John Hughes

(1790-1857)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hughes, John, 1790-1857 NRA: Hughes John (1790-1857) Author and Artist DNB: Hughes, John (1790–1857), author LBT ID: JoHughe1857 VIAF ID: 44478007 LOC ID: no95037964	B/BAP: 1790-01-02 DIED: 1857-12-13
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The son of Thomas Hughes, vicar of Uffington; educated at Westminster School and at Oriel College, Oxford, he wrote for the magazines and was the father of Thomas Hughes, author of Tom Brown's Schooldays.
REFERENCES TO John Hughes: Sir Walter Scott to Charles Scott, 22 October 1822 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ n1 Robert Southey to George Ticknor, 30 December 1824 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XII 1824 Found 1: ¶ n1 Chapter XI 1826 Found 1: ¶ 17 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXVIII. 1824-1825 John Gibson Lockhart to Mary Anne Hughes, 24 January 1853 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 22: 1850-53