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Edward Hughes (Royal Navy officer)
18th-century British admiral
AdmiralSir Edward Hughes (c. 1720 – 1794) was a Royal Navy officer who commanded the East Indies Station.
Naval career
Hughes joined the Royal Navy in 1735, and four years later, was present at the capture of Portobelo, Panama.[2] In 1740, he was promoted to lieutenant and served in the Cartagena expedition of 1741, and at the indecisive Battle of Toulon in 1744. In HMS Warwick, he participated in the action against the Glorioso, but without proper support from the Lark (which was sailing with the Warwick), the enemy escaped. The commander of the Lark was subsequently tried and condemned for his conduct, and Hughes received the vacated command. Captain Hughes was with Edward Boscawen at Louisburg and with Charles Saunders at Quebec.[2][3]
He was in continual employment during the peace, and as commodore, commanded the East Indies Station from 1773 to 1777.[2] Before long, he returned to the East Indies Station as a rear-admiral, with
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HUGHES, DAVID EDWARD (1829 - 1900), physicist and inventor
Name: David Edward Hughes
Date of birth: 1829
Date of death: 1900
Spouse: Anna Merrill Hughes (née Chadbourne)
Parent: David Hughes
Gender: Male
Occupation: physicist and inventor
Area of activity: Business and Industry; Engineering, Construction, Naval Architecture and Surveying; Science and Mathematics
Author: Edwin Augustine Owen
Born 18 June 1829 in London (some authorities contend that he was born in Green y Ddwyryd, near Corwen), son of David Hughes, originally of Bala, afterwards of London. Migrating with the family to Virginia in 1840, he was educated at S. Joseph's College, Bardstown, Kentucky. At 19 years of age he was appointed professor of music at the college, and the next year was given also the chair of natural philosophy. At twenty-one he invented a printing telegraph of his own which had features of great ingenuity. In 1854 he resigned his teaching appointments to devote himself entirely to his invention which he completed and patented in 1855. The following year it was adopte
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HAROLD EVERETT HUGHES, Iowa’s thirty-sixth governor, was born in Ida Grove, Iowa on February 10, 1922. He attended the University of Iowa on a football scholarship, but left school after his first year to get married. During World War II, he served as an Army combat rifleman in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. After his military service, Hughes worked in the transportation business, and founded the Iowa Better Trucking Bureau. Hughes entered politics in 1959, serving as a member of the Iowa State Commerce Commission, a position he held three years. Hughes won the 1962 Democratic gubernatorial nomination and was sworn into the governor’s office on January 17, 1963. He was reelected to a second term in 1964, and to a third term in 1966. During his tenure, a state scholarship program was instituted; an agricultural tax credit was issued; a state civil rights commission was created; a property tax replacement bill was passed; an educational radio-television system was implemented; and workmen’s and unemployment compensation laws were improved. Also, additional state
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