Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, JOHN (1775 - 1854), Calvinistic Methodist minister, author, and hymn-writer , he yet had a remarkable personality, and his piety was never in doubt. He was a regular contributor to the periodicals of his day, and published memoirs, collections of hymns, and sermons. His most celebrated memoir is that of Ann Griffiths, which appeared in Y Traethodydd, 1846, and in book form in 1854. He also published Cofiant Owen Jones o'r Gelli, 1830; Cofiant William Jones, Dol-y-fonddu, ac
HUGHES, JOHN (1776 - 1843), Wesleyan minister, and antiquary father, however, was not pleased when the boy turned his back upon Anglican orders (for which his connections and education seemed to destine him) and insisted, in spite of his uncle's persuasions, on becoming a Wesleyan preacher (1796). In 1800, Hughes was sent out to the new Welsh Wesleyan mission in North Wales, under Owen Davies (1752 - 1830). His success there was surprising, in a bookish man who
HUGHES, JOHN JAMES (Alfardd; 1842 - 1875), journalist contemporaries as a man of unusual ability and energy. There is a biography, by Owen Jones.
HUGHES, JOHN (1615 - 1686), Jesuit Born June 1615, youngest son of Hugh Owen (1575? - 1642) of Gwaenynog. In his younger days he appears to have spent some time with his father in Raglan castle but on 25 December 1636 he became a student at the English College in Rome. He was ordained priest, 16 March 1640-1, and returned to England, 28 September 1643. In 1648 he joined the Society of Jesus at Watten, near S. Omer and in 1650 came
HUGHES, JOHN WILLIAM (Edeyrn ap Nudd, Edeyrn o Fôn; 1817 - 1849), a literary tramp patronage from time to time. In the last months of 1845 he was at Llanerfyl, Montgomeryshire, and by the summer of 1847 in London, the recipient of charity from ' Aled o Vôn ' [ Owen Rowlands ], playing at humorous englynion with ' Sam o Fôn,' giving lessons in Welsh to the daughter of Gwrgant, and himself getting lessons in English from more than one teacher. He was an unsuccessful competitor at the
HUGHES, OWEN (Glasgoed; 1879 - 1947), railway official, businessman and poet
HUGHES, OWEN (d. 1708), attorney , husband of the attorney's niece Ann; Madryn in Llŷn fell to a grand-daughter of his sister Jane; and the house of Llysdulas in Anglesey was much indebted to the fact that the mother of squire William Lewis was another niece of Owen Hughes.
HUGHES, ROBERT (Robin Ddu yr Ail o Fôn; 1744 - 1785), poet . As a poet he modelled himself on Goronwy Owen. He published his cywydd 'Molawd Môn' in Diddanwch teuluaidd, 1763, and his cywydd 'Y Byd' in Y Cylchgrawn Cymraeg, 1793. His best work is his cywydd 'Myfyrdod y Bardd am ei Gariad,' published in the North Wales Gazette, 15 September 1808. While in London he was a prominent member of the Welsh societies; in 1777 he was joint librarian with Richard
HUGHES, ROBERT (1811 - 1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister London with a cattle-drove, intending to enlist the support of Griffith Davies the mathematician, who was related to his mother. Davies found him work of sorts in London, and he became a member of Jewin Calvinistic Methodist church, where Hugh Owen was his Sunday-school teacher. But in 1833 his father placed him in the large (and badly rundown) farm of Uwchlaw'r-ffynnon, where he had to struggle hard
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 OWEN (Elfyn; 1858 - 1919), journalist and poet Cymru (O.M.E.); Sir Owen M. Edwards, editor of the latter, included Hanes Bywyd Capelulo, written by Elfyn, in 'Cyfres y Fil.' A selection of his poems was issued under the title of Caniadau Elfyn (n.d.). He died 14 June 1919 and was buried in Llan Ffestiniog churchyard.
HUGHES, THOMAS HYWEL (1875 - 1945), Congregational minister, theologian, and philosopher theories of the Doctrine), the last being published posthumously. He spent the evening of his life in retirement at Mount Grange, Penyrheol Drive, Sketty, Swansea, where he continued to preach until his death on 14 August 1945. His wife Nina, daughter of Daniel Owen, pre-deceased him in 1940. There were no children.

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