CARTER, HUGH (1784-1855), Welsh Wesleyan Methodist minister
[b. 15 June 1784]. He began to preach in 1802, entered the ministry in 1805, and ‘travelled’ in Wales until 1816, when he was transferred to the English work. He became a supernumerary in 1854 and d. at Northwich, 8 Sept. 1855. He was the first Welsh missionary to be stationed in Manchester; he was largely instrumental in erecting the first Welsh Wesleyan Methodist chapel in London; and his letters in Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd, 1829, are valuable sources for the early history of the denomination, for the first Wesleyan Methodist society at Denbigh met in the house of his father, Henry Carter.
Bibliography:
- A. H. Williams, Welsh Wesleyan Methodism, 1800-1858, 1800-1858, passim;
- Hugh Jones, H. Wesl. Gymr., i, 341-2;
- Minutes of Methodist Conferences, xiii, 194;
- [Enw. Cym.]
Author:
Albert Hughes Williams, M.A., (1907-96), Cardiff
