Lucy Jane Hughes passed away on board of the ship "Andromache" on her way to Calcutta. She was the eldest daughter of John Hughes. Dr. John Hughes was one of the earliest Veterinary surgeons of the East India Company in India. Dr. Hughes founded a firm, "Messrs. Hughes and Templar", along with fellow surgeon Edward Templar. The Agra and Bengal Gazette notes, the firm was located at 25, Dhurmotollah Street. Dr. Hughes and his firm made extensive study on diseases affecting horses. Dr Hughes wrote on a disease called 'Kumree' (pronounced : Kaam - Ree), which was widely affecting the horses in and around Calcutta was communicated to the editors of 'The Veterinarian,' a Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science, by a certain Mr. Molyneaux in 1830. W.B. O'Shaughnessy, who introduced the therapeutic use of cannabis to Western medicine, mentioned about the successful use of hemp by Hughes & Templar firm in treatment of tetanus in horses.
Dr. Hughes passed away in 1846 at the age of 47 and is buried in the same grave, along with his son and two other daughters.
Sarbajit Mitra