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For other persons named Thomas Hughes, see Thomas Hughes (disambiguation). Thomas Hughes was an English lawyer politician and author Thomas Hughes may also refer to Thomas Hughes (dramatist, 16th century
Thomas Hughes, from an 1893 edition of The Law Gazette.
Thomas Hughes, from an 1893 edition of The Law Gazette.

Thomas Hughes (October 20, 1822 – March 22, 1896) was an English lawyer and author. Events 1740 - Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony Year 1822 (MDCCCXXII was a Common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Sunday of the Events 238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperor. Year 1896 ( MDCCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland 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. Tom Brown's Schooldays is a novel by Thomas Hughes first published in 1857 Rugby School, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, is a Co-educational Boarding school and one of the oldest public schools It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861). Tom Brown at Oxford

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Biography

Hughes was the second son of John Hughes, editor of the Boscobel Tracts (1830). Thomas Hughes was born in Uffington, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). Uffington is a Village and Civil parish in Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire) best known as the location of the Uffington White Horse Berkshire (ˈbɑːkʃə or /ˈbɑːkʃɪə/ say Baak-shuh/-sheer sometimes abbreviated to Berks) is a Home County in the South At the age of eight he was sent to Twyford School, a preparatory public school near Winchester, where he remained until the age of eleven. Twyford School is a preparatory school located in the village of Twyford, Hampshire. In February 1834 he went to Rugby School, which was then under Dr Thomas Arnold, a contemporary of his father at Oriel College, Oxford, and the most influential British schoolmaster of the 19th century. Year 1834 ( MDCCCXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Rugby School, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, is a Co-educational Boarding school and one of the oldest public schools Thomas Arnold ( 13 June 1795 &ndash 12 June 1842) was a British schoolmaster and historian head of Rugby School from 1828 Oriel College, located in Oriel Square, Oxford, is the fifth oldest of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England Though never a member of the sixth form, his impressions of the headmaster were intensely reverent, and he was afterwards idealized as the perfect teacher in Hughes's novel; but he excelled at sports rather than in scholarship, and his school career culminated in a cricket match at Lord's Cricket Ground. Cricket is a bat-and-ball team Sport that originated in England and is now played in more than 100 countries Lord's Cricket Ground (generally known as Lord's) is a cricket In 1842 he went on to Oriel, and graduated B. Year 1842 ( MDCCCXLII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common A. in 1845. He was called to the bar in 1848, became Queen's Counsel in 1869 and a bencher in 1870, and was appointed to a county court judgeship in the Chester district in July 1882. Queen's Counsel ( postnominal QC) &ndash known as King's Counsel ( KC) during the reign of a male sovereign  &ndash are Chester is the County town of Cheshire, England. Lying on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales, it is home to 77040

Hughes was elected to Parliament as a Liberal for Lambeth (1865–1868), and for Frome (1868–1874). The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s and a third party Lambeth was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Lambeth district of South London. Frome was a constituency centred on the town of Frome in Somerset. An avid social reformer, he became interested in the Christian socialism movement led by Frederick Maurice, which he had joined in 1848. Christian socialism generally refers to those on the Christian left whose politics are both Christian and Socialist and who see these two philosophies as John Frederick Denison Maurice ( 29 August 1805 - 1 April 1872) was an English theologian and socialist. He was involved in the formation of some early trade unions and helped finance the printing of Liberal publications, as well as acting as the first President of the modern Co-operative Congresses in 1869 and serving on the Co-operative Central Board[1]. A trade union or labour union is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages hours and working conditions forming The President of Co-operative Congress has been a prominent position in the British co-operative movement. The Co-operative Congress is the a national conference for the UK Co-operative Movement with the first of the modern congresses taking place in 1869 following Co-operativesUK is "the central membership organisation for co-operative enterprise throughout the UK " a co-operative federation Most notably, in January 1854 he was one of the original promoters of the Working Men's College in Great Ormond Street. The Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH is a medical institution specialising in the care of children

In 1880 he founded a settlement in America — Rugby, Tennessee — which was designed as an experiment in utopian living for second sons of the English gentry, although this later proved largely unsuccessful. Year 1880 ( MDCCCLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Rugby is an unincorporated community of about 85 residents in Morgan and Scott counties in the U Utopia is a name for an ideal community taken from the title of a book written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More describing a fictional Island in the While his original intent was unsuccessful, Rugby still exists and is on the National Register of Historic Places. It is currently pursuing National Landmark status.

A statue of Thomas Hughes at Rugby School
A statue of Thomas Hughes at Rugby School

In 1848 Hughes had married Frances Ford. They settled in 1853 at Wimbledon and whilst living there Hughes wrote his famous story, Tom Brown's Schooldays, which was published in April 1857. Year 1853 ( MDCCCLIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Wimbledon is a Suburb of London, part of the London Borough of Merton and located south west of Charing Cross.

Hughes also wrote The Scouring of the White Horse (1859), Tom Brown at Oxford (1861), Religio Laici (1868), Life of Alfred the Great (1869) and the Memoir of a Brother. Alfred the Great (also Ælfred from the Old English Ælfrēd ˈælfreːd (c His brother was George Hughes, whom the character of Tom Brown was based upon.

His daughter, Lilian, perished in the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912. Construction The Titanic was a White Star Line ocean liner built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland His other daughter Mary was a well known poor law guardian and volunteer visitor to the local poor law infirmary and children's home.

A statue of Hughes (pictured) now stands outside Rugby School Library. It has been noticed that although the sculptor has meticulously crafted a row of buttons on the right hand side of the statue's jacket, there are no corresponding buttonholes on the left hand side. Local folklore has it that when this omission was pointed out to the sculptor, a known perfectionist who suffered from depression, he was so dismayed that he was driven to commit suicide.

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  1. ^ Congress Presidents 1869-2002, February 2002, <http://archive.co-op.ac.uk/downloadFiles/congressPresidentstable.pdf>. Year 1884 ( MDCCCLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Year 1885 ( MDCCCLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1887 ( MDCCCLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1889 ( MDCCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1895 ( MDCCCXCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Retrieved on 18 October 2007 

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