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HUGHES, WILLIAM JOHN (1891 - 1945), school teacher and college lecturer Born near Penfforddelen, Y Groeslon, Caernarfonshire, 10 September 1891, son of John Owen and Ann Jane Hughes, but his parents moved to Nantlle soon after his birth. The father was a quarryman and later a slate inspector. He was educated at the council school, Nantlle. At an early age he proved to be a gifted child, and he had a remarkably successful career at the county school at Pen-y-groes
HUGHES, WILLIAM LEWIS Kinmel (1767 - 1852), M.P. - gweler HUGHES, HUGH ROBERT
HUGHES, WILLIAM LEWIS Kinmel (1821 - 1852) - gweler HUGHES, HUGH ROBERT
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 Born 27 May 1898, son of John and Ann Hughes, Sain-y-gog, Llangristiolus, Anglesey. As a young man he worked for a few years in Liverpool. During World War I he served with the army in France and Egypt. He entered the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in 1922, and graduated in 1925. In the same year he was licensed as curate of Mold, moving to Holywell in 1929. In 1930 he was presented
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, BENJAMIN (1856 - 1934), Baptist minister pamphlet, John Myles, 1913.
HUMPHREYS, EDWARD MORGAN (1882 - 1955), journalist, writer and broadcaster Born 14 May 1882 in Dyffryn Ardudwy, Merionethshire, eldest son of John and Elizabeth Humphreys. His brothers were Humphrey Llewelyn and John Gwilym. His mother was the niece of Edward Morgan, Dyffryn, preacher and writer, and a cousin of R.H. Morgan, Menai Bridge, pioneer of short-hand in Welsh. His great-grandfather was Richard Humphreys, a preacher noted for his wit, a teetotaller and a
HUMPHREYS, HUGH (1817 - 1896), printer and publisher John Rhys, afterwards principal of Jesus College, Oxford, edited for him; a new edition (1864), edited by Cynddelw, of Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru; a translation by Eben Fardd, of Chambers's Information for the People (1856), a translation of Josephus (1882), and editions of the poetical works of Dewi Wyn, Cawrdaf, Ieuan Brydydd Hir, and Cynddelw. In 1855 he began to publish a weekly newspaper, Y
HUMPHREYS, HUMPHREY (1648 - 1712), bishop, antiquary, historian, and genealogist his defence of archbishop John Williams cannot now be traced.
HUMPHREYS, JOHN (1767 - 1829), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Born 1767 at Pant-y-ddelw, Bodfari, but his people soon removed to Penymynydd, Tremeirchion. From 1798 to 1802 he was at Chester, supervising the Welsh printing done there for Thomas Jones (1756 - 1820) and Thomas Charles. Thence he went to live at Cil-deugoed, Tremeirchion, and afterwards to Croes-wian, Caerwys, where he lived most of his life - he is usually known as 'John Humphreys of Caerwys

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