Frederic Boase
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HOYLES, Sir Hugh William (son of Newman Wright Hoyles, colonial treasurer of Newfoundland). b. St. John’s, Newfoundland, Jany. 1814; called to bar in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland 1837; member of assembly there 1848; acting solicitor general of Newfoundland 1854, attorney general and leader of the government 1861; chief justice of Newfoundland 4 March 1865 to 1880; knighted by patent 13 Feb. 1869. d. 18 Morris st. Halifax, Nova Scotia 1 Feb. 1888.
HUARD, Louis. b. in South of France 1813; studied at Antwerp; came to London 1854 and was connected with Illust. London news till his death; exhibited 2 figure paintings at British institution 1857; illustrated Souvenirs de la fête donnée aux artistes exposants 1849; Sir S. W. Baker’s Cast up by the sea 1869; A. and E. Keary’s The heroes of Asgard 1871 and other books. d. 37 Onslow sq. London 19 Sep. 1874. I.L.N. 10 Oct. 1874 p. 345, portrait.
HUBBACK, Catherine Anne (dau. of admiral Sir Francis Wm. Austen, G.C.B. 1774–1865). (m. 25 Aug. 1842 John Hubback 1811–85); author of The younger sister 3 vols. 1850; The wife’s sister 3 vols. 1851; Life and its lessons 3 vols. 1851; Malvern or the three marriages 3 vols. 1855; May and December, a tale 3 vols. 1855; The old vicarage 3 vols. 1856; Agnes Milbourne 2 vols. 1856; The Rival suitors 3 vols. 1857; The stage and the company 3 vols. 1858; The mistake of a life 3 vols. 1863.
HUBBACK, John (2 son of Joseph Hubback of Berwick-on-Tweed). b. Berwick-on-Tweed 1811; barrister I.T. 12 June 1835; author of A treatise on the evidence of succession to real and personal property and peerages 1844. d. Brislington, Somerset 24 Feb. 1885.
HUBBARD, John Gellibrand, 1 Baron Addington (1 son of John Hubbard, Russian merchant d. 1847). b. 21 March 1805; ed. at Bordeaux 1816–20 in his father’s business 1821; Russia merchant 4 St. Helen’s place, London; director of Bank of England 1838–41; chairman public works loan commission 1853 to death; M.P. Buckingham 1859–68; defeated lord Palmerston’s government in making a motion for an enquiry into the income tax 1861; M.P. city of London 1874–87; P.C. 6 Aug. 1874; F.R.G.S.; gave much attention to the income tax, the coinage, ecclesiastical affairs and education; built and endowed St. Alban’s ch. Holborn, consecrated 26 Feb. 1863; cr. baron Addington of Addington, Bucks. 22 July 1887; author of Vindication of a fixed duty on corn 1842; The currency and the country 1843; The church and church rates 1861, 2 ed. 1861; A census of religion. Denominational worship. The national church. Essays 1882; Gladstone on the income tax 1885 and 10 other pamphlets. d. Addington manor, Winslow, Bucks. 28 Aug. 1889. I.L.N. lxiv, 551, 552 (1874), portrait; Touchstone 5 April 1879 pp. 1–2, portrait.
HUBBARD, Thomas. b. 1789; framework knitter; obtained possession of some property in Nottinghamshire and under the impression that he was the heir at law retained the ownership 6 years, a will was then found giving the property to a person named Holland; Hubbard under the belief that the will was forged refused to give up the deeds of the estate, and in July 1856 was imprisoned for contempt of court; he remained in the debtors’ prison, Nottingham till his death 23 Jany. 1864. G.M. April 1864 p. 534.
HUBBARDE, James Dibden. b. 1803; proprietor of Wakefield Journal to 1850; connected with and editor of Hampshire Advertiser 1850 to death; president of Ornithological association; author of Pencil notes of five days’ tour from Wakefield to Matlock. By J. D. H. 1839. d. Wick cottage, Avenue road, Southampton 28 Jany. 1870. Newspaper Press 1 March 1870 p. 82; Hampshire Advertiser 29 Jany. 1870 pp. 4, 5.
