George Edward Hughes (18 September 1821 – 2 May 1872) was an English first-class cricketer and barrister.
The son of the author John Hughes, he was born in September 1821 at Uffington, Berkshire.
[4] A student of Lincoln's Inn, he was called to the bar in 1848 and completed his Doctor of Canon Law in 1850,[2] with Hughes practicing as a barrister in the ecclesiastical courts.
[5] His brother, Thomas Hughes, wrote the book Tom Brown's School Days in 1857, and likely based the main character Tom Brown on Hughes during his time at Rugby and later Oxford in the sequel novel Tom Brown at Oxford,[6] though the clergyman Augustus Orlebar could also have been the basis for the character.
[7] He married Anne Salusbury Steward, with the couple having four children.