Hector Samuel James Hughes (14 August 1887 – 23 June 1970) was a Scottish Labour Party politician.
In his university years in University College, Dublin (UCD), he was a member of the Young Ireland Branch of the United Irish League,[1] which successfully agitated for the land of 'ranchers' or large graziers to be confiscated and redistributed to their tenants.
He died in Brighton aged 82, only a month after stepping down from the House of Commons and five days after the 1970 election returned the Conservative Party to power.
He fought for women's rights in the suffragette movement as well as the abolition of the death penalty.
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