Leslie P. Hume (nee Bryant) is an American historian and philanthropist from

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. She has published scholarship about the place of women in the Victorian era as well as women's suffrage societies. She served as President of the Board of Trustees of

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from 2008 to 2012, making her the second woman after

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ever to do so.

Biography

Early life

Leslie Parker Hume graduated from

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in 1969, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History.At a glance: Incoming Board of Trustees Chair Leslie P. Hume
Stanford Report, April 16, 2008 She received a master's degree in 1971 and a PhD in 1979 from

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.Stanford PACS: Center on Philanthropy and Society: Leslie Hume

Scholarly career

She edited a volume about women during the Victorian era in 1981 and wrote a book about women's suffrage societies from 1897 to 1914 in 1982. She also worked as a consultant for the

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.Leslie Hume elected to Board of Trustees
Stanford Report, December 13, 2000

Philanthropy

She has served on the Boards of Trustees of

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, the

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, Summerbridge National, and the Bay Area Discovery Museum.Leslie P. Hume
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'' She was a founding member of the Board of Trustees of the

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, where she served as its President. She was elected to the board of trustees of Stanford University in 2000. She served as its President from 2008 to 2012, making her the second woman after

to do so. She serves co-Chair the 2013-2014 Advisory Council of Stanford Live, the performing arts organization at Stanford. With her husband, she endowed some fellowships for undergraduate students at Stanford University. They also endowed the ''Hume Center for Writing and Speaking'' at Stanford University.

Personal life

She is married to George H. Hume, a businessman, philanthropist, and heir to the

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fortune. They have a son and a daughter.

Bibliography

As an editor

*''Victorian Women: A Documentary Account of Women's Lives in 19th-Century England, France and the United States'' (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1981).

As an author

*''The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914'' (Garland Publishing, 1982).Google Books
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References

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