Background
Hugh Price Hughes was born on the 9th of February, 1847 in Carmarthen, United Kingdom.
Hugh Price Hughes was born on the 9th of February, 1847 in Carmarthen, United Kingdom.
Hugh Price Hughes was educated at the Wesleyan Theological College at Richmond and University College London.
Recognized as one of the greatest orators of his era, Hugh Price Hughes also founded and edited an influential newspaper, the Methodist Times. He served as the first superintendent of the West London Methodist Mission, a key Methodist organisation today. In 1885, he founded the Methodist Times, and in 1887 he was appointed Superintendent of the West London Methodist Mission.
In 1896, Hugh Price Hughes was elected first president of the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches, an organization he helped create. In 1898, he was elected President of the Wesleyan Methodist Church for a year-long term. He died at his home in London following a stroke.
Later, he extended this idea to the Nonconformist Free Churches as a whole. These ideas were expressed in his published sermons. As a reformer, Hughes was a leader for temperance and for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts.
Hugh Price Hughes was also a strong advocate for public, non-sectarian education and international peace. He strongly supported Gladstone's Irish Home Rule Bills. After the Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell was revealed to have committed adultery with Katherine O'Shea, Hughes declared that English Nonconformists would no longer support the Irish cause if its leader was a proven adulterer.
Hugh Price Hughes was married to Mary Katherine Howard.