Education
Jesus College.
Jesus College.
He is primarily renowned in the present day for his novels about characters living and working in the slate quarries of northern Wales, but in his day he was just as well known as a poet. William Jones is his most famous novel. Hughes obtained a first class degree in English at the University College of North Wales in Bangor.
In 1928, he was awarded a scholarship by the University of Wales to study at Jesus College, Oxford, leading to a Bachelor of Letters degree in 1931 on "The London Magazine from 1820 to 1829".
His most important job was as a producer with the British Broadcasting Corporation in Cardiff. In his thirties he began to suffer from multiple sclerosis, and it was at this time that he began to write his most well-known works.
Foreign Children Storïau Mawr y Byd ("Great Stories of the World", 1936) Memoir by Edward Rees (1968) John Rowlands, T. Rowland Hughes (Writers of Wales series, Cardiff, 1975).