Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, HUGH JOHN (1912 - 1978), schoolteacher, author, editor and reviewer Hugh J. Hughes was born 18 August 1912 at Bwlch-gwyn, Garndolbenmaen, Caernarfonshire, the elder of the two sons of Thomas Hughes, farmer, and his wife Mary Jane (née Jones). (The brothers John Roberts, Llangwm, and Robert Roberts, Clynnog, eminent preachers with the Calvinistic Methodists in their day, were among his ancestors). He was educated at the council school Brynengan (1917-25), Pen-y
HUGHES, HUGH ROBERT (1827 - 1911) Kinmel, Dinorben,, genealogist Born 6 June 1827, son of Hugh Robert Hughes of Bache Hall, Cheshire, by his second wife, Anne, daughter of Thomas Lance of Wavertree Hall, Lancashire His grandfather, the Rev. EDWARD HUGHES, M.A. (1738 - 1815), was the first of the family to settle at Kinmel, an ancient seat of the Holland family (7), acquiring the estate through purchase at the end of the 18th century. He was the son of HUGH
HUGHES, JAMES BILSLAND (Iago Bencerdd; 1831 - 1878), harpist Born at Ysgubor-gerrig, Trefriw, Caernarfonshire. The following is the record of his christening at Trefriw : ' James Bilsland Hughes, Son of Robert and Ann Hughes, February 23, 1831.' He showed a talent for music when quite young and learned to play the flute, violin, and harp, both the triple harp and the pedal harp. He constructed a harp for himself and played on it at an eisteddfod held at
HUGHES, JOHN (CEIRIOG) (Ceiriog; 1832 - 1887), poet . Derfel, Idris Fychan, and John Hughes - formed a small literary society, and the influence of the other three on Ceiriog is perceptible. He had, before going to Manchester, written lyrics for Baner Cymru and Y Greal and had edited the poetry column for the latter periodical. Robert Ellis (Cynddelw, 1812-1875) was the first to encourage him as a poet. In 1852 he won a consolation prize for a poem, 'Paul
HUGHES, MICHAEL (1752 - 1825), industrialist Robert Peel. After the year 1797 he was buying land on an extensive scale, whilst from 1803 to 1806 he was engaged in building Sherdley House and in agricultural improvements. A very busy man - he was the partner of Thomas Williams in some of that very busy man's many concerns, and the friend of John Wilkinson - he managed also to find time to be one of the most active magistrates in the S. Helens area
HUGHES, ROBERT (Robin Ddu yr Ail o Fôn; 1744 - 1785), poet
HUGHES, ROBERT (1811 - 1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister accompanied John Jones of Tal-y-sarn on preaching-tours, and was remarkable not only for verbal wit but also for a pictorial style of preaching. Ordained in 1848, he was the unpaid pastor of a chapel (Babell) which he built in 1857. He died 3 May 1892. Robert Hughes was an exceptional man, and his autobiography (published with a selection of his sermons in 1893) is highly interesting. What emerges is an
HUGHES, ROBERT ARTHUR (1910 - 1996), medical missionary in Shillong, Meghalaya, north-east India, and an influential leader in the Presbyterian Church of Wales in Springwood Crematorium. His ashes were scattered near St Tudno's Church on the Great Orme, Llandudno. He was survived by his wife and their only son, John, himself a medical practitioner, ordained an Anglican priest in Cheshire in 2007. A Robert Arthur Hughes Memorial Lecture was arranged by the North-East India-Wales Trust in Liverpool between 1997 and 2007 and six were given by D. Ben Rees, D
HUGHES, ROBERT GWILYM (1910 - 1997), poet and minister with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist denomination Gwilym Hughes was born 17 August 1900 in Bethesda, Caernarfonshire, the second son of Robert John and Elisabeth Hughes. His father hailed from Waen Pentir, and his mother from Trefdraeth in Anglesey. His father worked in the Penrhyn Quarry, after the great strike (1900-1903), and he and his brother, Richard Môn Hughes, experienced at firsthand the poverty that followed the industrial conflict at
HUGHES, ROBERT OWEN (Elfyn; 1858 - 1919), journalist and poet
HUGHES, ROBERT RICHARD (1872 - 1957), minister (Presb.), and author
HUGHES, WILLIAM (d. 1794?), clock-maker Grosvenor Street. Hughes was a member of the Cymmrodorion Society from the very start, and a vice-president in 1759. He was a friend of Robert Hughes (1744 - 1785). See Cymm., 1951, 65 (and appendices) and Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, vi, 234.

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