Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 SAMUEL (1888 - 1952), minister (Presb.), and college tutor Born 18 June 1888, in Tanycelyn, Rhostryfan, Caernarfonshire, son of Samuel and Mary Hughes. After the normal course in the village elementary school he worked for some years in a shop and then went to Clynnog School intent on the ministry. He won a scholarship to the University College, Aberystwyth (where he graduated B.A.), and graduated in theology in the Theological College, Aberystwyth. He
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 He and his twin brother, John Harris Hughes, were born at Oswestry on 3 December 1910, the sons of the Reverend Howell Harris Hughes, Welsh Presbyterian minister in the town, and his wife Annie Myfanwy Hughes (née Davies), a native of Garth, near Llangollen who served as a headmistress in Rhosllanerchrugog. The family soon moved to Bangor where their father was minister of Tabernacl chapel and
HUGHES, ROBERT GWILYM (1910 - 1997), poet and minister with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist denomination . Contemporaries with him at Friars included Dr Carl Witton-Davies, who brought into existence the Council of Christians and Jews; W. R. P. George, poet and solicitor, Huw Wheldon, head of BBC television, and Professor A. O. H. Jarman, who was Professor of Welsh at the University College of Wales, Cardiff. R. Gwilym Hughes was accepted as a student at Bangor university college in October 1928 and he often spoke
HUGHES, ROBERT RICHARD (1872 - 1957), minister (Presb.), and author , and was one of the four who formulated the Shorter Declaration of Faith and Practice in 1921. He was co-editor of Y Llusern for some years, and editor of Y Goleuad in 1931. He contributed articles to Y Goleuad and other periodicals of his denomination and published a standard biography of his old minister, John Williams, Brynsiencyn, in 1929. In 1931 he delivered the Davies Lecture, being an inquiry
HUGHES, THOMAS (1854 - 1928), Wesleyan minister , daughter of Samuel Davies II, chairman of the North Wales province. He was president of the Welsh Wesleyan assembly (1907); chairman of the second province of North Wales (1911-24); president of the North Wales Council of Evangelical Churches (1914-15); a member of the council of the University College of North Wales (1925-8); and one of the chief initiators of Llyfr Emynau'r Methodistiaid Calfinaidd a
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 MCKENNY (1832 - 1917), geologist both junior and senior members of the university. He married, 1882, Mary Caroline, daughter of canon G. F. Weston. He died at Cambridge, 9 June 1917.
HUGHES, THOMAS ROWLAND (1903 - 1949), poet and novelist summer of 1934 he was appointed principal of the Mary Ward Settlement, London, and in 1935 organiser of feature programmes for the B.B.C. in Cardiff. He won the chair at the Machynlleth national eisteddfod in 1937 for an ode ' Y Ffin ' and that of the radio national eisteddfod (which was to have been held at Mountain Ash) in 1940, on an ode 'Pererinion'. About this time he composed his drama, Y Ffordd
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
HUGHES, WILLIAM (1849 - 1920), cleric and author Born 11 February 1849 at Bangor, son of David Hughes, master mariner, and Elizabeth his wife. Educated at S. David's College, Lampeter, he was curate of Glasinfryn 1872-5, chaplain of the Welsh church at Chester 1875-80, and vicar of Llanuwchllyn from 1880 till his death there on 29 March 1920; he married Mary Thomas, and had several children. He was a most diligent historical writer; of his

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