Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, HYWEL STANFORD (1886 - 1970), cattle breeder, benefactor and Welsh nationalist Olwen Margaret Williams in Mile End chapel, London, with Thomas Charles Williams officiating. Born in London, she was the daughter of Owen Williams, Gwalchmai, Anglesey, one-time High Sheriff of that county and a prosperous London draper. She was a niece of Sir Vincent Evans. Their four children continued to farm in Colombia. Hywel Hughes never sought Colombian citizenship preferring always to
HUGHES, ISAAC (Craigfryn; 1852 - 1928), novelist Born at Quakers' Yard, Glamorganshire, the son of Daniel Hughes, a cobbler. At the age of nine he worked at the Llancaiach Colliery, Gelligaer, but later left the colliery for six months schooling at the school held by Thomas Evans at the Carpenters Arms. In his youth, he was noted as a poet and contributed to Welsh magazines and periodicals. In 1881, he achieved fame by writing a novel - Rhys
HUGHES, JANE (Deborah Maldwyn; 1811 - 1878), hymnist According to the copy of John Hughes's register of baptisms of Capel Uchaf Pontrobert (in the D. Teifigar Davies collection of MSS in N.L.W.) it appears that Jane Hughes was the third child (and third daughter) of John Hughes (1775 - 1854), Calvinistic Methodist minister, of Pontrobert, Montgomeryshire, and Ruth (Evans) his wife, and that she was born 25 June and baptised 2 July 1811 by Evan
HUGHES, JOHN (1775 - 1854), Calvinistic Methodist minister, author, and hymn-writer terms with Ann Griffiths; he corresponded a great deal with her from that time until 1805. He began to preach in 1802, was ordained at the Bala Association, 1814, and made his home at Pontrobert chapel house. In 1805 he married Ruth Evans, who was a maid at Dolwar, and it was he and his wife who saved for the nation the hymns and letters of Ann Griffiths. Uncouth in appearance and laboured in speech
HUGHES, JOHN WILLIAMS (1888 - 1979), Baptist minister and college principal Baptist Church in St Albans. A year later, in 1915, he married Margaret Evans, daughter of the Reverend Edward Evans, minister of Penuel Welsh Baptist church, Bangor. Three sons were born to them: Ieuan, Edward and David, the actor Hugh David. J. Williams Hughes suffered a severe bout of ill-health in 1918 and he was forced to abandon his ministry in St Albans, returning to Wales to an open-air life
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, PRYCE (c. 1687 - 1715), American colony planner released a few days later. This is the last reliable record of Hughes. His release coincided with the outbreak of a massive Indigenous uprising, the Yamasee War that killed hundreds of traders and frontier dwellers, including Thomas Nairne, and 'untold numbers of Native American warriors'. One of Hughes's indentured servants, Rowland Evans, inherited much of his American estate. The Hughes brothers
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, ROWLAND (1811 - 1861), Wesleyan minister Tydfil (1849), Crickhowell (1852), Manchester (1854), Liverpool (1857), and Denbigh (1860). He married Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. David Evans ' the first.' He died at Denbigh, Christmas Day 1861. In his day he was one of the outstanding preachers of Wales. He published a revised translation of John Wesley's commentary on the New Testament, a translation of a sermon by Thomas Jackson (Trefnyddiaeth
HUGHES, STEPHEN (1622 - 1688), early Nonconformist i'w Fab by Henry Evans. With three other men he translated John Bunyan's famous work and this was published in 1688 under the title of Taith neu Siwrnai y Pererin. It is evident that he did very much to help forward the plans of Thomas Gouge in regard to Wales whilst continuing to preach to the scattered congregations of Carmarthenshire and its surrounding district. He died at Swansea in 1688, his
HUGHES, THOMAS (Glan Pherath; 1803 - 1898), Calvinistic Methodist minister Association in September 1842. About 1864 he went to live to Penmorfa, Caernarfonshire, and, in 1883, to his daughter in Holyhead, where he died 5 August 1898. At the age of ninety-five he was a link with the past; he had heard John Evans of Bala (1723 - 1817) preaching; thus two lives bridged the greater part of two centuries. Thomas Hughes contributed some chapters of autobiography to Cymru (O.M.E
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

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