For other people named Thomas Hughes, see Thomas Hughes (disambiguation).
Thomas Hughes
QC
Thomas Hughes
Born
(1822-10-20)20 October 1822 Uffington, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), England
Died
22 March 1896(1896-03-22) (aged 73) Brighton, East Sussex, England
Pen name
Vacuus Viator[1]
Occupation
Lawyer, writer, reformer
Education
Oriel College, Oxford
Period
Nineteenth century
Genre
Children's literature
Thomas HughesQC (20 October 1822 – 22 March 1896) was an English lawyer, judge, politician and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's School Days (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861).
Hughes had numerous other interests, in particular as a Member of Parliament, in the British co-operative movement, and in a settlement—Rugby, Tennessee, USA—reflecting his values.
^Joseph F. Clarke (1977). Pseudonyms. BCA. p. 164.
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