Obadiah Hughes

His father was grandson of George Hughes, and son of Obadiah Hughes (died 24 January 1704, aged 64), who was ejected in 1662 from a studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, before taking his degree, received presbyterian ordination on 9 March 1670 at Plymouth, and ministered from April 1674 in London, and afterwards at Enfield.

[1] Obadiah Hughes the younger was educated by his father, by the dissenting tutor John Jennings at Kibworth, and then at Aberdeen.

Having acted for some time as a domestic chaplain, he was ordained on 11 January 1721 at the Old Jewry, being then assistant to Joshua Oldfield, at Maid Lane, Southwark.

With Nathaniel Lardner and others he established a Tuesday evening lecture at the Old Jewry; he belonged also, with Jeremiah Hunt and others, to a ministers' club which met at Chew's Coffee-house, Bow Lane.

[1] Hughes married a sister of Sir John Fryer, 1st Baronet, one of the presbyterian gentry, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1721.