Welsh preacher Daniel Hughes (1875-1972) filled his long life with challenge and controversy. He is one of the most remarkable characters of 20th-century Wales, yet surprisingly unknown. Though a maverick, his story is part of the history of the new political and theological ideas in Welsh life, not least the conflict between young Socialists and the mammoth Liberal establishment of pre-1914 Nonconformity.

A friend of the unemployed and Socialist intelligentsia alike - he was visited during his time in Detroit by Welsh statesman Jim Griffiths and in Machen by black singer and human rights activist Paul Robeson - he was a fearless champion of the underdog, though, perhaps, got carried away sometimes by the power of his own oratory. A polyglot and a cultured man of many interests, he succeeded in disturbing the waters almost everywhere he went..

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About the author

A native of Treherbert in the Rhondda Valley and a miner's son, the Revd Ivor Thomas Rees served Congregational and United Reformed Church pastorates in Port Talbot, Clapham, Manselton and Rochdale before retiring to Swansea in 1996.