David Hughson
David Hughson (c. 1760s – 1820s), which may have been a pen name of Edward Pugh, was a writer on the topography and history of London. He produced a description of the city based on "an actual wikt:perambulation, perambulation" (walk) that was published in six volumes between 1805 and 1809 and contains 150 copper plate engravings principally based on illustrations by Robert Blemmell Schnebbelie and Edward Gyfford. He also produced works on topical matters such as the East India Company, religious subjects, and works of household management targeted at people of the "Social class in the United Kingdom, middling and genteel ranks of life". Life Little is known of Hughson's life other than that David Hughson was probably a pseudonym and that his real name may have been David Pugh, or Daniel Pugh, or Edward Pugh, or R. Pugh.Halkett, Samuel, & John Laing. (1888''A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain'' Vol. 4. Edinburgh: William Paterson. p. 2785 ...
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