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HUGHES, RICHARD SAMUEL (1855 - 1893), musician high praise. He spent about eighteen months at the Royal Academy of Music, London, returned to Aberystwyth for a while, and then went to Bangor to assist Roland Rogers, the cathedral organist. Returning to Aberystwyth he published his first solo - ' Wyt ti'n cofio lloer yn codi? ' and, shortly afterwards ' Y Golomen Wen.' He returned to London and remained there until he was appointed organist of the
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 Bethesda. When he was 4 his family moved to Lonbopty, Bangor where he was surrounded by Welsh-speaking families and the Lonbopty Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel which catered for all ages became his social centre. Gwilym Hughes was educated at the St Paul Junior School, Bangor where the headmaster T. J. Williams was a well known Welsh children's poet. Following educational reorganisation, he was
HUGHES, ROBERT RICHARD (1872 - 1957), minister (Presb.), and author Born 2 January 1872, in Pont Myfyrian, a cottage near the railway, not far from Brynsiencyn and Gaerwen, Anglesey, son of Thomas and Margaret Hughes. He was educated in Llanidan British school; St. John's School, Menai Bridge; Oswestry High School; University College, Bangor (where he obtained a B.A. degree of the University of London); and Bala College. He was brought up in Brynsiencyn church
HUGHES, ROWLAND (1811 - 1861), Wesleyan minister Born 6 March 1811 at Bala and brought up at Dolgelley. After a little elementary education he was apprenticed to a tailor but in 1830 was appointed a paid preacher at Merthyr Tydfil. In due course he was ordained and served as a minister in the following circuits: Caernarvon (1832), Beaumaris (1834), Liverpool (1836), Holywell (1838), Llanasa (1840), Liverpool (1843), Bangor (1846), Merthyr
HUGHES, THOMAS (1854 - 1928), Wesleyan minister , Caernarfonshire (1882), Bootle (1883), Birmingham (1884), Meifod (1886), Llanfairfechan (1887), Wrexham (1890), Tre-garth (1893), Shaw Street circuit, Liverpool (1896), Tregarth (1899), Mount Zion, Liverpool (1902), Shaw Street, Liverpool (1905), Bangor (1908), Llandudno (1911), Port Dinorwic (1914), Abergele (1918), and Llangefni (1921). He retired in 1924 and died 15 December 1928. He married in 1887 Blanche
HUGHES, THOMAS JONES (1822 - 1891), cleric and grammarian Born at Bangor, 11 June 1822. He was educated at Friars School, Bangor, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1840; he became a scholar of his college, and a wrangler. He took his B.A. in 1844 and his M.A. in 1847. He was ordained deacon by bishop Bethell of Bangor, 1 February 1846, and received priest's orders on 20 December in the same year. He was licensed to the curacy of
HUGHES, THOMAS ROWLAND (1903 - 1949), poet and novelist Born 17 April 1903, at 20 Goodman Street, Llanberis, Caernarfonshire son of William Rowland Hughes and his wife May, daughter of Thomas Morydd Owen. He was educated at Dolbadarn primary school, Brynrefail county school, and the University College, Bangor, where he graduated in 1925 with first class honours in English and Welsh. In September 1926 he became a teacher at the county school for boys
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
HUGHES, WILLIAM BULKELEY (1797 - 1882), Member of Parliament its absorption by the L.N.W.R. Co. It was he, moreover, who organised the banquet given to Robert Stephenson at the George Hotel, Bangor, in August 1851, to commemorate the opening of the Britannia tubular bridge. He was twice married: (1) in 1825, to Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Jonathan Nettleship of Mattersey Abbey, Northampton, and widow of Henry Wormald of Woodhouse, Leeds, and (2) to
HUGHES, WILLIAM JOHN (1891 - 1945), school teacher and college lecturer , 1904-08. He entered the University College at Bangor in 1909. He secured a high place in all his subjects throughout his course, and his name figured year after year in the list of students awarded scholarships for the excellence of their performance. He graduated B.A. in 1912 with second class honours in English, and gained a first-class Certificate of Education. In September 1912 he proceeded to
HUGHES, WILLIAM ROGER (1898 - 1958), cleric and poet Born 27 May 1898, son of John and Ann Hughes, Sain-y-gog, Llangristiolus, Anglesey. As a young man he worked for a few years in Liverpool. During World War I he served with the army in France and Egypt. He entered the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in 1922, and graduated in 1925. In the same year he was licensed as curate of Mold, moving to Holywell in 1929. In 1930 he was presented

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