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Jan 13, 2023 · Thomas Hughes, State Department voice against Vietnam War, dies at 97. He later led the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, establishing it as one of the most influential think tanks in...
The author, lawyer, legislator, reformer, and social activist Thomas Hughes was born in the village of Uffington in the Berkshire Downs of England, sixty miles west of London. He was the second...
(1822–96). British jurist, reformer, and author Thomas Hughes was perhaps best known for the novel Tom Brown’s School Days (1857). But he was also interested in social reform, and in 1879 he made an unsuccessful attempt to found an experimental cooperative settlement in Rugby, Tennessee.
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May 21, 2018 · Biographies. Thomas Hughes. Hughes, Thomas. views 1,451,782 updated May 21 2018. Hughes, Thomas (1822–96) English novelist. A Christian socialist, Hughes is best known for the novel Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857), a semi-fictional account of his education under Thomas Arnold at Rugby School. World Encyclopedia.
Jun 28, 2006 · Thomas Hughes, the son of a clergyman, was born in Uffington, and educated at Thomas Arnold's Rugby School, which he made internationally famous in Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857), after which he entered Oriel College, Oxford, where two other famous graduates of Rugby — Matthew Arnold and Arthur Hugh Clough — had fellowships.
Jan 14, 2023 · Thomas Hughes, who as a State Department official and member of the Kennedy-era brain trust stood out for his deep skepticism over the Vietnam War, and who later transformed the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace into a training base for America’s foreign policy leadership, died on Jan. 2 in Washington.
Hughes was an important influence for social reform in the 19th century. He supported Christian Socialist causes, was the first President of the Co-operative Congress, and founded a colony in Rugby, Tennessee which still exists today. ( See Historic Rugby) Thomas Hughes died on 22nd March 1896. There is a statue of him at Rugby School.
