HUGHES
,
HENRY MALDWYN
(
1875
-
1940
),
Wesleyan minister and theologian
;
b. at
Trefeglwys, Mont.
,
17 Sept. 1875
, son of
John
Hughes
(
Glanystwyth
,
1842
-
1902
, q.v.)
. Educated at
Kingswood school
,
Bath
,
University College of Wales
,
Aberystwyth
, and
Didsbury Theological College
,
Manchester
, he graduated
B.A.
and
D.D.
at
London University
. He was ordained to the
Wesleyan
ministry in
1896
and was successively
minister
at
Bromyard
,
Birmingham
,
Southport
,
Wallasey
,
Edinburgh
, and
Clapham
(
London
). In
1921
he was appointed the first
principal
of
Wesley House
,
Cambridge
. His successful work there, in the face of many difficulties, was recognized by the university with the award of an honorary
M.A.
degree, and on his retirement from the post in
1937
the
Wesley House
authorities had his portrait painted by
Frank O.
Salisbury
. He was
Fernley Lecturer
in
1922
, and was the last
president
of the
Wesleyan conference
before the amalgamation of the
Wesleyans
with the other branches of the
Methodists
. His chief published works were
The Ethics of Jewish Apocryphal Literature
,
1909
;
Wesley and Whitefield
,
1912
;
Faith and Progress
,
1919
;
The Theology of Experience
,
1922
;
Wesley's standards in the light of today
,
1921
;
The Kingdom of God
,
1922
;
What is Atonement?
1924
;
The School of Life
,
1925
;
Christian Foundations
,
1927
; and
The Christian Idea of God
,
1935
. He also contributed to
R. H.
Charles
's
Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament
,
1913
, and to
Hastings
's
Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
. He m.
Marion Helen
, daughter of
R.
Taylor
,
Colchester
. He d. suddenly
20 Aug. 1940
.
Bibliography:
-
Who's who?
;
-
Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd
, Dolgellau
, 132 (
1940
);
- obituary notices;
- his own published works.
Author:
John James Jones, M.A., (1892-1957), Aberystwyth
