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Richard Hughes, English author, poet, and playwright (died 1976)
Richard Arthur Warren Hughes was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays. A Charterhouse schoolmaster had sent Hughes's first published work to the magazine The Spectator in 1917. He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 1946.
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Richard Hughes (British writer) was born in 1900. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.
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| Measure | 1900 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Average income | $438 | $67,500 |
| Postage stamp | $0.02 | $0.73 |
| Population | 76.2M | 341 million |
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