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Author: Hughes, Thomas Smart

Biography:

HUGHES, Thomas Smart (1786-1847: ODNB)

The son of Sarah (Warden) and Hugh Hughes, who had married in 1783, he was born at Nuneaton, Warwickshire, on 25 Aug. 1786: his father was curate of Nuneaton and rector of Hardwick, Northamptonshire. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and at St. Johns, Cambridge (admitted 1803, BA 1809, MA 1811, Fellow 1811), where he had an outstanding academic record. He did some teaching but eventually took orders (deacon 1815, priest 1819) and collected several more or less lucrative livings, though he maintained his residence and some academic responsibilities at Cambridge for most of his life. He accompanied Robert Townley Parker of Preston (1793-1879) as travelling tutor 1814-17, an experience he drew on for Travels in Sicily, Greece, and Albania (1820) and one that shaped his later support for the cause of Greek independence. On 13 Apr. 1823 he married Maria Anne (according to the marriage record--not Ann Maria) Forster of Great Yarmouth, daughter of a clergyman; they had at least five children. He was a Fellow of Emmanuel College from 1817; Christian Advocate at Cambridge 1822-9; prebendary at Peterborough Cathedral from 1827; rector of Fiskerton, Lincolnshire, from 1832; rector of Hardwick from 1832; and perpetual curate of Edgeware, Middlesex, from 1846. His major literary works were an edition of the works of English divines in 22 vols. and a History of England that carried on the standard histories of Hume and Smollett from the death of George II to the present (1835-6). He died at the rectory at Edgeware on 11 Aug. 1847 after a few days’ illness and was buried on 19 Aug. at St. Margaret, Edgeware. His wife and at least one son survived him. (ODNB 1 Jan. 2023; ancestry.com 1 Jan. 2023; findmypast.com 1 Jan. 2023; OUCH 21 Aug. 1847; Ipswich Journal 21 Aug. 1847)

 

 

Other Names:

  • the Rev. T. S. Hughes
  • T. S. Hughes
 

Books written (1):

Cambridge/ London: J. Deighton and Sons/ J. Mawman, J. Murray, and Cadell and Davies, 1818