Richard Cyril Hughes (1932 – 1 April 2022) was a Welsh educator, writer and historian.
[1] A graduate and Masters from University of Wales Aberystwyth, he started his teaching career of Welsh at Grove Park School in Wrexham and Rhiwabon before moving to Bangor Normal College to lecture in education.
Hughes authored a series of novels chronicling the life of Henry VII (Harri Tudur who descended from the Tudur family of Penmynydd Isle of Anglesey) close relative, influential, and dynastic "Mother of Wales" Catrin o Ferain, Dinas Ddihenydd and his third Castell Cyfaddawd, won the Daniel Owen Prize at the 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.
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