Richard Bannister Hughes Mills (1810-1875), known as Richard Bannister Hughes and also Ricardo Hughes, was a British expatriate businessman in

Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...

. Notable as a rancher and entrepreneur, Hughes helped to modernize Uruguayan agriculture. Originally from

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

, Hughes arrived in

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on Christmas Day 1829 and eventually went into business with his two younger brothers. In 1856 he founded one of the first tourist

estancias An estancia is a large, private plot of land used for farming or raising cattle or sheep. Estancias in the southern South American grasslands, the ''pampas'', have historically been estates used to raise livestock, such as cattle or sheep. In Pu ...

, Estancia La Paz. He was one of the founders of Villa Independencia (now Fray Bentos) and a salted meat factory which later became Liebig's Extract of Meat Company Limited.

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1810 births 1875 deaths Uruguayan people of British descent British expatriates in Uruguay Uruguayan businesspeople 19th-century British businesspeople {{Uruguay-business-bio-stub

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