JONES, HUGH (Huw Myfyr; 1845 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet

son of Evan and Elinor Jones, of Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr, Denbighshire. He was apprenticed to a medical man at Cerrig-y-drudion, but decided to enter the ministry, and went to Bala C.M. College in 1867. In 1871 he was called to a group of churches at and near Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant (he was ordained in 1873) where he married Margaret Lewis. He removed, in 1878, to Llanllechid, Caernarfonshire, and thence, in 1890, to Dinorwig. His pastorate there was stormy - though an able man, he was 'temperamental.' He died suddenly, 9 December 1891, aged 46; a biography (by David Williams), with a selection of his sermons, appeared in 1893. He was a poet of some standing; he published, in 1885, a metrical psalter, Salmydd y Cyssegr, and several of his elegies, notably those on his tutors, Dr. Lewis Edwards and Dr. John Parry, were highly regarded.

Author

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

Sources

• Cymru (O.M.E.), ii, 129-32
• W. Hobley, Hanes Methodistiaeth Arfon, iv, 95-7
• J. Thickens, Emynau a'u Hawduriaid (1945)
• Owen Williams, Awduron Sir Ddinbych a'u gweithiau (1937), 74
• T. R. Roberts, Eminent Welshmen: a short biographical dictionary of Welshmen... from the earliest times to the present (1908)

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20821148

Published date: 1959

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