INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.
Hughes.
Hughes, Sir Water Charleton, Kt. (1906), C.I.E., (1900), M.Inst.C.E., Chairman, Bombay Port Trust; b, 1850; educ: privately and at King’s College, London; m, Evelyn Isabel Rose e.d. of late Col H. S. Hutchinson, I.C.S.; joined service in the Indian Public Works Department, 1868; Secretary to Government, P.W.D. Bombay, 1887-92; Chairman, Board of Trustees for the Port of Bombay, 1892-98; Additionnal Member, Legislative Council, Bombay, till 1908; Chairman, Bombay Improvement Trust, 1898-1900; Fellow of the King’s College, London, and Fellow (by appointment) of the Bombay University, Address: Darmauth House, No. 2, Queen Anne’s Gate, S.W. Clubs: Byculla, Bombay, India.
Hughes-Buller, Ralph Buller, C.I.E. (1908), Inspector-General of Police, Bengal; s. of General Sir W. T. Hughes, K.C.B.; b. 1871; educ: Marlborough, and Balliol College, Oxford; assumed the name of Buller as being the heir of the late James Buller of Dunley. Bovey Tracey; m. Elizabeth, y.d. of late Very Rev Dr Norman Macleod, D.D. of Thistle; joined service, 1800; became Assistant to Agent to Governor-General, 1899; special duty in connection with Census and Gazetteer, 1901-6; acted in various other capacities; became .Inspector-General of Police, Bengal, 1912. Publication: Census Report, Baluichistan. Address: Writers’ Buildings, Calcutta, India. Club: Isthmian.
Hugo, Major James Henry, D.S.O. (1898), M.R.C.S. (England), L.R.C.P. (London), M.B., B.Sc., (London), D.Ph., I.M.S., Agency Surgeon, Bundelkhund; b. 1870; educ: Foyle College, Londonderry, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; interim House physician; Clinical Asssitant, Orthopaedic Department House Surgeon, General Hospital, Nottingham; Assist. Medical Superintendent, Dulwich Infirmary; Joined the I.M.S. 1896; attached to 31st Punjab Infantry, 1897; served in the Expedition into Upper Swat; also in the Expedition against Mahmuds (D.S.O. medal, two claps). Recreatons: football, hockey, rowing. Address: Nowgong, Bundelkhund, Central India.
Hultzsch, Eugen, P.H.D, Dresden; studied classical and oriental philology, especially Sanskrit, at Bonn and Leipzig; Privat-docent for Oriental studies at the University of Vienna; studied Indian Epigraphy; travelled for six months in N. India and Kashmir, 1884-5; collected valuable Mss. and inscriptions; Epigraphist of the Archaeological Survey, Madras, 1887; Sanskrit examiner Madras University, 1903; resigned, and has been Professor of Sanskrit, University of Hallee; Secretary to the Deutsche Morgenlandische Gesellschaft; Corresponding Member, Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences; Member, Royal Society of Science, Gottingen, etc; has written Prolegomena zu Vasantaraja Sakuna, and edition of Bandhajanas Law book; South Indian Inscriptions (Tamil and Sanskrit); Reports of Sanskrit Mss in South India; many of his treatises on Indian epigraphy have appeared in the Indian Antiquary.
Hume, Colonel Charles Vernon, D.S.O. (1900), M.V.O. (1905), Indian Army (retired); b, 1860; educ: at Mralborough; joined the Army, 1879; served in Burwick, 1886-7 (despatches, medal and clasp); captain, 1887; A.A.G. South African field force, 1900
