Ralph Townsend Hughes (1864-1925)
Born the son of Sir Alfred Hughes and his Maria Smith
1892 Married at Kensington to Mary Jane Birkbeck and had two daughters
1925 Obituary [1]
RALPH T. HUGHES died on April 5, 1925, at Saltburn.
He was principal of the firm of Hughes, Bolckow & Co., Ltd., shipbreakers. The firm has large establishments on the Tyne and at Blyth, and has broken up some of the most famous battleships in the British Navy.
He was elected a member of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1912.
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