PUGH, JOHN (1846 - 1907), Calvinistic Methodist minister, founder and first superintendent of the C.M. Forward Movement
Date of birth: 1846
Date of death: 1907
Spouse: Marie Pugh (née Watkins)
Parent: Ann Pugh
Parent: John Pugh
Gender: Male
Occupation: Calvinistic Methodist minister, founder and first superintendent of the C.M. Forward Movement
Area of activity: Religion
Author: Ieuan Phillips
Born at New Mills, Montgomeryshire, 29 January 1846, son of John Pugh, undertaker, and Ann, his wife. The family moved to Tenby, Pembrokeshire, in 1860. Pugh went to Trevecka college, 1869-72, and was ordained at the Association held at Swansea, 1872. He became minister successively of the English churches at Tredegar, 1872-81, Pontypridd, 1881-9, and Clifton Street, Cardiff, 1889-92. He married Marie Watkins of Pentre Farm, Raglan, in Zion Street chapel (B.), Abergavenny, 1875. In 1891 he started missionary work in English at Splott, Cardiff. In the General Assembly held at Machynlleth in 1892, this campaign was officially sanctioned, and John Pugh was called to Clifton Street (Cardiff) church to be its first superintendent. He was elected moderator of the South Wales Association in 1906. He died 24 March (Palm Sunday) 1907. While he was superintendent he started forty-eight mission-halls and a home for destitute women (Kingswood Treborth Home) at Cardiff. In order to ensure the necessary publicity he started a monthly of which, for many years, he was editor-in-chief - The Christian Standard, 1891-3; The Forward Movement Herald, 1897; The Forward Movement Torch, 1899-1904.
Author
- Reverend Ieuan Phillips, (1897 - 1969)
- T. R. Roberts, Eminent Welshmen: a short biographical dictionary of Welshmen... from the earliest times to the present (1908)
- Adgofion am John Pugh (Llandysul 1944), by his daughter Mrs. W. Watkin Williams (Llandysul)
- J.M. Jones and Abraham Morris, Hanes symudiad ymosodol y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd (Caernarfon 1931), 1931
- Howell Williams (Denbigh), The Romance of the Forward Movement of the Presbyterian Church of Wales (Denbigh 1949) (Davies lecture)
Sources
- Rev. John Pugh, Father of the Cardiff Evangelistic Movement, The Christian standard: the monthly magazine of the Cardiff Evangelistic movement, Vol. I, no.2, August 1891
Further Reading
Published date: 1959
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