Thomas Hughes

English lawyer, judge, politician and author

Thomas Hughes was an English lawyer, judge, politician and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown’s School Days (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended.

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Jane Senior

George Hughes

Arthur Hughes

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Anne Frances Ford

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Arthur Hughes

Lilian Hughes

Mary Hughes

Kari

About the Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes was an English lawyer, judge, politician and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown’s School Days (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861).

Hughes had numerous other interests, in particular as a Member of Parliament, in the British co-operative movement, and in a settlement–Rugby, Tennessee, USA–reflecting his values.