of the 10 children of Dafydd Jones and Rachel (née Williams) his wife. The father was among the first group to land on the beaches of Patagonia. He came from the Blaenporth area, Cardiganshire, of the same family as John Jones, Blaenannerch (1807 - 1875). His mother's family had emigrated from Bryn-mawr to the Welsh settlement in Rio
JONES, DAVID (1788 - 1859), Independent minister Born at Pant-y-blawd (or ' Bryn-blawd'), Llanfihangel-Cilfargen, Carmarthenshire. He was a great-grandson of Thomas William (1697 - 1778), minister at Capel Isaac, and became a member of that church. He was well educated, and became a skilful veterinary surgeon - according to Gwilym Lleyn (in Enw. F.) he published a book on the horse. He was a married man, living on his freehold, Pant-arfon, when
JONES, DAVID GWYNFRYN (1867 - 1954), minister (Meth.) Born in Bryn-crug, Merionethshire, 1 November 1867. When he was seven, the family moved to Treorchy, but they returned to Bryn-crug two years later and he received a little education in the Board School there. At 12 he went to work in the colliery, but he sought more education in a private school in the Rhondda and later in a preparatory school in Cardiff. In 1890 he went to Dinas Mawddwy as a
JONES, DELME BRYN - see BRYN-JONES, DELME

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