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He married Amelia Egerton (25 November 1751 –– 8 August 1809), daughter of John Egerton, Bishop of Durham.
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Title: A Descriptive Catalogue of Diamonds in the Cabinet of Sir Abraham Hume, Bart. ... By the Count de Bournon. (Letter from the Count de Bournon to Sir Abraham Hume on the crystallization of the diamond.) With plates. Translated from the French by Sir A. Hume. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The GEOLOGY collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The works in this collection contain a number of maps, charts, and tables from the 16th to the 19th centuries documenting geological features of the natural world. Also contained are textbooks and early scientific studies that catalogue and chronicle the human stance toward water and land use. Readers will further enjoy early historical maps of rivers and shorelines demonstrating the artistry of journeymen, cartographers, and illustrators. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Hume, Abraham; Bournon, Jacques Louis de Count; 1815, 1816. xix xxi. 40 p. ; 4º. 7105.ee.29.
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He married Amelia Egerton (25 November 1751 –– 8 August 1809), daughter of John Egerton, Bishop of Durham.
He was returned to the House of Commons 27 years later, at the 1807 general election as an Member of Parliament for the borough of Hastings in Sussex. He resigned the seat in early 1812 in order to contest a by-election in Boston, where he was defeated in April 1812, and was then re-elected for Hastings at a by-election later the same month. At the 1812 general election, he contested both Boston and Hastings, but was elected only in the latter, and held that seat until the 1818 general election, when he contested neither Boston nor Hastings.
He was a keen art collector, especially of Old Master prints and drawings (drawings by Polidoro da Caravaggio were a particular favourite).
They had issue:
Amelia Hume (21 January 1772-1715 January 1837)
Amelia Sophia Hume (31 July 1788-1721 February 1814).
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Royal Society; 4th United Kingdom Parliament. 5th United Kingdom Parliament. 16th Parliament of Great Britain]
He was appointed High Sheriff of Hertfordshire for 1774 and also elected at the 1774 general election as a Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for the borough of Petersfield in Hampshire, and holding the seat until the 1780 general election, when he did not contest Petersfield again.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in December 1775, and one of the founding members of the Geological Society and the British Institution.