Men-at-the-Bar/Hughes, Thomas
Hughes, Thomas, F.S.A., Q.C., B.A., Oriel Coll., Oxon, 1845, from Rugby, judge of county courts (circuit No. 9) since July, 1882, M.P. Lambeth 1865-8, Frome 1868-74, a royal trades union commissioner 1867, 1874, president of Working Man's College, chairman of southern section of Co-operative Union, and sometime a member of the Reform League, sometime col. 19th Middlesex rifle volunteers, author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, Tom Brown at Oxford, The Scouring of the White Horse, a student of Lincoln's Inn 21 Jan., 1845 (then aged 25), went to the Inner Temple 18 and called to the bar there 28 Jan., 1848, Q.C. 23 June, 1869, bencher 31 May, 1870 (2nd son of John Hughes, of Donnington, Berks); born 20 Oct., 1820; married 17 Aug., 1847, Anne Frances, eldest dau. of Rev. James Ford, prebendary of Exeter.
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