Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-03-28
DEATH OF THOMAS HUGHES.
The Famous English Author and States.
man Passes Awny.

mhh Ehsses Away.
London, March 24.-Thomas Hughes,
Q. e., author of tom Browns School
Days" TON Brown ut Oxford" etc.,
and founder of the British settlement
of Rugby, Tenn, is dead ut the age of
73 years.
Thomas Hughes was the second son OF
John Hughes of bennington Priory, near
NewDury, Berks. and his mother was Mar
garet Elizabeth Wilkinson. He was borr,
october 20, 1923, at Uffigton in Berkshire
IN which parish his grandfather was vicar.
HIS rather afterward removed to Donniny-
ton Ioriory. In 1880 he was sent to school al
IWyford, near Winchester, and at the end
or 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-
tton to political problems, and when he left
oxford he was an advanced liberal. To
was called to the bar at Lincolns Inn in
january, 1&S From 1865 to 1868 he was one
OF the members In parliament for Lambeth,
ana returned for the borough of Frome
Whlch ne 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
2s4 votes were recorded in his favor. Mr.
was appointed u queens COun-
sci In 1869, and In 1870 made q tour of the
United States. In July, 1882, he was ap-
pointed judge of the county court circuit
NO. y, vacant by resignation. In 1S47 he was
married to Anne Frances Ford, eldest
daughter of Rev. James Ford, prebendary
of Exeter.
He finished TON Brown at Rugby" in
1856 and his loss will be mourned by every
man or boy who ever read 1t. The popu.
larlty OF this book encouraged Mr.. Hughes
10 continue his literary efforts, and THE
Securing of the White Horse" appeared in
1858 and obtained a wide circulation. Three
years later appeared tom Brown at OK
ford and later "Iseligio Laici'' in 1861, the
first of a series of Tracts for Priests and
People" afterward reprinted "A Layman' g
Faith" in 1868. THE Cause of Freedom;
Which Is Its Champion in America, the
North or the South?" in 1862; alfred the
Great in 1859; Memoir of a Brother" in
1876; ''The Old Church: What Shall We DO
With It?" volume directed against the
movement for the disestablishment of the
Church of England in 1873. "A Memoir OF
Daniel Macmillan" appeared in 1882, and Il
preface to "Whitman's POEMS" and edited
]. r. Lowelps "Biglow Papers," in 1859;
Gone to Texas; Letters From Our Boys" :"
in 1885; Life of Bishop Frazier" 1887, and
Livingstone" in 1882
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 $250,000, who placed 1t url-
der the general superintendence of Mr.
Hughes. The original purchase was of 50,-
900 acres on the Cumberland plateau, with
the refusal of 35O,0OO acres. Colonization
was begun in 1880, chiefly by English peo-
pie of a better class. At the present time
a considerable portion of the population
are Americana