Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, HUGH (Huw ap Huw, Y Bardd Coch o Fôn; 1693 - 1776), gentleman and poet Of Llwydiarth Esgob in the parish of Llandyfrydog, Anglesey, a corresponding member of the Cymmrodorion Society and a friend of the Morrises. According to J. E. Griffith he was the son of Hugh Hughes and Margaret, daughter of David ap William Parry of Beaumaris, tanner, born 1 August 1693. About 1719 he married Ann, daughter of Edward Jones of Rhydyrarian, and they had several children; she died
HUGHES, HUGH (1778 - 1855), Wesleyan minister Wesley's 'Notes on the New Testament,' 1831. He wrote his autobiography which, after his death, was published under the editorship of his son-in-law, Isaac Jenkins. JOHN HUGHES, physician, coroner and J.P. for Carmarthen, father of Hugh Price Hughes, was his son; his daughter married Isaac Jenkins; his two other children died, one in infancy and one, Hugh, at the age of twenty-seven.
HUGHES, HUGH (Tegai; 1805 - 1864), Independent minister and man of letters Born at Llandygái, Caernarfonshire, 1805, the son of Thomas and Barbara Hughes, two Anglesey people who were ardent Independents. When the Cororion Independent chapel at Tre-garth, Llandygái, was closed down, he joined the Wesleyans at Shiloh, Tre-garth, and became a lay preacher. He never attended a day school and the only education he received was at the Cororion and Shiloh Sunday schools. He
HUGHES, HUGH (Cadfan Gwynedd, Hughes Cadfan; 1824 - 1898), one of the Welsh pioneers in Patagonia justice of the peace and, in 1875, governor of the settlement. He adopted the pseudonym Cadfan Gwynedd and was known in the colony as ' Hughes Cadfan.' He died 7 March 1898.
HUGHES, HUGH DERFEL (1816 - 1890), poet Born 7 March 1816 at Melin-y-Cletwr in the parish of Llandderfel, Meirionethshire, son of Hugh Hughes (died 1829) who was the miller there until 1822, when he moved to the village of Llandderfel. He worked on farms here and there for some years but eventually obtained employment as a weigher in the Penrhyn Quarry. He married in 1846 and settled at his wife's home, Pen-dinas, Tre-garth, near
HUGHES, HUGH JOHN (1828? - 1872), author and musician
HUGHES, HUGH JOHN (1912 - 1978), schoolteacher, author, editor and reviewer Hugh J. Hughes was born 18 August 1912 at Bwlch-gwyn, Garndolbenmaen, Caernarfonshire, the elder of the two sons of Thomas Hughes, farmer, and his wife Mary Jane (née Jones). (The brothers John Roberts, Llangwm, and Robert Roberts, Clynnog, eminent preachers with the Calvinistic Methodists in their day, were among his ancestors). He was educated at the council school Brynengan (1917-25), Pen-y
HUGHES, HUGH MICHAEL (1858 - 1933), Independent minister Born 13 August 1858, at Llanllechid, Caernarfonshire, son of Michael and Elizabeth Hughes. He was educated at the Memorial College, Brecon, and at Aberystwyth and Cardiff university colleges, graduating with first-class honours (Wales) in 1898; in 1930 the university gave him a honorary LL.D. Ordained in 1886, he held pastorates at Old Tabernacl, Holyhead; Grove Street, Liverpool; and Ebenezer
HUGHES, HUGH PRICE (1847 - 1902), Wesleyan Methodist minister Born 8 February 1847, son of John Hughes, surgeon, Carmarthen, and Anne his wife (grand-daughter of Samuel Levi Phillips). On his mother's side he was related to David Charles I and II. Educated at schools at Carmarthen and Swansea, he went to Richmond College, London, and graduated B.A. in 1869 in the University of London, taking his M.A. in 1884. His first charge was at Dover, and after
HUGHES, HUGH ROBERT (1827 - 1911) Kinmel, Dinorben,, genealogist Born 6 June 1827, son of Hugh Robert Hughes of Bache Hall, Cheshire, by his second wife, Anne, daughter of Thomas Lance of Wavertree Hall, Lancashire His grandfather, the Rev. EDWARD HUGHES, M.A. (1738 - 1815), was the first of the family to settle at Kinmel, an ancient seat of the Holland family (7), acquiring the estate through purchase at the end of the 18th century. He was the son of HUGH
HUGHES, HYWEL STANFORD (1886 - 1970), cattle breeder, benefactor and Welsh nationalist Born 24 April 1886, at Mold, Flintshire, youngest child and only son of Owen Hughes, minister (Meth.), and his wife, Elizabeth. His sisters were leading members of the suffragette movement, particularly Vyrnwy, who achieved prominence as a journalist and Daily Mail columnist under the pseudonym Anne Temple. Both she and her sisters, Morfudd and Blodwen, became friends of Mrs. Pankhurst. One of
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

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