HUGHES, EDWIN HOLT: Methodist Episcopal bishop; b. at Moundsville, W. Va., Dec. 7, 1866. He . was educated at Ohio Wesleyan University (B.A., 1889) and the theological department of Boston University (S.T.B., 1892), and after being pastor of churches of his denomination at Newton Centre, Mass. (1892-96), and at Malden, Mass. (1896-1903), was president of De Pauw Univeralty, Greencastle, Ind., until 1908, when he was elected bishop, with his residence at San Francisco. In theology he terms himself "moderate-progressive," and has written Letters on Evangelism (Cincinnati, 1906).

HUGHES, HUGH PRICE: English Wesleyan; b. at Carmarthen, Wales, 1847; d. in London Nov. 17, 1902. He studied at University College, London (B.A., 1869), and at the Wesleyan Theological College, Richmond. He was pastor at . Dover, 1869-72; at Brighton, 1872-75; at Stoke-Newington, London, 1875-78; at Mostyn Road, London, 1878-1881; at Oxford, 1881-84; and at Brixton Hill, London, 1884,87. In 1887 he was made superintendent of the West London Mission, and carried the enterprise on with increasing success up to the time of his death, the three-year rule being suspended in his case by the Wesleyan Conference. On Sundays he preached to large congregations at St. James's Hall, the public center of the mission, and was recognized as one of the most popular preachers and platform speakers in England. For twenty years he was prominent in every important religious or semi-religious controversy. He was a leader of the Forward Movement aiming at social as well as individual salvation, and carried on with far-reaching effect crusades against drinking, gambling, musio-hall indecencies, and the inefficient state regulation of vice. From the beginning he was a leading spirit in the movement for the federation of the non-conformist church, and became president of the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches. He was president of the Wesleyan Conference in 1898-99, and for fifteen years was editor of the Methodist Times, the organ of the more advanced Methodists. He published The Atheist Shoemaker (London, 1889); The Philanthropy of God (1890); Social Christianity (1890); Ethical Christianity (1892); Essential Christianity (1894); and Morning Lands of History: A Visit to Greece, Palestine, and Egypt (1901).

Bibliography: A Life was written by his daughter, London, 1904; by J. G. Mantle, ib. 1901; and by A. Waiters, ib. 1907. Consult also: Hugh Price Hughes as we knew him, by the Dean of Westminster and others, ib. 1902.