Thomas Hughes, author, MP and judge was born in Uffington in 1822. He is best known for his novel ‘Tom Brown’s School Days’, published in 1857, but was also elected to parliament in the 1860s and 1870s, first for Lambeth and then Frome. Additionally he became Queen’s Counsel in 1869 and was appointed to a county court judgeship in 1882.
This is part of the Collection: NMR07 NMR Accessioned Negatives - Catalogued
Source: Historic England Archive
Photographer: Wight, Marjory L
Parish Church, Victorian Commemorative Monument
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