Career
He was employed by Ferranti from the mid-1960s, where he worked on the Pegasus thermionic valve computer. He was involved in the standardization of ASCII and International Organization for Standardization 646 and worked closely with Bob Bemer. ASCII was first known in Europe as the Bemer-Ross Code.
He was also one of the four main designers of International Organization for Standardization 6937, with Peter Fenwick, Bernard Marti and Loek Zeckendorf.
He was one of the principal architects of the Universal Character Secretariat International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission 10646 when it was first conceived. Hugh was an expert in the Gospel of Thomas and wrote several books about lieutenant
He was a Quaker, and also wrote about George Fox. His working papers on the teachings of Fox are held at Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project.