Title

Hughes, George (fl.1796-1800).

Author

Author not identified

Source

Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Details

volume 1, 1966, page 562.

Publication date

1966

Type

Dictionary entry

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

He was described by David Collins as a decent young man with some abilities in the printing line and was the first to be given charge of the wooden screw press brought to Port Jackson by Governor Phillip in the First Fleet. In a small printery behind Government House Hughes printed some 200 Government Orders, several broadsides and a few playbills; one of these was forThe Recruiting Officer, in which he was a performer in March 1800. Next November when George Howe (q.v.) arrived and was

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