Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, DAVID (EOS IAL; 1794? - 1862), poet and publisher of the Baptist chapel at Llansantffraid, where he lies buried. In 1837 he set up a home-made wooden press, and with some rejected type, acquired from Thomas Thomas, a Chester printer, he printed a few books and a number of carols and ballads.
HUGHES, DAVID ROWLAND (Myfyr Eifion; 1874 - 1953), secretary of the National Eisteddfod '. After returning to Wales he was elected treasurer (1941) and president (1944-45) of Undeb Cymru Fydd. He was one of the pioneers and a founding member both of the Caernarfonshire and of the Denbighshire Historical Societies (1925-50). His main contribution was as secretary of the National Eisteddfod Association in 1935-36, and as joint secretary (1937-47) with Cynan (Sir Cynan Albert Evans Jones
HUGHES, DEWI ARWEL (1947 - 2017), Christian leader and theologian Dewi Arwel Hughes was born on 1 January 1947 at Bugeilfod, Llangwm, Denbighshire, the youngest of four children of Gruffudd Evans Hughes (1912-1975), agricultural merchant, and his wife Annie (née Edwards, 1908-1957), a seamstress. He had three sisters, Elen Haf, Lona Wyn and Gwenan Arwel. A year after his birth the family moved to Garth Isa, Frongoch, near Bala. His mother died in 1957, when
HUGHES, EDWARD ERNEST (1877 - 1953), first Professor of history at the University College, Swansea, and a notable intermediary between the university and the public churchyard. He married twice: (1) in 1907, Sarah Agnes, daughter of William Thomas (coal merchant), Aberystwyth. She died in 1918 leaving two daughters; (2) in 1920, Sarah (Sally), daughter of Thomas Evans, Abergavenny, who died in 1967. They had two sons.
HUGHES, ELIZABETH PHILLIPS (1851 - 1925), educationalist distinguished themselves in the professions [see under Samuel Levi Phillips ]. After her schooling at Hope House, Taunton, and Cheltenham Ladies' College, she taught for four years at Cheltenham before going up to Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1881. There she studied moral sciences and was placed in class one of that Tripos in 1884 and in class two of the historical Tripos in 1885. In the same year she was
HUGHES, EMRYS DANIEL (1894 - 1969), politician, journalist and author gaol during World War I. Hughes was a regular visitor to Moscow, a close friend of the poet Samuel Marshak, and a constant opponent of the activities of N.A.T.O. Emrys Hughes published a large number of biographies and other works, among them Keir Hardie (1950; new ed. 1957), a volume which gave him particular pleasure, Winston Churchill in war and peace (1950) and Winston Churchill: the British
HUGHES, GAINOR (1745 - 1780), fasting woman , evidence provided by 'old men and women (around twenty-seven or twenty-eight of them) whose words I set down from their speech', says a 'Brief Memoir' ('Byr Gofiant') attributed to one Hugh Thomas. The memoir was preserved by Robert Edwards (Derfel Meirion) and copied by a nephew of his, Edward Edwards, in 1897. David Robert Daniel, who published the material in Cymru (1910), criticized the claim that it
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, HUGH (Tegai; 1805 - 1864), Independent minister and man of letters Born at Llandygái, Caernarfonshire, 1805, the son of Thomas and Barbara Hughes, two Anglesey people who were ardent Independents. When the Cororion Independent chapel at Tre-garth, Llandygái, was closed down, he joined the Wesleyans at Shiloh, Tre-garth, and became a lay preacher. He never attended a day school and the only education he received was at the Cororion and Shiloh Sunday schools. He
HUGHES, HUGH (1790 - 1863), artist and author Born at Pwll-y-gwichiad, Llandudno (christened 20 February 1790), son of Thomas and Jane Hughes, and educated in a school kept by his grandfather Hugh Williams at Meddiant, Llansantffraid-Glan-Conwy. His mother died in 1802, and his father shortly afterwards at Liverpool, where Hugh Hughes learned wood-engraving and oil-painting; the first known work of his is the portrait of John Evans, Bala
HUGHES, HUGH DERFEL (1816 - 1890), poet description of 'dull wynebau a chyfansoddiadau' - the physiognomy and constitution - of some well-known Welshmen whom he had met on his journey; see Y Tyddynnwr, i, 296-318. A second collection of poems, Y Gweithiwr Caniadgar, was published in 1849, this, in accordance with the usage of the period, also contained poems by some of his friends, one carol is by his brother, Thomas Hughes, Pen-dref, Llanfyllin
HUGHES, HUGH JOHN (1912 - 1978), schoolteacher, author, editor and reviewer Hugh J. Hughes was born 18 August 1912 at Bwlch-gwyn, Garndolbenmaen, Caernarfonshire, the elder of the two sons of Thomas Hughes, farmer, and his wife Mary Jane (née Jones). (The brothers John Roberts, Llangwm, and Robert Roberts, Clynnog, eminent preachers with the Calvinistic Methodists in their day, were among his ancestors). He was educated at the council school Brynengan (1917-25), Pen-y

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