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Hughes lost enormous sums through extravagant living and gambling; a pamphlet published in 1824 warned him by name about gamblers who would take his money. He was forced to move to France in 1829 to avoid his creditors, and his affairs were left in the hands of his solicitors, Freere and
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in India, but Henry predeceased him. Admiral Hughes died in 1794 without issue, and Edward Hughes Ball, son of Ruth's second son David Ball (c. 1760–1798), inherited the Hughes money (40,000 pounds a year, an enormous fortune) upon turning 21; he adopted the Hughes last name at that time. Ball
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Hughes had several relationships while in France, although it is unclear whether he actually remarried. With actress Eliza
Breugnot Monborne he had three children: Edward Seymour (1831–1867); Adeline Eleanor (1833–?), and Sydney Matilda (1835–1908). Edward Seymour died in 1867 in
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Edward Hughes Ball Hughes later had several children with Anne
Henriette de Dauvet: Edward Edmund Hughes Ball Hughes (1850–?) and Kate Henrietta Edwardine Hughes Ball Hughes (1851–?). He died at
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after his horse fell on him; d'Orsay had made a portrait of him as a young man. Adeline married Ernest Louis
Auguste Graves Van der Smissen (1824–95), the brother of
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quipped, "The damsel is gone, and no wonder at all / that, bred to the dance, she is gone to a Ball." They later separated and were divorced in 1839.
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sent him an allowance to live on. He still had substantial sums; according to a government report, he was one of the foreign investors in the
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Views of the most interesting collegiate and parochial churches in Great Britain...
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Dod's peerage, baronetage and knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland...
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A letter to Ball Hughes Esq. on club house and private gaming...
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623:"How They Do These Things at Vienna", Cornelius O'Dowd, in
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History, gazetteer and directory of the county of Devon
18:Not to be confused with English-American sculptor
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526:Catherine Ball Hughes at Victorian Research
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420:legal document detailing the ownership
382:, "Admonisher", London, J. Evans, 1824
44:known for his extravagant lifestyle.
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733:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
472:Henry Ball obit notice, Aug. 9, 1792
107:in 1832, holding $ 51,000 in stock.
662:, Vol. 5, January–June 1870, p. 452
748:People from Epping Forest District
370:(London), September 22, 1817, p. 1
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672:A page of Dighton etchings, with
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408:Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania
551:, 1865, entry "Hartwell", p. 313
351:"Ball , Edward Hughes (BL815EH)"
149:. She was later a friend of the
105:Second Bank of the United States
29:Ball Hughes in 1819 (etching by
743:People educated at Eton College
561:Debrett's Baronetage of England
392:Celebrities of London and Paris
625:Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
539:, Volume 36 (1810), p. 128-132
325:"Georgian Index bio of Hughes"
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601:Van der Smissen genealogy
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209:National Portrait Gallery
87:In 1824 Hughes purchased
38:Edward Hughes Ball Hughes
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591:, 1 December 1867, p. 70
567:, London, 1839, p. 318-9
460:Modern English Biography
398:, London, 1865, p. 112-3
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213:Countess of Blessington
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537:The Sporting Magazine
443:The Law Times Reports
293:The Amateur Gentleman
221:Bernard Blackmantle's
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698:on 19 November 2011
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52:Hughes was born in
738:English socialites
637:bio of Blessington
612:The London Gazette
487:John Preston Neale
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