Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PUGHE, JOHN (Ioan ab Hu Feddyg; 1814 - 1874), physician and littérateur ; she died 14 September 1862, at Penhelyg, Aberdovey. Four of their sons were physicians, John Eliot Howard (died 1880), Rheinallt Navalaw, Taliesin William Owen (died 1893), who practised at Liverpool, and David Roberts (died 1885), who lived in Montgomeryshire. Their daughter was BUDDUG ANWYLINI PUGHE, the artist, who died in Liverpool, 2 March, 1939, at the age of 83. Buddug Pughe wrote a history
HUGHES, EDWARD (Y Dryw; 1772 - 1850), eisteddfodic poet Wyn o Eifion). Hughes was elected official 'bard' to the Society of Gwyneddigion, 1820-1, and won the prize offered by the Society of Cymmrodorion, 1822, for his cywydd ' Hu Gadarn.' In the Denbigh eisteddfod of 1828 he was again successful with his ' Ymdrech Buddug yn erbyn y Rhufeiniaid ' and also with his awdl ' Amaethyddiaeth ' - Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), John Blackwell (Alun), and
PRYSE, ROBERT JOHN (Gweirydd ap Rhys; 1807 - 1889), man of letters style. None of them succeeded in doing so, but his efforts are probably the most worthy. CATHERINE PRICHARD (Buddug; 1842 - 1909), poet Poetry Daughter of Gweirydd ap Rhys. Born at Cae-crin, Llanrhyddlad, Anglesey, 4 July 1842. She was admitted to the bardic order by Clwydfardd at the Denbigh eisteddfod, 1860, and was given the name Buddug, a name which she had made use of in Udgorn Cymru when
BUDDUG - see PRYSE, ROBERT JOHN

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