HUGHES
,
HUGH MICHAEL
(
1858
-
1933
),
Independent minister
;
b.
13 Aug. 1858
, at
Llanllechid, Caerns.
, son of
Michael
and
Elizabeth
Hughes
. He was educated at the
Memorial College
,
Brecon
, and at
Aberystwyth
and
Cardiff university colleges
, graduating with first-class honours (
Wales
) in
1898
; in
1930
the university gave him a honorary
LL.D.
Ordained in
1886
, he held pastorates at
Old Tabernacl
,
Holyhead
;
Grove Street
,
Liverpool
; and
Ebenezer
,
Cardiff
, holding the
Cardiff
pastorate for almost forty years. He was a noted
preacher
,
educationalist
, and
writer on theological, political and social questions
. He was, for many years
editor
of
Y Tyst
, the
Welsh Congregational
weekly, and for twenty years
secretary of ‘Y Gronfa’
(
Welsh Independent Chapel Debts Fund
). He was
president
of the
Congregational Union of Wales
,
vice-president
of
Cardiff University College
, and sometime
chairman
of the committee of
Brecon Memorial College
. His publications were:
John Penry
;
Yr Iesu Sicr
;
Griffith John, arwr China
, and
Esboniad ar yr Ephesiaid
. He m.
Mary Ann
Howell
,
Aberystwyth
. He d.
15 Jan. 1933
at
Cardiff
.
Bibliography:
-
Who's who?
;
- personal knowledge.
Author:
Thomas Michael Hughes, (1888-1957), Aberystwyth
