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HOWELLS, MORGAN (1794 - 1852), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at the Breach, S. Nicholas, Glamorganshire, in May 1794, son of Morgan and Elizabeth Howells, who were members of the Tre-hyl Methodist society and communicated in Llanddiddan Fach church, where Howell Howells, the Methodist curate, officiated. He received a smattering of education in the local schools but his father died in 1807 and he had to go to Newport, Monmouth, to learn to be a
HUGHES, ARWEL (1909 - 1988), musician was performed at Sadler's Wells, and Serch yw'r Doctor (1960), to a libretto by Saunders Lewis based on Molière's play, L'amour médecin. Of his smaller scale works Gweddi (1944), for soprano, chorus and strings, became popular, as well as his setting of words by T. Rowland Hughes, 'Tydi a roddaist'. This setting was broadcast at the end of a feature programme about Wales in 1938, and was
HUGHES, CHARLES (1823 - 1886), publisher and county magistrate, moderator of his presbytery, president of the Wrexham Liberal association, and prominent in several other associations and companies. He married Catherine Lewis (1830 - 1867) [see Lewis, Sir J. H. ], of Penucha, Caerwys. His fine business acumen enabled him to enlarge the publishing business of Hughes & Son which his father had founded in 1820. He died at his home, Brynhyfryd
HUGHES, DAVID (1813 - 1872), Independent minister, and author ; there too he was buried. He was obviously of scholarly temperament; he assembled a large library, and many of the articles in Y Gwyddoniadur are by him. He published at Bangor in 1852 Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol a Duwinyddol - a 2nd edition of this appeared in two volumes, the 1st (1876) edited by John Peter, and the 2nd (1879) by Thomas Lewis (1837 - 1892). Hughes also published (1859) Elfennau
HUGHES, HENRY BAILEY (1833 - 1887), Roman Catholic priest Born at Caernarvon, 1833, where his father, Howell Hughes, was curate, afterwards rector of Trefriw (1833-9) and of Rhoscolyn, Anglesey (1839-48). Henry Bailey Hughes joined the Roman Catholic Church when he was about sixteen. He studied at the Dominican College in Lisbon and, after entering the priesthood, travelled as a missioner in Europe, Africa, and the United States. On returning to Wales
HUGHES, HUGH (Tegai; 1805 - 1864), Independent minister and man of letters ; and Dawn ar Bob Dyn. Tegai worked unceasingly as a preacher, author, and poet and may be justly regarded as a very notable example of a poor country boy who, lacking the advantages of birth and education, taught himself and acquired an honoured position among his contemporaries; Dr. Lewis Edwards praised his Gramadeg and 'J.R.' of Llanbryn-mair and Gwilym Hiraethog paid tributes to the excellence of
HUGHES, HUGH (Huw ap Huw, Y Bardd Coch o Fôn; 1693 - 1776), gentleman and poet Goronwy Owen and Lewis Morris in Diddanwch teuluaidd, Hugh Jones of Llangwm, 1763, and some religious verse by him, mainly in the free metres, appeared in Diddanwch, iw Feddiannydd (Dublin, 1773). Another cywydd may be found in Dewisol Ganiadau yr Oes Hon, 1759, and a carol plygain in Blodeu-gerdd Cymry, 1759. He also translated two, possibly three, books into Welsh. These are Deial Ahaz, wedi ei
HUGHES, HUGH MICHAEL (1858 - 1933), Independent minister University College, and sometime chairman of the committee of Brecon Memorial College. His publications were: John Penry; Yr Iesu Sicr; Griffith John, arwr China, and Esboniad ar yr Ephesiaid. He married Mary Ann Howell, Aberystwyth. He died 15 January 1933 at Cardiff, and buried at Cathays cemetery.
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, JOHN (1796 - 1860), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author 'nonconformist' type than was customary in those days, and he himself, later on, played a great part in the gradual weaning of his connexion from the conservatism, ecclesiastical and political, which had hitherto marked it; his influence on Henry Rees was important; and he lent his aid to men like Lewis Edwards and Roger Edwards. A memorial volume, by Roger Edwards and John Hughes, was published in 1864.
HUGHES, JOHN GRUFFYDD MOELWYN (1866 - 1944), Calvinistic Methodist minister that he began to preach. He was educated at Clynnog, Bangor, and Bala; and later, when minister at Cardigan, he went to Leipzig university where he graduated M.A., Ph.D. He was ordained in 1895. He married Mya, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Walter Lewis, Llangadog, and they had 6 children. He served ministries at Bethlehem Green, Neath (1894-96); Cardigan, (1896-1917); Parkfield, Birkenhead (1917-36). He
HUGHES, JOHN RICHARD (1828 - 1893), Calvinistic Methodist minister and celebrated evangelist . He started his career as a schoolmaster and for some time kept a school at Goginan, near Aberystwyth. There he dedicated himself to the ministry and, in 1851, was persuaded by Lewis Edwards to go to Bala College. After a short time spent as minister in Birmingham and at Cemaes, Montgomeryshire, he moved in 1859 to Bryn-teg, in Goronwy Owen's district in Anglesey, where he remained for the rest of

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