Annie Jane Hughes Griffiths

Annie Jane Hughes Griffiths (April 5, 1873 – October 7, 1942) was one of the ten children of Frances (née Humphreys) and Robert Joseph Davies, born in 1873.

[1] Members of the family, including her parents and several siblings, were well-connected and leading figures in both local political and religious life.

She became a public figure due to association with the University College of Wales and the campaign for a Welsh National Library.

[8][9] While she was in London from 1895, housekeeping for two of her brothers, she met Thomas (Tom) Edward Ellis, the Liberal MP for Meirionethshire.

In 1916 she married again, to Reverend Peter Hughes Griffiths, the minister at the Welsh chapel in Charing Cross, London.

Annie Jane Hughes Griffiths died at Neuadd Wen, Llanbadarn Road, Aberystwyth on 7 October 1942.

Annie Jane Hughes Griffiths, Chair of the Welsh League of Nations, holding the Welsh Women's Peace Petition outside the White House in Washington D.C. , 1924, with Mrs Ruth Morgan, Miss Eluned Prys (social worker) and Miss Mary Elizabeth Ellis (one of His Majesty's Inspectors of Schools)