Billy Hughes (educationist)
Herbert Delauney Hughes (7 September 1914 – 15 November 1995), known as Billy Hughes, was a British adult educationist and Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1950 and principal of Ruskin College from 1950 to 1979.
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“Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda,
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