Abraham Hume (other)
Abraham Hume may refer to: *Sir Abraham Hume, 1st Baronet (1703–1772), MP for Steyning * Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet (1749–1838) *Abraham Hume (priest) (1814–1884), English priest and antiquary *Abraham Hume (cricketer) Abraham Hume (28 June 1819 – 1 July 1888) was an English clergyman and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and the Marylebone Cricket Club. He was born at Willingale, Essex, and died at Wortham, Suffolk. Hu ...

Sir Abraham Hume, 1st Baronet
Sir Abraham Hume, 1st Baronet (1703 – 10 October 1772) was a British businessman and MP. He was the fourth son of Robert Home (subsequently Hume) of Ayton, Berwick. Hume was a Principal Managing Owner for groups which built ships and hired them to the East India Company.Anthony Farrington, Catalogue of East India Company Ships' Journals and Logs 1600-1834, British Library, 1999 He was elected Member of Parliament for Steyning in 1747–54, and Tregony in 1761–68, both rotten boroughs. After inheriting the Wormleybury estate from his brother Alexander in 1765 he rebuilt the house his brother had commissioned in 1734. He was given a baronet on 4 April 1769. He was the father of 2 sons and a daughter by his wife Hannah, sixth daughter of Sir Thomas Frederick and was succeeded by his eldest son Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet (29 February 1749 – 24 March 1838, in London) was a British floriculturist and Tory politician who sat in the House of ...
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Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet
Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet (29 February 1749 – 24 March 1838, in London) was a British floriculturist and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1818. Life and Politics He was born the eldest son of Sir Abraham Hume, 1st Baronet, of Wormleybury, Hertfordshire, whom he succeeded in 1772, inheriting his title and the Wormleybury estate. He was appointed High Sheriff of Hertfordshire for 1774 and also elected at the 1774 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Petersfield in Hampshire, and holding the seat until the 1780 general election, when he did not contest Petersfield again. He was returned to the House of Commons 27 years later, at the 1807 general election as an MP for the borough of Hastings in Sussex.Stooks Smith, pages 337–8 He resigned the seat in early 1812 in order to contest a by-election in Boston, where he was defeated in April 1812,Stooks Smith, page 197 and was then re-elected for Hastings at a ...
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Abraham Hume (priest)
Abraham Hume (1814–1884) was a Scots-Irish Anglican priest in Liverpool, known as a social researcher, supporter of learned societies, and antiquary, Life The son of Thomas F. Hume, of Scottish descent, he was born at Hillsborough, County Down, on 9 February 1814. He was educated at the Belfast Royal Academy, Glasgow University, and Trinity College Dublin. On leaving Trinity College, Hume was for some time a mathematics and English teacher, first in Belfast, and then at the Liverpool Institute and Liverpool Collegiate Institution. In 1843 he graduated B.A. at Dublin, and received the honorary degree of LL.D. at the University of Glasgow. In the same year he was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Chester, and after serving as curate for four years without stipend at St. Augustine's, Liverpool, was appointed in 1847 vicar of the new parish of Vauxhall there. In 1845 he launched a severe attack on ''Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation''. Hume took part in most of the pub ...
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