HUCKIN, Rev. Henry Robert (son of John Huckin, fishmonger, Islington). b. 11 Oct. 1841; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1850–60, Andrew’s exhib. to St. John’s coll. Ox. 1860; B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867, D.D. 1874; assist. master at Haileybury 1865–8; a master at M.T. sch. 1869–74; head master Repton gram. sch. March 1874 to death; Townsend lecturer St. Magnus-the-Martyr, city of London 1871–3; ed. of Milton. Comus, Lycidas. With notes 1871; author of The analogy of religion. Dialogues founded upon Butler’s Analogy of religion 1873. d. Repton 30 July 1882.
HUDDART, Fanny (niece of Mary Amelia Warner the actress, d. 1854). A contralto singer, played the chief contralto parts in all the Italian operas and also in English operas, was the original Azucena when the English version of Il Trovatore was produced at Drury Lane May 1855; sang the contralto parts in Handel’s and Mendelssohn’s oratorios at Sacred harmonic society’s concerts; played the leading roles in Shakespearean dramas and modern comedies; (m. John Russell of Covent Garden theatre). d. 28 June 1880. Era 4 July 1880 p. 6.
HUDDLESTON, Sir John Walter (1 son of Thomas Huddleston, captain in merchant service). b. Dublin 8 Sep. 1815; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister G.I. 7 May 1839; was with Cockburn in Rugeley poisoning case 1856; Q.C. June 1857; bencher of his inn 4 Nov. 1857; contested Worcester 1852, Shrewsbury 1857 and Kidderminster 1859 and 1861; M.P. Canterbury 1865–8; contested Norwich 1870, M.P. 1874–5; counsel to the admiralty and judge advocate of the Fleet Nov. 1865 to 22 Feb. 1875; serjeant at law and justice of court of common pleas 22 Feb. 1875, transferred to court of exchequer 12 May 1875; knighted at Windsor castle 13 May 1875; created the last baron of the exchequer; judge of queen’s bench division of high court of justice 26 Feb. 1881; tried the libel action Belt v. Lawes lasting 43 days 1881–2; entertained by the French bar in Paris 1868. d. 43 Ennismore gardens, South Kensington 5 Dec. 1890, cremated at Woking 12 Dec. Pump Court, i, frontispiece and p. 135 (1884), portrait; Vanity Fair xxxv, 325 (1886); I.L.N. lxvi, 229 (1875), portrait; Graphic 13 Dec. 1890 p. 667, portrait.
HUDSON, Alfred. b. 15 Nov. 1808; ed. Dublin univ., M.B. 1834, M.D. 1861; M.R.C.S. England 1834; F.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1857, censor 1858–9; M.R.I.A.; physician Adelaide hospital, Dublin; a physician in ordinary to queen in Ireland 21 Jany. 1878; member of general council of medical education and registration of U.K. for Ireland 14 May 1877 to death; a contributor to Dublin medical journal and Dublin quarterly journal; author of Lectures on the study of fever 1867, new ed. 1872; edited W. Stokes’ A treatise on diseases of the chest 1882. d. Loweville near Dublin 19 Nov. 1880. Times 23 Nov. 1880 p. 6; Medical Times ii, 660 (1880).
HUDSON, Rev. Charles. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; chaplain in the Crimea 1854–6; C. of St. Mary’s, Bridgnorth 1856–7; V. of Shillington, Lincs. 1859 to death; the best Alpine amateur climber of his time, organized the party of 7 who ascended Mont Blanc without guides 14–15 Aug. 1855; author of An Ascent of Mont Blanc and two ascents of Monte Rosa 1856; Narrative of the accident on the Col de Miage in July 1861 in Peaks and Passes, i, 208–24 (1862); killed by a fall while descending the Matterhorn 14 July 1865. bur. Zermatt. E. Whymper’s Ascent of the Matterhorn (1880) 273–95; Times 20, 21, 22 July and 12 Aug. 1865.
HUDSON, Corrie. b. 1822; clerk in legacy and succession duty department of inland revenue office 1845–72, a principal clerk 1872 to death; author of A practical guide to the payment of legacy and succession duties 1867, 7 ed. 1888. A practical guide to making and proving wills and obtaining letters of administration 1876, 2 ed. 1878. d. 67 Bessborough st. Pimlico, London 6 Nov. 1880.
HUDSON, Very Rev. Edward Gustavus. Educated Dublin univ., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; dean of Armagh 1841 to death, patent dated 1 Sep. 1841, instituted 5 March 1842. d. Glenville, co. Cork 14 Aug. 1851.
