Joseph Hume

Joseph Hume (1777-1855) was a Scottish surgeon and a radical politician, born in Montrose. He studied medicine, and served as a surgeon under the East India Company in India, made his fortune, and came home. He adopted the political principles of Bentham and entered Parliament, of which he continued a prominent member till his death. He was an ardent reformer, and lived to see many of the measures he advocated crowned with success.

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