Death
Hughes died on 28 October 1952 (aged 90), in his home in the Sydney suburb of Lindfield, survived by the six children of his first marriage and by his second wife Mary. (Their daughter Helen died in childbirth in 1937 in London, aged 21 from septicaemia. Their grandson now lives in Sydney under another name.) His state funeral was held at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney and was one of the largest Australia has seen: some 450,000 spectators lined the streets. He was later buried at Northern Suburbs Anglican Cemetery. His widow, Dame Mary Hughes, died in 1958.
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