HUDSON, George (son of a farmer and constable, d. 1806). b. Howsham near York, March 1800; apprentice to Bell and Nicholson, drapers, York 1815, a partner, firm became Nicholson and Hudson; originator and manager York banking co. 1833; chairman of York and West riding railway 1837, Newcastle and Darlington 1842, Midland 1843, Eastern counties 1846 and many other lines; known as the railway king; resided at Albert gate, Knightsbridge, London 1846–52 which he bought with sum of £15000 presented to him 1846; lord mayor of York 1837 and 1846; M.P. Sunderland 1845–59; many of his transactions in railway shares were of a questionable nature; the great fall in railway shares in 1847 ruined him; resided much abroad from 1852; committed to York castle by sheriff of Yorkshire for contempt of court of exchequer in not paying £23,989 5s., released 7 Oct. 1865; friends raised £4800 and invested it in an annuity for him 1868; entertained at a banquet in Sunderland 1869. d. 37 Churton st. Belgrave road, London 14 Dec. 1871. bur. Scrayingham, Yorks. 21 Dec. Evans’ Facts, failures and frauds (1859) 6–73; Lennox’s Celebrities I have known 2 Ser. i, 184–92 (1877); Fraser’s Mag. Aug. 1847 pp. 215–22; Richardson’s The mysteries of Hudson’s railway frauds (1850); Williams’ Midland railway (1877) 99–124, 132; I.L.N. 6 Sep. 1845 p. 157, portrait; Graphic 27 Aug. 1881 pp. 223, 229, portrait; Times 16, 22 Dec. 1871.
HUDSON, James. Assistant sec. to royal society 1829–38; secretary Royal agricultural society from its foundation 27 June 1838 to death. d. Norton terrace, Longsight near Manchester 28 June 1859 aged 55.
HUDSON, James. b. Aungier st. Dublin, March 1811; student R. Dublin soc. 1821; articled to a portrait painter Dublin; an actor in the provinces; appeared at Hawkins st. theatre, Dublin 1834; came out at Drury Lane as Gratiano in Merchant of Venice 1841; played King Alfourite in Planché’s Fortunio 17 April 1843; acted Rory O’More in The Irish Post at the Haymarket, expressly written for him by Planché 28 Feb. 1846; considered the successor of Tyrone Power (drowned in President 1841); made his American debut Walnut st. theatre, Philadelphia as Pandeen O’Rafferty in Born to good luck 15 Oct. 1849; played in New York 1850; appeared in a drawing room entertainment with Anna Thillon; retired from the stage 1858. d. 6 March 1878. bur. Highgate cemet. 9 March. Tallis’ Drawing room Scrap book (1851) 21–2; Theatrical Times ii, 233 (1847), portrait; Planché’s Extravaganzas ii, 179, (1879), portrait; Ireland’s New York Stage ii, 549–50; Era Almanack (1879) 39; Era 10 March 1878 p. 11.
HUDSON, Sir James (son of Harrington Hudson of Bessingby hall, Bridlington, Yorkshire). b. 1810; ed. at Rugby, Westminster, Paris and Rome; assistant private sec. to Wm. IV. 1830–37; resident gentleman usher to queen Adelaide 21 Nov. 1831; known as “Hurry Hudson” from the speed with which he travelled to Italy to summon Peel home 1834; sec. of legation at Washington 1838, at the Hague 1843, at Rio de Janeiro 1845; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Emperor of Brazil 14 May 1850, to Grand Duke of Tuscany 29 Aug. 1851, but did not proceed there; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to King of Sardinia 19 Jany. 1852 to 20 Oct. 1863 when he retired on a pension of £1300; C.B. 1 March 1851, K.C.B. 2 May 1855, G.C.B. 11 Aug. 1863. d. Strasburg 20 Sep. 1885 in 76 year. F. Ross’s Celebrities of Yorkshire Wolds (1878); Elliot’s Sir J. Hudson and Earl Russell 1886; Times 24 Sep. 1885 p. 7, cols. 3–5.
HUDSON, John Corrie (son of Thomas Hudson of the Stamp office). b. 1796; ed. St. Paul’s sch. 1804 etc.; an advanced liberal; chief clerk in legacy duty office, Somerset house?; friend of Horne Tooke, Godwin, Shelley, Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, T. Hood, and Hamilton Reynolds; author of A letter on the cruelty of employing children in sweeping chimneys in The Pamphleteer xxii, 407–30 (1823). d. April 1879. Athenæum i, 506 (1879).
