Career
He may therefore be called one of the first philatelists. He was reported to have become a collector in 1859 and ceased in 1874 having spent £69. His collection was then sold by Stanley Gibbons for £3000 in 1896.
lieutenant included a number of rarities:
British Guiana 1856 4 cents on blue "sugar" paper
Canada 12d black
One of the four unused Great Britain Penny Red plate 77 (subsequently sold to Herbert L"Estrange Ewen who sold it to Henry J Crocker, and believed destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake or the fire that followed)
Cape of Good Hope 4d red Woodblock error of colour (Reckoned to be rarer than a Post Office Mauritius)
Reunion 1852 15c
Naples 1860 ½ tornese in both types.
Hughes-Hughes was a Barrister by profession. He had attended Tonbridge School.