Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 ARTHUR (1910 - 1996), medical missionary in Shillong, Meghalaya, north-east India, and an influential leader in the Presbyterian Church of Wales . Andrew Jones, Elfed ap Nefydd Roberts, Aled Jones, Gwyn A. Evans and Alwyn Roberts. The first three lectures were expanded and published in a volume under the title The Call and Contribution of Dr Robert Arthur Hughes OBE, FRCS 1910-1996 and some of his predecessors in North East India (Liverpool 2004).
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, THOMAS (1758 - 1828), Calvinistic Methodist minister building-contractor and built a number of chapels in Manchester and North Wales. He died 2 November 1828, aged seventy. A memoir (1829) of him and of his fellow-worker Thomas Edwards, by John Jones (1790 - 1855), includes some of his verse. His daughter Mary (who died 9 September 1860) married Richard Williams (1802 - 1842).
HUGHES, THOMAS HYWEL (1875 - 1945), Congregational minister, theologian, and philosopher Born 10 July 1875, at Penclawdd, Gower, son of Daniel and Ann Hughes. According to the Rev. W. Glasnant Jones, Swansea, Hughes worked for a brief period as a shoemaker in Gowerton before becoming a student at Gwynfryn Academy, Ammanford. Educated at New College and London University where he graduated B.A., (1st class hons. in Philosophy) and B.D. (1st class hons. in Biblical Theology), he was
HUGHES, THOMAS JONES (1822 - 1891), cleric and grammarian
HUGHES, THOMAS ROWLAND (1903 - 1949), poet and novelist , on the Rebecca riots, which was translated into English : he was the first to write a radio play in Welsh. He also edited Storïau'r Henllys Fawr, a collection of short stories by W.J. Griffith (1938). He adapted R. Hughes Williams's Yr Hogyn Drwg as a radio play. About 1937 he contracted multiple sclerosis, but he continued to work for several years hoping for a recovery. During his illness he
HUGHES, WILLIAM (1757 - 1846), Independent minister, hymn-writer, and composer Second son of Hugh Jones and Jane Williams (widow) of Gadlys, Llanwnda, Caernarfonshire; he was christened 25 June 1757. He married Jane Jones, 20 February 1783, at Llanwnda, where too their son John was christened, 2 December 1784. He joined the Independents at Caernarvon when George Lewis was resuscitating Independency there, and in 1788 was set apart to be a lay preacher. After the departure
HUGHES, WILLIAM JOHN (1833 - 1879), musician and schoolmaster school and where he spent the remainder of his life. Many anthems and hymn-tunes by him were published in such collections as Y Ceinion (Hafrenydd), Caniadau y Cysegr a'r Teulu (Gee, Denbigh), Llyfr Tonau ac Emynau (Stephen and Jones), Udgorn Seion (Dewi Wyllt), and Aberth Moliant (J. Ambrose Lloyd). He arranged some old anthems for publication in Y Cerddor Cymreig, edited St. Asaph Tune Book, and
HUGHES, WILLIAM MELOCH (1860 - 1926), colonist and writer Born 9 April 1860 at Pen-sarn, Betws Gwerfyl Goch, but the family moved to Melin Meloch, near Llandderfel, about 1868. He was educated at Bala grammar school, at the same time as T. E. Ellis, O. M. Edwards, J. Puleston Jones, Mihangel and Llwyd ap Iwan. Trained as a photographer, he set up in business at Newtown, where he also started preaching with the intention of entering the Congregational
HUGHES, MARGARET (Leila Megáne; 1891 - 1960), singer Born in Bethesda, Caernarfonshire, 5 April 1891, one of the ten children of Thomas Jones, a member of the Caernarfonshire police force, and Jane Phillip (née Owen) his wife. In 1894 the family moved to Pwllheli but her mother died when she was 7 years old. Her father sacrificed much to give her a musical education. She had singing lessons for a period with John Williams, conductor of Caernarfon

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