Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, ROBERT (1811 - 1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 25 March 1811 at Bodgared, Llanwnda, Caernarfonshire; his father, a tenant-farmer who moved from holding to holding during the son's early life, finally settled at Moelfre Fawr, Llanaelhaearn, dying there at ninety-five. The boy had little schooling (he was for a while taught by David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri, 1759 - 1822), but gained local fame as a wood-carver. In 1830 he walked up to
HUGHES, ROBERT GWILYM (1910 - 1997), poet and minister with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist denomination Sir Thomas Parry. He also admired the scholarship of Professor James Gibson, Professor T. Hudson-Williams and the Welsh poet R. Williams Parry. He enjoyed the fellowship of a large number of literary-minded students, such as Robert Owen (1908-1972) and O. M. Lloyd (1910-1980) and others in the cultural societies and the Inter-College Eisteddfod. Gwilym Hughes graduated in Welsh in 1931 and then
HUGHES, ROBERT RICHARD (1872 - 1957), minister (Presb.), and author Born 2 January 1872, in Pont Myfyrian, a cottage near the railway, not far from Brynsiencyn and Gaerwen, Anglesey, son of Thomas and Margaret Hughes. He was educated in Llanidan British school; St. John's School, Menai Bridge; Oswestry High School; University College, Bangor (where he obtained a B.A. degree of the University of London); and Bala College. He was brought up in Brynsiencyn church
HUGHES, ROWLAND (1811 - 1861), Wesleyan minister Tydfil (1849), Crickhowell (1852), Manchester (1854), Liverpool (1857), and Denbigh (1860). He married Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. David Evans ' the first.' He died at Denbigh, Christmas Day 1861. In his day he was one of the outstanding preachers of Wales. He published a revised translation of John Wesley's commentary on the New Testament, a translation of a sermon by Thomas Jackson (Trefnyddiaeth
HUGHES, STEPHEN (1622 - 1688), early Nonconformist vicar, in one volume, in 1672, with in addition, Llyfr y Psalmau, ynghyd â Thestament Newydd ein Harglwydd, and Catechism Mr. Perkins. He was in London during this period and met Thomas Gouge and Charles Edwards; he co-operated with these two for over ten years. He was again in London in 1677 and published two composite volumes - Tryssor i'r Cymru and Cyfarwydd-deb i'r Anghyfarwydd. Then, in 1677-8
HUGHES, THOMAS (Glan Pherath; 1803 - 1898), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 8 May 1803, at Trawsfynydd. As a young man he kept school at Ffestiniog, where he began to preach. In 1823 he moved to Llanelltyd, near Dolgelley, and again in 1824 to Machynlleth. As ' Thomas Hughes, Machynlleth ' he soon became known throughout Wales as a popular preacher who could appeal to the emotions; himself a 'tearful' preacher, he made his hearers weep. He was ordained at the Bala
HUGHES, THOMAS (1758 - 1828), Calvinistic Methodist minister He should be recorded as the first Calvinistic Methodist exhorter in Liverpool to be ordained. He was a carpenter's son, born at Bala; he joined the society there in 1782. Removing in 1787 to Liverpool to work as a carpenter, he began preaching in 1789, and (with Thomas Edwards) became a leader of Liverpool Welsh Methodism; he was ordained in 1816. From being a carpenter, he had developed into a
HUGHES, THOMAS (1814 - 1884), Wesleyan minister Born at Llangynog, Montgomeryshire, 1814, son of Thomas Hughes, who was subsequently a lay preacher in the Llangollen circuit, and nephew of the Rev. Evan Hughes. He joined the ministry and worked in the Welsh circuits of Cardigan (1842) and Carmarthen (1844) and in various English circuits in England from 1846 to 1871. He died 31 January 1884 at Moreton. He published a number of books (e.g. The
HUGHES, THOMAS (1854 - 1928), Wesleyan minister
HUGHES, THOMAS HYWEL (1875 - 1945), Congregational minister, theologian, and philosopher
HUGHES, THOMAS ISFRYN (1865 - 1942), Wesleyan minister ), Mynydd Seion, Liverpool (1902), Blaenau Ffestiniog (1905), Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant (1908), Mynydd Seion, Liverpool (1911), Oakfield, Liverpool (1914), Porthmadog (1919), London (1922), Porthmadog (1925), and Beaumaris (1928). He retired in 1931 and died at Trearddur Bay, Anglesey, 27 December 1942. He married 11 September 1894, Catherine, daughter of Thomas and Margaret Jenkins of Aberdovey. He was
HUGHES, THOMAS JOHN (Adfyfr; 1853 - 1927), journalist Born at Bridgend in 1853, son of the Rev. Thomas Hughes of Miskin village, Glamorganshire. He became a journalist and represented a number of English daily newspapers in Wales. Some of his articles on the Welsh magistracy and landlordism in Wales were re-published by the Welsh National Liberal Federation. At one time he was private secretary to Alfred Thomas, 1st baron Pontypridd, and he was the

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