[1] Born in 1831, he changed his surname to Hughes-Games to receive an inheritance, and matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford in 1848.
Following periods as curate at Doddleston in Cheshire and Holy Trinity, Manchester, Hughes-Games was vice-principal of York Training College from 1859 to 1861 then headmaster of the Liverpool Institute until 1865.
He was principal of King William's College in the Isle of Man[3] for the twenty years (1866–1886); and archdeacon of the island from then until[4] 1894 when he became vicar of Holy Trinity, Hull.
[5] Hughes-Games married Mary Helena Yates on 24 December 1859; they had ten children, several of his sons attending King William's College.
His eldest son, Joshua Hughes Wynn Hughes-Games (1860-1904) followed his father as a clergyman, serving as vicar at St Matthew's, Birmingham; Birling, Kent; and Birkenhead, as did his second son, Stephen Herbert Wynn Hughes-Games (1862-1923), chaplain to the Bishop of Sodor and Man, diocesan inspector of schools, and principal of Bishop Wilson Theological College, Isle of Man, as well as curate in several places.