Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, ROBERT GWILYM (1910 - 1997), poet and minister with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist denomination Sir Thomas Parry. He also admired the scholarship of Professor James Gibson, Professor T. Hudson-Williams and the Welsh poet R. Williams Parry. He enjoyed the fellowship of a large number of literary-minded students, such as Robert Owen (1908-1972) and O. M. Lloyd (1910-1980) and others in the cultural societies and the Inter-College Eisteddfod. Gwilym Hughes graduated in Welsh in 1931 and then
WILLIAMS, ROBERT (1848 - 1918), architect, author and social reformer being articled to a practising architect, he took a more practical route in working for a number of well-established architects on site. He was clerk of works to the noted Gothic architect James Piers St Aubyn (1815-1895), and then worked for Maurice B. Adams (1849-1933), who was architect to the philanthropist Passmore Edwards and from 1872 edited Edwards's journal, Building News. Williams worked as
RICHARDS, ALUN MORGAN (1929 - 2004), screenwriter, playwright, and author Waves: An Anthology of Sea Stories in 1978. A second Book of Sea Stories for Penguin followed in 1980. These were joined by his Mumbles-set Ennal's Point (1977) and his adventure set in South America, Barque Whisper (1979). Richards's rugby writing was best known from his sensitive biography of his friend Carwyn James, Carwyn (1984), and his popular centenary study A Touch of Glory (1980) but had been
THOMAS, Sir PERCY EDWARD (1883 - 1969), architect and planning consultant advice) and the dairy science building. In 1935 the L.M.S. railway company asked him to redesign Euston station, but the outbreak of war put paid to these plans. He was elected President of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1935, and in 1939 was awarded their royal gold medal, one of the few architects to receive both honours. They awarded him the R.I.B.A. bronze medal in 1930, for James
TREVOR family Trevalun, Plas Têg, Glynde, Effingham, through whose influence he commanded successive vessels in the naval campaigns of 1596-1603, capturing four Spanish ships with valuable cargoes. James I knighted him at Chatham in 1604 (4 July) and in 1623 sent him on naval escort duty to Spain with prince Charles, whom he rescued from drowning in Cadiz harbour. Having married the widow of Sir Henry Bagenall (the marshal of Ireland slain at
WILLIAMS, JOHN, goldsmith to him during James I's reign. In December 1609 the king is advised to make Williams a justice of the peace, as Martin had been made in the previous reign. Warrants for considerable payments to him (of course, the cost of bullion was included - or an 'imprest' for bullion) are mentioned, e.g. in 1604 '£1,000 for chains of gold,' and in 1616 £6,733 to him and his associates; grants of land (of the
HOWELLS, GERAINT WYN (Baron Geraint), (1925 - 2004), farmer and politician Labour Government under James Callaghan in 1977-78 because he hoped that the government would pursue a policy of devolution. On being given a lift in the ministerial car, he persuaded John Silkin, Minister of Agriculture, to grant official recognition to the Farmers Union of Wales. When the devolution bills were under consideration in 1977, Howells argued strongly that the Scotland Bill and the Wales
HOOSON, HUGH EMLYN (1925 - 2012), Liberal politician and public figure of the 'Lib-Lab' pact concluded between Prime Minister James Callaghan and Liberal Party leader David Steel in March 1977, a step which he grudgingly tolerated as a necessary evil. He even played an active role on the Liberal-Government Consultative Committee which, he felt, gave his party a much need opportunity to destroy the 'wilderness complex' disadvantage. Many within the ranks of the Liberal
FOOT, MICHAEL MACKINTOSH (1913 - 2010), politician, journalist, author the report, and to a large extent they listened to him. George Thomas, the opposition spokesman for Wales, announced that an elected council in Cardiff would be part of Labour's 1974 election manifesto. When James Callaghan became Prime Minister in 1976, he made Foot leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council, and also put him in charge of devolution for Wales and Scotland. In
DAVIS, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), nurse and traveller theatre goer and actress during those years. Through the Liverpool Welsh community Betsi met her first fiancé, merchant ship captain Thomas Harris, who hailed from Solfach in Pembrokeshire. He was drowned two days before their wedding, when his ship was wrecked off Liverpool harbour. She later entered into several other engagements, such as that to a James B___, a house-painter from Chester, fleeing to
MORGAN, ELAINE NEVILLE (1920 - 2013), screenwriter, journalist, and author significantly. She wrote for popular drama series such as Maigret and Dr Finlay's Casebook, she produced scripts for the Sid James-fronted comedy series Taxi! as well as The Onedin Line, and created Lil, a follow up to A Matter of Degree, which ran to two seasons in 1965 and 1966. Ahead of the launch of BBC Two in 1964, she was approached by producers to adapt Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary as the new
THOMAS family Coed Helen (or Alun), Aber, by his son, WILLIAM THOMAS, sheriff of Caernarvonshire in 1746. In 1753 William brought, unsuccessfully, an action in Chancery against Thomas James, lord Bulkeley, claiming the advowson of Aber (N.L.W., Llanfair-Brynodol MSS.; U.C.N.W., Baron Hill MS. 4590). He died in 1763 and was succeeded by RICE THOMAS (1746 - 1814), sheriff of Caernarvonshire in 1771, who was in turn succeeded by his son, also

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