HUGHES, DAVID (1785 - 1850), cleric and author

Son of Daniel Hughes, Trefilan, Cardiganshire. He was educated at Ystrad Meurig, and Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1806 and M.A. in 1809. In 1805 he began work as corrector, for the Oxford University Press, of the revised edition of the Welsh Bible which ultimately appeared in 1809; and in 1806 he was elected scholar of Jesus College. Ordained in the diocese of Oxford (?), he was in December 1808 instituted to the living of Hirnant, near Llangynog, Montgomeryshire, though he does not seem to have resided there. In November 1813 he was instituted to the rectory of Llanfyllin, where he lived till his death on 11 April 1850; he was buried at Llanfyllin. He is described as 'a distinguished character as a Mathematician, Hebrew and classical scholar, and a man of very superior piety.' He was a public examiner at Oxford, 1810-11.

Author

• Thomas Iorwerth Ellis, (1899 - 1970)

Sources

• T. R. Roberts, Eminent Welshmen: a short biographical dictionary of Welshmen... from the earliest times to the present (1908)
• Foster, Alumni Oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford
• D. E. Jenkins, Life of Thomas Charles (Denbigh 1908), ii, 597, iii, 99
• H. B. Thomas, A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph (1874)
• Acts of the bishop of St Asaph (in N.L.W.)

Further Reading

• Wikipedia Article: David Hughes

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q5235221

Published date: 1959

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