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GIBBON, JAMES MORGAN (1855 - 1932), Independent minister Born at Pont-Seli, Abercŷch, Pembrokeshire, 1855. He was a member of Bryn Seion (Cenarth, Carmarthenshire) church where Evan Herber Evans also was brought up. He was educated at Newcastle Emlyn and the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen (1872-5). In 1875 he was ordained minister of Tre-lech; he joined the English connexion and was minister at Castle Street, Swansea (1880-5); Highgate, London (1885
GREEN, BEATRICE (1894 - 1927), political activist Church, where she played a very active role in the Sunday school. She was educated at the Church School, Abertillery, and Abertillery Grammar School, and became a teacher. Although obviously talented in her profession, she was forced by the marriage bar then in operation to give up teaching on her marriage to Ronald Emlyn Green (1892-1967), a miner, on 22 April 1916. They had two sons, Kenneth Emlyn
GRIFFITHS, JOHN POWELL (1875 - 1944), minister (Baptist) and schoolmaster colleges were full and competition for entry was fierce. He also taught History and Christian Doctrine when necessary. It is estimated that 140 ministers from different denominations went to him for teaching. Among them were Dr Emlyn Davies, Toronto, Principals Gwilym Bowyer and Tom Ellis Jones, Bangor, and the poet Rhydwen Williams. The name 'Rhos College', which is sometimes used to refer to his school
HOOSON, HUGH EMLYN (1925 - 2012), Liberal politician and public figure Emlyn Hooson was born on 26 March 1925, the son of Hugh and Elsie Hooson of Colomendy, Denbighshire, to a notable local family. He was educated at Denbigh Grammar School and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he graduated in law in 1949. (He was years later to be appointed a Professorial Fellow of Aberystwyth University in 1997). In 1950 he married Shirley Margaret Wynne Hamer
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
HOWARD, JAMES HENRY (1876 - 1947), preacher, author and socialist and Mary Davies, Bonymaen, Llansamlet, and he was a collier himself for some time. He had received his early education in the school at Cockett, but when he decided to become a minister, he went for further education to Gwynfryn School, Ammanford, kept by ' Watcyn Wyn ' (Watkin Hezekiah Williams and then to the Academy at Newcastle Emlyn, kept by John Phillips, son of the famous Evan Phillips. From
HUGHES, CLEDWYN (BARON CLEDWYN OF PENRHOS), (1916 - 2001), politician Cledwyn Hughes was born on 14 September 1916 at 13 Plashyfryd Terrace, Holyhead, the elder son of Henry David Hughes and Emma Davies, née Hughes, who was a young widow with a little son, Emlyn, when she re-married in 1915. Through his father, Cledwyn Hughes was descended from several generations of slate quarrymen in Caernarfonshire. Henry Hughes, widely known as Harri Hughes, left school at the
HUGHES, HUGH JOHN (1912 - 1978), schoolteacher, author, editor and reviewer poems were included in Awen Meirion (1961) in which Emlyn Evans, the general editor, paid him a special tribute in the preface for his thorough work in connection with this volume. A translation by him of an unknown English hymn was included (no.128) in Caneuon Ffydd (2001). He also enjoyed tracing the meanings of Welsh place-names and the derivation of words, but this is not surprising since he was a
HUGHES, WILLIAM JOHN (GARETH HUGHES; 1894 - 1965), actor worked as dialect coach to Bette Davis and the cast of the Emlyn Williams play The Corn Is Green, before accepting an offer to serve as a Lay Minister for the Order of the Holy Cross on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Reservation at Nixon, Nevada. Brother David served at Nixon, at nearby Wadsworth and at Fort McDermitt on the Nevada Oregon border until 1956. The methods he employed in his service were
HUMPHREYS, RICHARD MACHNO (1852 - 1904), Baptist minister went to the Baptist College, Llangollen, in 1875. He ministered at Siloam, Cardiff (1877-84), Rhosddu, Wrexham (1884-91), and Calfaria, Llanelly (1891-1904). When he was at Llanelly he edited the Welsh column in the Llanelly Mercury. He began to write verse when he was quite young and won chairs at eisteddfodau - Wrexham (1884), Rhosllanerchrugog (1887), Newcastle Emlyn (1888), Pontyberem (1901
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