Misplaced Pages

Eliezer Pugh

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
British philanthropist (1815–1903)

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources.
Find sources: "Eliezer Pugh" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2018)
The topic of this article may not meet Misplaced Pages's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.
Find sources: "Eliezer Pugh" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
(Learn how and when to remove this message)

Eliezer Pugh (28 June 1815 – 8 December 1903) was a Welsh cotton merchant and philanthropist.

Born in Dolgellau, Merionethshire (present day Gwynedd), in north-west Wales, he moved to the seaport of Liverpool, England in 1827 to improve his educational opportunities. He spent the rest of his life by the River Mersey, becoming a very successful cotton merchant and a generous supporter of the Welsh community. Pugh contributed £1,000 annually to religious causes, as well as supporting educational and missionary work.

A committed Christian, he contributed thousands of pounds anonymously to build the Chatham Street Welsh Calvinistic Chapel which today is part of the campus of the University of Liverpool. Together with his wife, Mary (née Mills), they were responsible for the missionary work among the poor at Kent Square.

Eliezer Pugh and his wife bequeathed his home, 16 Falkner Street, to the Presbyterian Church of Wales for the use of the Foreign Mission and the house became the offices of the Director and Staff of the Mission from 1904 to 1969, when the administration was removed to Cardiff.

Pugh was a leader at the Mulberry Street Calvinistic Methodist church and at Chatham Street for 43 years, a total of 46 years dedicated service as an elder of the Presbyterians. He died on 9 December 1903 after a life of service and philanthropy. He was regarded as one of the wealthiest Welsh-speaking Welshmen in the whole of Liverpool.

He died at his home 16 Falkner St. Liverpool and was buried at Toxteth Park Cemetery.

References

  1. Rees, D. Ben (2002). Vehicles of grace and hope: Welsh missionaries in India, 1800-1970. Pasadena, California: William Carey Library. p. 179. ISBN 978-0-87808-505-7. Retrieved 18 February 2011.
  2. Toxteh Park Cemetery Inscriptions M 24 PUGH. (G.G.481)


Flag of WalesBiography icon

This Welsh biographical article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories:
Eliezer Pugh Add topic