Thomas Hughes
（重定向自Hughes, Thomas）
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Thomas Hughes QC (20 October 1822 –22 March 1896) was an English lawyer, judge and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's School Days (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861).