Hughes was a younger son of John Hughes, clerk in the Hand-in-Hand Fire Office, Snow Hill, London, and his wife Anne Burges, daughter of Isaac Burges of Wiltshire.
He died on 17 January 1731, in the forty-sixth year of his age, leaving a widow, who accompanied the wife of Robert Byng to Barbados, and died there in 1740, and left an only daughter.
His 'Miscellanies in Verse and Prose' were collected by his brother-in-law, William Duncombe, and published for the benefit of his widow in 1737 (London).
The dedication to the Duchess of Bedford, though signed by his widow, 'Sarah Hughes,' was written by John Copping, dean of Clogher.
[4] Two short pieces written by Hughes are given in John Nichols's 'Select Collection of Poems' (1780), vi.