Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, JOHN (1827 - 1893), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 27 September 1827 in the Calvinistic Methodist chapel-house at Llannerch-y-medd, Anglesey, son of John and Ellen Hughes. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to a boot-maker and, in due course, became a master boot-maker. He was taught Greek by William Roberts (1784 - 1864) of Amlwch. His application to enter the ministry was considered at the Cemaes monthly meeting, 20 December 1847
HUGHES, JOHN (CEIRIOG) (Ceiriog; 1832 - 1887), poet . Derfel, Idris Fychan, and John Hughes - formed a small literary society, and the influence of the other three on Ceiriog is perceptible. He had, before going to Manchester, written lyrics for Baner Cymru and Y Greal and had edited the poetry column for the latter periodical. Robert Ellis (Cynddelw, 1812-1875) was the first to encourage him as a poet. In 1852 he won a consolation prize for a poem, 'Paul
HUGHES, MICHAEL (1752 - 1825), industrialist Robert Peel. After the year 1797 he was buying land on an extensive scale, whilst from 1803 to 1806 he was engaged in building Sherdley House and in agricultural improvements. A very busy man - he was the partner of Thomas Williams in some of that very busy man's many concerns, and the friend of John Wilkinson - he managed also to find time to be one of the most active magistrates in the S. Helens area
HUGHES, RICHARD SAMUEL (1855 - 1893), musician Born 14 July 1855 at Aberystwyth, son of Benjamin and Ann Samuel Hughes, who kept an ironmonger's shop near the town clock. He showed musical talent and could play the piano when he was only 5 years of age. When he was 10 years old he took the prize for piano-playing at the Aberystwyth eisteddfod of 1865, the adjudicators - Brinley Richards, Owain Alaw, and John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), giving him
HUGHES, ROBERT (Robin Ddu yr Ail o Fôn; 1744 - 1785), poet
HUGHES, ROBERT (1811 - 1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister accompanied John Jones of Tal-y-sarn on preaching-tours, and was remarkable not only for verbal wit but also for a pictorial style of preaching. Ordained in 1848, he was the unpaid pastor of a chapel (Babell) which he built in 1857. He died 3 May 1892. Robert Hughes was an exceptional man, and his autobiography (published with a selection of his sermons in 1893) is highly interesting. What emerges is an
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 Gwilym Hughes was born 17 August 1900 in Bethesda, Caernarfonshire, the second son of Robert John and Elisabeth Hughes. His father hailed from Waen Pentir, and his mother from Trefdraeth in Anglesey. His father worked in the Penrhyn Quarry, after the great strike (1900-1903), and he and his brother, Richard Môn Hughes, experienced at firsthand the poverty that followed the industrial conflict at
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
HUGHES, THOMAS (1854 - 1928), Wesleyan minister Wesleyaidd, 1927. He was elected to the Legal Hundred of his denomination (1910). He was also the means of establishing a fund to enable candidates for the ministry in his denomination to go to a Welsh university college. He edited Y Winllan, 1894-7, and Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd, 1912-28. He published Esboniad ar yr Actau; Ymneilltuaeth Eglwys Loegr; Cofiant John Evans, Eglwysbach (jointly with J. P. Roberts
HUGHES, WILLIAM (1838 - 1921), printer and publisher , in 1868, with Samuel Roberts ('S.R.') as its editor, and Richard Davies (Mynyddog) assisting him. He issued Y Dysgedydd for fifty-six years; he also published Dysgedydd y Plant, and Cronicl Bach J.R. for a period. He took an interest in public and religious affairs; he was an ardent Liberal, an alderman of the Merioneth county council, a justice of the peace, and was a deacon for fifty-five years

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