Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
HOWELL, WILLIAM (1740 - 1822), Arian minister and Academy tutor Born at Wincanton, Somerset, in 1740, the son of the Rev. William Howell of Birmingham. He was taught by his father and by Jenkin Jenkins of Llanfyllin. He went to Warrington Academy, 1759-60, and then to Carmarthen Academy, 1760-4, where according to the Cofiant he was a fellow-student of David Davis (Dafis Castellhywel, 1745 - 1827) He spent some time on the continent where he was in charge of
HUGHES, CLEDWYN (BARON CLEDWYN OF PENRHOS), (1916 - 2001), politician , Hughes had the task of organising the election of a leader of the Labour Party who would also succeed Wilson as Prime Minister. Two of the candidates, James Callaghan and Roy Jenkins were close to Hughes but he carried out this difficult task with considerable tact and he was pleased when Callaghan succeeded Wilson in April 1976. Callaghan and Hughes had first met in 1949 at the home of Glenys
HUGHES, EDWARD ERNEST (1877 - 1953), first Professor of history at the University College, Swansea, and a notable intermediary between the university and the public Welsh history was his favourite topic, and his aim was to give the cultured workers who had hardly ever heard any mention of it at school some notion of the past history of their country. Since his school days, according to R.T. Jenkins, a school companion, he had been a gifted story-teller, and because the material for his lectures was of necessity in his memory rather than on paper, his style of
HUGHES, HUGH (1778 - 1855), Wesleyan minister Wesley's 'Notes on the New Testament,' 1831. He wrote his autobiography which, after his death, was published under the editorship of his son-in-law, Isaac Jenkins. JOHN HUGHES, physician, coroner and J.P. for Carmarthen, father of Hugh Price Hughes, was his son; his daughter married Isaac Jenkins; his two other children died, one in infancy and one, Hugh, at the age of twenty-seven.
HUGHES, JOHN EDWARD (1879 - 1959), minister (Presb.) and author Born 8 June 1879 at Y Gronglwyd, Cerrigydrudion, Denbighshire, son of John and Jane Hughes. He was educated in the village school, Bala grammar school, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (where he graduated B.A.), and Bala Theological College (where he graduated in theology). His co-digger at Aberystwyth was his second cousin, R.T. Jenkins, later his brother-in-law. He began to preach in
HUGHES, MEGAN WATTS (1842 - 1907), vocalist Hughes, as she now was, accompanied Joseph Parry on a musical tour of North Wales. She took part twice in ' Orpheus ' (Gluck); she also sang duets with Jenny Lind. Soon after her marriage she founded a home for necessitous and homeless boys. She wrote several hymn-tunes, some of which are included in Tonau, Salmau ac Anthemau (David Jenkins); of these ' Wilton Square ' continues to be popular. Her
HUGHES, THOMAS ISFRYN (1865 - 1942), Wesleyan minister ), Mynydd Seion, Liverpool (1902), Blaenau Ffestiniog (1905), Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant (1908), Mynydd Seion, Liverpool (1911), Oakfield, Liverpool (1914), Porthmadog (1919), London (1922), Porthmadog (1925), and Beaumaris (1928). He retired in 1931 and died at Trearddur Bay, Anglesey, 27 December 1942. He married 11 September 1894, Catherine, daughter of Thomas and Margaret Jenkins of Aberdovey. He was
HUMPHREYS, EDWARD MORGAN (1882 - 1955), journalist, writer and broadcaster widely. He married Annie Evans, daughter of E.J. Evans, former minister of Walton Park Welsh Presbyterian church, Liverpool, but they had no children. He won the friendship of some of the leaders of the nation and D. Lloyd George thought highly of his opinion. R.T. Jenkins 'enjoyed a quarter century of pure friendship' with him. He was one of the pioneers of the detective novel in Welsh and had the
INGRAM, JAMES (d. 1788), Methodist exhorter, and afterwards Independent minister that Ingram became an Independent, and that he died as Independent pastor at Ludlow. This note, however, leaves a blank of fully twenty years in his career, for the pastor of Corve Street church at Ludlow in 1750 was a Jenkyn or Jenkins (he was a Welshman), and according to the 'Diary' of Leominster Moravian congregation (Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru, 1935, 16) Jenkyn did not die till
JAMES, DAVID EMRYS (Dewi Emrys; 1881 - 1952), minister (Congl.), writer and poet Rhosycaerau church, near Fishguard, and it was there that he spent his childhood. He received his early education in Henner school in the parish of Llanwnda, W.S. Jenkins' preparatory school, and Fishguard county school. He was apprenticed as a compositor and reporter in the office of County Echo in Fishguard. In 1896 the family moved to Carmarthen, and he had an opportunity to complete his apprenticeship
JAMES, JAMES (Iago ap Iago; 1818 - 1843), poet brother, Morgan James, wrote a short biography of him and collected his poetical works, in a volume edited by I. Jenkins, and published by Thomas Williams, Crickhowell, in 1844.

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