Richard Hughes
| Richard Hughes LRCP, MRCS | |||||||||
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| Born | 1836 | ||||||||
| Died | 1902 | ||||||||
| Residence | 10 Pavilion Road, Brighton | ||||||||
| Occupation | medical | ||||||||
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1866.05.15 Dr Hughes’s resignation was accepted [assume this is him]
in A31/2/2 [list Aug 20 1866] name crossed out R
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Richard Hughes 1836 – 1902 was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become a Physician at the Brighton Homeopathic Dispensary, Editor of the British Journal of Homeopathy and Permanent Secretary of the Organization of the International Congress of Homoeopathy Physicians (William Harvey King, History of homoeopathy and its institutions in America: their founders, benefactors, faculties, officers, hospitals, alumni, etc., with a record of achievement of its representatives in the world of medicine, Volume 3. Chapter XV Hering Medical College and Hospital by Drs. H. C. Allen and J. B. S. King, (The Lewis Publishing Company, 1905)). Richard Hughes was also President of the 2nd International Homeopathic Congress held in London (Anon, The Medical Counselor, Volume 7, (The Michigan State Homeopathic Society, 1883). Page 347) in on 11th-18th July 1881 (Anon, The Homeopathic World, (August 1,1881)) at Aberdeen House, Argyll Street, Regent Street.
Richard Hughes was the ‘Grand Old Man’ of British homeopathy. The Faculty of Homeopathy still conducts annual Richard Hughes Memorial Lectures. Richard Hughes tried to focus homeopathy into accord with the orthodox allopathic physicians, in the forlorn hope that homeopathy would become accepted and mainstream. As such he started a factional dispute with other homeopaths who favoured a very different approach, and who formed themselves into the Cooper Club (See http://sueyounghistories.com/archives/2009/02/15/robert-thomas-cooper-1844-1903/).
In 1898, Richard Hughes was present when Samuel Hahnemann‘s body was disinterred from his tomb, for reburial under a more suitable memorial at the Cemetery of Pere Lachaise. Francois Cartier was Secretary to the Sub Committee in Charge of Samuel Hahnemann‘s tomb, alongside Brasol, Richard Hughes, Bushrod Washington James and Alexander von Villers.
