George Edward Hughes

Who was George Edward Hughes?

George Edward Hughes was a philosopher and logician whose principal scholarly works were concerned with modal logic and medieval philosophy.

He was born on 8 June 1918 in Waterford, Ireland. His parents, who were English, moved to Scotland in the early 1920s, in response to The Troubles. George graduated MA with First Class Honours in Philosophy and English, and then in pure Philosophy, from the University of Glasgow. He then studied for a year at the University of Cambridge, before being called back to Glasgow as an assistant lecturer. Subsequently he held lectureships at the University College of South Wales at Cardiff, and then the University College of North Wales at Bangor. In 1951 he was appointed to the first Chair in Philosophy at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, a position from which he retired in 1984. He died in Wellington on 4 March 1994.