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HUGHES, GAINOR (1745 - 1780), fasting woman tradition in north Wales. It is in these sources that we find contemporary information about her life; they may be supplemented by oral tradition as preserved many years after her death in the writings of Robert Edwards (Derfel Meirion; 1813-1889), a local Methodist stone-mason. Contemporary interest in Gainor Hughes centred on her fast of almost six years' duration, during which time she refused
HUGHES, GARFIELD HOPKIN (1912 - 1969), university lecturer and Welsh scholar Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales, the committee of the Bibliographical Society of Wales, the Methodist Praise Committee, and of the Methodist History Society. In 1952 he married Kathleen Jones, and they had one daughter. He died in Brompton Hospital, London, 16 September 1969, and was buried in Aberystwyth cemetery. The field of study which first attracted him was the scholarship and
HUGHES, HENRY (1841 - 1924), Calvinistic Methodist minister and historian Calfinaidd yn Nosbarth Eifionydd (Caernarvon, 1886); (2) Amddiffyniad i'r Methodistiaid Cymreig - a translation of T. Charles's Vindication (Caernarvon, 1894); (3) Robert Dafydd, Brynengan (Caernarvon, 1895); (4) Trefecca, Llangeitho, a'r Bala (Caernarvon, 1896); (5) Owen Owens, Cors-y-Wlad (Dolgelley, 1898); (6) Hanes Diwygiadau Crefyddol Cymru (Caernarvon, 1906); (7) Adgofion amy diweddar Barch. John
HUGHES, HUGH (Huw ap Huw, Y Bardd Coch o Fôn; 1693 - 1776), gentleman and poet Hysprydoli (Caerfyrddin, 1773), a translation of a work by David Tucker, and Rheolau Bywyd Dynol (Dublin, 1774), a translation of Robert Dodsley, The Oeconomy of Human Life; 'Deddfau Moesoldeb Naturiol. Wedi ei gyfieithu gan Hugh ab Hugh,' 1773, is listed in Rowlands, Cambrian Bibliography, but of this no copy appears to have survived. Letters to and from Hugh Hughes have been printed in Add. M.L. (index).
HUGHES, HUGH (1778 - 1855), Wesleyan minister Born at Llannor, Caernarfonshire, 1778. He worked as a gardener at Abererch and Liverpool where, through his brother Robert who was a lay preacher, he came into contact with the Wesleyans, joining their society in 1805, the year in which his brother Griffith entered the Wesleyan ministry. In 1807, he himself became a minister and worked the following circuits: Dolgelley (1807), Aberystwyth (1808
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 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, JAMES BILSLAND (Iago Bencerdd; 1831 - 1878), harpist Born at Ysgubor-gerrig, Trefriw, Caernarfonshire. The following is the record of his christening at Trefriw : ' James Bilsland Hughes, Son of Robert and Ann Hughes, February 23, 1831.' He showed a talent for music when quite young and learned to play the flute, violin, and harp, both the triple harp and the pedal harp. He constructed a harp for himself and played on it at an eisteddfod held at
HUGHES, JOHN (CEIRIOG) (Ceiriog; 1832 - 1887), poet life, and love, in a simple, natural and popular way. R. J. Derfel was responsible for teaching him to set store by the language, traditions and history of Wales. It was he who objected to English surnames; he added 'Derfel' to his own baptismal name and so became Robert Jones Derfel; he besought John Hughes to follow his example, but the latter was content to insert the name 'Ceiriog' between the
HUGHES, MICHAEL (1752 - 1825), industrialist Robert Peel. After the year 1797 he was buying land on an extensive scale, whilst from 1803 to 1806 he was engaged in building Sherdley House and in agricultural improvements. A very busy man - he was the partner of Thomas Williams in some of that very busy man's many concerns, and the friend of John Wilkinson - he managed also to find time to be one of the most active magistrates in the S. Helens area
HUGHES, ROBERT (Robin Ddu yr Ail o Fôn; 1744 - 1785), poet
HUGHES, ROBERT (1811 - 1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister not be left, especially after he married and had a growing family; he had to content himself with inquiring of students who called at his house what books were being used at Bala College, and acquiring the rudiments of Greek and Hebrew and Latin unaided. He had begun to preach in 1838 (the year of his marriage with Catherine Hughes of Gelli in Deneio near Pwllheli), and was a notable preacher; he

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