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- William, son of William Hughes, grocer, Chester. March 19.
William Jones Hughes, born on the 8th August 1788, and an exhibitioner of the school in 1809, was admitted a commoner of Brasenose college, Oxford, on the 13th February 1809, being described as the eldest son, and graduated B.A. on the 26th November 1812, and M.A. on the 27th June 1817. He was ordained to the curacy of Moreton Say, Salop, with Reginald Heber, afterwards bishop of Calcutta, and married in 1817 Selina, daughter of Mr. Georgo Corser, banker, of Whitchurch, by whom he had two sons and two daughters. Both his sons are dead; George dying in 1839, aged 13, and William Jones, the elder, who was of no profession, on the 13th October 1867. Both were buried at Cardington.
Mr. Hughes became, in 1819, vicar of Cardington, near Church Stretton, Salop, and held the benefice for the long space of forty-six years, dying there the 19th September 1865, aged 77. There is a monument to him at Cardington with a short inscription.
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1788 - 1865 (77 years)
