Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PUGH, ELLIS (1656 - 1718), Quaker Born at Penrhos, near Tyddyn-y-garreg, Dolgelley, Meironnydd, in June 1656 (in August, according to NLW MS 9270A). His father had died before he was born and his mother died soon after giving birth to him. When he was 18 years old he joined the Society of Friends under the influence of John ap John; six years later he himself began to minister among Friends. In 1686 he and his family and many
PUGH, FRANCIS (1720 - 1811), early Welsh Methodist and Moravian the Brethren. After a probationary period of mission-work, he was formally admitted to Fetter-lane congregation on 9 March 1748; on 12 May 1757 he was ordained deacon by bishop John Gambold, but was never priested. He was in charge of Leominster congregation for two periods, 1755-9 and 1763-8, and in 1768 was sent to take charge of the societies at Laugharne and Carmarthen. His tenure there was long
PUGH, HUGH (1803 - 1868), schoolmaster and Independent minister Born May 1803 at Towyn, Meironnydd. His father had enlisted in the army, in which he served during the Peninsular War. The son was educated by John Jones of Pen-y-parc, a celebrated schoolmaster, until he was 13 years of age, when he went to London as clerk in a solicitor's office. There, he embraced every opportunity of improving his knowledge but was compelled, owing to ill health, to return to
PUGH, JOHN (1744 - 1799), Evangelical cleric
PUGH, JOHN (Ieuan Awst; 1783 - 1839), lawyer and poet Dolgelley, but gave the trade up and became articled to a local solicitor; and on completing his articles he practised as a solicitor in Dolgelley. Although a solicitor he still retained his interest in printing and in 1815 he became a master printer and his name (John Pugh, Heol Finsbury) appeared in the imprint of the Dysgedydd from 1833 to 1840. He wrote a great deal of Welsh poetry and prose which was
PUGH, JOHN (1846 - 1907), Calvinistic Methodist minister, founder and first superintendent of the C.M. Forward Movement Born at New Mills, Montgomeryshire, 29 January 1846, son of John Pugh, undertaker, and Ann, his wife. The family moved to Tenby, Pembrokeshire, in 1860. Pugh went to Trevecka college, 1869-72, and was ordained at the Association held at Swansea, 1872. He became minister successively of the English churches at Tredegar, 1872-81, Pontypridd, 1881-9, and Clifton Street, Cardiff, 1889-92. He married
PUGH, PHILIP (1679 - 1760), Independent minister Edwards of Abermeurig and Jenkin Jones of Llwyn-rhys of the circuit which included the churches of Cilgwyn, Caeronnen, Llwyn-rhys, Abermeurig, and Crug-y-maen. He became the leader of the Independent movement in the district and met with such success that, according to the estimate given by John Evans, there were about 1,000 'hearers' by 1715. He christened 680 children between 1709 and 1760, built
PUGH, ROBERT (1749 - 1825), cleric Born at Dolgelley in 1749, youngest son of Hugh and Jane Pugh - he was, therefore, brother to David Pugh and John Pugh (1744 - 1799). He was at Dr. Conant's School in Truro, Cornwall, before he went, in 1768, to Exeter College, Oxford; he graduated in 1772. He was curate at Neston and perpetual curate of Lee Brockhurst, Salop, before he became vicar of Donnington, Lincolnshire (1794-1825). He is
PUGH, WILLIAM JOHN (1892 - 1974), Director of Geological Survey of Great Britain William (Bill) Pugh was born 28 July 1892 in Westbury, Shropshire, son of John Pugh (a master wheelwright, later coal merchant and well-known lay preacher) and his second wife, Harriet. He went to Westbury village school, and won a scholarship to Welshpool County School, Montgomeryshire. In 1910 he gained entry to University College of Wales (UCW), Aberystwyth, where he graduated BA (Geography
PUGHE, ELIZABETH ('Eliza') (1826 - 1847), deaf illustrator Eliza Pughe was born in 1826 at Chwaen Wen, Tref Alaw, Anglesey, the youngest of three children of David Roberts Pughe and his wife Elizabeth. Chwaen Wen was the home of her maternal grandparents. The family moved to Coch-y-Bug, Pontllyfni near Clynnog around 1828. Eliza's eldest brother was John Pughe (1814-1874), a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and known in Welsh literary circles as
PUGHE, JOHN (Ioan ab Hu Feddyg; 1814 - 1874), physician and littérateur a close friend of Eben Fardd. In Eben's Cyff Beuno there are many notes by Pughe. He published an entertaining biography of the bard: Eben Fardd: ei nodion a'i hynodion. He also translated Meddygon Myddfai, the Physicians of Myddfai, edited by John Williams, Ab Ithel, and published by the Welsh MSS. Society, 1864. He married Catherine Samuel, daughter of Samuel Samuel, Caernarfon, 21 February 1839
PUGHE, WILLIAM OWEN (1759 - 1835), lexicographer, grammarian, editor, antiquary, and poet Born in Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Meironnydd, 7 August 1759, the son of John Owen of Rhiwywerfa near Abergynolwyn and his wife Anne Owen. The family moved shortly afterwards to the farmhouse of Egryn in Ardudwy. He claimed that in his youth he had heard Ardudwy singers in his home and had seen companies playing interludes, but what influenced him most was the reading of Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru

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