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9 unusual facts about Thomas Hughes


Blowing Stone

The stone is mentioned in the Thomas Hughes novel Tom Brown's Schooldays and is referred to therein as the Blawing Stwun.

George Phillippo

Later in 1890 he married Eliza Hughes, daughter of Thomas Hughes while in London.

Rugby Fives

An early mention of the game can be found in the novel Tom Brown's School Days(1857) by Thomas Hughes.

Singlestick

Thomas Hughes's story Tom Brown's School Days contains a spirited description of cudgel-play during the first half of the 19th century.

Syllabub

The word occurs repeatedly, including in Samuel Pepys' diary for 12 July 1663; "Then to Comissioner Petts and had a good Sullybub." and in Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown at Oxford of 1861; "We retire to tea or syllabub beneath the shade of some great oak."

Thomas H. Hughes House

Thomas Hughes' house was built in the nineteenth century in a Greek Revival style.

Thomas Hughes

His daughter, Lilian, perished in the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.

In 1880, he acquired the ownership of Franklin W. Smith's Plateau City and founded a settlement in America — Rugby, Tennessee — which was designed as an experiment in utopian living for the younger sons of the English gentry, although this later proved largely unsuccessful.

Yaron Svoray

Svoray also wrote the book Gods of Death with screenwriter Thomas Hughes, published in 1997 by Simon & Schuster.


Camp Blood: The Musical

Camp Blood: The Musical is a 2006 '80s style slasher musical underground film by Tanner Barklow, Jefferson Craig, and Thomas Hughes.

Ed Vulliamy

His mother is the children's author and illustrator Shirley Hughes and his grandfather the Liverpool store owner Thomas Hughes.


see also

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Trustees include Tom Chandos (Chairman), Sir David Bell, Felicity Fairbairn, John Fairbairn, Beatrice Hollond, James Hughes-Hallett, Thomas Hughes-Hallett, Kate Lampard, Sir Jonathan Phillips, Baroness Linklater and William Sieghart.