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Death and obituary of owner, T H R Hughes


Source: Carmarthen Weekly Reporter 03/10/1902       Date: 1902
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Death of Mr. T. H. R. Hughes, Neuaddfawr. Mr Thomas Hugh Rice Hughes, of Neuaddfawr, Lampeter, died in a painfully sudden manner on Monday. Mr Hughes attended the Lampeter monthly market, and put up, as usual, at the Royal [Oak] Hotel (of which hotel he was owner), and afterwards attended to his business as usual. He proceeded to the railway station and purchased two trucks of coal and had various other dealings. Upon returning to the Royal Oak Hotel he asked the landlady for a drop of brandy, saying he felt a little pain in his chest. Mr Hughes then asked to see Mr Price Davies, and the latter upon making his appearance, observed Mr Hughes trembling, and he was just in time to hold him before he passed away. Dr E H Griffiths was called in within five minutes, and pronounced life extinct. Mr Hughes was well-known throughout Cardiganshire as a M.F.H. He was a deputy-lieutenant. for Cardiganshire, a justice of the peace for the county, chairman of the Lampeter Petty Sessional Division, member of the board of guardians of the Lampeter Union, and chairman of the Llanwenog School Board. The deceased gentleman was born on the 3rd of October, 1853, at Llwyngroes, Llanwnen, and was the son of Mr Thomas John Hughes, of Castelldu and Neuaddfawr, and his mother before marriage was a Miss Thomas, of Troedyrhiw, Llanwenog. He was an excellent type of a country gentleman, exceedingly popular, generous to a fault, kind to the poor, and easily approached at all times. He was devoted to the public service, and a man of the greatest integrity. As a county magistrate who knew the Welsh character and the customs and practices which obtain in West Wales he had no superior. He was thoroughly conversant with the language of his countrymen and with its literature. He was married to a daughter of the late Mr W Jones, J.P., Llwyngroes, who survives him.
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Royal Oak Hotel , High Street, Lampeter