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HUGHES, JANE (Deborah Maldwyn; 1811 - 1878), hymnist are written in too long and heavy a metre to be suitable for congregational singing. Of a total of some fifteen published works, mostly slight 16mos of from twelve to forty-eight pages, perhaps the most important are: Llyfr Hymnau (Carmarthen, 1846), Galargan am y diweddar Barch. Henry Rees, Liverpool (Carmarthen, 1869), Yr Epha lawn o ymborth ysprydol i bererinion Seion (Caernarvon, 1877), Telyn y
HUGHES, JOHN (1796 - 1860), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author - Calvinists of his presbytery doubted his orthodoxy. His chief motive in deserting his school for shop-keeping at Adwy'r Clawdd and afterwards (1838) at Liverpool had been the gaining of greater leisure for preaching; and soon after his removal to Liverpool it was arranged that with Henry Rees, he should be released from other cares to undertake the pastoral charge of the Calvinistic Methodist causes in
HUGHES, JOHN (Glanystwyth; 1842 - 1902), Wesleyan minister February 1902. He married Emily, daughter of the Rev. Henry Wilcox; Henry Maldwyn Hughes was their son. He edited Y Winllan, 1874-7; Y Gwyliedydd, 1890-2; and Yr Eurgrawn, 1897-1902. He also edited the new hymn book, 1900. He was the author of Arwrgerdd John Penri, Oesau Boreu y Byd, Bywyd Crist, Delw y Nefol (sermons), Esponiad ar y Colosiaid, and Cofiant Isaac Jones. He was the initiator of the
HUGHES, JOHN (1787 - 1860), archdeacon, Evangelical cleric, and writer , near Oxford. There, the students at the university, among them John Henry Newman, flocked to hear him. Returning to Wales, he became incumbent of Aberystwyth and, at the same time, curate of Llanbadarn-fawr, of which latter place he became vicar in 1833. His first task at Aberystwyth was to build the church of S. Michael's. Before that, however, he had been invited to succeed the popular evangelist
HUGHES, JOHN HENRY (Ieuan o Leyn; 1814 - 1893), Congregational minister and poet
HUGHES, ROBERT GWILYM (1910 - 1997), poet and minister with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist denomination those early years on the town of Mold. Gwilym Hughes received a call in 1961 to Penmount Chapel in Pwllheli, as the successor to the well known minister Reverend Morgan Griffith, and he stayed there until his retirement in 1981. At Pwllheli he became an ecumenical leader and had great satisfaction in pastoring to the children of Penrallt School, to the patients at Bryn Beryl Hospital and the Old
HUGHES, STEPHEN (1622 - 1688), early Nonconformist i'w Fab by Henry Evans. With three other men he translated John Bunyan's famous work and this was published in 1688 under the title of Taith neu Siwrnai y Pererin. It is evident that he did very much to help forward the plans of Thomas Gouge in regard to Wales whilst continuing to preach to the scattered congregations of Carmarthenshire and its surrounding district. He died at Swansea in 1688, his
HUGHES, WILLIAM (1849 - 1920), cleric and author numerous works the most important are his Life of Dean Cotton, 1874; Life and Letters of Thomas Charles of Bala, 1881, 1909; Life and Times of Bishop William Morgan, 1891; Recollections of Bangor Cathedral, 1904; History of the Church of the Cymry, 1894-1904; and the S.P.C.K. History of the Diocese of Bangor, 1911.
HUGHES, WILLIAM (bu farw 1600), bishop of St Asaph , Caernarfonshire, and of Dennington, before being consecrated bishop 13 December 1573. Under archiepiscopal licence, he held 'in commendam' livings up to the annual value of £150, having sixteen at various times, but not simultaneously. Reputed to have been guilty of gross negligence, extortion, and nepotism, in his management of the diocese, it is to his credit that he assisted William Morgan, translator of the
HUGHES, WILLIAM BULKELEY (1797 - 1882), Member of Parliament Inn, from which in 1824, he was called to the Bar. But while still actively engaged on the Oxford and Chester circuits, he came forward as Tory candidate in the Caernarvon boroughs election of 1837, and defeated captain Charles Henry Paget. Thus began his long parliamentary connection with this constituency, extending, but for a short hiatus between 1859 and 1865, over a period of nearly forty years
HUGHES, WILLIAM JOHN (GARETH HUGHES; 1894 - 1965), actor William John Hughes was born on 23 August 1894 at Halfway, Dafen, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, the elder son of John Elias Hughes, a tinplate boxer, and Ann Hughes (née Morgan). His father was an accomplished orator who won many prizes at local eisteddfodau. His younger brother was Brinley Hughes. The family subsequently moved to Princess Street, Llanelli. William John was educated at the Higher
HUGHES, MARGARET (Leila Megáne; 1891 - 1960), singer Choral Society, and in 1907 she made her first solo appearance singing ' Gwlad y delyn ' (John Henry). Soon afterwards she received her first contract to sing in a concert, in Abersoch, for which she received an acknowledgement of 15 shillings. One of those who heard her sing in that concert was Harry Evans, who prophesied that she would become a famous singer if she had a competent tutor. In the

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