Cornelius Jabez Hughes

British Photographer · 1819–1884

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An early student of phrenology and related pseudo-scientific subjects, Cornelius Jabez Hughes was an assistant to John Jabez Edwin Mayall in London. After 1847 he moved to Glasgow, where he opened his own successful studio. He became active in the Glasgow Photographic Society in the early 1850s; in 1855 he returned to London and bought Mayall's studio. Hughes later built the Regina House Studio in