Canlyniadau chwilio

685 - 696 of 1882 for "William Glyn"

685 - 696 of 1882 for "William Glyn"

  • HUGHES, WILLIAM MELOCH (1860 - 1926), colonist and writer
  • HUGHES, WILLIAM ROBERT (1798? - 1879), healer of cancer and cancerous warts
  • HUGHES, WILLIAM ROGER (1898 - 1958), cleric and poet
  • HUGHES, MARGARET (Leila Megáne; 1891 - 1960), singer French opera (sung in French), works by Handel, Welsh songs, and Elgar's Sea pictures, with the composer himself conducting the performance. She married (2), 6 October 1951, in Llanrwst, William John Hughes, Efailnewydd, one of her contemporaries who had performed in many concerts with her before she went to the Royal Academy of Music. In Pwllheli national eisteddfod, 1956, a scholarship bearing her
  • HUMPHREYS, EDWARD MORGAN (1882 - 1955), journalist, writer and broadcaster . After a short period on the staff of a Runcorn newspaper he had the experience of following the revival meetings of Evan Roberts as correspondent for the Liverpool Courier. His impressions also appeared in Y Genedl Gymreig. He became friendly with the evangelist but was not moved in the heat of the revival. He was also correspondent for the North Wales Observer under the editorship of William Eames
  • HUMPHREYS, HUMPHREY (1648 - 1712), bishop, antiquary, historian, and genealogist . Much against his inclination he was translated to Hereford in November 1701; there he died on 20 November 1712. In 1681, Humphreys married Elizabeth, daughter of bishop Robert Morgan of Henblas, Anglesey, a family of which bishop William Lloyd, one of the 'Seven Bishops,' was a distinguished member. Bishop Humphreys's episcopate was one of marked activity, and even after his translation to Hereford
  • HUMPHREYS, JAMES (c. 1768 - 1830), legal writer Born at Montgomery, he was the sixth child of Charles Gardiner Humphreys, solicitor. Educated at Shrewsbury school, he was articled to William Pugh, Caerhowell, Montgomeryshire, going later to the office of a solicitor named Yeomans at Worcester. In November 1887 he went to London. He became a pupil of Charles Butler and was entered at Lincoln's Inn. He was called to the Bar on 25 June 1800 and
  • HUMPHREYS, RICHARD (1790 - 1863), Calvinistic Methodist minister amongst his friends. Although he took no very prominent part in politics he is believed to have been one of the first ministers of his denomination to support Liberalism. He married in 1822, Ann, daughter of captain William Griffith, Y Cei, Barmouth; they had two daughters, one, Jennette, being the wife of the Rev. Edward Morgan, Dyffryn (1817 - 1871). His first wife died in 1852 and he married in 1858
  • HUMPHREYS, RICHARD GRIFFITH (Rhisiart o Fadog; 1848 - 1924), journalist Born at Portmadoc, son of captain William Humphreys and Elizabeth his wife. He went to sea at the age of thirteen, but the chance purchase of an English book fired him with the desire to improve his education. By his own efforts he soon made himself proficient in reading and writing both English and Welsh and he even acquired some knowledge of Greek and Latin. In 1866 he became an office-boy in
  • HUW ap RHISIART ap DAFYDD (fl. second half of 16th century) Cefn Llanfair, Llŷn, bard father of the more famous bard Richard Hughes (died 1618). In NLW MS 16B (239) are six englynion composed by the bard when he was imprisoned in London (with other men from Llŷn) in the time of trouble with the earl of Leicester over Forest of Snowdon lands, whilst in N.L.W. Glyn Davies MS. 2 (15) and NLW MS 3048D (203) is an elegy on John Smith, Caernarvon. Other examples (or copies) of his poems
  • HUW ap RHYS WYN (fl. c. 1550), poet Member of the landed family of Mysoglen, Llangeinwen, Anglesey; husband of Catherine, daughter of Lewys ab Owain ap Meurig of Y Frondeg, Llangaffo. Some of his poems survive in manuscripts, and these include a cywydd addressed to Thomas Glyn, Glynllifon, requesting a fishing boat from him, a cywydd to old age, and a more unusual kind of cywydd - an elegy on the death of his favourite hound
  • 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