JONES, HUGH (1830 - 1911), Calvinistic Methodist minister

Born 13 January 1830, son of the Rev. Hugh Jones of Llannerch-y-medd. He was educated in a school there, and afterwards under William Roberts (1809 - 1887) at Holyhead; he served as apprentice at Llanfechell under John Elias, son of John Elias, but afterwards started keeping school near Bangor, and went to Bala C.M. College. There, he was advised to enter the ministry. He was pastor at Garreg-lefn (1862-4), at Amlwch (1864-1871), and, finally (1871-1911) at Netherfield Road (the chapel was later removed to Douglas Road), Liverpool; he died 26 May 1911.

He was moderator of the North Wales C.M. Association in 1877, and of the General Assembly in 1886, but, in fact, was not greatly interested in administration. Hugh Jones was, above all things, a preacher, and was universally regarded as a master of pulpit oratory in the older tradition - T. C. Williams indeed averred that he was the last survivor of that tradition. His good biography (1869) of William Roberts of Amlwch (1784 - 1864) deserves mention. He was D.D., ' honoris causa,' of Princeton University, New Jersey (1890).

Author

• Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, (1881 - 1969)

Sources

• J. Hughes Morris, Hanes Methodistiaeth Liverpool (Liverpool 1929-1932), i, 379-82
• obituary notices
• Blwyddiadur y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, 1912

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20821146

Published date: 1959

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