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HARTMANN, EDWARD GEORGE (1912 - 1995), historian and promoter of Welsh-American relations get myself another degree.' That degree was a BS in Library Studies in 1948. During 1942-1943, Hartmann taught History at the Ann-Reno Institute in New York City. In 1946-1947, he taught at Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, and then at City College, New York (1947-1948). In 1948, he was offered the post of Director of Libraries at Suffolk University, Boston, at a salary of $5000 per annum, which he
teulu HERBERT (earls of POWIS), for Charles I, whom he once entertained there, during the Civil War, but was forced to surrender to Sir Thomas Myddelton, 2 October 1644. His wife was Eleanor, third daughter of the earl of Northumberland. A protégé of the earl of Pembroke (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1942, 70), his Romanist leanings did not embarrass him, but in later life he appears to have grown
HUDSON-WILLIAMS, THOMAS (1873 - 1961), scholar and translator Welsh, Storiau o'r Rwseg (1942), Carcharor y Cawcasws, Tolstoy (1943), Cerddi o'r Rwseg (1945), Merch y Capten, Pushkin (1947). Two other translations were published posthumously: Pedair drama fer o'r Rwseg (1964) and Y Tadau a'r Plant, Turgeniev, (1964). He published an amazing number of translations and articles about foreign literatures in all the main Welsh journals and newspapers. There is a
HUGHES GRIFFITHS, ANNIE JANE (1873 - 1942), peace campaigner . Despite the disappointment that the United States ultimately did not join the League of Nations, her enthusiasm for peace and humanitarian causes, all based on her strong Methodist upbringing, never waned. Annie Hughes Griffiths died at Neuadd Wen, Llanbadarn Road, Aberystwyth on 7 October 1942, at a time when the Second World War was raging. She was buried at Gwynfil chapel, Llangeitho, with her
HUGHES, JOHN (1896 - 1968), musician - the first appointment of its kind in Wales - and made his home in Dolgellau. By the time he retired in 1961 he had attained prominence as a conductor, adjudicator and lecturer. He succeeded in forming choirs in every part of Meironnydd, and arranged a number of successful music festivals in the county. He conducted 50 performances of 20 different choral works between 1942 and 1961, and as a result
HUGHES, ROBERT ARTHUR (1910 - 1996), medical missionary in Shillong, Meghalaya, north-east India, and an influential leader in the Presbyterian Church of Wales . Arthur Hughes began his life's work on St David's Day 1939 at the Welsh Mission Hospital in Shillong as assistant to Dr H. Gordon Roberts. He took responsibility for all the wards, with Dr H. G. Roberts in charge of the administration until his retirement in 1942. He subsequently became the Senior Medical Officer, the administrator, as well as the finance officer. He gave substantial medical assistance
HUGHES, ROBERT GWILYM (1910 - 1997), poet and minister with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist denomination , one at Maentwrog Isaf and the other in Gellilydan. In November 1942 he married Bessie, daughter of Hugh and Margaret Jones, of Gellidywyll farm, Gellilydan after accepting a call to the chapel of Dwyran in the Anglesey Presbytery. The chapel was a successful community centre for the whole parish with meetings held almost every night of the week. He received from there a call to Hyfrydle Welsh
HUGHES, THOMAS HYWEL (1875 - 1945), Congregational minister, theologian, and philosopher various English periodicals and journals, he published a number of works which are generally regarded as valuable contributions to theological studies, e.g. The New Psychology and Religious Experience (1933); The Psychology of Preaching and Pastoral Work (1939); The Philosophic Basis of Mysticism (1937); Psychology and Religious Origins (1936); Psychology a Religious Truth (1942); The Atonement (modern
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
JAMES, FRANK TREHARNE (1861 - 1942), solicitor, art connoisseur retired with the rank of major in 1910. He was chairman of the Taf Fechan Water Board in 1925, 1926, 1941 and 1942. He took a very deep interest in the National Library of Wales (governor and a member of the Council) and in the National Museum of Wales where, besides being a governor and a member of the Council, he was also chairman of its Art and Archaeology Committee. He was also chairman of the
JENKIN, THOMAS JAMES (1885 - 1965), plant breeder and Professor of Agricultural Botany , and in those served by Aberystwyth college in 1919-20. He joined the staff of the Welsh Plant Breeding Station in 1920, being senior research officer until he was elevated assistant director in 1940 and director and Professor of Agricultural Botany, 1942-50. He was acknowledged as the pioneer in the breeding of new and improved grass varieties and the techniques which he developed have been adopted
JENKINS, DAVID ARWYN (1911 - 2012), barrister and historian of Welsh law Welsh in the courts introduced by Henry VIII and secure equality for use of the language in that setting. He moved to Aberystwyth in consequence. The subsequent Welsh Courts Act of 1942 fell short of the latter objective, but remains a significant piece of legislation. Jenkins's politics more generally were on the left of the nationalist spectrum. He was, as a pacifist, a conscientious objector during

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