HUDSON, ROBERT. b. 1801; F.G.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S., vice president; F.R.S. 10 April 1834; writer on Fossil shells, Mag. Nat. Hist. ix, 103–5 (1836); resided Clapham common. d. Bournemouth 9 Feb. 1883.
HUDSON, William Eliot (son of a professional man). An enthusiast about Irish antiquities and well known in Irish literary circles; took an active part in the publication of The Citizen, a monthly journal, Dublin 1840–1. d. south of Ireland July or Aug. 1853.
HUDSPETH, John. b. Manchester 21 Nov. 1806; apprentice in a mercantile house; an actor at Manchester and in Scotland and Ireland; first appeared in London at Pavilion theatre 1839; played at Strand theatre when William Copeland rechristened it Punch’s playhouse 1851; at Queen’s theatre, Tottenham court road 3 years; a favourite in David Dump in The Irish Rebellion. d. 2 Oct. 1866. Theatrical Times, iii, 357, 366 (1818), portrait; Era 7 Oct. 1866 p. 11.
HUE, Clement (son of John Hue, merchant, St. Heliers, Jersey). b. St. Heliers 1779; ed. at Abingdon and Pemb. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1801, M.A. 1803, M.B. 1804, M.D. 1807; fellow of his coll.; candidate of college of physicians 30 Sep. 1807, fellow 30 Sep. 1808, censor 1812, registrar 1815 to 4 Feb. 1824, Harveian orator 1829, elect 13 April 1835, consiliarius 1836; physician to Foundling hospital 1815–37, governor and vice pres. many years; physician to St. Bartholomew’s hospital 23 May 1823 to 1861; registrar of national vaccine establishment 1824 to death. d. 9 Bedford sq. London 23 June 1861. Munk’s College of physicians, iii, 66 (1878).
HÜFFER, Francis or Franz (son of a banker). b. Münster 22 May 1845; ed. at Münster, Leipzig and Berlin; Ph.D. Göttingen, July 1869; came to London 1869; assistant editor of The Academy about 1871; editor of the New Quarterly Mag. about 1876; musical critic to The Times, April 1879 to death; naturalised 18 Jany. 1882; edited The Musical Review 1883, The Musical World 1886; author of Richard Wagner and the music of the future 1874; The Troubadours: a history of Provençal life and literature in the middle ages 1878; Half a century of music in England 1889 and other books; edited a series of biographies of The Great Musicians 1881–4; wrote the libretti for A. C. Mackenzie’s two operas produced at Drury Lane, Colomba 1883 and The Troubadour 1885. d. 90 Brook green, Hammersmith 19 Jany. 1889. Grove’s Dict. of music, iv, 680, 819 (1888); Times 21, 25 Jany. 1889.
HUELIN, Rev. Elias. b. 1786; French protestant clergyman; owner of house property in London; assistant chaplain at Brompton cemetery; resided 15 Paulton sq. Chelsea; murdered and robbed by Walter Miller at 25 Wellington square, Chelsea 9 May 1870 and buried there. Walter Miller who had also murdered the housekeeper Ann Boss at 15 Paulton sq. was executed at the Old Bailey 1 Aug. 1870. Annual Register (1870) pp. 47, 95.
HUGGENS, John. b. 29 April 1776; founded Huggens’s college, 40 almshouses and a chapel at Northfleet, Kent which he himself superintended. d. Crown quay, Sittingbourne, Kent 11 Aug. 1865. bur. Northfleet churchyard.
HUGGINS, Hastings Charles. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1858; practised in Island of Nevis, Q.C. Nevis, solicitor general Nevis, speaker of House of Assembly; attorney general British Honduras 1861; stipendiary mag. British Guiana to death; author of The laws of Nevis from 1681 to 1861 inclusive, with appendices and index 1862. d. Georgetown, Demerara 27 March 1883.
HUGGINS, Horatio James (eld. son of Horatio Nelson Huggins of the island of St. Vincent). b. 1811; barrister L.I. 1838; acting attorney general St. Vincent 1857 and 1858; Queen’s advocate at Sierra Leone 9 May 1863 to 1880, chief justice there 1876 to 1880; manufacturer of bottle washing machines at Pentonville and Hornsey 1881, bankrupt 18 Feb. 1882. d. Staplehay, Hornsey 20 Jany. 1886. bur. Bedford cemetery.
