Bettany Hughes is an English historian, author, and broadcaster, specializing in classical history.
Bettany Hughes’s parents are Peter Clowe Hughes and Erica Hughes.
Bettany’s father Peter Clowe Hughes was an English actor with a career spanning five decades. He was an actor, founder, and director of a theatre, but was best known for his film and television roles.
He was born on May 20, 1922, in Kensal Green, London, United Kingdom.
Peter was partly raised in foster institutions, and initially trained as a draughtsman designing car chassis, before moving to Coventry after his mother died in 1939 where he took a post designing armoured cars.
He retired in 1999 and died in February 2019 at the age of 96.
Erica Hughes is the mother of Bettany Hughes.
Erica Hughes and her husband married till the time of Peter’s death.
Through their marriage, Erica Hughes and her husband Peter Clowe Hughes shared two children; Bettany Hughes, and Simon Hughes.