Sir Abraham Hume, 1st Baronet (1703 – 10 October 1772) was a British businessman and MP. Wormleybury in 1816

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 The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...

.Anthony Farrington, Catalogue of East India Company Ships' Journals and Logs 1600-1834, British Library, 1999 He was elected Member of Parliament for

Steyning Steyning ( ) is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Horsham District, Horsham district of West Sussex, England. It is located at the north end of the River Adur gap in the South Downs, north of the coastal town of Shoreha ...

in 1747–54, and

Tregony Tregony (), sometimes in the past Tregoney, is a village and former civil parishes in England, civil parish, now in the parish of Tregony with Cuby, in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies on the River Fal. In the village there is a post o ...

in 1761–68, both

rotten boroughs A rotten or pocket borough, also known as a nomination borough or proprietorial borough, was a parliamentary borough or constituency in England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom before the Reform Act of 1832, which had a very small electo ...

. 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 (British political party), Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1818. Life and Politics He was bor ...

. Their daughter Hannah married the wit James Hare.

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1703 births 1772 deaths People from Berwick-upon-Tweed Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1747–1754 British MPs 1761–1768 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for constituencies in Cornwall

301 __NOTOC__ Year 301 ( CCCI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Postumius and Nepotianus (or, less frequently, year 1054 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denominatio ...

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