William Hughes (2 March 1803 – 20 August 1861), was a British writer on law and angling in the 19th century.
Biography
Hughes, born in
Maker
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Vicarage,
Cornwall
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, was the fourth son of Sir Robert Hughes, third
baronet
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, by his second wife, Bethia, daughter of Thomas Hiscutt, and was a nephew of Admiral Sir
Richard Hughes. His father, who
matriculated from
Trinity College, Oxford, on 30 March 1757, aged 17, was a demy of
Magdalen College
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1758–67, B.A. 1761,
M.A. 1763, rector of
Frimley St Mary and Weston, Suffolk, from 1769 until his death, and was buried on 4 June 1814.
William was admitted to the bar at
Gray's Inn
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on 11 June 1833, and practised as a conveyancer on the Western Circuit, where he was also auditor of the
poor-law union district of Cornwall and
Devon
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shire. He died at Millbay Grove,
Plymouth
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Plymouth ...
.
Works
Hughes's chief writings were:
*1833: ''Practical Directions for Taking Instructions for, and Drawing Wills''
*1840: ''A Practical Treatise of the Laws Relative to the Sale and Conveyance of Real Property: with an appendix of precedents, comprising contracts, conditions of sale, purchase and disentailing deeds''. 2 vols. London: Saunders & Benning
*1842: ''The Practical Angler''. By Piscator
*1843: ''Fish, How to Choose, and How to Dress''. By Piscator
**--do.--2nd edit., 1854, entitled ''A Practical Treatise on the Choice and Cookery of Fish''
*1846: ''The Practice of Sales of Real Property, with an Appendix of Precedents''. 2 vols. London: John Crockford, 1846–47
**--do.-- 2nd ed. 2 vols. London: John Crockford, 1849–50
*1846: ''The Three Students of Gray's Inn: a novel''
*1848: ''The Practice of Mortgages of Real and Personal Estate''. 2 vols., London: John Crockford, 1848–49
*1850: ''The New Stamp Act''
*1850: ''Concise Precedents in Modern Conveyancing''. 3 vols. London: Law Times Office, 1850–53
**-- 2nd ed. 3 vols. London: Law Times Office; Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1855–57
*1850: ''A Table of the Stamp Duties Payable in Great Britain and Ireland''
*1852: ''It is All for the Best: a Cornish tale''
*1856: ''The Practice of Conveyancing''. 2 vols. London: Law Times Office, 1856–57
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People from Maker, Cornwall
1803 births
1861 deaths
English writers
19th-century English lawyers
Members of Gray's Inn