He was the President of the Church's Consistorial Court of Discipline in the world Lyra lives in the novel trilogy His Dark Materials. He wants to abolish Free Will and is very determined to hunt down and kill Lyra, the protagonist, as she is Eve reincarnated and as being Eve, the first woman, Lyra will fall to what Hugh calls "Original Sin." So he sends out a man named Father Gomez to assassinate Lyra with a shotgun to the head. As Lyra opens a gate from the Underworld into the Multiverse, it is presumed Hugh's ghost went through the opening and became one with everything.