Introduction

Biography

Hughes at­tend­ed Rug­by School and Or­i­el Col­lege, Oxford (BA 1845), and was called to the Bar in 1848.

Member of Par­lia­ment for Lam­beth (1865–68) and Frome (1868–74), he was ap­point­ed a Queen’s Coun­sel in 1869. He vi­sit­ed Am­er­ica in 1871, where he met his long cor­res­pond­ent and friend James Low­ell.

He al­so helped found the pub­lic lib­ra­ry in Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois, where a child­ren’s room was named af­ter him. In 180, he helped found an ideal­is­tic col­o­ny in Rug­by, Ten­nes­see, which last­ed about a de­cade.

Works

• Tom Brown’s School Days, 1856
• The Scour­ing of the White Horse, 1858
• Tom Brown at Ox­ford, 1861
• A Lay­man’s Faith
• RUGBY, TEN­NES­SEE: Be­ing Some Ac­count of the Set­tle­ment Found­ed on the Cum­ber­land Pla­teau, 1881