Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hughes, Griffith

by George Simonds Boulger

HUGHES, GRIFFITH (fl. 1750), naturalist, was perhaps the son of Edward Hughes of Towyn, Merionethshire, who was born about 1707, matriculated at St. John's College, Oxford, in 1729, and graduated B.A. and M.A. in 1748. He was rector of St. Lucy's, Barbadoes, and fellow of the Royal Society in 1750, when he published a 'Natural History of Barbados.' The work, a folio of 314 pages, with a map and twenty-nine plates, mostly by Ehret, was published by subscription. Hughes also contributed a paper 'Of a Zoophyton resembling the Flower of the Marigold' to the 'Philosophical Transactions' for 1743, xlii. 590.

[Foster's Alumni Oxonienses.]

G. S. B.