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Sidney
Hughes
1922 - 2007
A native New
Yorker raised in Darien, Connecticut, Sidney Hughes was
the son of the late Sidney Worthington Hughes and Mary
Gossler Hughes. Sidney attended the Buckley, Thomas, and
King schools, and
Yale University. He
served in the US Army in the Pacific theatre during WWII.
In 1953, he married Annette "Cloty" McMaster. He is
survived by his wife, their children, Nancy and Thomas,
and two grandchildren, Philip and Matthew, all of New York
City.
Sidney was proud of the fact that he never obtained a
Social Security Number and stated on more than one
occasion that, “his father or grandfather had endowed the
Colonial Order of the Acorn so that there would always be
alcohol at the events.”
Those who knew Sydney remember a man of great good humor,
gentleness and generosity. He illuminated the days of his
family with love, and those of his many friends with story
telling, hospitality, and fellowship. His favorite verse
of the Bible was “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers:
for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”
He was from the old school in New York Society and, in
some ways, the 'last of the Mohegans'.
Memberships
* General Society of Colonial Wars (Governor of
the New York Society)
* Colonial Order of the Acorn (Chancellor for Life)
Chivalric Orders
*
The Most Venerable Order of the
Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
(Commander)
Other Notes
Sidney was well-known for his interest in head covering
(with over forty hats in his collection). His
tri-cornered chapeau, worn at all Society of Colonial Wars
functions, is well known by those who knew him. A writer
and raconteur par excellence with an endless repertoire,
Mr. Hughes was a member of the Union Club, the Church
Club, the Players Club, the Knickerbocker Club, The Brook, the Coffee House. He was also an active member
of the Pilgrims and Holland Lodge No. 8.
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