HUGHES, DAVID (1813 - 1872), Independent minister, and author

Name: David Hughes
Date of birth: 1813
Date of death: 1872
Parent: Anne Hughes
Parent: Hugh Hughes
Gender: Male
Occupation: Independent minister, and author
Area of activity: Literature and Writing; Religion
Author: Robert Thomas Jenkins

Born 21 June 1813 at Cefnuchaf, Llanddeiniolen, Caernarfonshire, son of Hugh and Anne Hughes. He began preaching (in Bethel chapel) at 19, and went to Hackney Academy and thence to Glasgow - a B.A. of Glasgow (which at that time gave that degree) is attributed to him, but does not appear in the University's Roll of Graduates. He was in 1841 ordained pastor at S. George's and Moelfre, Denbighshire, and was there till 1845; for a period ending in 1846 he was also pastor at S. Asaph. He took over the church at Great Jackson Street, Manchester, from July 1846 till May 1847, when he removed to Bangor to keep school, preaching occasionally on Sundays - at this period, he wrote much in the press. He resumed the pastoral care, in November 1855, at Saron, Tredegar, Monmouth, where he died 3 June 1872; there too he was buried. He was obviously of scholarly temperament; he assembled a large library, and many of the articles in Y Gwyddoniadur are by him. He published at Bangor in 1852 Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol a Duwinyddol - a 2nd edition of this appeared in two volumes, the 1st (1876) edited by John Peter, and the 2nd (1879) by Thomas Lewis (1837 - 1892). Hughes also published (1859) Elfennau Daearyddiaeth, and brought out the 2nd ed. (with additions) of the Welsh dictionary by Caerfallwch (Thomas Edwards, 1779 - 1858).

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Published date: 1959

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