CARTER
,
HUGH
(
1784
-
1855
),
Welsh Wesleyan Methodist minister
.
Born
15 June 1784
. He began to
preach
in
1802
, entered the ministry in
1805
, and ‘travelled’ in
Wales
until
1816
, when he was transferred to the English work. He became a supernumerary in
1854
and d. at
Northwich
,
8 Sept. 1855
.
He was the first
Welsh missionary
to be stationed in
Manchester
; he was largely instrumental in erecting the first
Welsh Wesleyan Methodist chapel
in
London
; and his letters in
Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd
,
1829
, are valuable sources for the early history of the denomination, for the first
Wesleyan Methodist society
at
Denbigh
met in the house of his father,
Henry
Carter
.
Sources:
-
A. H. Williams
,
Welsh Wesleyan Methodism, 1800-1858 its
origins, growth and secessions
(1935)
;
-
Hugh Jones
,
Hanes Wesleyaeth Gymreig
(1911–3)
, i, 341-2;
-
The Minutes of the Annual Conference
Methodist Church
, xiii, 194;
-
Thomas Morgan
,
Enwogion Cymreig (1700-1900)
(1907).
Author:
Albert Hughes Williams, M.A., (1907-96), Cardiff
