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HUGHES, STEPHEN (1622 - 1688), early Nonconformist Son of John Hughes, mercer, Carmarthen. We know hardly anything of his youth but it is possible that he attended Carmarthen grammar school. He received the living of Meidrym in 1654 and it has been said that he had been given the living of Merthyr (Carmarthenshire) earlier. He was a person of influence in the age of Cromwell.About 1658 he is found starting on the great work of his life - the
HUGHES, THOMAS (Glan Pherath; 1803 - 1898), Calvinistic Methodist minister Association in September 1842. About 1864 he went to live to Penmorfa, Caernarfonshire, and, in 1883, to his daughter in Holyhead, where he died 5 August 1898. At the age of ninety-five he was a link with the past; he had heard John Evans of Bala (1723 - 1817) preaching; thus two lives bridged the greater part of two centuries. Thomas Hughes contributed some chapters of autobiography to Cymru (O.M.E
HUGHES, THOMAS (1758 - 1828), Calvinistic Methodist minister building-contractor and built a number of chapels in Manchester and North Wales. He died 2 November 1828, aged seventy. A memoir (1829) of him and of his fellow-worker Thomas Edwards, by John Jones (1790 - 1855), includes some of his verse. His daughter Mary (who died 9 September 1860) married Richard Williams (1802 - 1842).
HUGHES, THOMAS (1854 - 1928), Wesleyan minister Wesleyaidd, 1927. He was elected to the Legal Hundred of his denomination (1910). He was also the means of establishing a fund to enable candidates for the ministry in his denomination to go to a Welsh university college. He edited Y Winllan, 1894-7, and Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd, 1912-28. He published Esboniad ar yr Actau; Ymneilltuaeth Eglwys Loegr; Cofiant John Evans, Eglwysbach (jointly with J. P. Roberts
HUGHES, THOMAS ISFRYN (1865 - 1942), Wesleyan minister Born 16 October 1865 at Clocaenog, Denbighshire, son of John Hughes, an enlightened layman and a strong theologian. He began preaching at the age of eighteen, was accepted for the ministry in 1887, and having studied for a term at the Handsworth theological college, he served the circuit of Abergele (1890), Llanfaircaereinion (1891), Rhyl (1893), Tywyn (1895), Coed-poeth (1896), Tre-garth (1899
HUGHES, THOMAS JOHN (Adfyfr; 1853 - 1927), journalist
HUGHES, WILLIAM (1838 - 1921), printer and publisher congregational music, is greatly in the debt of William Hughes. It was he who ventured to publish, after it had been rejected by other publishers, the work of John Ambrose Lloyd, viz. Aberth Moliant, Gweddi Habacu c, and almost all his anthems; he also published ' Ystorm Tiberias,' the oratorio by Edward Stephen (Tanymarian), besides several anthems by the same composer. He started a weekly newspaper, Y Dydd
HUGHES, WILLIAM (1757 - 1846), Independent minister, hymn-writer, and composer Second son of Hugh Jones and Jane Williams (widow) of Gadlys, Llanwnda, Caernarfonshire; he was christened 25 June 1757. He married Jane Jones, 20 February 1783, at Llanwnda, where too their son John was christened, 2 December 1784. He joined the Independents at Caernarvon when George Lewis was resuscitating Independency there, and in 1788 was set apart to be a lay preacher. After the departure
HUGHES, WILLIAM JOHN (1891 - 1945), school teacher and college lecturer Born near Penfforddelen, Y Groeslon, Caernarfonshire, 10 September 1891, son of John Owen and Ann Jane Hughes, but his parents moved to Nantlle soon after his birth. The father was a quarryman and later a slate inspector. He was educated at the council school, Nantlle. At an early age he proved to be a gifted child, and he had a remarkably successful career at the county school at Pen-y-groes
HUGHES, WILLIAM JOHN (1833 - 1879), musician and schoolmaster assisted John Roberts of Henllan with his collection of hymn-tunes called In Memoriam. He died June 1879 at Rhyl.
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, WILLIAM ROGER (1898 - 1958), cleric and poet Born 27 May 1898, son of John and Ann Hughes, Sain-y-gog, Llangristiolus, Anglesey. As a young man he worked for a few years in Liverpool. During World War I he served with the army in France and Egypt. He entered the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in 1922, and graduated in 1925. In the same year he was licensed as curate of Mold, moving to Holywell in 1929. In 1930 he was presented

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