HUGGINS, Samuel. b. Deal, Kent 1811; lived at Liverpool most of his life; an architect from 1846; member of Liverpool Architectural Soc. 1849, president 1856–8, read a paper On so-called restorations of our cathedral and abbey churches 1871 which led to formation of Soc. for protection of ancient buildings 1877; published Chart of the history of architecture 1863; compiled Catalogue of the Liverpool free public library 1872. d. Christleton near Chester 10 Jany. 1885. Biograph, i, 406 (1879).
HUGGINS, William (brother of the preceding). b. Liverpool 1820; member of Liverpool Academy; painter at Chester 1861 to death; his horses, cattle and poultry pictures were his best work; exhibited 31 pictures at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1842–75; exhibited many pictures at Liverpool, Manchester, Dublin, Edinburgh and Glasgow. d. Christleton near Chester 25 Feb. 1884. Biograph, Feb. 1882 pp. 217–23; Liverpool Mercury 28 Feb. 1884 p. 6.
Note.—His sister Sarah Huggins, a painter of flowers and fruit and then of architectural views in Chester and Liverpool, d. Liverpool, May 1869. The Builder 8 May 1869 p. 369.
HUGHES, Christopher (youngest son of Henry Hughes of Northampton, solicitor). b. Northampton 1815; articled to Hughes and Britten of Northampton, solicitors; admitted Trinity term 1837; clerk of the peace for borough of Northampton 1858 to death; translated The odes, epodes, Carmen seculare, and the first satire of Horace 1867. d. 60 Waterloo, Northampton 20 Oct. 1877. Law Times, lxiv, 53 (1877).
HUGHES, Rev. David. b. Cefn-uchaf, Llanddeiniolen, Carnarvonshire 1813; B.A., M.A.; member of Bethel independent church, Arfon, began preaching 1832; studied at Hackney coll. and Glasgow univ.; ordained 14 Sep. 1841, pastor of two small congregations in Flintshire; pastor at St. Asaph 1845, at Manchester 1846, at Bangor 1846 and at Tredegar, Monmouthshire 1 Nov. 1855 to death; author of Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol o Duwinyddol, i.e. A scriptural and theological dictionary 2 vols. 1852–55, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1876–9; contributed to the Gwyddoniadur or Welsh Cyclopædia; edited and enlarged An English and Welsh dictionary. By T. Edwards of Caerfallwch 1864. d. Tredegar 3 June 1872.
HUGHES, Edward. b. Ireland 1819; second master of lower school, Greenwich hospital 4 Nov. 1841 and head master of royal naval school there 1844 to death; A.I.C.E. 1848; F.R.A.S.; F.R.G.S.; author of A manual of explanatory arithmetic 1849, 2 ed. 1855; Outlines of physical geography 1849, 5 ed. 1855; Geography for elementary schools 1851, new ed. 1873; Select English poetry 1851, 5 ed. 1856 and other school books. d. Greenwich hospital 30 July 1859.
Note.—His widow Sarah, youngest dau. of James Oliphant Bell, M.D., granted civil list pension of £100, 18 June 1863, she d. 9 Jany. 1884 aged 68.
HUGHES, Edwin (son of a steel toy manufacturer). b. Birmingham 2 Oct. 1813; member of Batty & Sons’ circus; the best polander performer in England, the first to introduce turning round on his head without holding; had a company of his own at Donnybrook fair two years; at Cheltenham established Hughes’ Great mammoth equestrian circus; appeared before the Queen at Drury Lane under A. Bunn’s management 22 April 1847; retired after nine seasons with a handsome fortune 1847; the first to drive thirty-two horses in hand; the first to introduce camels and elephants in harness. d. Welby house, Lower Norwood, Surrey 7 Dec. 1867. bur. Smithdown cemet. Liverpool 12 Dec. Era 22 Dec. 1867 p. 6; Frost’s Circus life (1876) 97, 216.
