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HOWEL, HARRI (fl. 1637-1671), bard son of Howel ap Siôn Ieuan of the parish of Dolgelley, also a bard. He was contemporary with Gruffydd Phylip and sang to many of the families to whom that bard sang. On the evidence of the eighteen (or so) cywyddau by him which survive, Harri Howel sang to members of houses ranging from Bodwrdda (west Caernarfonshire), Gwaenynog and Llwyn Ynn (in the vale of Clwyd), to Nannau and Hafod Dywyll
HOWELL, JOHN (Ioan ab Hywel, Ioan Glandyfroedd; 1774 - 1830), weaver, schoolmaster, poet, editor, and musician ; it is still of interest and use as a source-book for information on the literature of Wales, and on the history of the provincial eisteddfodau. Besides examples of the work of the editor (some of them written for the Carmarthen and Brecon eisteddfodau) the volume contains a selection of poems by Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir), Jenkin Thomas, Cwm-du, Cardiganshire, Eliezer Williams, Daniel Evans
HOWELLS, THOMAS (Hywel Cynon; 1839 - 1905), collier, printer, poet, preacher, and musician Born 12 October 1839, at Glyn Neath, Glamorganshire. The family moved to Rhymney and the son began to work as a collier's boy when he was only seven years old. Later, at Aberaman, whither the family had moved from Rhymney, he was able to receive some education and he began to attend an evening class conducted by the Rev. John Davies. In 1858 John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt) came to Aberdare and Hywel
HUGHES, ARWEL (1909 - 1988), musician subsequently arranged by the composer for male voices. He married in 1940 Enid P. Thomas, and they had two sons, Ieuan and Owain, and a daughter, Delun. Owain came to prominence as a professional conductor, and the composer's grandson, Meuryn Hughes, established the imprint Aureus to publish his grandfather's works. He died in Cardiff on 23 September 1988 and his remains were cremated at Thornhill
HUGHES, GAINOR (1745 - 1780), fasting woman Grace Roberts 'from Bettws y coed in the parish of Llanfor', who evidently knew Gainor, and Evan James (Ieuan ap Iago; died 1804) from Llanfachreth sang their poems to the fasting lady, the last in the cywydd metre. The reports published in the Chester Chronicle suggest how Gainor may have become a legend during her lifetime, with visitors travelling between forty and fifty miles to see her; by the
HUGHES, HUGH (1790 - 1863), artist and author Seren Gomer, 1828, a scathing attack upon the Calvinistic Methodist authorities and particularly upon John Elias - the articles were re-issued in pamphlet form, Y Trefnyddion a'r Pabyddion. Later (in Seren Gomer, 1830-2), under the pen-name 'Cristion,' he battled with Evan Evans, Ieuan Glan Geirionydd (1795 - 1856) on tithe, churchrate, and Church establishment in general. He continued for a while to
HUGHES, HUGH JOHN (1912 - 1978), schoolteacher, author, editor and reviewer former student and an enthusiastic admirer of Sir Ifor Williams. Needless to say, he was an ardent patron of all things Welsh within his community like the Talsarnau Eisteddfod from its inception as well as other cultural societies. According to John Ieuan Jones, a local poet and friend of his, H. J. Hughes was 'an interesting conversationalist who embodied the best of rural Eifionydd in his bearing
HUGHES, JOHN HENRY (Ieuan o Leyn; 1814 - 1893), Congregational minister and poet
HUGHES, JOHN WILLIAMS (1888 - 1979), Baptist minister and college principal Baptist Church in St Albans. A year later, in 1915, he married Margaret Evans, daughter of the Reverend Edward Evans, minister of Penuel Welsh Baptist church, Bangor. Three sons were born to them: Ieuan, Edward and David, the actor Hugh David. J. Williams Hughes suffered a severe bout of ill-health in 1918 and he was forced to abandon his ministry in St Albans, returning to Wales to an open-air life
HUGHES, RICHARD SAMUEL (1855 - 1893), musician Born 14 July 1855 at Aberystwyth, son of Benjamin and Ann Samuel Hughes, who kept an ironmonger's shop near the town clock. He showed musical talent and could play the piano when he was only 5 years of age. When he was 10 years old he took the prize for piano-playing at the Aberystwyth eisteddfod of 1865, the adjudicators - Brinley Richards, Owain Alaw, and John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), giving him
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
HUW BODWRDA (fl. 1566) Bodwrda,, gentleman, bard, and patron of bards Two cywyddau by him survive in which he engages in mock controversy with Ieuan (Ifan) Dylyniwr, harpist; he also wrote an englyn urging the bards who came to Bodwrda to write to the 'Worthyes' on the partition in the Tŷ Canol at Bodwrda. It is fairly certain that he kept a family bard and a family harpist at his home. From the elegy upon him, composed by Wiliam Llŷn it would appear that he was

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