page_title: Hughes Memorial, Corris
section_title: Alfred W. Hughes
hierarchical_section_title: Hughes Memorial, Corris / Alfred W. Hughes
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Professor Alfred W. Hughes
context_page_description: The Hughes Memorial in Corris is a memorial obelisk commemorating Alfred W Hughes, who served as a surgeon in the Second Boer War. He died of fever in South Africa in 1900. In 2013, Professor Chris Williams of Swansea University described it as one of the most important objects in Welsh history.
context_section_description: Alfred W. Hughes was born on 31 July 1861 at Fronwen, his family's house at Garneddwen, between Corris and Aberllefenni. His father, Robert (1813–1882), was the manager of the Aberllefenni Slate Quarry. He had three brothers, Llywelyn, Charles (b. 1859) and Arthur (1857–1918) who married author Molly Thomas in 1897.
  Alfred trained as a draper in Dolgellau for a short time, then took a job as a clerk at Aberllefenni quarry. He then trained with a local doctor and in 1882 he went to Edinburgh University to study medicine. In 1889, he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1890, he was appointed Professor of the Edinburgh Medical College.
  In 1893 he became the first Dean of the School of Medicine at Cardiff University, where he founded an anatomical museum. In 1897, he was appointed the Professor of Anatomy at King’s College in London.
  In 1897, Hughes left King's College. He joined the British Army and from 1899 he served in the Boer War. He founded and ran the Welsh Hospital in Springfontein. While on service he contracted typhoid and died on 3 November 1900.
caption: Professor Alfred W. Hughes in 1895
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