| 词条 | Jabez Hughes |
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Jabez Hughes (1685?–1731) was an English translator. LifeHughes 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 was the younger brother of John Hughes.[1] Hughes was for some years one of the receiver's clerks in the stamp office. 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. WorksHughes translated:
and several novels from the Spanish of Cervantes, which were published anonymously in Samuel Croxall's 'Select Collection of Novels and Histories' (second edition, London, 1729, six vols.) 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.[2] Two short pieces written by Hughes are given in John Nichols's 'Select Collection of Poems' (1780), vi. 39-40. References1. ^{{cite book |url = https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RKIrAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR5 |page= |title= The Poetical Works of John Hughes: In Two Volumes, with the Life of the Author, Volume 1|author= John Hughes |publisher = Apollo Press | date= 1779 |accessdate = 29 December 2018}} {{Cite DNB|wstitle=Hughes, Jabez}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Hughes, Jabez}}2. ^Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, 1814, viii. 268 9 : 1680s births|1731 deaths|18th-century English people|17th-century English writers|17th-century male writers|English translators|18th-century English writers|18th-century male writers|English male non-fiction writers |
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