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�70,000. When Hughes was raised to the peerage as Lord Dinorben by the Grey ministry the following month he recommended Leigh to his supporters at Wallingford. (The story was that Dinorben had offered his support in the first instance to
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the course of his life, Thelwall augmented the family estates by the lease of a moiety of the manor of Dinorben, in north-western Denbighshire; he also farmed from the Crown, jointly with Thomas Pennant of Bychton, mill rights in Dyserth,
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had profited from the development of Anglesey"s copper mines, in which his maternal uncles William Lewis Hughes, the future Lord Dinorben, and Owen Williams* held an interest, and also through their connection with his father"s half-brother, Lord Bulkeley of Baron
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in his place, after a contest, but his interest there was destroyed by the Reform and Boundary Acts. As Lord Dinorben, he remained loyal to his Whig friends. His private life was studded with tragedy, for he lost six of
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