Richard Hughes
The playwright, poet, short story writer and novelist Richard Hughes (1900-1976) was born of Welsh parents in Weybridge.
Educated at Charterhouse and Oxford Richard Hughes counted W.B.Yeats, T.E.Lawrence, and Robert Graves amongst early acquaintances.
After graduating in 1922, Richard Hughes helped to found the Portmadoc Players and, from 1924 to 1936, was Vice President of the Welsh National Theatre. His most celebrated work is the classic story of childhood, High Wind in Jamaica (1929).
After years spent travelling, Richard Hughes settled in Laugharne in 1934 and lived for many years in Castle House where Augustus John and Dylan Thomas were regular visitors. Hughes wrote the sea story In Hazard (1938) in the castle gazebo which was, at times, also used by Thomas. He published no more novels until The Fox in the Attic (1961), the first volume of a projected series The Human Predicament about the rise of Fascism of which only the first two volumes were completed.