Glyn Tegai Hughes (18 January 1923 – 10 March 2017) was a Welsh scholar, writer and literary critic.
From 1942 to 1946 he served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers and became Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at the headquarters of the land forces in South-East Asia.
[3] After the war, he attended University at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,[4] where he gained a Schol., MA, PhD.
In 1950 Hughes was a founding member of Undeb Cymru Fydd, an all-party organisation that was created to campaign for a parliament for Wales.
The campaign also involved the holding of public meetings at which Hughes was a regular platform speaker.
Although the petition was signed by 250,000 people he did not think that this truly reflected the degree of support in Wales for their own parliament and believed that a referendum on the issue in the 1950s would have been lost.
The overwhelming majority of Welsh MPs in the 1950s were Labour Party members who opposed the campaign.
In Hughes' absence, not only had Garner Evans managed to increase his majority, but the Liberals had slipped to third place.
However, his hopes of finally gaining the seat were dashed by the intervention of a Plaid Cymru candidate who split the Welsh nationalist vote.