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HUGHES, ROWLAND (1811 - 1861), Wesleyan minister Tydfil (1849), Crickhowell (1852), Manchester (1854), Liverpool (1857), and Denbigh (1860). He married Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. David Evans ' the first.' He died at Denbigh, Christmas Day 1861. In his day he was one of the outstanding preachers of Wales. He published a revised translation of John Wesley's commentary on the New Testament, a translation of a sermon by Thomas Jackson (Trefnyddiaeth
HUGHES, ROYSTON JOHN (BARON ISLWYN), (1925 - 2003), politician Roy Hughes was born on 9 June 1925 at Pontllan-fraith, Monmouthshire, the son of John Hughes, a coal miner, and Florence Tucker. While expecting her next child, Florence Hughes fell ill and Roy was taken, around the age of one, to the home of his paternal grandfather. Elizabeth Hughes, his aunt, took charge of the boy and he remained with her throughout his childhood. Although his education, at
HUGHES, SIÂN (1811 - 1878) - gweler HUGHES, JANE
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, T. ROWLAND - gweler HUGHES, THOMAS ROWLAND
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 (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 (1814 - 1884), Wesleyan minister Born at Llangynog, Montgomeryshire, 1814, son of Thomas Hughes, who was subsequently a lay preacher in the Llangollen circuit, and nephew of the Rev. Evan Hughes. He joined the ministry and worked in the Welsh circuits of Cardigan (1842) and Carmarthen (1844) and in various English circuits in England from 1846 to 1871. He died 31 January 1884 at Moreton. He published a number of books (e.g. The
HUGHES, THOMAS HYWEL (1875 - 1945), Congregational minister, theologian, and philosopher Born 10 July 1875, at Penclawdd, Gower, son of Daniel and Ann Hughes. According to the Rev. W. Glasnant Jones, Swansea, Hughes worked for a brief period as a shoemaker in Gowerton before becoming a student at Gwynfryn Academy, Ammanford. Educated at New College and London University where he graduated B.A., (1st class hons. in Philosophy) and B.D. (1st class hons. in Biblical Theology), he was
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 Born at Bridgend in 1853, son of the Rev. Thomas Hughes of Miskin village, Glamorganshire. He became a journalist and represented a number of English daily newspapers in Wales. Some of his articles on the Welsh magistracy and landlordism in Wales were re-published by the Welsh National Liberal Federation. At one time he was private secretary to Alfred Thomas, 1st baron Pontypridd, and he was the

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