Family and Education
b. 22 Jan. 1777, yr. s. of James Hume, shipmaster, of Montrose, Forfar and w. Mary Allan. According to Willis’s Current Notes (1855), 48. educ. Montrose acad.; Edinburgh Univ. 1793-5; The Times, 26 Feb. 1855. Aberdeen Univ., MD 1799. m. 17 Aug. 1815, Maria, da. and h. of Hardin Burnley, merchant, of Brunswick Square, Mdx., 3s. 4da. Gent. Mag. (1815), ii. 178; PROB 11/2210/326. She was bap. in July 1786 (IGI). d. 20 Feb. 1855.
Offices Held
Asst. surgeon, E.I. Co. naval service 1797, full asst. surgeon 1799; on Bengal medical establishment 1799–1808.
Rect. Aberdeen Univ. 1824 – 26, 1828–9.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: 38 York Place, Portman Square and 6 Bryanston Square, Mdx.; Burnley Hall, Norf.
Notes
See R.K. Huch and P.R. Zeigler, Joseph Hume: the People’s MP (1985) and V. Chancellor, The Political Life of Joseph Hume (1986). Neither is up to much. For a fresh perspective on Hume see M. Taylor, The Decline of British Radicalism (1995) and ‘Joseph Hume and the Reformation of India, 1819-33’, in Radicalism in English Political Thought, 1550-1850 ed. G. Burgess and M. Festenstein (2005).
Volume
Commons 1820-1832
Web Title
HUME, Joseph (1777-1855)
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Oxford 1644
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