Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, ROBERT GWILYM (1910 - 1997), poet and minister with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist denomination taught at Cae Top School from 1919 to 1921, where he sat a scholarship for Friars School. This was a school for boys which had a great reputation for its classics-teaching. The headmaster W. St Bodvan Griffith combined expertise in classics as well as in science. R. Gwilym Hughes came under the influence of R. E. Hughes, the Welsh teacher, grandfather of the Welsh author and campaigner, Angharad Tomos
HUGHES, ROBERT OWEN (Elfyn; 1858 - 1919), journalist and poet Born 8 October 1858 in Plough Street, Llanrwst, son of Charles and Elizabeth Hughes. After attending the British School at Llanrwst he was apprenticed to the banking firm of Pugh Jones and Co. Afterwards he began to prepare for the Calvinistic Methodist ministry; later, however, he went to London to work for Kirby and Endean, publishers. In 1883 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Roberts
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
HUGHES, ROYSTON JOHN (BARON ISLWYN), (1925 - 2003), politician Roy Hughes was born on 9 June 1925 at Pontllan-fraith, Monmouthshire, the son of John Hughes, a coal miner, and Florence Tucker. While expecting her next child, Florence Hughes fell ill and Roy was taken, around the age of one, to the home of his paternal grandfather. Elizabeth Hughes, his aunt, took charge of the boy and he remained with her throughout his childhood. Although his education, at
HUGHES, SIÂN (1811 - 1878) - see HUGHES, JANE
HUGHES, STEPHEN (1622 - 1688), early Nonconformist Son of John Hughes, mercer, Carmarthen. We know hardly anything of his youth but it is possible that he attended Carmarthen grammar school. He received the living of Meidrym in 1654 and it has been said that he had been given the living of Merthyr (Carmarthenshire) earlier. He was a person of influence in the age of Cromwell.About 1658 he is found starting on the great work of his life - the
HUGHES, T. ROWLAND - see HUGHES, THOMAS ROWLAND
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
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

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