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HUGHES, HUGH PRICE (1847 - 1902), Wesleyan Methodist minister strongest upholders of the 'Nonconformist conscience.' He married Mary Katherine Howard, daughter of the Rev. Alfred Barrett of Richmond College, who survived him with two sons and two daughters. He died in London, 7 November 1902.
HUGHES, HUGH ROBERT (1827 - 1911) Kinmel, Dinorben,, genealogist HUGHES of Lleiniog, Anglesey (1705/6 - 1773/4), who entered the service of Dr. Edward Wynne of Bodewryd as secretary and agent, and in the course of his career acquired sufficient means and standing to settle his three sons in positions of advantage. Thus Edward, the eldest, was married to Mary, daughter and co-heiress of Robert Lewis of Llysdulas, chancellor of Bangor, and in right of his wife came
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 still held in high esteem. In 1836 and 1838 he published four volumes of sermons. One of his boyhood companions was John Davies the missionary (1772 - 1855), this fact led him to publish Hanes Mordaith John Davies, 1827, and to edit Trefn Eglwysig Ynysoedd Mory Dehau (n.d.) - a series of letters addressed to him by his friend. He died 3 August 1854 and was buried at Pontrobert. His daughter, Jane
HUGHES, JOHN (1850 - 1932), Calvinistic Methodist minister, author, and poet Ddeffroad, 1899; Ysgol Jacob, 1899; and The Christian Consciousness ('Davies Lecture,' 1902). He published some books of original verse: Songs in the Night, 1885; Tristiora, 1896; and Dan y Gwlith, 1911, which includes his hymns. He also published an occasional elegy such as Fy Mam (undated), Marwolaeth y Saint, 1905, a commentary or two, and various articles to Y Drysorfa and the Traethodydd.
HUGHES, JOHN (1776 - 1843), Wesleyan minister, and antiquary father, however, was not pleased when the boy turned his back upon Anglican orders (for which his connections and education seemed to destine him) and insisted, in spite of his uncle's persuasions, on becoming a Wesleyan preacher (1796). In 1800, Hughes was sent out to the new Welsh Wesleyan mission in North Wales, under Owen Davies (1752 - 1830). His success there was surprising, in a bookish man who
HUGHES, JOHN (1796 - 1860), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Born at Adwy'r Clawdd near Wrexham 11 February 1796, son of Hugh (a carpenter) and Mary Hughes, and grandson of Richard Hughes, Sarffle, Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog; he was thus a brother of the Wrexham printer Richard Hughes, and a second-cousin of the poet John Ceiriog Hughes. He began preaching in 1813, and in 1815 began keeping school in various places; in 1819 he opened a school at Wrexham
HUGHES, JOHN EDWARD (1879 - 1959), minister (Presb.) and author 1899, and was ordained in 1907. He was minister at Engedi, Ffestiniog (1906-12), and at Horeb, Brynsiencyn and Preswylfa, Llanddaniel, Anglesey (1913). He married (1), 1907, Ada Davies, Aberystwyth, who died within a few years; (2), 1920, Mary Jones of Porth Amlwch; there was one son of the first marriage, and three sons of the second marriage. He died 10 April 1959 at Anfield Hospital, Liverpool
HUGHES, JOHN EVAN (1865 - 1932), Calvinistic Methodist minister and editor a well-known figure in his denomination. In 1915 he gave the ' Davies Lecture,' his subject being ' The priestly and the prophetic conceptions of religion.' In 1905 he was appointed editor of Y Traethodydd, a position which he held until the end of 1928, when an editorial board, of which he was chairman, was appointed. He wrote little himself; his tastes were those of a scholar and he remained a
HUGHES, JOHN GRUFFYDD MOELWYN (1866 - 1944), Calvinistic Methodist minister delivered the Davies Lecture on ' Worship ' in 1935 and was elected Moderator of the General Assembly for 1936. He was editor of Y Drysorfa from 1934 to 1938. He died 25 June 1944, a few months after his wife, and was buried at Llangadog. He came to prominence initially as a poet, publishing four volumes of poems at an early age. In the second of these his well-known hymns 'Pwy a'm dwg i'r ddinas gadarn
HUGHES, JOHN WILLIAMS (1888 - 1979), Baptist minister and college principal Cardiff, alongside the elderly Charles Davies. In 1936, after ten years as pastor of Tabernacl, he accepted an invitation to return to the Baptist College in Bangor as tutor in New Testament Greek and New Testament Studies, teaching also in Bangor University Faculty of Theology. He became Principal of the Baptist College in 1943. He served the College in Bangor until his retirement at the age of 71 when
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