David Hughson

[5] In his book The East-India Question Fairly Elucidated (1813) he described himself as a "native" of London and as having resided in the city for over 50 years, indicating that he may have been born in the early 1760s.

[6] The last original work published in his name was his 1829 revision of William Augustus Henderson's Modern Domestic Cookery (best known as the author of The Housekeeper's Instructor).

[1] Hughson is best known for his London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis and its Neighbourhood, to Thirty Miles Extent which he prepared from "an actual perambulation" (a real walk) of the city.

[11] Arnold Oxford suggests it is an abbreviated version of the anonymous 1810 book, The Family Receipt-Book, the title page of which is almost identical.

[12] In 1829, Modern Domestic Cookery, and Useful Receipt Book, Adapted for Families in the Middling and Genteel Ranks of Life was published in New York, stated to be written by W. A. Henderson (author of The Housekeeper's Instructor) and "enlarged and improved by D. Hughson M.D.

In the same year he published the Quaker biography, The Life of James Nayler, A Fanatical Enthusiast, Who Profanely and Blasphemously Personated Jesus Christ.

Emblematical Representation of Commerce and Plenty Presenting the City of London with the Riches of the Four Quarters of the World , from Volume I of Hughson's description of London.
Fish Street Hill , drawn by Edward Gyfford and engraved by John Roffe for Hughson's description of London. Published by J. Stratford, Holborn, October 1807. [ 7 ]
Purfleet , drawn by Edward Gyfford and engraved by Sparrow, for Hughson's description of London. Published by J. Stratford, Holborn, December 1807. [ 8 ]