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Edward Francis Hughes

Short Name: Edward Francis Hughes
Full Name: Hughes, Edward Francis, 1814-1879
Birth Year: 1814
Death Year: 1879

Hughes, Edward Francis, p. 1572, i. This writer, the author of ”How kind is the Saviour," &c, was an English Baptist Minister who took up his abode in Australia, where he became editor of a newspaper. He died in Victoria, and is buried in the Portland Cemetery there.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)


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