Author: Hughes, George
Biography:
HUGHES, George (1788-1830: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 22 Sept. 1788 at St. Margaret’s, Stanford Rivers, Essex, the eldest son of John Hughes and his wife Charlotte Elizabeth. He was educated at Christ Church College Oxford (matric. 1807, BA 1811) and then entered the church. From about 1815 he was stipendiary curate at Walthamstow, Essex, and from 1827 he was curate of Horningsheath (Horringer), near Bury, Suffolk. He married Harriet Mary Ord (1788-1860) on 21 Jan. 1815 at St. Andrew, Greensted-juxta-Ongar, Essex. She was the only daughter of the antiquary, Craven Ord (1756-1832). They were married by her brother, Rev. Craven Ord (1785-1836). They went on to have at least seven children. He removed to Hastings, Sussex, around 1829, for the benefit of his health and died there on 17 Oct. 1830. His widow was left with seven young children and no resources of her own. However, she was well connected and efforts were made on her behalf. She managed to educate the children with one son going to Oxford and entering the church. She died in Ealing in 1860, leaving an estate of £1500 to her children, several of whom had predeceased her. His poetry was not very highly regarded in his day; it was thought to be too relentlessly religious. A volume of Sermons on Various Occasions (1821) was announced as published but no copy has been located. A sermon on the death of Princess Charlotte in 1818 is a minor contribution to that overworked genre. (ancestry.co.uk 19 Dec. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 19 Dec. 2022; CCEd 19 Dec. 2022; London Courier24 Jan. 1815; OUCH 23 Oct. 1830; GM Dec. Supp. 1830, 646; Essex Standard 7 Dec. 1860; New Times 26 Feb. 1821) AA
Other Names:
- the Rev. George Hughes