Richard Cyril Hughes
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Richard Cyril Hughes (1932 – 1 April 2022) was a Welsh educator, writer and historian.
Biography
Hughes was born in Tara Street, Holyhead,
Grove Park School in Wrexham and Rhiwabon before moving to Bangor Normal College to lecture in education. He became an early pioneer for the teaching of subjects through the medium of Welsh and worked as a Senior Education officer for Gwynedd Education Authority before taking early retirement 1998. He married Elizabeth Ann (Nan Evans) from Cynwil Elfed, Carmarthen in 1959. They were the parents of actor Huw Garmon
and three older sons – Rhiryd Hughes, Rhys Hughes and Sion Hughes (television executive and novelist) – and have eleven grandchildren.
Hughes authored a series of novels chronicling the life of Henry VII (Harri Tudur who descended from the Tudur family of
National Eisteddfod in 1984. He also published a fictional account of a father and son's journey from Penmynydd to battle in "Maes Bosworth" in successful support of their kindred Harri. He lived in Penmynydd and Llanfairpwllgwyngyll. Hughes died on 1 April 2022, at the age of 89.[2]
Works
- Catrin o Ferain (1975)
- Dinas Ddihenydd (1976)
- Castell Cyfaddawd (1984)
- Maes Bosworth (2005)
References
- ISBN 9780192115867.
- ^ "R. Cyril Hughes". Funeral Notices. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
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