Sir Abraham Hume, 1st Baronet
Sir Abraham Hume, 1st Baronet (1703 – 10 October 1772) was a British Member of Parliament for Steyning,[1] 1747–1761, and Tregony,[2] 1761–1768, both rotten boroughs. He was a Principal Managing Owner for groups which built ships and hired them to the East India Company.[3]
He was the father of Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet, by his wife Hannah, sixth daughter of Sir Thomas Frederick. Their daughter Hannah married the wit James Hare.[4][5]
References
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 5)
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)
- ^ Anthony Farrington, Catalogue of East India Company Ships' Journals and Logs 1600-1834, British Library, 1999
- ^ "Sir Abraham Hume, 1st Bt". The Peerage. Retrieved 2010-07-25.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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