Hugh Price Hughes

, a key Methodist organisation today. He was a driver of social change and reform.

Biography

Hughes was born in Carmarthen, and was educated at University College London and the Wesleyan Theological College at Richmond. He married Katherine Hughes, who represented Sisters of the People [ [http://alexanderstreet6.com/wasm/wasmrestricted/doctext/S10010031-D0007.030.htm WASM Login ] ] In 1885, he founded the "Methodist Times", and in 1887 he was appointed Superintendent of the West London Methodist Mission. [ [http://www.wlm.org.uk/wlm_hist.htm West London Mission ] at www.wlm.org.uk] In 1896, he was elected first president of the National Free Church Council. He died in London.

Associated Activists in Social Change

* Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
* Mark Guy Pearse
* [John Greener Hallimond] according to "A Countess at the Bowery Mission," The Christian Herald And Signs Of Our Times,December 20, 1899, page 987: "Nine years ago, he [Hallimond] was connected with the great West London Mission, England, of which Rev. Hugh Price Hughes is Superintendent." This is repeated in "Great Heart of the Bowery: Leaves from the Life-Story of John G. Hallimond,late Superintendent of the Bowery Mission," Fleming H. Revell, NY: 1925. In the biographical forward by George H. Sandison of Christian Herald "Nine years before he came to America he was connected with the great West London Mission, of which Rev. Hugh Price Hughes was Superintendent" (page 13).

References

* [http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9311756 "Hughes, Hugh Price." Britannica Student Encyclopedia from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.]
* [http://www.wlm.org.uk/ChristopherOldstoneMoore.html Predicaments of Progressive Methodism]