Tonbridge School
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Hughes-Hughes matriculated at
Christ Church, Oxford
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, in 1835, graduating B.A. in 1839 and M.A in 1841. He had entered Lincoln's Inn in 1838, and was
called to the bar
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there in 1842.
Career
Hughes-Hughes was a barrister by profession. Later he was a
justice of the peace
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Philately
Hughes-Hughes was a founding member of ''The Philatelic Society, London''. which subsequently became the
Royal Philatelic Society London
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, and one of the small group who met regularly at the Rev. Stainforth's Rectory before that society was formed.
He was reported to have become a collector in 1859 and ceased in 1874 having spent £69. His collection was then sold by
Stanley Gibbons
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for £3,000 in 1896. It included a number of rarities:
*British Guiana 1856 4 cents on blue "sugar" paper
*Canada 12d black
*One of the four unused Great Britain
Penny Red
The Penny Red was a British postage stamp, issued in 1841. It succeeded the Penny Black and continued as the main type of postage stamp in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until 1879, with only minor changes to the design dur ...
1906 San Francisco earthquake
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or the fire that followed.)"Great Britain: One Penny Rose Red: Plate 77" by H.R. Holmes in '' The London Philatelist'', Vol. 71, No. 834, June 1962, pp. 103-104.
*Cape of Good Hope 4d red Woodblock error of colour (Reckoned to be rarer than a Post Office Mauritius)"Notes on the 1861 Provisional Cape of Good Hope." by M.P. Castle in '' The London Philatelist'', Vol. XVI, No. 188, August 1907, pp. 182-186.
*Reunion 1852 15c
*Naples 1860 ½ tornese in both types.
Death
Hughes-Hughes died on 7 January 1902.
Family
Hughes-Hughes married in 1845 Ellen Oldham, daughter of Joseph Oldham of Stamford Hill. Their children included:
*Montague Edward Hughes-Hughes (born 1853), F.S.A. and a member of the Royal Philatelic Society London
*August Hughes-Hughes (born 1857), assistant in the British Museum
*Arthur Lindsay Hughes-Hughes (born 1859), R.N.