Albert Hughes

Who was Albert Hughes?

Albert Edward Hughes was Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh from 1939 to 1950.

Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he was an Inspector of Education for the Diocese of Dublin, Rector of Rathfarnham and then Christ Church Leeson Park before ordination to the episcopate as the 10th bishop of the United Diocese.

Albert Edward Hughes was the son of John and Margaret Hughes who are buried in the graveyard at Rathmolyon, County Meath. His siblings were Arthur Charles Hughes, William Henry Hughes, Anne Hughes,John Maddoc Hughes, Archibald Hughes,Charles Clement Hughes and Edith Elizabeth Hughes. Their births are registered in the Registry of Births at Ardrahan, Co Galway.

He graduated from the old Royal University of Ireland in mathematics and mathematical physics in 1902 and afterwards entered Trinity College. He received the Divinity Testimonium in 1907 and took his MA degree in 1911, receiving the D.D. degree in 1939.

Following his ordination in 1907 he was appointed headmaster of Christ Church Cathedral Grammar School and curate of Drumconda and North Strand where he remained until 1911.