HUGHES, Edwin (eld. son of Edwin Hughes of The Farm, Smithdown road, Wavertree near Liverpool). b. Dublin 1 Feb. 1837; articled to Avison and Pritt of Liverpool, solicitors; admitted Jany. 1858; went to America, joined Federal army in which he became major; served under Garibaldi in Italy; a solicitor in Liverpool 1869 to death; captain 1 Lancashire artillery volunteers 21 Jany. 1874 to death; member of council of Financial reform association. d. 13 Elm vale, Fairfield, Liverpool 12 May 1879. bur. Smithdown cemetery, Liverpool. Law Times, lxvii, 105 (1879).
HUGHES, Fanny. b. 1843; educated for a singer; an actress in comedies and burlesques at Strand theatre when under Mrs. Swanborough’s management 1862–72; played Orozembo in L. S. Buckingham’s burlesque Pizarro, or the Leotard of Peru 24 April 1862; played Anne Boleyn in Wm. Brough’s extravaganza The field of the cloth of gold, produced 11 April 1868; (m. Edward Swanborough of the Strand theatre). d. 5 Neville st. Onslow gardens, London 12 Jany. 1888.
HUGHES, George Edward (1 son of John Hughes of Uffington, Berks.) b. Uffington 18 Sep. 1821; ed. at Rugby and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1849, D.C.L. 1850; stroke of Ox. univ. crew of 7 oars which beat Camb. crew of 8 oars 1843; a student of Lincoln’s inn 1848; member of college of doctors of law 12 Nov. 1850, practised in the ecclesiastical courts; member of Pen and Pencil club at Pau; violoncello player. d. Hoylake, Cheshire 2 May 1872. Memoirs of a brother. By Thomas Hughes (1873), portrait.
HUGHES, George Martin. b. Maidstone 1827; a solicitor; investigated Romano-British topography of the south of England; author of A history of Windsor forest, Sunninghill and the Great park 1890. d. Kingswick, Sunninghill, Berkshire 9 Sep. 1891.
HUGHES, Henry George (eld. son of James Hughes of Dublin, solicitor). b. Capel st. Dublin 22 Aug. 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar, Nov. 1834; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1844; bencher of King’s Inns 1850; solicitor general for Ireland 26 Sep. 1850 to Feb. 1852 and Feb. 1858 to July 1859; baron of court of exchequer July 1859 to death; contested Cavan 1855; M.P. for co. Longford 1856–7; author of Practice of the Court of chancery, Ireland. Dublin 1837. d. Bray, Wicklow 22 July 1872. Irish law times, vi, 404 (1872).
HUGHES, Hugh (son of Thomas Hughes). b. Pwllygwichiad. bapt. Llandudno 20 Feb. 1790; apprentice to an engraver in Liverpool; studied oil painting in London; exhibited 4 landscapes at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1827–51; spent 3 years at Meddiant working at his Beauties of Cambria 60 views published Carmarthen 1823, drew 58 of the views and engraved all of them; a printer at Carnarvon where he published Y Papur Newydd Cymraeg; expelled from Welsh Calvinistic ch. London for signing petition in favor of catholic emancipation 1828; joined the Independents, then the Plymouth brethren; had a controversy with Rev. Evan Evans and published pamphlets under name of Cristion 1832; author of Hynafion Cymreig, a work on Welsh antiquities. Carmarthen 1823 and other books in Welsh language. d. Great Malvern 11 March 1863. Red Dragon, May 1887 xi 457–66, 576 (1887).
HUGHES, Rev. Hugh (son of Mr. Hughes, deacon of independent church at Cororion). b. Cilgeraint, Llandegai, Carnarvonshire 1805; pastor of independent churches at Rhos-y-lan, Tabor, and Llanystymdwy, at Jackson st. Manchester, at Capelhelyg, Chwilog and Abererch in Carnarvonshire; set up a printing-press at Abererch and edited Yr Arweinydd a penny monthly many years; pastor of the new church at Bethel, Aberdare 1859 to death; competed frequently and successfully at Eisteddfods; most voluminous Welsh writer of his day; author of Rhesymeg. Wrexham 1856; d. Aberdare 8 Dec. 1864. J. T. Jones’s Geiriadur Bywgraffydol, i, 567–70.
HUGHES, Rev. Hugh. Educ. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1842, D.D. 1847; R. of St John, Clerkenwell, London 13 Dec. 1839 to death; author of Female characters of holy writ, in a course of sermons. 3 series 1845, 6, 7; The remarkable scenes of the bible 1860, new ed. 1879. d. 18 Chadwell st. Myddleton sq. London 1870.
