Thomas Hughes

Birthday:

10/20/1822

Place of birth:

Oxfordshire, England, UK:

Biography:

Thomas Hughes QC (20 October 1822 – 22 March 1896) was an English barrister, 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 and his brother had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861).