Herbert Hughes (other)
Herbert Hughes may refer to: * Herbert Hughes (composer) (1882–1937), Irish composer, music critic and collector of folk songs * Herbert Bristow Hughes (1821–1892), Australian pastoralist * Herbert Delauney Hughes, known as Billy Hughes (educationist) (1914–1995), British Labour Party politician, MP and Principal of Ruskin College See also *Herbert Hughes-Stanton Sir Herbert Edwin Pelham Hughes-Stanton (21 November 1870 – 2 August 1937)''Sir H. Hughes-Stanton, R.A.'' The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Aug 04, 1937; pg. 14; Issue 47754 was a British watercolour and oil painter, predominantly ...

Herbert Hughes (composer)
Herbert Hughes (16 May 1882 – 1 May 1937) was an Irish composer, music critic and a collector and arranger of Irish folksongs. He was the father of Spike Hughes. Biography Hughes was born and brought up in Belfast, Ireland, but completed his formal music education at the Royal College of Music, London, where he studied with Charles Villiers Stanford and Charles Wood, graduating in 1901. Subsequently, he worked as a music critic, notably for '' The Daily Telegraph'' from 1911 to 1932. Described as having an "ardent and self-confident manner", Hughes is first heard of in an Irish musical capacity (beyond being honorary organist at St Peter's Church on Antrim Road at the age of fourteen) collecting traditional airs and transcribing folksongs in North Donegal in August 1903 with his brother Fred, F.J. Bigger, and John Campbell. Dedicated to seeking out and recording such ancient melodies as were yet to be found in the more remote glens and valleys of Ulster, he produced '' ...
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Herbert Bristow Hughes
Herbert Bristow Hughes (c. 1821 – 19 May 1892), generally referred to as "H. B. Hughes", was a pioneer pastoralist in the colony of South Australia. History Hughes was born in England, a younger brother of Timothy Bristow Hughes, a leading cotton trader in Liverpool for over fifty years, and John Bristow Hughes, who emigrated to Australia from India, and arrived in South Australia from Hobart aboard ''Porter'' in February 1841. J. B. Hughes took up land at Emu Flat, around south-west of Clare. Another brother, named Bristow Herbert Hughes joined J. B. Hughes some time before January 1842. Envisaging a bright future in the new colony, they called for H. B. Hughes, who arrived in Adelaide aboard ''Davidsons'' in May 1843. The Hughes brothers selected of land, stretching from Crystal Brook in the south-west to Yacka in the south-east, up to Mount Lock and Mannanarie in the north-east across nearly to Mount Remarkable and down the eastern side of the Flinders Ranges back to ...
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Billy Hughes (educationist)
Herbert Delauney Hughes (7 September 1914 – 15 November 1995), known as Billy Hughes, was a British adult educationist and Labour Party politician. He was a member of parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1950 and principal of Ruskin College from 1950 to 1979. Career His father Arthur was a secondary school teacher, and mother Maggie was a former elementary school headteacher who educated him at home until age eleven. Hughes had been born in Swindon, but moved with his parents to Bakewell, Derbyshire when he was six, where he attended Bakewell grammar school before becoming a boarder at Manchester Warehousemen's and Clerks' Orphans School at Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire. He won a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1935 with a degree in modern history, having been chair of the Oxford University Labour Club. He started training as a schoolteacher at Manchester University, but left to work in London for the New Fabian Research Bureau (NFRB), which merged in 1938 ...
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