HUGHES, Rev. James. b. Carlow, March 1810; R.C. priest June 1833; professor of natural philosophy St. Patrick’s coll. Carlow 1835–6; in charge of Carlow classical academy; C. of Maryborough; C. of Kilcock 1837; dean of coll. of St. Patrick’s 1841–55; administrator of Carlow parish 1855–8; priest in charge of Naas, Dec. 1858 to death; author of A practical exposition of the ceremonies to be observed at solemn mass. Dublin 1843; The ceremonies of low mass, 4 ed. 1858; The ceremonies of high mass; Pontifical ceremonies. d. Naas, May 1876. M. Comerford’s Collections of Kildare and Leighlin (1883) 229.
HUGHES, James Stannus. L.R.C.S. Ireland 1838, F.R.C.S. 1844, examiner in surgery, joint professor of surgery, sec. of council; M.D. Queen’s univ. 1864; surgeon Jervis st. hospital, Dublin; surgeon in ordinary to Dublin castle; edited Sir H. Marsh’s Clinical lectures 1869; author of On diseases of the prostate gland 1863, 2 ed. 1870, and of contributions to Dublin medical press and Dublin hospital gazette. d. 1 Merrion sq. west, Dublin 1 June 1884. Medical Times 7 June 1884 p. 771.
HUGHES, John (only child of Rev. Thomas Hughes, canon of St. Paul’s, d. 6 Jany. 1833 aged 77). b. 2 Jany. 1790; ed. at Westminster and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; author of the macaronic Oriel grace-cup song ‘Exultet mater Oriel’; author of Pompeii 1820, an ode; An Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone with etchings by the author 1822; Lays of past days 1850; edited The Boscobel Tracts 1830, 2 ed. 1857; published a song called The small coal man attacking Lord Durham, long attributed to Theodore Hook and R. H. Barham; wrote for the magazines under pseud. of Buller of Brasenose; celebrated in John Wilson’s Christopher in the tent in the Noctes Ambrosianæ. d. 7 Boltons, West Brompton, London 13 Dec. 1857. G.M. iv, 225 (1858); Miss Mitford’s Recollections (1859) 462–4.
HUGHES, Rev. John (son of Hugh Hughes of Adwy’r Clawdd near Wrexham, carpenter). b. Adwy’r Clawdd 11 Feb. 1796; a carpenter to 1815; began preaching in Calvinistic methodist church at Adwy’r 1813; kept a school at Wrexham to 1835; authorised as a regular preacher to visit all parts of Wales, Feb. 1821; ordained at Bala 17 June 1829; a flour merchant 1835–8; co-pastor of Welsh Calvinistic churches of Liverpool 1838 to death; author of History of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism 3 vols. Wrexham 1851–6 and other books in the Welsh language. d. Abergele 8 Aug. 1860. Sermons of Rev. John Hughes, with memoir and portrait (1862).
HUGHES, Ven. John (son of John Hughes of Llwyn Glas near Aberystwyth). b. 1787; C. at Llandrillo yn Rhôs near Conway 1811–17; P.C. of Aberystwyth 16 May 1827 to death; V. of Llanbadern-Fawr 14 June 1834 to death; preb. of Nantgunllo in Brecon coll. ch. to death; archdeacon of Cardigan 1859 to death; most popular preacher of Church of England in Wales; author of The domestic ruler’s monitor 1821; Ruth and her kindred 1839; Esther and her people. Sermons 1842 and other books. d. 1 Nov. 1860. J. Hughes’s Sermons with biography by his son. Liverpool (1864).
