Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, JOHN (CEIRIOG) (Ceiriog; 1832 - 1887), poet life, and love, in a simple, natural and popular way. R. J. Derfel was responsible for teaching him to set store by the language, traditions and history of Wales. It was he who objected to English surnames; he added 'Derfel' to his own baptismal name and so became Robert Jones Derfel; he besought John Hughes to follow his example, but the latter was content to insert the name 'Ceiriog' between the
HUGHES, JOHN (1775 - 1854), Calvinistic Methodist minister, author, and hymn-writer Born at Penyfigin, Llanfihangel yng Ngwynfa, Montgomeryshire, 22 February 1775. He was a weaver by trade but, after hearing Thomas Jones of Llanwnnog preach and after joining the Methodist Society at Penllys, he came to the notice of Thomas Charles of Bala and was appointed a teacher in his circulating schools. He lodged at one time at Dolwar Fach and it is known that in 1800 he was on friendly
HUGHES, JOHN (1776 - 1843), Wesleyan minister, and antiquary Born at Brecon 18 May 1776, the son of William Hughes, hatter, by his second wife Elizabeth Thomas, of Dan-y-cefn near Brecon; her father, John Thomas, is described on his tombstone at Llanspyddid (Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., iv, 159) as 'gent.'; he died 1757 aged fifty-five; her brother John Thomas (1752 - 1829), was an Oxford graduate (Foster, Alumni), and became vicar
HUGHES, JOHN (Glanystwyth; 1842 - 1902), Wesleyan minister February 1902. He married Emily, daughter of the Rev. Henry Wilcox; Henry Maldwyn Hughes was their son. He edited Y Winllan, 1874-7; Y Gwyliedydd, 1890-2; and Yr Eurgrawn, 1897-1902. He also edited the new hymn book, 1900. He was the author of Arwrgerdd John Penri, Oesau Boreu y Byd, Bywyd Crist, Delw y Nefol (sermons), Esponiad ar y Colosiaid, and Cofiant Isaac Jones. He was the initiator of the
HUGHES, JOHN (1896 - 1968), musician Chester cathedral. In 1921 he went to the University College, Aberystwyth, and after graduating in music in 1924 he stayed there an extra year to study Welsh literature under Thomas Gwynn Jones. He was president of Y Gymdeithas Geltaidd (the Welsh society) at college. He became organist and choir-master at Noddfa Baptist church, Treorchy, 1925-42, before being appointed music organiser for Meironnydd
HUGHES, JOHN EDWARD (1879 - 1959), minister (Presb.) and author 1899, and was ordained in 1907. He was minister at Engedi, Ffestiniog (1906-12), and at Horeb, Brynsiencyn and Preswylfa, Llanddaniel, Anglesey (1913). He married (1), 1907, Ada Davies, Aberystwyth, who died within a few years; (2), 1920, Mary Jones of Porth Amlwch; there was one son of the first marriage, and three sons of the second marriage. He died 10 April 1959 at Anfield Hospital, Liverpool
HUGHES, JOHN GRUFFYDD MOELWYN (1866 - 1944), Calvinistic Methodist minister ', and 'Fy Nhad o'r Nef, O! gwrando 'nghri', were first published. In addition to the poems he published Yr Athro o Ddifrif, 1903, Cofiant a Phregethau'r Parch. Griffith Davies, Aberteifi (jointly with Dr. J. Cynddylan Jones), Llewyrch y Cwmwl, Anfarwoldeb yr Enaid, A New Method for the study of the German Language, Pedair Cymwynas Pantycelyn, 1922; Mr. Saunders Lewis a Williams Pantycelyn, 1928
HUGHES, JOHN HENRY (Ieuan o Leyn; 1814 - 1893), Congregational minister and poet Born at Tyn-y-pwll, Llaniestyn, Caernarfonshire, 11 October 1814. Having been educated at Botwnnog school, he was for a time assistant to Arthur Jones (1776 - 1860), who kept a school at Bangor. He then went to the denominational college at Brecon, and was ordained at Llangollen in 1843. In 1847 he became minister of the Congregational church at Demerara, British Guiana, but had to return owing
HUGHES, JOHN JAMES (Alfardd; 1842 - 1875), journalist contemporaries as a man of unusual ability and energy. There is a biography, by Owen Jones.
HUGHES, JONATHAN (1721 - 1805), poet Cain Jones, Philomath, and others from 1755 to the end of the century. He also composed in the traditional strict metres; he wrote an elegy on Richard Morris, in the form of an awdl, in 1780. An interlude by him, Y Dywysoges Genefetha, was published in 1744, and a volume of his poetry, called Bardd a Byrddau, appeared in 1778. As an enthusiastic supporter of eisteddfodau in the 18th century, we find
HUGHES, LOT (1787 - 1873), Wesleyan minister and historian ), Beaumaris (1837), Dolgelley (1839), Machynlleth (1841), Brecon (1843), Swansea (1846), and Liverpool (1849). He married (1) 1816, Jennett Jones of Brecon (died 1856) and (2) 1857, Mrs. Elizabeth Evans (died 1872). He was superannuated in 1850 and died at Chester, 13 July 1873. His biographer states that he was 'an experiential, pleasant, and very successful preacher…' He could remember the early days of
HUGHES, MICHAEL (1752 - 1825), industrialist of Sherdley House (or Hall) in the township of Sutton, Prescot, Lancashire; born 13 May 1752, the youngest of the three sons of Hugh Hughes (1706 - 1774), Lleiniog, near Beaumaris, and his wife, Mary, daughter of Rowland Jones, Carreg y farian, Anglesey - Michael Hughes was therefore a brother of Edward Hughes, cleric, who became prosperous as the result of his becoming the owner (through his

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