Harry "Scud" East

A character in Thomas Hughes' novel "Tom Brown's Schooldays", a schoolboy of the same level as Tom Brown himself.  When he first meets Tom, he's described as "a genuine specimen" of "a lower-school boy"; "frank, hearty, and good-natured, well-satisfied with himself and his position, and choke-full of life and spirits, and all the Rugby prejudices and traditions which he had been able to get together in the... more

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Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes (20 October 1822 – 22 March 1896) was an English lawyer and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's School Days (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861). Hughes was the...

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