HUGHES, Most Rev. John (son of Patrick Hughes, farmer, d. 1837). b. Annalogham, co. Tyrone 24 June 1797; a gardener and day labourer in U.S. of America 1817–9; ed. at Mount St. Mary’s coll. Emmitsburg, Maryland 1819–26; ordained R.C. priest 1825; minister at St. Augustine’s 1825 and then at St. Joseph’s churches, Philadelphia, built ch. of St. John there which he served 1832; coadjutor to bishop John Dubois of New York Jany. 1838 and succeeded him as bishop 1842; founded St. John’s coll. at Fordham 1841; archbishop of New York 3 Oct. 1850 to death; one of the founders of the American coll. at Rome 1858; author of Controversy between Rev. Messrs. Hughes and Breckenridge on the subject “Is the protestant religion the religion of Christ?” Philadelphia 3 ed. 1833; The church and the world. A lecture 1850, and other theological works. d. New York city 3 Jany. 1864; remains removed from old cath. of St. Patrick to crypt beneath high altar in new cath. 30 Jany. 1883. Hassard’s Life of Most Rev. J. Hughes (1866), portrait; Clarke’s Lives of bishops of catholic church in U.S. ii, 73–125 (1872); Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 303–5 (1887), portrait; Complete works of J. Hughes. Ed. by L. Kehoe 2 vols. 1866.
HUGHES, John (youngest son of Thomas Hughes, civil engineer). b. Linlithgow near Edin. 1823; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; parliamentary reporter for Evening Sun, London 1842, for Times 1844, for Morning Chronicle, for Daily News, and for Times again to 1860; theatrical art critic for the Era; purchased the West Surrey Times, Godalming 1860 and removed it to Guildford where he edited it to his death. d. 18 High st. Guildford 2 Nov. 1868. The Newspaper Press 1 Dec. 1868 p. 18.
HUGHES, John (youngest son of William Hughes of Pen y Clawdd, Denbighshire). b. 1805; ed. at univ. of Edin.; barrister I.T. 3 May 1839; sec. to commission for settlement of claims of Portuguese government on British legion under Sir De L. Evans 1844–9; twice went to Sweden for Overend, Gurney & Co. and then to Copenhagen to claim money advanced before Danish-German war; a Welsh scholar and a writer on Cambrian archæology. d. 34 Abingdon villas, Kensington 11 July 1883. Law Times 28 July 1883 p. 249.
HUGHES, John, known as Ceiriog (youngest child of Richard Hughes). b. Penbryn, Llanarmon-Dyffryn Ceiriog, Denbighshire 25 Sep. 1832; clerk in an office in London road, Manchester 1849–65; stationmaster on the Cambrian railway at Llanidloes 1865, at Towyn 1870, at Trefeglwys 1871, at Caersws 1871 to death; won many prizes for poetry at Eisteddfods; the best lyric poet of Wales; author of Oriau’r Hwyr (Evening Hours) Ruthyn 1860, 2 ed. 1861 of which 25,000 copies were sold and of 7 other vols. of poetry 1862–88; wrote 50 songs for Brinley Richards’s Songs of Wales 1873, among them is ‘God bless the Prince of Wales.’ d. Caersws, Montgomeryshire 23 April 1887. Memoir of J. C. Hughes. By Llyfrbryf i.e. Isaac Foulkes. Liverpool.
HUGHES, John Charles. b. Hatton garden, London 23 Dec. 1789; appeared at Cheltenham 1806; manager Woolwich theatre; acted at Richmond; at Drury Lane 1818; good in old men and country clowns. Theatrical Inquisitor, Oct. 1818 pp. 251–3, portrait.
HUGHES, Right Rev. Joshua (son of Caleb Hughes of Newport, Pembrokeshire). b. Nevern, Pembrokeshire 7 Oct. 1807; ed. at Ystradmeirig gr. sch. and St. David’s coll. Lampeter; C. of Aberystwith 1830; C. of St. David’s, Carmarthen; V. of Abergwilly to 1846; V. of Llandingat 1846–70; D.D. Lambeth; bishop of St. Asaph 25 March 1870 to death, consecrated 8 May 1870; author of several charges, sermons and pamphlets, one of the latter on The University of Brecknock. By Veritas, was much discussed. d. Crieff, Perthshire 21 Jany. 1889. I.L.N. lvi, 449 (1870), portrait, and 2 Feb. 1889 pp. 135, 158, portrait.
HUGHES, Julio Henry (son of Henry Hughes, proprietor of Exeter theatre, and grandson of Mr. Hughes manager of Sadler’s Wells). b. in residence attached to Devonport theatre 1810; under scene painter at Vauxhall gardens; held a share in the Exeter, Devonport and Guernsey theatres; first appeared in London at Pavilion theatre under management of Mr. Gladstones; leading actor at the Surrey 1840–6; played at Princess’s 1847, at Sadler’s Wells. d. 11 Oct. 1872. Theatrical Times, ii, 129, 138, portrait.