Joseph Hume

(1777-1855)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hume, Joseph, 1777-1855 NRA: Hume Joseph (1777-1855) politician DNB: Hume, Joseph (1777-1855), radical and politician LBT ID: JoHume1855 VIAF ID: 10644699 LOC ID: n85231010	B/BAP: 1777-01-22 DIED: 1855-02-20
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After service in India he became a radical MP for Weymouth (1812), Aberdeen (1818-30, 1842-55), Middlesex (1830-37), and Kilkenny (1837-41); he was an associate of John Cam Hobhouse and a member of the London Greek Committee. Maria Edgeworth: “Don't like him much; attacks all things and persons, never listens, has no judgment.”