Hughes, W. M. (William Morris) (1862-1952)

Also known as
Hughes, Billy (1862-1952)
Hughes, William Morris (1862-1952)
Field of activity
autobiographer/memoirist; journalist; labour politician; liberal/conservative politician; Member of Lower House; prime minister; pro-conscriptionist
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HUGHES, WILLIAM MORRIS (1862-1952), prime minister, was born on 25 September 1862 at Pimlico, London, son of William Hughes, a carpenter from North Wales employed at the Houses of Parliament, and his wife Jane, née Morris. His father was Welsh speaking, a deacon of the Particular Baptist Church and a conservative in politics. His mother, a farmer's daughter from Llansantffraid, Montgomeryshire, who had been in service in London, was English speaking and Anglican. She was thirty-seven when she married, and William Morris was her only child. She died when he was seven and for the next five years Hughes lived with his father's sister at Llandudno, where he went to school, spending his holidays on the Morris farm. In 1874 he became a pupil-teacher at St Stephen's School, Westminster, where he had large classes of boys little younger than himself, but where he was well grounded in English history and literature. A lively youth, fonder of games than of lessons, he won a prize for French and caught the eye of the inspector, Matthew Arnold. He remained as an assistant after his five years apprenticeship, and joined a volunteer battalion of the Royal Fusiliers nearby.

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  1. Crusts and crusades : tales of bygone days / W.M. Hughes
    Hughes, W. M. (William Morris), 1862-1952
    [ Book : 1947-1948 ]
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  2. Policies and potentates / by W.M. Hughes
    Hughes, W. M. (William Morris), 1862-1952
    [ Book : 1950 ]
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  3. Personal effects of William Morris Hughes
    Hughes, W. M. (William Morris), 1862-1952
    [ Object : 1900-1940 ]
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  4. Papers of William Morris Hughes
    Hughes, W. M. (William Morris), 1862-1952
    [ Unpublished : 1865-1958 ]
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  5. Crusts and crusades : tales of bygone days / by W.M. Hughes
    Hughes, Billy, 1862-1952
    [ Book : 1947-1950 ]
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  6. Hughes and his views / compiled for the benefit of Mr Hughes by his best friend Frank Anstey
    Hughes, W. M. (William Morris), 1862-1952
    [ Book : 1917 ]
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  7. William Hughes state parliamentary luncheon
    Hughes, W. M. (William Morris), 1862-1952
    [ Sound : 1950 ]
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  8. 'Billy' : cartoon history / by Low
    Low, David, 1891-1963
    [ Book : 1952-1953 ]
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  9. Letter : Sydney, to W. M. Tomkinson, Hawthorn
    Hughes, W. M. (William Morris), 1862-1952
    [ Unpublished : 1939 ]
    At State Library of VIC
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  10. Papers [M1114-1119]
    Long, Walter Hume Viscount, 1854-1924
    [ Unpublished : 1950 ]
    At 5 libraries
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  1. Billy Hughes : Prime Minister and controversial founding father of the Australian Labor Party / Aneurin Hughes
    Hughes, Aneurin
    [ Book : 2005 ]
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  2. Crusts and crusades : tales of bygone days / W.M. Hughes
    Hughes, W. M. (William Morris), 1862-1952
    [ Book : 1947-1948 ]
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  3. Policies and potentates / by W.M. Hughes
    Hughes, W. M. (William Morris), 1862-1952
    [ Book : 1950 ]
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  4. William Morris Hughes : Prime Minister for the underdog / Diana Chase and Valerie Krantz; illustrated by Lynne Tracey
    Chase, Diana
    [ Book : 1993 ]
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  5. In search of Billy Hughes / [by] Donald Horne
    Horne, Donald, 1921-2005
    [ Book : 1979 ]
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  6. William Morris Hughes : his life and times / by W. Farmer Whyte
    Whyte, W. Farmer (William Farmer), 1879-
    [ Book : 1957 ]
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  7. Personal effects of William Morris Hughes
    Hughes, W. M. (William Morris), 1862-1952
    [ Object : 1900-1940 ]
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  8. William Morris Hughes : a political biography / by L. F. Fitzhardinge
    Fitzhardinge, L. F
    [ Book, Article : 1964-1979 ]
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  9. Papers of William Morris Hughes
    Hughes, W. M. (William Morris), 1862-1952
    [ Unpublished : 1865-1958 ]
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  10. Billy Hughes / Donald Horne ; with an introduction by Frank Moorhouse
    Horne, Donald, 1921-2005
    [ Book : 1979-2000 ]
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  4. The Aeneid / Virgil ; translated and with an introduction by David West
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  3. Memorial To W. M. Hughes In St Paul's
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