Edwin Hughes

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The name Edwin Hughes appears in reference to Charles Albert Edwin Harriss, whose father, Edwin H., was an organist at St. Mark’s, Wrexham, where Charles was a chorister at age eight (A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 1900; A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 2nd ed., 1905). Charles Harriss later lived with his father in Montreal, Canada, from 1883. This Edwin Hughes is distinct from the “Mr. Hughes” who translated letters of Abaelard and Heloissa, which he himself considered “rather a paraphrase on, than a translation from, the original Latin,” according to A General History of the Science and Practice of Music, Vol. 1 (1875). Other sources, such as A General History of the Science and Practice of Music, Vol. 2 (1875) and Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique, Vol. 4 (1883), refer to a “Mr. John Hughes,” a poet and author of “The Siege of Damascus,” who was also a violinist at Britton’s concert and wrote an “Ode in Praise of Musick” (1703).