Hughes, Rice (1778-1820)

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s Scriven of Towyn Merioneth, pleb; JESUS m 27/5/1773 aged 17; BA 1778

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B.A. 1785, incorp. from Oxford; M.A. 1785. Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Feb. 9, 1785. S. of Scriven, of Towyn, Merionethshire. ' Matric. from Jesus College, Oxford, May 27, 1773, age 17; B.A. (Oxford) 1778. Appointed by the Brewers Company Master of Aldenham School, 1785. Chaplain to Earl Poulett and ‘Minister’ (probably curate) of Aldenham. His appointment to the Mastership of the school was an unfortunate one, for in 1786 the Company made a visitation, and reported that the school was considerably reduced and the boys ‘not so clean and decent as usual’; in 1788 he was in great financial difficulties and had many debts, and at a visitation in 1791 he was reported absent and the school in ‘a worse condition than the Visitors ever remembered.’ In Apr. 1792 the Usher reported that Mr Hughes had been absent since Jan. 23rd, and Hughes himself wrote that he ‘could not return owing to his creditors, and therefore resigned.’ For his pathetic explanation see Aldenham Sch. Reg., XL. His subsequent career has not been traced, but he was probably the Rev. Rice Hughes, ‘late of Bradwell, Essex,’ who married, Sept. 24, 1795, Miss Mary Hamilton, of Yeates Court, Carey Street, London (G. Mag., 1795, II. 791). Author, Social Union and benevolence, and National Danger, the test of Virtue, sermons; Discourses on Various Subjects; a Letter on the Meeting at the Crown and Anchor tavern, 1791, for the purpose of celebrating the French Revolution; A defence of the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Bangor, with remarks on a most extraordinary trial. (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 317; Al. Oxon.)

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