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Darwin Correspondence Project

Charles Lawrence Hughes

1810–83

Cashier. Attended Shrewsbury School, 1819–25. Employed by Rodger Breed & Co. in Buenos Aires, c. 1832–3. Returned to England because of ill health. Cashier at Rathbone Bros., merchants, of Liverpool.

Sources

CD’s field notebook 1.12: 1a (Down House, English Heritage 88202332)

Correspondence vol. 1, letter from S. E. Darwin, 22–31 July 1833

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 16 October 2016)

England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 16 October 2016)

Shrewsbury School register

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Shrewsbury School register: Shrewsbury School register. 1734–1908. Edited by J. E. Auden. Oswestry: Woodall, Minshall, Thomas and Co., Caxton Press. 1909.

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