 Hughes married Margery Pargeter in 1931 but the marriage ended in divorce, as did his second, to (Sybil) Barbara Mcfadyean (1917-2006) in 1945.He married his third wife Charmain (née Finch Noyes) in 1955, and they moved from London to a 17th-century farmhouse at Ringmer, Sussex, near Glynde, where they lived until his death in 1987.She survived him and died in 2003.