Rugby, Tennessee
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Rugby is an unincorporated community in Morgan and Scott counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Founded in 1880 by English author Thomas Hughes, Rugby was built as an experimental utopian colony. Wh
Christ Church Episcopal at Rugby
Thomas Hughes Library, built 1882
Laurel Dale Cemetery contains the graves of Rugby's 1881 typhoid victims along with Margaret Hughes and other early colonists
The reconstructed Board of Aid building (foreground) and the Rugby Commissary appear much as the originals did in the 1880s
Primogeniture
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Primogeniture is the right, by law or custom, of the firstborn legitimate child to inherit all or most of their parent's estate, as well as succeed their parent as the ruler of a state.
Rugby, Tennessee
…Historic Places as a historic district. The Rugby experiment grew out of the social and economic conditions of Victorian England, where the practice of primogeniture and an economic depression had left many of the "second sons" of the English gentry jobless and idle. Hughes envisioned Rugby as a colony where England's…
Esau Sells His Birthright for Pottage of Lentils, a 1728 engraving by Gerard Hoet