Nicholas Hughes

Quick Facts

Full Name	Nicholas Hughes
Occupation	Biologist
Date Of Birth	Jan 17, 1962(1962-01-17)
Age	62
Date Of Death	2009-03-16
Birthplace	North Tawton
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Capricorn

Nicholas Hughes Biography

Nicholas Hughes is one of the most popular and richest Biologist who was born on January 17, 1962 in North Tawton, England, United Kingdom. After a long battle with depression, he committed suicide as a biologist, just like his mother Sylvia Platter. He was an expert on the ecology of salmonid fish, and was a professor at University of Alaska Fairbanks.

After the 1963 death of his mother, he was raised in his father’s home Following the death of his mother in 1963, he was raised by his father, Ted Hughes..

Nicholas Farrar Hughes (January 17, 1962 – March 16, 2009) was an English- American fisheries biologist known as an expert in stream salmonid ecology. Hughes was the son of the American poet Sylvia Plath and English poet Ted Hughes and the younger brother of artist and poet Frieda Hughes. He and his sister were well known to the public through the media when he was a small child, especially after the well-publicized suicide of his mother. Hughes held dual British/American citizenship.

After her son was born, Plath wrote most of the poems that would comprise her most famous collection of poems (the posthumously published Ariel), and published her semi-autobiographical novel about mental illness, The Bell Jar. In the summer of 1962, Ted Hughes began an affair with Assia Wevill; Hughes and Plath separated in the autumn of 1962. On February 11, 1963, while Nicholas, age one, and his sister Frieda, two and a half, slept upstairs, Plath taped shut the doorframe of the room in which the children slept, then placed towels around the kitchen door to make sure fumes could not escape to harm the children, and committed suicide using the toxic gas from the kitchen oven.

He is a member of a world-famous family that includes Ted Hughes, Ted Hughes, and Freida Hughes.

Nicholas Hughes Net Worth

Nicholas Hughes is one of the richest Biologist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nicholas Hughes 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1991, he received his Ph.D. in Biology from University of Alaska Fairbanks.

He was the subject in “Nick and the Candlestick,” one of his last poems.

Nicholas was born in North Tawton, Devon, England in 1962. Through his father’s mother, Hughes was related to Nicholas Ferrar (1592–1637).

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Nicholas Hughes Dating?

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On March 16, 2009, Hughes hanged himself in his home in Fairbanks, Alaska. According to his sister Frieda and his UAF colleagues, he had been very depressed.

Facts & Trivia

Nicholas Ranked on the list of most popular Biologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Nicholas Hughes celebrates birthday on January 17 of every year.

Did Nicholas Hughes have kids?

In 1998, Hughes published Birthday Letters, over 30 years of poems about Plath, which he dedicated to his two children.

What happened to Nicholas Hughes?

Nicholas Hughes, the son of the poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, killed himself on March 16 at his home in Alaska , four decades after his mother and father’s lover took their own lives. He was 47. His sister, Frieda Hughes, announced his death, by hanging, over the weekend.

Was Sylvia Plath's husband abusive?

New Letters Alleging Abuse are Only Shocking if You Haven’t Been Listening. Back in April, the Guardian dropped an apparent literary bombshell— new letters had been discovered from the poet Sylvia Plath, alleging horrific physical abuse at the hands of her husband, the British poet Ted Hughes.

Did Sylvia Plath want to have children?

Children

How old were Sylvia Plath's children when she committed suicide?

Plath’s death, killed herself and her 4-year-old daughter, Shura.