Queens' College : David Hughes, Catalogue of pamphlets bound up in my several volumes of miscellaneous tracts (vol. 1)

Queens' College

<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>David Hughes matriculated at Queens’ in 1722 and, according to records, was a native of Caernarvonshire. Admitted to the fellowship in 1727, he became Vice President in 1749, holding this position until his death in 1777. Evidently a versatile lecturer, his teaching encompassed logic, catechism, geometry, Hebrew, arithmetic and theology. Despite an entire career spent in modestly remunerated positions, Hughes’s estate as listed by his executor contained significant wealth including £6,000 in Bank of England stock. After dispersals to his siblings’ children, the residue of Hughes’s estate (including his huge library of 5,000 titles) passed to the President and Fellows of Queens’ College.</p><p>Through painstaking organisation and labelling of his books into bound collections, Hughes unwittingly bequeathed a unique record of the new ideas and controversies that shaped the Enlightenment throughout the 18th-century until Hughes’s death at the time of the American Revolution.</p><p>Vol. 2 available <a target='_blank' class='externalLink' href='https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-QUEENS-COLLEGE-00063-B/'>here</a>.</p></p>