Henry Castree Hughes

He also carried out restoration work on cottages, Cambridge college buildings, and churches, including the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral.

[2] During the First World War, he joined the Royal Artillery and served with Anglo-Indian forces in India and Iraq, where he kept a journal, and in France, where he was wounded.

[1][3][12][13] Two further private houses from this period are also Modernist in style: 19 Wilberforce Road (1933–34), described in Bradley and Pevsner as "rather heavily done",[14] and the grade-II-listed Brandon Hill (now Salix) on Conduit Head Road (1933–34), an L-shaped building with corner windows and a roof terrace, designed for the Australian physicist Mark Oliphant.

[15][16] Along with examples from this decade by George Checkley, Marshall Sisson, Justin Blanco White and others, they number among the earliest Modernist houses in Cambridge.

[5] In addition to new buildings, Hughes restored many churches, most notably the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral,[7][21] as well as St Andrew the Less, Market Road, Cambridge (1923–25),[22] and numerous Cambridgeshire parish churches including those of Shepreth (1922–23), Balsham, Barton, Kingston, Little Eversden, Great Eversden, Harlton and Grantchester.

[5] He extended the Local Examinations Syndicate building on Mill Lane (1930),[23] and undertook considerable renovation work for the Cambridge colleges.

[4][7][29] Drawing on the example of the earlier Oxford Preservation Trust, the society in its early years aimed to block industrial development in Cambridge, to hinder ribbon housing development in the surrounding countryside, and to prevent the construction of new roads to create a ring road.

[4][29] According to Anthony J. Cooper, the society's efforts were a significant factor in the establishment of the Cambridge Green Belt around the city in 1955.

[4] In the 1920s, he purchased the defunct 1816 windmill at Overy Staithe in Norfolk to save it from demolition, and donated it to the National Trust in 1958, which has since used it for holiday accommodation.

[5][7] He married Gwendolyn née Rendle, known as "Gwendle" (1900–83), a jewellery maker and a director of Primavera, in December 1964.