Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, JOHN (1873 - 1932), composer of the hymn-tune 'Cwm Rhondda' Born 22 November 1873 at Dowlais, the eldest son of Evan Hughes. His parents removed to Holly Bush, Llantwit Fardre (Llanilltud Faerdref) in 1874; the father was deacon and precentor at Salem Baptist church there. John Hughes started work in a mine at 12 years of age, later became clerk, and finally was an official of the Great Western colliery at Pontypridd. He married (1905) Hannah Maria David
HUGHES, JOHN (1776 - 1843), Wesleyan minister, and antiquary of Caerleon (1784?-1829). John Hughes went (1778) to the school attached to Christ College, then under David Griffith (1726 - 1816). In 1790, he heard John Wesley (Eurgrawn, 1809, 445) at Brecon - the boy and his father were society-members; it should be noted that the (English) Wesleyans of the town were of good social and economic standing - see the articles on Bold, Churchey, and Coke. The
HUGHES, JOHN (Glanystwyth; 1842 - 1902), Wesleyan minister movement to establish a denominational newspaper, Y Gwyliedydd, 1877, and of the movements to get a Welsh Wesleyan Assembly, 1899, and to subdivide the North Wales Province, 1902. His was the second best pryddest at the national eisteddfod held at Aberystwyth while he was still studying at 'Jasper House,' the second best at the London national eisteddfod, 1887 the best, according to David Watkin Jones
HUGHES, JOHN (1850 - 1932), Calvinistic Methodist minister, author, and poet Born at Swansea in May 1850, son of David and Elizabeth Hughes. His parents moved to Cwmavon, Glamorganshire, where he was brought up. He began to preach in 1869 and received his training at Trevecka and at Glasgow University, where he graduated (M.A., 1876). He was ordained at the Llangeitho Association, 1877, and became a minister at Dowlais, Machynlleth, and Fitzclarence Street, Liverpool. In
HUGHES, JOHN GRUFFYDD MOELWYN (1866 - 1944), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 30 May 1866; son of Griffith and Elizabeth Hughes, at Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire. After leaving the board school he became a postman for a period, and then a clerk in a solicitor's office at Blaenau Ffestiniog. From there he went to Porthmadoc to the office of Messrs. William and David Lloyd George. He lived at the time at Pentrefelin and it was at Cedron chapel there
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, JOSEPH (Carn Ingli; 1803 - 1863), cleric and eisteddfodic poet Born on Palm Sunday 1803 at Parcau, Newport, Pembrokeshire, son of David and Hannah Hughes. He was educated at the Carmarthen, Cardigan, and Ystrad Meurig (1824) grammar schools and at S. David's College, Lampeter (1827). He was ordained deacon by the bishop of S. Davids, 1828, and priest, 1829. The only curacy he held in Wales was that of Llanfihangel Penbedw, Pembrokeshire. He was then
HUGHES, JOSEPH TUDOR (Blegwryd; 1827 - 1841), boy harpist all manner of audiences by his skill as a performer on the harp and concertina. He accompanied his father and brothers on a concert tour in various parts of the United States in 1840, performing in the White House (Washington), and in New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, etc. He died by drowning in the river Hudson, 12 May 1841. His brother, David Edward Hughes, is separately noticed.
HUGHES, MEGAN WATTS (1842 - 1907), vocalist the Gwent and Morgannwg musical festival of 1863, she was able to receive lessons from Miss Sarah Ada Gedrych, Cardiff, and Mills, the organist at Llandaff cathedral. In 1864 she went to the Royal Academy of Music, London, where she studied under Garcia. Owing to ill-health, however, she was not able to complete the course. In 1871 she married a London bank-official named Lloyd Hughes. Mrs. Watts
HUGHES, OWEN (d. 1708), attorney him by revivifying the claims of that ancient borough, and before the sleepy citizens of Beaumaris had awakened to the fact, he was M.P. for the borough and enjoyed the honour for three years (1698-1700). He amassed a large sum-total of lands and an inordinate sum of money, so that his last will gave new life to decadent estates and put them on their feet. Bodfan by Llandwrog went to Lloyd Bodvel
HUGHES, ROBERT (1811 - 1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 25 March 1811 at Bodgared, Llanwnda, Caernarfonshire; his father, a tenant-farmer who moved from holding to holding during the son's early life, finally settled at Moelfre Fawr, Llanaelhaearn, dying there at ninety-five. The boy had little schooling (he was for a while taught by David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri, 1759 - 1822), but gained local fame as a wood-carver. In 1830 he walked up to
HUGHES, ROBERT ARTHUR (1910 - 1996), medical missionary in Shillong, Meghalaya, north-east India, and an influential leader in the Presbyterian Church of Wales the Royal Southern Hospital. He was invited to be the John Rankin Fellow in Human Anatomy at the University before serving for two years at the David Lewis Northern Hospital as a tutor and surgical registrar. He was elected FRCS in 1937. He offered his services as a medical missionary with the Presbyterian Church of Wales on the Khasia Hills in north-east India. He was warmly accepted by the

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