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HUGHES, HUGH PRICE (1847 - 1902), Wesleyan Methodist minister Born 8 February 1847, son of John Hughes, surgeon, Carmarthen, and Anne his wife (grand-daughter of Samuel Levi Phillips). On his mother's side he was related to David Charles I and II. Educated at schools at Carmarthen and Swansea, he went to Richmond College, London, and graduated B.A. in 1869 in the University of London, taking his M.A. in 1884. His first charge was at Dover, and after
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, HYWEL STANFORD (1886 - 1970), cattle breeder, benefactor and Welsh nationalist Olwen Margaret Williams in Mile End chapel, London, with Thomas Charles Williams officiating. Born in London, she was the daughter of Owen Williams, Gwalchmai, Anglesey, one-time High Sheriff of that county and a prosperous London draper. She was a niece of Sir Vincent Evans. Their four children continued to farm in Colombia. Hywel Hughes never sought Colombian citizenship preferring always to
HUGHES, ISAAC (Craigfryn; 1852 - 1928), novelist Born at Quakers' Yard, Glamorganshire, the son of Daniel Hughes, a cobbler. At the age of nine he worked at the Llancaiach Colliery, Gelligaer, but later left the colliery for six months schooling at the school held by Thomas Evans at the Carpenters Arms. In his youth, he was noted as a poet and contributed to Welsh magazines and periodicals. In 1881, he achieved fame by writing a novel - Rhys
HUGHES, JANE (Deborah Maldwyn; 1811 - 1878), hymnist According to the copy of John Hughes's register of baptisms of Capel Uchaf Pontrobert (in the D. Teifigar Davies collection of MSS in N.L.W.) it appears that Jane Hughes was the third child (and third daughter) of John Hughes (1775 - 1854), Calvinistic Methodist minister, of Pontrobert, Montgomeryshire, and Ruth (Evans) his wife, and that she was born 25 June and baptised 2 July 1811 by Evan
HUGHES, JOHN (1775 - 1854), Calvinistic Methodist minister, author, and hymn-writer Born at Penyfigin, Llanfihangel yng Ngwynfa, Montgomeryshire, 22 February 1775. He was a weaver by trade but, after hearing Thomas Jones of Llanwnnog preach and after joining the Methodist Society at Penllys, he came to the notice of Thomas Charles of Bala and was appointed a teacher in his circulating schools. He lodged at one time at Dolwar Fach and it is known that in 1800 he was on friendly
HUGHES, JOHN (1776 - 1843), Wesleyan minister, and antiquary Born at Brecon 18 May 1776, the son of William Hughes, hatter, by his second wife Elizabeth Thomas, of Dan-y-cefn near Brecon; her father, John Thomas, is described on his tombstone at Llanspyddid (Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., iv, 159) as 'gent.'; he died 1757 aged fifty-five; her brother John Thomas (1752 - 1829), was an Oxford graduate (Foster, Alumni), and became vicar
HUGHES, JOHN (1814 - 1889), engineer and pioneer of iron-works in Russia the centre of the great industrial district of the Don Basin. In 1889 John Hughes died, and his work was carried on by his four sons, the second son, Arthur, supervising the works at Hughesoffka; it may be noted that he was married to Augusta James of Llanover by the poet-preacher, William Thomas (Islwyn, 1832 - 1878). In 1917, however, the Soviet Government took possession of industrial companies
HUGHES, JOHN (1896 - 1968), musician Chester cathedral. In 1921 he went to the University College, Aberystwyth, and after graduating in music in 1924 he stayed there an extra year to study Welsh literature under Thomas Gwynn Jones. He was president of Y Gymdeithas Geltaidd (the Welsh society) at college. He became organist and choir-master at Noddfa Baptist church, Treorchy, 1925-42, before being appointed music organiser for Meironnydd
HUGHES, JOHN (CEIRIOG) (Ceiriog; 1832 - 1887), poet o flaen Agrippa,' a Biblical poem written in the Miltonian style like so many of the Welsh poems of the first half of the 19th century. It was Creuddynfab, 'my most intimate dear valuable old friend and Tutor in poetry if I had one' (he writes in NLW MS 10193D) who taught him to change his style, to write lyrics in the manner of Robert Burns and Thomas Moore, and to sing of patriotism, country
HUGHES, JOHN (1615 - 1686), Jesuit translation in admirable Welsh of portions of the Gospels, together with catechisms on some of the distinctive teachings of the Roman Catholic church, prayers, etc. He also edited and was responsible for the printing of his father Hugh Owen's translation of Thomas à Kempis's De Imitatione Christi, under the title Dilyniad Crist, 1684.
HUGHES, JOHN WILLIAMS (1888 - 1979), Baptist minister and college principal Baptist Church in St Albans. A year later, in 1915, he married Margaret Evans, daughter of the Reverend Edward Evans, minister of Penuel Welsh Baptist church, Bangor. Three sons were born to them: Ieuan, Edward and David, the actor Hugh David. J. Williams Hughes suffered a severe bout of ill-health in 1918 and he was forced to abandon his ministry in St Albans, returning to Wales to an open-air life

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