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HUGHES, HUMPHREY; b.; at school under Busby; one of the original officers in Monck’s Coldstream Regiment (subsequently 2nd Foot Guards) 1651; Capt., May 1654; agent to Sir Francis Redcliffe, Middleton Hall and Spindleston, Northumberland 1683-91; m. 22 Nov 1662 Mary Thirlwall; accepted as OW in Supplement on basis of Burke, LG, 8th edn., 1009, but further evidence seems necessary]

HUGHES, JOHN CUMBERLAND, brother of William Hughes (qv); b. 31 Mar 1767; adm. 27 Mar 1775; left 1779; entered Royal Navy as powder monkey on board HMS Victory 7 Jun 1779; when serving on HMS Rover was captured by a French frigade and taken into Grenada Sep 1780, but exchanged at Martinique three months later; Midshipman 14 Feb 1781; ADC to Capt. Lord Cranstoun on HMS Formidable during action against French on 12 Apr 1782; retd. from Navy 1783; plantation management in Grenada with his elder brother George Hughes (qv) from 1785; m. May 1805 Elizabeth, elder dau. of George Edward Stanley, Ponsonby Hall, Cumberland; d. at Bath 5 Feb 1833.

HUGHES, JOHN THOMAS, second son of Adm. Sir Richard Hughes, Bart., and Jane, dau. of William Sloane, South Stoneham, Hampshire; b.; adm. 4 Feb 1788; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 8 Jan 1793, Ashton scholar 5 Nov 1793, matr. Lent 1793; kept three terms only; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 22 Jan 1795, called to bar 29 Jan 1801; Professor of Civil Law, Jamaica 1801; d. at Montego Bay, Jamaica 21 Dec 1802, aged 27.

Hughes, John William Cameron, son of the Rev. Evan Hughes, Rector of Ashwell, Rutland; b. July 12, 1894; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 26, 1907 (R); left Dec. 1908; Paymaster Sub-Lieut. Aug. 2, 1916; Lieut. Aug. 2, 1918; served in the North Atlantic, and after demobilization on the Peace Conference at Paris.

HUGHES, JOHN, only child of Rev. Thomas Hughes DD, Canon Residentiary of St. Paul’s, Vicar of Uffington, Berks., and [Deputy ? check] Clerk of the Closet to George III and George IV, and Mary Ann, dau. of Rev. George Watts, Vicar of Uffington, Berks.; b. 2 Jan 1790; adm.; left 1808; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 12 May 1808; Robinson exhibitioner 1813 [check]; Chancellor’s Prize for Latin Verse 1811; BA 1812; MA 1815; author, An Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone made during the year 1819, 1822, and other works; of Donnington Priory, Berkshire; DL JP Berkshire; m. 1st, 11 Apr 1818 Elizabeth, dau. of T. V. Cooke, Hertford Street, Mayfair; m. 2nd, 14 Dec 1820 Margaret Elizabeth, second dau. of Thomas Wilkinson, Stokesley Hall, Yorks.; d. 13 Dec 1857. DNB.

HUGHES, JOHN; b.; in third form list 1799 and school list 1801; left before May 1803.

HUGHES, RICHARD JONES, fourth son of John Williams Gwynne Hughes, Tregib, Carmarthenshire, and Margaretta Juliana, youngest dau. of Morgan Pryse Lloyd, Glansevin, Carmarthenshire; b. 25 Jan 1824; adm. 26 Jun 1837 (G); BB 1838; Magdalen Hall, Oxford, matr. 30 Oct 1845; BA 1850; MA 1852; ordained; Curate, Ilchester, Somerset; m. Mary Anne, dau. of George Lloyd, Brunant, Carmarthenshire; d. 25 Oct 1861.

Hughes, Stephen John Seymour, son of John Seymour Hughes and Jemima, d. of George Devy Farmer of Ancaster, Ontario; b. 11 Sept. 1913; adm. Sept. 1927 (R); left July 1932; Keble Coll. Oxf., matric. 1932, BA 1935; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., BM BCh 1939; RAMC 1942-5 (Maj.); gen. med. practice Chertsey, Surrey, and Weedon, Northants; retd 1976; m. 27 June 1940 Cicely Elizabeth, d. of John William Wilson, farmer; d. 30 Apr. 1995.

HUGHES, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Hughes, Abingdon Buildings, Westminster, and Lower Field, Kilmersdon, Somerset, and Elizabeth Bentley, dau. of Denison Cumberland (adm. 1720, qv); b. 9 May 1764; adm. 11 Feb 1772; KS 1776; in school list Jul 1779; “became a clerk in the Excise Office” (but probably the William Hughes who was Clerk, Board of Trade 7 Oct 1779 – 2 May 1782 (office abolished), since his uncle Richard Cumberland (adm. 1745/6) was then Secretary, Board of Trade); ordained deacon 25 May 1788, priest 11 Jun 1788 (Winchester, lit. dim. from York); Rector of Killinick, co. Wexford, from 1811; m. 11 Aug 1800 Elizabeth Shaw; d. 14 May 1831.