Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet
Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet (London 29 February 1749 – 24 March 1838 London) was a British floriculturist and Tory politician.
He married Amelia Egerton (25 November 1751 – 8 August 1809), daughter of John Egerton, Bishop of Durham.[1]
He was appointed High Sheriff of Hertfordshire for 1774 [2] and also elected at the 1774 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Petersfield in Hampshire,[3] and holding the seat until the 1780 general election, when he did not contest Petersfield again.[3]
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.[4] He resigned the seat in early 1812 in order to contest a by-election in Boston,[4] where he was defeated in April 1812,[5] and was then re-elected for Hastings at a by-election later the same month.[4] At the 1812 general election, he contested both Boston[5] and Hastings,[4] but was elected only in the latter, and held that seat until the 1818 general election,[6] when he contested neither Boston[4] nor Hastings.[4]
Both Sir Abraham Hume and his wife were active as rosarians and developed several rose cultivars at their estate in Hertfordshire. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in December 1775,[7] and one of the founding members of the Geological Society and the British Institution.
He was a keen art collector, especially of Old Master prints and drawings (drawings by Polidoro da Caravaggio were a particular favourite). He was friends with Sir Joshua Reynolds who left him in his will a small painting by Claude Lorrain, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Bibliography
- Sir Abraham Hume
- Henry Drummond – History of Noble British Families – William Pickering, London 1844
References
- ↑ See Hume, Abraham (1749–1838), in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Volume 28.
- ↑ Complete Baronetage
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844–1850]. Craig, F. W. S., ed. The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 130. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Stooks Smith, pages 337–8
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Stooks Smith, page 197
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 2)
- ↑ "Library and Archive Catalog". Royal Society. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Abraham Hume
| Parliament of Great Britain | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Welbore Ellis William Jolliffe |
Member of Parliament for Petersfield 1774–1780 With: William Jolliffe |
Succeeded by Thomas Jolliffe William Jolliffe |
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by Sir William Middleton, Bt Sir John Nicholl |
Member of Parliament for Hastings 1807–1818 With: George Canning 1807–12 James Dawkins 1812–18 |
Succeeded by George Peter Holford James Dawkins |
| Baronetage of Great Britain | ||
| Preceded by Abraham Hume |
Baronet (of Wormleybury, Herts) 1772–1838 |
Extinct |