Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRUFFUDD ab ADDA ap DAFYDD (fl. 1340-1370), poet and prose writer ab Adda ap Dafydd,' and ' Trwstaneiddiwch Gruffudd ab Adda ap Dafydd,' have been published by D. Gwenallt Jones in his Areithiau Prôs, 18, 33. A musical composition under the title 'Caingc Ruffudd ab Adda' appears in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales.
GRUFFYDD ap IEUAN ap LLYWELYN FYCHAN (c. 1485 - 1553), bard and member of a Welsh landed family of Gruffudd ap Ieuan (it is William Salesbury who identifies the 'hen ewythr' as Gruffudd ap Ieuan) a manuscript translation in Welsh of the Pentateuch; for details see the book by D. R. Thomas which is generally referred to under the short title of Davies and Salesbury. The manuscript which D. R. Thomas prints in this work, is, however, not the 'lost' translation of the Pentateuch but the Welsh
GWYNN, HARRI (1913 - 1985), writer and broadcaster Harri Gwynn was born at 63, Maryland Road, Wood Green, north London, on 14 February 1913, son of Hugh Jones (d. 1916), who worked as a letter-sorter on the mail train between London and Holyhead, and his wife Elizabeth (Beti) (née Williams), both originally from Penrhyndeudraeth. Following his father's death from a heart condition in December 1916, mother and son moved to Garth Celyn
HALL, BENJAMIN (1802 - 1867) with Maria Jane Williams, Aber-pergwm and Brinley Richards in a collection of Welsh airs. She gave financial assistance to D. Silvan Evans in connection with his dictionary. Her other main interests were temperance work and a militant protestantism. She endowed two Calvinistic Methodist churches, Capel Rhyd-y-meirch and Aber-carn, where services were to be conducted in Welsh, but with a liturgy based
HARRIES, HYWEL (1921 - 1990), art teacher, artist, cartoonist , naturalistic palet. He also produced a few portraits, e.g. E. D. Jones, E. G. Bowen, and friends and acquaintances. He developed as a magazine illustrator (for Urdd Gobaith Cymru especially) and a book illustrator (including Llyfr Eiry (1955) by his sister, Lilian Rees, mother of the caligrapher Ieuan Rees) and he produced scores of dust jackets for various publishers. He discovered his gift for humorous art
HARRIS, JOHN RYLAND (Ieuan Ddu; 1802 - 1823), printer and author Born 12 December 1802 at Swansea, son of Joseph Harris (1773 - 1825), Gomer. He was taught the art of printing by D. Jenkin and, when the latter failed, Gomer secured his business for his son. From 1816 on it was Ieuan who did all the composing while his father corrected the proofs after school hours. He was given private coaching in the classics from about 1822 and also attended the Hamsworth
HODGE, JULIAN STEPHEN ALFRED (1904 - 2004), financier Julian Hodge was born on 15 October 1904 in Camberwell, London, the second of seven children of Alfred Hodge, an English plumber and electrician, and his wife Jane Emily (née Simcock, d. 1946) from a middle-class family of lawyers and journalists with connections to Ireland. He had an elder brother Donald, and younger siblings Leonard, Eileen, John, Gerard, and Teresa. The family moved to Wales
HOOSON, ISAAC DANIEL (1880 - 1948), solicitor and poet Born 2 May 1880, at Rhosllannerchrugog, Denbighshire, son of Edward and Harriet Hooson. His father's family originally came from Cornwall. I. D. Hooson was educated at the Rhos board school and Ruabon grammar school. In 1897 he entered the service of Messrs Morris and Jones in Liverpool, where he stayed until 1904 when his father died. He was afterwards articled to a Wrexham solicitor and he
HOOSON, TOM ELLIS (1933 - 1985), Conservative politician He was born on 16 March 1933, the son of David Maelor Hooson, a farmer, and his wife, Ursula Ellis Hooson. He was a cousin to Emlyn Hooson (born 1925), the former Liberal MP for Montgomeryshire, 1962-79, and a grand-nephew to Thomas Edward Ellis (1859-1899), the Liberal MP for Merionethshire, 1886-99, and to the Welsh poet I. D. Hooson (1880-1948). He was educated at Rhyl Grammar School and
HOPKINS, BENJAMIN THOMAS (1897 - 1981), farmer and poet Alun Jones y Cilie, Evan Jenkins and Dafydd Jones from Ffair Rhos, T. Llew Jones, John Roderick Rees, Gwynfil Rees, Pennant, and Professor Gwyn Williams, Bethel, Mynydd Bach. B. T. Hopkins was reluctant to publish a volume of his poetry, but eventually gave in to persuasion from friends. Since he had not kept copies of his poems, Dyfnallt Morgan, T. Llew Jones and D. Ben Rees had to search for them
HOWARD, JAMES HENRY (1876 - 1947), preacher, author and socialist gyfieithu gan y Parch J.H. Howard … ynghyd â rhagymadrodd gan y Parch. J. Phillips ac A. Murray (1906); Cristionogaeth a chymdeithas, gyda rhagair gan y Gwir Anrhydeddus D. Lloyd George (1914); Life beyond the veil (1918); Which Jesus? Young Britain's choice (1926); Perarogl Crist: cofiant a phregethau y Parch. William Jones, Treforis (1932); Jesus the agitator: foreword by the Rt. Hon. George Lansbury
HOWELL, JOHN (Ioan ab Hywel, Ioan Glandyfroedd; 1774 - 1830), weaver, schoolmaster, poet, editor, and musician (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion), James Davies (Iago ap Dewi), D. Rowland (Dewi Brefi) of Carmarthen, Edward Richard of Ystradmeurig, Evan Thomas of Llanarth, D. Lloyd of Llwynrhydowen, D. Jones of Llanwrda, John Jenkins (Ioan Siengcyn) of Cardigan, Francis Thomas ('y Crythwr Dall o Geredigion'), Ifan Gruffydd of Tŵr-gwyn, and others. Some of the material for his anthology was obtained by him from what is now

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