Howel Harris Hughes

Howel Harris Hughes (7 September 1873 – 23 November 1956) was a Welsh theologian and Presbyterian minister.

[1] Hughes was born in Brynteg, Llanfair Mathafarn Eithaf in Anglesey in 1873, the son of Jane and the Rev.

He was educated at Beaumaris Grammar School followed by the University College, Bangor where he gained a Bachelor of Arts degree and the Theological College, Bala from where he graduated in Theology – one of the first two students to receive a Bachelor of Divinity (BD) degree from the University of Wales.

He was ordained a minister in the Presbyterian church in 1901 and served in Penmachno (1901 to 1903), Maenofferen in Blaenau Ffestiniog (1903 to 1907), Moriah in Caernarfon (1907 to 1909), and Princes Road in Liverpool (1909 to 1927).

[1] A powerful and highly regarded preacher,[citation needed] he was an influential minister in Presbyterianism in Wales, being appointed Moderator of the Association in the North in 1943 and of the General Assembly during World War II from 1939 to 1941.

The United Theological College, Aberystwyth – Hughes was Principal here from 1927 to 1939