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HUGH PRICE HUGHES (1847-19o2)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 860 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUGH See also:PRICE See also:HUGHES (1847-19o2)  , See also:British See also:Nonconformist divine, was See also:born at See also:Carmarthen on the 8th of See also:February 1847, the son of a surgeon . He began to preach when he was fourteen, and in 1865 entered See also:Richmond See also:College to study for the Wesleyan Methodist See also:ministry under the Rev . See also:Alfred See also:Barrett, one of whose daughters he married in 1873 . He graduated at See also:London University in 1869, the last See also:year of his See also:residence . He established in 1887 the See also:West London See also:Mission, holding popular services on See also:Sunday in St See also:James's See also:Hall, Piccadilly, when he preached from See also:time to time on the See also:housing of the poor, sweating, gambling and other subjects of social See also:interest . In connexion with this mission he founded a sisterhood to forward the social See also:side of the See also:work, which was presided over by Mrs See also:Hughes . He had started in 1885 the Methodist Tintes, and rapidly made it a leading See also:organ of Nonconformist See also:opinion . He was a born fighter, and carried the See also:fire and eloquence he showed on the See also:platform and in the See also:pulpit into journalism . He supported Mr W . T . See also:Stead in 1885, as he had earlier supported Mrs See also:Josephine See also:Butler in a similar cause; he attacked the See also:trade in See also:alcohol; was an See also:anti-vivisectionist; he advocated See also:arbitration; and his vehement attacks on See also:Sir See also:Charles See also:Dilke and Charles See also:Stewart See also:Parnell originated the phrase the " Nonconformist See also:conscience." He differed strongly, however, from a large See also:section of Nonconformist opinion in his See also:defence of the See also:South See also:African See also:War . He was See also:long regarded with some distrust by the more conservative section of his own See also:church, but in 1898 he was made See also:president of the Wesleyan See also:Conference .

He raised large sums for church work, amounting it is said to over a See also:

quarter of a million of See also:money . His energies were largely devoted to co-operation among the various Nonconformist bodies, and he was one of the founders and most energetic members of the See also:National See also:Council of the Evangelical See also:Free Churches . He had long been in failing See also:health when he died suddenly in London on the 17th of See also:November 1902 . See his See also:Life (1904) by his daughter, Dorothea See also:Price Hughes .

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