Thomas Hughes (cricketer)

Thomas Fiott Hughes (28 January 1825 — 18 June 1887) was an English first-class cricketer and diplomatic secretary and consul to the Ottoman Empire.

The son of Thomas Smart Hughes and his wife, Ann Maria, he was born in January 1825 at Chesterton, Cambridgeshire.

He was appointed to secretary at the British Embassy at Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire in June 1846.

[5] a position he held for ten years until his appointment as consul at Erzurum in July 1856.

[7][8] At the time of his death at Cheltenham in June 1887, Hughes was regarded as a distinguished Oriental scholar.