River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-03-26
FAMOUS AUTHOR DEAD.
Thomas Hughes Has Passed
Away, Aged 10.
A BRIEF Sketch of the Life and Services
of the Author of tom Browns
School Days"-The Rugby,
Tenn, Settlement.

London. March 24.-Thomas Hughes,
Q. c., author of TON Browns School
Days." tom Brown at Oxford" ETC.,
and founder of the British settlement
of Rugby, Tenn, is dead at the age of
73 years.
THOMAS Hughes was the second son OF
John Hughes, of bennington Priory, near
Newbury, Berks. and his mother was Mar
garet Elizabeth Wilkinson. He was born
October 70. 1923, at Uffigton, I'm Berkshire,
In which parish his grandfather was vicar.
His father afterward removed to Downing
ton Priory In 1880 he was sent to school at
Twyford, near Winchester, and at the end
of the year 1888 he was removed TO Rugby,
where he studied under DIR. Arnold. Thence
ne proceeded to Oriel college, Oxford.
where he took his b. A. degree In 1S45. Pre-
vious to that time he had turned his atten-
ton TO political problems. and when he left
oxford he was an advanced liberal. Ho
was called TO the bar at Lincoln's Inn In
January, lS4S. From 1865 to 1865 he was one
of the members In parliament for Lambeth
and returned for the borough of Frome,
which he continued to represent until jan
uary. 1874. At the general elections of Feb
ruary of that year he was nominated as a
candidate for Marylebone, but he retired
the day before the poll was taken, when
~ votes were recorded in his favor. Mr..
Hughes was appointed a queens coun-
sci In 1869. and In 1870 made a tour of the
United States. In July 1882. he was ap-
pointed judge of the county court. circuit
No. 3, vacant by resignation. In 1877 he was
married to Anne Frances Ford, eldest
daughter of Rev. James Ford. prebendary
of Exeter.
He finished Tom Brown at Rugby" in
1856 and his loss will be mourned by every
man or boy who ever read IL. The popu-
larity of this book encouraged Mr.. Hughes
20 continue his literary efforts, and THE
Securing of the White Horse" appeared in
1858 and obtained wide circulation. Three
years later appeared Tom Brown at OK
ford and later "Religio Laici' in 1861, the
first of a series of Tracts for Priests and
People" afterward reprinted "A Isayman's
Faith" In 1868. THE Cause of Freedom:
Which Is Its Champion In America. the
North or the South?" I'm 1862: ALFRED the
Great" in 1869; Memoir of Brother" in
1876: THE Old Church: What Shall We DO
With It?" a volume directed against the
movement for the disestablishment of the
Church of England i'm 1878. "A Memoir of
Daniel Macmillan" appeared in 1882 and n
preface to "Whitman's Poems," and edited
]. r. Lowells 'Biglow Papers" in 1859;
Gone to Texas; Letters From Our Boys"
in 1855; Life OF Bishop Frazier 1887, and
Livingstone in 1889
The colony of Rugby, Tenn, was orig
inally founded by company of New Eng
land capitalists. 1t was afterward trans
ferred to an English organization. possess
ing a capital of $3.50, 900, who placed 1t url-
der the general superintendent of Mr.
Hughes. The original purchase was of So
900 acres on the Cumberland plateau with
the refusal of $4,000 acres. Colonization
was begun in 1880. chiefly by English peo-
pie of q better class. At the present time
a considerable portion of the population
are Americans