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FAMOUS AUTHOR DEAD.
a Brief sketch OF the Life and Services
or the Author of "Tom browns
school Days"-The Rugby.
Tenn, settlement.

London, March 24.-Thomas Hughes,
%. c., author of tom Browns School
Days" "Tom Brown at Oxford" etc.
and founder of the British settlement
OF Rugby. Tenn. is dead Mt the age OF
70 years.
fThomas Hughes was the second son OF
John Hughes. OF bennington PrIory. near
Ncwbury, Bcrks. and his mother was Mar
garet Elizabeth Wilkinson. lie was born
October 20. 1923. AT ufiigton. IN berkshire.
fn which parish his grandfather was vicar.
His father afterward removed TO Downing
ton Priory. In 1880 he was sent 10 school at
Iwyford, near Winchester. and at the end
OF the year 1888 he was removed 20 Rugby.
where me- studied under Dr. arnold. Thence
he proceeded TO Oriel college. Oxford,
where he took HIS Is. A. degree IN 1916. Pre-
vious 10 thar time he had turned his atten-
zion 10 political problems. and when he left
Oxford he was an advanced liberal. Ho
Wao called 10 the bar at Lincolns Inn ia
january. 1913. From 1856 10 1868 he was one
of the members IN parliament for Lambeth,
and returned for the borough OF Prone.
which he continued TO represent until jan
uary, 1874. At the general elections or Feb
ruary OF that year he was nominated as a
candidate for Marylebone but he retired
the day before the poll was taken, when
ri votes were recorded IA his favor Mr..
Hughes was appointed n queens coun-
sci In 1863, and In 1870 made tour OF the
United States. In July, 1852. he was APP
pointed Judge OF the county court, circuit
No. .. vacant by resignation. In lsf7 he was
married 10 Anne Frances Ford. eldePt
daughter OF Rev. James Ford, prebendary
or Exeter.
He finished tom Brown at Rugby I'm
1850 and his loss viii be monrned by every
man or boy who ever read Il. The popu-
tarity OF this book encouraged Mr. Hughes
20 continue his literary efforts. and The
Securing or the White Horse" appeared IN
ISIS and obtained a wide circulation. Three
years later appeared Tom Brown at OK
ford" and later "Rellgio Laici' In 1861. the
first OF a series OF Tracts for Priests and
People" afterwnrd reprinted "A Layman's
Faith" I'm 1863 THE Cause Of Freedom:
Which IL It's Champion in America. the
North or the South?' IN 1863. alfred tho
Great" In 1853; Memoir OF Brother" 81
1876: The Old Church: What Shall We DO
with It2' a volume directed against the
movement for the disestnblishmont OF the
Church OF England IN 1878 "A Memoir OF
Daniel Macmillan appeared I'm 1sS2. and y
preface TO ''Whitman's Poems" and edited
J. II. Lowelis '3lgiow Papers" In 1885,
s'Cone TO Texas: Letters From Our Boys. +"
IN 1886: Life of Bishop Frazier" 1884, ana
Livingstone" in 1882
The colony OF Rugby. Tenn, was orig
sfnaily founded by company OF New Eng
land capitalists IL was afterward trans
ferred 10 an English organization. possess
ing capital OF $250.000 who placed Il uii-
der the general superintendence OF Mr.
Hughes. The original purchase was OF 6o.-
900 acres on the Cumberland plateau, with
was begun In 1850, chiefly by English peo-
pie OF a better class. At the present time
a considerable portion OF the population
are Americana