About Hugh Price Hughes
Hugh Price Hughes was a Welsh Methodist clergyman and religious reformer. He served in multiple leadership roles in the Wesleyan Methodist Church. He organised the West London Methodist Mission, a key Methodist organisation today. Recognised as one of the greatest orators of his era, Hughes also founded and edited an influential newspaper, the Methodist Times in 1885. His editorials helped convince Methodists to break their longstanding support for the Conservatives and support the more moralistic Liberal Party, which other Nonconformist Protestants already supported. Their daughter Dorothea Katherine Price Hughes was one of the first women admitted to degrees at the University of Oxford, earning a BA and MA from Somerville College in 1920. In 1885, he founded the Methodist Times, and in 1887 he was appointed Superintendent of the West London Methodist Mission.
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