Recognised as one of the greatest orators of his era, Hughes also founded and edited an influential newspaper, the Methodist Times in 1885.

[5] His wife Katherine organised and led the innovative Sisters of the People, social work volunteers attached to the West London Mission.

[6] In 1893 he came to the aid of his sister Frances Hughes who had been employed as the head of the Women's hall of residence for Bangor University.

She found herself central to a national debate concerning her comments to Elspeth Rhys about her daughter's visits to a student named Violet Osborn.

[2] In 1896, he was elected first president of the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches, an organisation he helped create.

[7] Hughes rose as the leader of the "Forward Movement" in Methodism, which sought to reshape the Methodist Church as the moral and social conscience of Britain.

[13] Their daughter Dorothea Katherine Price Hughes was one of the first women admitted to degrees at the University of Oxford, earning a BA and MA from Somerville College in 1920.

In the biographical foreword by George H. Sandison of Christian Herald, "Nine years before he came to America he was connected with the great West London Mission, of which Rev.