Background
Hughes, Thomas Patrick was born on March 26, 1838 in Ludlow, England. Son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Valentine) Hughes.
Hughes, Thomas Patrick was born on March 26, 1838 in Ludlow, England. Son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Valentine) Hughes.
Student Ludlow School, Islington College. Fellow Punjab Oriental U., 1882. (Bachelor of Divinity, 1876, by Archbp.
Canterbury; Doctor of Divinity, 1886. Doctor of Laws, St. John’s, Annapolis, 1897).
Father of Percy H. Ordained clergyman in Church of England, by bishop of London, 1864. Assistant St. Silas, Islington, London, 1865. Missionary and chaplain, Peshawar, Afghanistan, 1865-1885.
Government examiner in Oriental langs., 1875-1885. Associate editor Civil and Military Gazette, Lahore. Rector Lebanon Springs, New York, 1885-1888.
Assistant All Souls’ Church, New York, 1888-1889. Rector Church of the Holy Sepulchre, New York, 1889-1902. Associate rector Church of the Epiphany, Brooklyn, 1902-1903.
Secretary Edgemere Association, New York, 1904. On staff New York Churchman, 1890-1896, Literary Digest, 1896-1897. Literature editor New York Commercial Advertiser, 1897.
Editor Sunday Reading, 1898, Long Island Gazette, 1906. Author: A Dictionary of Islam. Ruhainah, the Maid of Herat.
Heroic Lives in Foreign Fields. Home: Kings Park, Long Island, New York.
Married Eliza Lloyd, August 17, 1864.