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HUMPHREYS, EDWARD OWEN (1899 - 1959), educationalist Born 2 November 1899, in Hendre, Cefnddwysarn, Merionethshire. He was educated in Sarnau school, Bala grammar school, and Bangor University College, where he graduated in chemistry and agricultural science in 1922. From 1923 to 1928, he taught in Banks Road elementary school, and Lister Drive Technical Institute in Liverpool. He was awarded an M.A. by Liverpool University in 1930 for a thesis on
HUMPHREYS, HUMPHREY (1648 - 1712), bishop, antiquary, historian, and genealogist Born 24 November 1648, eldest son of Richard Humphreys, Hendre, Penrhyndeudraeth (a Royalist officer) and Margaret, daughter of Robert Wynne of Cesailgyfarch, Penmorfa, Caernarfonshire. He was educated at Oswestry and Bangor grammar schools and afterwards at Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1669, M.A. 1672, was elected a Fellow 1672-3, B.D. 1679, and D.D. 1682. Ordained (by a
HUMPHREYS, ROBERT (1779 - 1832), Wesleyan minister amalgamated circuits of Brecon and Llandilo (1821); Carmarthen (1822); Merthyr Tydfil (1825); Cardiff (1827); Llanidloes (1830); and Beaumaris (1832). He walked from Llanidloes to Beaumaris and, when he reached Bangor, was entreated not to go on to Beaumaris as cholera was raging there. He disregarded the warning and went there, sending his family to the country. He preached on Sunday and again on Monday
HUMPHREYS, THOMAS JONES (1841 - 1934), Wesleyan minister ), Llanfaircaereinion (1877), Tregarth (1880), Bangor (1883), Dolgelley (1886), Coedpoeth (1889), Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant (1892), Manchester (1894), Mold (1897), Conway (1900), Manchester (1903), Machynlleth (1905), and Coedpoeth (1907). He retired in 1910 and died at Bangor 16 February 1934. He was president of the Wesleyan assembly in 1906. He wrote many articles for the Eurgrawn Wesleaidd, including a series on
HUW LLŶN (fl. c. 1552-1594), poet there is no proof that they were the same person. Some of Huw Llŷn's poetry remains, and this includes poems to Walter Devereux (earl of Essex), Henry Rowland (bishop of Bangor), Simon Thelwall of Plas y Ward, and to the South Walians Thomas Vaughan (Pembrey), Gruffudd Dwnn (Ystrad Merthyr), William and George Owen (Henllys), and John Lloyd (Cilgwyn). A bardic controversy occurred between him and Siôn
HUWS, ALUN 'SBARDUN' (1948 - 2014), musician and composer Alun Huws was born in Bangor, Gwynedd, on 26 September 1948, the eldest son of Richard Wynne Hughes (1921-1989) and Catherine Anne Hughes (née Davies, 1920-1972). The family home was in Penrhyndeudraeth. His father worked at Cookes Explosives Ltd., part of the ICI Group, while his mother was a teacher. The couple had one other son, John Wyn Hughes. Alun changed the spelling of his surname to the
HYWEL ab OWAIN GWYNEDD (bu farw 1170), soldier and poet buried at Bangor. Hywel is probably better known as a poet. He was pre-eminent in his day as a lyric poet. He was not restricted as to subject matter as were the professional court bards; he sang of love and of the natural beauty of his native Gwynedd. Eight of his poems survive; they are printed in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, i, 275-8.
HYWEL BANGOR (fl. 1540), an itinerant bard He may have been the person described as Huw Bangor (fl. 1560-1600) in The Cambrian Biography. Some eighteen englynion by Hywel Bangor have survived, and these identify him with Maelor, so that he probably took his bardic name from Bangor Iscoed (Bangor on Dee). He composed a series of englynion on the change of sheriffs for Flintshire in 1540. The date 1577 is entered against one of his
HYWEL SWRDWAL (fl. 1430-1460), poet manuscript in the British Museum, that he was buried at Llanuwchllyn. Hywel Swrdwal's poetry was published by the Bangor Welsh Manuscript Society in 1908. His works support the tradition that Hywel Swrdwal was a scholar and it is not, therefore, surprising that his son went to Oxford. This son, Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal was also a poet and before his premature death at Oxford had been exchanging disputatious
IORWERTH BELI (fl. early in the 14th century) Gwynedd, poet He sang an awdl to the bishop of Bangor (The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 317-8) reproaching him for neglecting poets and overesteeming musicians. This poem makes use of a metre which, according to Cerdd Dafod, 339, is not found in any poem before 1322 which can be precisely dated. In Iorwerth Beli's awdl we are given a glimpse of the position and outlook of the poets in the period after the
ITHEL ap RHOTPERT or ROBERT (fl. 1357-1382), archdeacon . On both sides, he was of the family which, in more modern times, has borne the surname Mostyn; his father, Rhotpert ap Iorwerth ap Rhirid, had a brother, Madog, otherwise known as ' Matthew de Englefield,' who was bishop of Bangor 1327-57 (Browne Willis, Bangor, 74-5; Le Neve, Fasti, i, 99); his mother, Adles, was cousin to Dafydd ap Bleddyn, bishop of St Asaph. Ithel is styled B.C.L. in one record
JAMES, DAVID (Defynnog; 1865 - 1928), schoolmaster, educationist, organiser of summer schools, and author English. He won prizes, too, in the National Eisteddfod. In the eisteddfod at Merthyr Tydfil (1901) he won for his study of ' Kymric Literature ' and in the eisteddfod at Bangor (1902) he was awarded first prize for his critical treatise on the novels of Daniel Owen. He was admitted to the Gorsedd of Bards; he also became a national adjudicator. He spent periods as a schoolteacher in Eglwyswrw, Cwmifor

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