William Hughes F.R.G.S. was an English geographer, mapmaker and author.

He was Professor of Geography at King's College and Queen's College, London and Royal Female Naval School
He was for many years Examiner in Geography to the College of Preceptors

Some of his publications were later revised by Sir Richard Gregory.

He was the author of literally dozens of books; books of maps for the classroom, biblical studies and general reference, and editor of a similar number of reference and classroom books.

He died at his home, Adelaide Road, St John's Wood

St John's Wood

St John's Wood is a district of north-west London, England, in the City of Westminster, and at the north-west end of Regent's Park. It is approximately 2.5 miles north-west of Charing Cross. Once part of the Great Middlesex Forest, it was later owned by the Knights of St John of Jerusalem...

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London

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Partial Bibliography

• Directions for Taking Instructions on Wills 1840
• Three Students of Grays Inn (novel) 1846
• The Stamp Duties Act 1850
• The Origin and Condition of the Australian Colonies Longman & Co. 1852
• Manual of Mathematical Geography 1852
• A Manual of Geography, Physical, Industrial and Political 1852
• It's All for the Best (3-volume novel) 1853
• A Class-book of Modern Geography 1859
• Philips' Family Atlas of Physical, General and Classical Geography 1859
• A Manual of Geography
• Manual of British Geography
• Elementary Class-book of Modern Geography 1860
• A Manual of European Geography 1861
• A Class-book of Physical Geography 1861
• Outlines of Geography 1864
• The Geography of River Systems 1865
• Elementary Class-book of Physical Geography 1866
• Geography in its Relation to History 1870
• Geography of the British Isles 1887
• Bible Maps pub. John W. Parker, London
• Philips' Atlas of Scripture Geography
• Hughes W. (Revised by R. A. Gregory) An Elementary Classbook of Physical Geography 1904
• General Gegraphy, Simplified for beginners (in Gleig's School Series)
• Geography of the British Empire, Simplified for beginners (in Gleig's School Series)
• The Child's First Book of Geography (in Gleig's School Series)

Further Reading

Vaughan, J. E. 'William Hughes, FRGS (1818-1876) as Geographical Educationist’. In W. E. Marsden (ed.) Historical Perspectives on Geographical Education (IGU Commission on Geographical Education: University of London Institute of Education, 1980)