Obadiah Hughes
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Obadiah Hughes (1695–1751) was an English Presbyterian minister.
Life
Education
He was the son of George Hughes (died in November 1719), minister at Canterbury, and was born in 1695. His father was grandson of George Hughes, and son of Obadiah Hughes (died 24 January 1704, aged 64), who was ejected in 1662 from a studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, before taking his degree, received presbyterian ordination on 9 March 1670 at Plymouth, and ministered from April 1674 in London, and afterwards at Enfield.[1]
Obadiah Hughes the younger was educated by his father, by the dissenting tutor
Career
Though a non-subscriber at
Hughes's health failed him while he was still in his prime, and he died on 10 December 1751. Funeral sermons were preached by Samuel Lawrence of Monkwell Street, and John Allen of New Broad Street; that by the latter was published.[1]
Family
Hughes married a sister of Sir John Fryer, 1st Baronet, one of the presbyterian gentry, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1721. He adopted his wife's niece, Delicia Fryer, who married Joshua Iremonger and died in December 1744.[1]
Bibliography
Walter Wilson gives a list of fourteen separate sermons by Hughes published between 1726 and 1749, eight of them being funeral sermons, including those for Oldfield and Say. Others were:[1]
- A Sermon on the Anniversary of King George's Coronation, 1725
- The Salvation of God's People, 1745
- Peace attended with Reformation, 1749.
A nephew, Obadiah Hughes, son of John Hughes, minister at
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14086. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "The Surman Index Hughes, Obadiah (Surman index id: 14124)". Retrieved 10 May 2018.
External links
- Engraving of Obadiah Hughes the elder 1639–1704, engraved by James Caldwell
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Hughes, Obadiah". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.