Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet

Biographical Summary

Sir Abraham Hume, Baronet [1769], of Wormleybury aforesaid, 1st s. and h., b. in Hill street, 20 Feb. 1749 [O.S.], suc. 1838. to the Baronetcy, 10 Oct. 1772 ; Sheriff of Herts, 1774-75 ; M.P. for Petersfield, 1774-80, and for Hastings, 1807-18 ; suc. to the family estate of Fernyside in Coldingham, by the death in 1785 of his father's 1st cousin, Elizabeth Robertson, widow, da. and h. of Alexander Home, of Fernyside (d. 1736), eldest br. of Robert Hume, otherwise Home abovenamed. He was F.S.A, as also F.R.S., being at the time of his death the senior member of that Society. He m. 25 April 1771 (spec. lic.), at her father's house in Amen Corner, Paternoster Row, St, Michael's Ludgate, London, Amelia, sister of Francis Henry, 8th and last Earl of Bridgwater, only da. of John Egkrton, D.D., Bishop of Darham (1771-87), by his 1st wife, Anne Sophia, da. of Henry (Grey), Duke of Kent. She, who was b. 25 Nov. 1754, d. 8 and was bur. 16 Aug. 1809, at Wormley. M.I. He d. s.p.m. at Wormleybury, 24 March 1838, in his 90th year, when the Baronetcy became extinct. Will pr. May 1838.

SOURCE: Complete baronetage; Cokayne, George E. (George Edward); 1906; Vol. V; page 150

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SIR ABRAHAM HUME Baronet

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