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 C. in C. in the E. Indies, 1773–7 : Rear Admiral and K.C.B., 1778 : again held the command in the E. Indies, 1779–83 : destroyed Hyder All's ships at Mangalore, 1780 : helped to take Negapatam, 1781 : took Trincomalee, Jan. 1782 : between that month and June, 1783, Hughes was engaged five times between Madras and Trincomalee with the French fleet under Admiral M. de Suffrein, without any decisive results : Hughes returned to England and had no further command : Admiral of the Blue in 1793 : made a large fortune in India : died Feb. 17, 1794.

HUGHES, THOMAS ELLIOTT (1830–1886)

Maj-General : born 1830 : educated near Exeter : entered the Royal Artillery, 1849 : in frontier warfare under Sir Colin Campbell, 1852 : against the Bozdars, 1857 : in the Mahsud-Waziri expedition, 1860 : commanded a mountain battery in the N.W. frontier expedition, 1863, at the storming of Laloo and capture of Umbeyla : Brevet-Major : in the Black Mountain expedition under Wilde, 1868 : Lt-Colonel, 1875 : Maj-General, 1885 : for four : years A.A.G. at headquarters in England : D.A.G. for R.A. in India, 1882 : Director-General of Ordnance in India, 1884 : Military Member of the Supreme Council, Jan. to May, 1886 : died May 24, 1886, at Simla : C.B.

HUGHES, SIR ROBERT JOHN (1821–1904)

Born May 5, 1822 : son of Lt. Robert Hughes : entered the Army, 1841 : served in the Crimea: Colonel in 1878 : in the Afghan war, 1878–80 : commanded a Brigade of the Kandahar column : in the Ghazni Field Force, under Sir Donald Stewart in the Kandahar to Kabul march : at Shabjui, Ahmad Kheyl, and Urzoo, near Ghazni : C.B. : commanded the Presidency District, Calcutta, 1880–3 : retired in 1883, as Maj-General : K.C.B., 1894 : died April 19, 1904.

HUGHES, SIR WILLIAM TEMPLER (1822–1897)

Born April 2, 1822 : son of Rev. Henry Arkwright Hughes : entered the Bengal Army, 1842 : in the Satlaj and Panjab campaigns and in the battles, 1845–6 and 1848–9 : in the Peshawar frontier expeditions, 1851–2 : commanded the 1st Pan jab Cavalry on the Yusufzai frontier, 1852, and through the mutiny, 1857–8 : at Multan, in Rohilkund, Oudh campaign, in the Trans-Gogra column, etc. : died April 4, 1897 : C.B., 1869 : General, 1884 : K.C.B., 1891.

HULTZSCH, EUGEN (1857–)

Born March 29, 1857, at Dresden : studied classical and Oriental philology, especially Sanskrit, at Bonn and Leipzig : Ph.D. : Privatocent for Oriental studies at the University of Vienna : was introduced by G. Buhler to the study of Indian (epigraphy : travelled for six months in N. India and Kashmir, 1884–5, and collected valuable MSS. and inscriptions : appointed, 1887, Epigraphist of the Archaeological Survey for the Presidency of Madras : and examiner in Sanskrit at Madras University. In 1903, resigned his post as Epigraphist, and has since been Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Halle : is Secretary to the Deutsche Morgenlandische Gesellschaft : Corresponding Member of the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences, of the Royal Society of Science at Gottingen, etc. : has written : Prolegomena zu Vasantaraja Sakuna, 1879 : an edition of Baudhajanas' Lawbook, 1884 : South-Indian Inscriptions (Tamil and Sanskrit) : Reports on Sanskrit MSS. in South India, 1893, etc. : many of his treatises on Indian epigraphy have appeared in the Indian Antiquary.

HUMBERSTON, THOMAS FREDERIC MACKENZIE (1753?–1783)

Son of Major William Mackenzie : born about 1753 : entered the 1st Dragoon Guards in 1771 : took his mother's name of Humberston : Captain, 1778 : at the repulse of a French attack on Jersey, 1779 : commanded the looth regt. in 1781 under General Medows at the Cape, and sailed for Madras : landed at Calicut in Feb. 1782, captured forts of Hyder Ali, and made a treaty with Travancore : retreated before Tippoo, but repulsed him at Paniane in Nov. 1782 : commanded the 78th : joined the Army under General Matthews in Malabar : went to Bombay to complain against the General : on his way back, his ship was captured by the