Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, HENRY (1841 - 1924), Calvinistic Methodist minister and historian Williams, Llecheiddior, by Richard Eames and Henry Hughes (Bangor, 1885). He was also a considerable authority on the old families of Caernarvonshire. He died 13 August 1924.
HUGHES, HENRY HAROLD (1864 - 1940), archaeologist Born at Liverpool, 1864, son of Richard Hughes, M.A., vicar of S. Catherine's, Edge Hill, and grandson of John Hughes (1787 - 1860). He was educated at the Liverpool College, and articled to Arthur Baker, F.R.I.B.A., London, who restored several churches in North Wales, and whose daughter, Charlotte Elizabeth, he married. He started practice as an architect at Bangor about 1891, and became
HUGHES, HOWEL HARRIS (1873 - 1956), minister (Presb.), principal of the Theological College, Aberystwyth Born 7 September 1873, in Brynteg, Llanfair Mathafarn Eithaf, Anglesey, son of J. Richard Hughes, a Presb. minister, and Jane his wife. He was educated at Beaumaris grammar school, the University College, Bangor (where he graduated B.A.), and the Theological College, Bala (where he graduated in theology-one of the first two to receive a B.D. degree of the University of Wales). He was ordained in
HUGHES, JOHN (1796 - 1860), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Born at Adwy'r Clawdd near Wrexham 11 February 1796, son of Hugh (a carpenter) and Mary Hughes, and grandson of Richard Hughes, Sarffle, Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog; he was thus a brother of the Wrexham printer Richard Hughes, and a second-cousin of the poet John Ceiriog Hughes. He began preaching in 1813, and in 1815 began keeping school in various places; in 1819 he opened a school at Wrexham
HUGHES, JOHN RICHARD (1828 - 1893), Calvinistic Methodist minister and celebrated evangelist
HUGHES, JOHN WILLIAMS (1888 - 1979), Baptist minister and college principal paraphrase any expository comment that he felt was needed. At the end of each paraphrase he added a few notes on a small selection of striking words and phrases. In 1956, he wrote a brief biography of Timothy Richard, the Welsh missionary to China who had been a school friend of his mother's, and in 1956 he wrote another tribute to a missionary - his only English volume - Christy Davies : a Brief Memoir
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 to the series was published by Richard Prichard as a supplement to the Eurgrawn, 1872. Apart from these, much of his other work was published in the Eurgrawn from time to time. He also wrote his autobiography and, although this was never published, extensive use was made of it by W. H. Evans when preparing his 'Memoir' for the Eurgrawn.
HUGHES, PRYCE (c. 1687 - 1715), American colony planner Pryce Hughes of Llanllugan, Montgomeryshire, was the eldest of three sons and three daughters of Richard Hughes (1663-1700) of Frongoch, chief steward at Powis Castle, and Mary Pryce (1663-1700). The Llanllugan estate came to the Hughes family through this marriage. Pryce succeeded his father as agent to William Herbert, the second Marquess of Powis, while the latter was in exile as a suspected
HUGHES, RICHARD (1794 - 1871), printer and publisher Son of Hugh and Mary Hughes, Brynhaulog, Adwy'r Clawdd, Denbighshire. He received his early education at Evans's school, Minera, and afterwards worked at Kendrick's Bank in Hope Street, Wrexham. After a short period he left the bank to take charge of the accountancy at the Lower Bersham paper-mill. When Broseley the proprietor died shortly afterwards, Richard took over the paper-mill and
HUGHES, RICHARD (c. 1565 - 1619), poet , Carolau Richard Hughes, and Cymdeithas Llên Cymru, v-vi, Caniadau yn y Mesurau Rhyddion, where on p. 49 we have three stanzas of his ballad, ' Bywyd y Bugail,'; see Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, ii, 243, ' An Early Printed Welsh Ballad.' His work is also found in Cynfeirdd Lleyn, in Canu Rhydd Cynnar (T. H. Parry-Williams), and in Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies iii, 128
HUGHES, RICHARD SAMUEL (1888 - 1952), minister (Presb.), and college tutor

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