Author talk:Charles Ernest Hughes

Attempts to identify this author
Talk:Dictionary of National_Biography, 1885-1900/List of Contributors

Hughes research efforts
 Author:Charles Ernest Hughes seems to have written on a number of literary people. There are a number of births to not allow differentiation. This one is a possibility.
 * Charles Ernest Hughes, d.1941 Rector of Luckington, Wiltshire, aged 76.
 * There's more info about that one (born 1867, educ. at King's School Canterbury & Keble College, Oxford) in the 1932 Register to King's School Canterbury. (Google books) Dsp13 (talk) 12:21, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Google Oz, doesn't show me that search result you mentioned. So I dig via other sources and find
 * At Archive.org, I do see Schola Regia Cantuariensis and from there I see
 * Charles Ernest Hughes student School Roll in 1881
 * was C.E. Hughes was an Assistant Master in 1894


 * Foster, Joseph. Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 p.705
 * Hughes, Charles Ernest, 3s. Henry, of Maidstone, Kent, gent., matric. 19 Oct., 1886, aged 19.
 * No Charles Ernest Hughes showing at Cambridge.

Still does not confirm that it is the right CE Hughes, though does look favourable. Parked -- billinghurst (talk) 01:35, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Hughes wrote only in the Supplement and the lists of writers there do not make him a Reverend, which is the usual style. So I'm not convinced. The topics he wrote on show little consistency. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:32, 16 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I find the Rector in the 1932 Crockfords, and he was ordained in 1890s, and there is no recording there of having been an author. I would agree that this does not look like a likely candidate. — billinghurst  sDrewth  12:47, 26 May 2011 (UTC)



Coming back to this
Maybe Charles Ernest Hughes born 1867 wrote some history in his 30s, with a family to feed? He did publish a historical work in 1926, according to https://viaf.org/processed/LC%7Cno2012022589. I think this could be our man. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:47, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

Married in 1904 at Maidstone, to Florence Pennethorne (newspaper reports, was then assistant priest at Freemantle, Southampton; and was apparently father of Pennethorne Hughes (born 1907), BBC radio producer and writer on witchcraft. Seems to have been a curate at Byfleet. Perfectly plausible that he should have been writing for the DNB c.1901. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:34, 11 January 2018 (UTC)