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HUGHES, JOHN (Glanystwyth; 1842 - 1902), Wesleyan minister ministry. He laboured at Treherbert (1867), Mountain Ash (1868), Cardiff (1869), Tre'r Ddôl (Aberystwyth circuit) (1872), Trefeglwys (Llanidloes circuit) (1873), Machynlleth (1876), Coedpoeth (1878), Caernarvon (1881), Llanrhaeadr Mochnant (1884), London (1886), Rhyl (1889), Manchester (1891), and Liverpool (Mount Zion) (1894). He was superintendent of the (Welsh) Wesleyan Bookroom in 1897. He died 24
HUGHES, JOHN (1850 - 1932), Calvinistic Methodist minister, author, and poet 1911 he was moderator of his denomination's General Assembly. Towards the end of his life he retired to Glamorgan; he died at Bridgend 24 July 1932, and was buried at Machynlleth. He was a powerful preacher, an excellent scholar, and an able writer. His chief literary works were Rhagluniaeth Duw mewn Anian ac mewn Hanesyddiaeth, 1886; The Sabbatical Rest of God and Man, 1888; Gwanwyn Bywyd a'i
HUGHES, JOSEPH TUDOR (Blegwryd; 1827 - 1841), boy harpist Born 27 October 1827 at Bala (?). A musical prodigy, he is said to have shown considerable talent before he was even 3 years of age. Before he was 8 years of age he had been given the bardic name 'Blegwryd' in the eisteddfod held at Llannerch-y-medd, Anglesey, 9 June 1835, and when he was about twelve he published British Melodies, with arrangements made by him for harp and piano. He astounded
HUGHES, JOSHUA (1807 - 1889), bishop ), 1871, and priest, at Llandaff, 1872. His only curacy was at Neath, 1872-7; he was vicar of Newcastle, Bridgend, 1877-84, and afterwards vicar of Llantrisant for twenty-one years. He married Blanche, daughter of Archibald Campbell, and had five children. Nominated in his fifty-eighth year to Llandaff, he was consecrated bishop on 1 June 1905. He retired 24 February 1931, after presiding over Llandaff
HUGHES, MICHAEL (1752 - 1825), industrialist wife) of part of the land on which the Parys mountain copper mine, Anglesey, was to be established a little later - see the articles on H. R. Hughes (1827 - 1911), Kinmel, and Thomas Williams (1737 - 1802), Llanidan. He married (1) 3 November 1788, Mary, daughter of the Rev. William Bellingham Johnson, Prescot, Lancashire, and (2) 21 January 1808, Ellen, daughter of John Pemberton, Sutton Place
HUGHES, RICHARD SAMUEL (1855 - 1893), musician ., also attained wide popularity. He wrote anthems and hymn-tunes, a cantata ('Bugeiliaid Bethlehem'), a string quartette (successful at the Wrexham eisteddfod of 1876), and a part-song for male voices (1888). He was a successful eisteddfod competitor (particularly for his solos and duets) and was also much in demand as piano accompanist. He died 3 March 1893 and was buried in Glanogwen burial ground
HUGHES, RICHARD SAMUEL (1888 - 1952), minister (Presb.), and college tutor was ordained in 1918, and was minister of Calfaria, Porth, Glamorganshire (1918-22), Fourcrosses, Llŷn, Caernarvonshire (1922-24), and Garreg-ddu, Blaenau Ffestiniog (1924-30). In 1930 he was called to Clwyd College, Rhyl, and remained there till he died, serving initially as a tutor (under the Rev. R. Dewi Williams), and thirteen years as principal. He left his influence on more than one generation
HUGHES, ROBERT (1811 - 1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister accompanied John Jones of Tal-y-sarn on preaching-tours, and was remarkable not only for verbal wit but also for a pictorial style of preaching. Ordained in 1848, he was the unpaid pastor of a chapel (Babell) which he built in 1857. He died 3 May 1892. Robert Hughes was an exceptional man, and his autobiography (published with a selection of his sermons in 1893) is highly interesting. What emerges is an
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, 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 JOHN (Adfyfr; 1853 - 1927), journalist six sons and six daughters. He died at Pontypridd, 24 October 1927, and was buried in Glyntâf cemetery.
HUGHES, THOMAS ROWLAND (1903 - 1949), poet and novelist also describes life in the Rhondda valleys during the Depression. At Christmas 1948, when he was very ill he published Cân neu Ddwy, a volume of poems. In 1949 the University of Wales awarded him the degree of D.Litt. honoris causa, and in the same year he was granted a civil list pension. He died 24 October 1949. The following summer an English translation of O Law i Law was published and it was

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