John Hughes (1790–1857)
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John Hughes (2 January 1790 – 13 December 1857) was an English author.
Life
Born 2 January 1790, he was the only child of Thomas Hughes, D.D.,
About 1820 Hughes went to live at Uffington, but on the death of his father, thirteen years later, moved to
Works
Hughes's main publications were:[1]
- An Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone made during the year 1819, with etchings by the author, London, 1822, noted by Scott in the preface to Quentin Durward; and
- an edition of The Boscobel Tracts, Edinburgh and London, 1830; 2nd edit. Edinburgh and London, 1857.
Hughes was known as a scholar and linguist, draughtsman and wood-carver. He gained an Oxford prize for Latin verse, and recited an English ode when the
Views in the South of France (1825) engraved by William Bernard Cooke contained illustrations after sketches made by Hughes.[1]
Family
Hughes married, 14 December 1820, Margaret Elizabeth, second daughter of Thomas Wilkinson, of Stokesley Hall, Yorkshire; they had a family of six sons and one daughter. The second son was the author Thomas Hughes who wrote an account of the eldest son, George Edward Hughes of Donnington Priory, in Memoir of a Brother; it contains some of John Hughes's letters to his sons. The daughter became known as the administrator Jane Senior.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Hughes, John (1790-1857)". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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