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HUMBERSTON-CAWLEY-FLOYER, CHARLES, second son of William Humberston-Cawley-Floyer (qv); b. 11 Nov 1801; adm. 20 Sep 1815 (Packharness'); left 1819; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 May 1820; migr. to Trinity Coll. Oxford 3 Jan 1821; BA 1824; MA 1828; ordained; Chaplain to Lord Sudeley; d. 29 Jan 1871.

HUMBERSTON-CAWLEY-FLOYER, JOHN, eldest son of William Humberston-Cawley-Floyer (qv); b. 1799; adm. Mich. 1809; left 1813; Cornet, 3rd Dragoons 14 Oct 1819; Lieut., 5 May 1825; retd. 4 Apr 1826; d. 1 Jan 1877.

HUMBERSTON-CAWLEY-FLOYER, WILLIAM, son of John Humberston (afterwards Humberston-Cawley), Gwersylt Park, Denbighshire, and Mary, third dau. of Charles Floyer, Hints Hall, Staffs.; b. 17 Jul 1766; adm. 11 Mar 1776; left Christmas 1777; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 3 Nov 1783; assumed additional surname of Floyer 14 Dec 1793; of Hints Hall, Staffordshire; m. 1794 his cousin Catherine, sister of Theophilus Levett (adm. 1775, qv); d. 3 Aug 1853.

HUME, ALEXANDER, eldest son of Alexander Macleod, Harris, Inverness-shire, Capt. EIC Maritime Service, and Susanna, dau. of Robert Hume, Charleston, South Carolina; b.; adm. 4 Jun 1768 (as Alexander Macleod); in school lists 1775; Writer, EICS Madras 1777; Assistant to Military Secretary 1777; Factor 1782; “a remarkably clever and accomplished young man” (Hickey, Memoirs, iii, 243-4); Senior Merchant and one of Collectors of Jaghire Revenue 1790; Collector, Madura and Nellore, and Peichcash of the Marwars 1792; Collector, Dindigul 1795; Resident, Negapatam, and Revenue Assistant under the Resident at Nagore 1800-3; assumed by royal licence 28 Nov 1801 the surname of Hume instead of Macleod, in accordance with the will of his uncle Alexander Hume; dismissed from EICS 6 Apr 1803; of Harris, Inverness-shire; one of donors of Warren Hastings Cup; m. 6 Aug 1786 Sophia, dau. of William Wrangham, EICS St. Helena; d. at Lympstone, Devon 8 May 1812.

HUME, DONALD MACLEOD CASTANOS ABRAHAM, youngest son of Alexander Hume (qv); b. 30 Aug 1806; adm. 2 Nov 1819. [Perhaps Donald Hume Macleod (sic), Ensign 63rd Foot 25 Dec 1826, Lieut. 17 Nov 1832, still in Army List 1835, not 1836; all his brothers were known under the surname of Macleod]

HUME, FRANCIS HERBERT, son of John Hume, Gosport, Hampshire, and Eleanor ---; bapt. Gosport, Hampshire 26 Jul 1739; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1751; KS 1753; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1758, adm. pens. 24 May 1758, scholar 11 May 1759, but did not matr.; ordained deacon (Winchester) Jun 1762; Curate, Weybridge, Surrey 1762; Westminster School Usher in 1763, shown as taking the “Idle Class”, Petty Form and First Form in undated list of the teaching staff assignable to 1762 or 1763, known as “Dapper Hume”; St. Alban Hall, Oxford, matr. 17 May 1765; BA and MA 1776; ordained; Vicar of Castleton, Derbs., 1775-9; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1776; Rector of Carlton in Lindrick, Notts., from 6 Oct 1779; Prebendary of Southwell from 21 Jan 1785; Vicar of Warsop, Notts., from 3 Jun 1795; d. 17 Feb 1806.

HUME, HENRY, third son of James John Hume (qv), and his second wife; b. 20 Jan 1816; adm. 10 Jan 1825; Ensign, 95th Foot 9 May 1835; Lieut., 1 Dec 1837; Capt., 19 Jan 1844; Maj., 24 Dec 1852; Lieut. -Col., 12 Dec 1854; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 1st Foot Guards 30 Apr 1858; Brevet Col., 5 May 1860; retd. 23 Jul 1861; served in Crimean War, wounded at the Alma and Inkerman; one of Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms 1 Dec 1862 – Nov 1873; Exon, Yeomen of the Guard 22 Nov 1873 – Mar 1889, Ensign from 13 Mar 1889; CB 5 Jul 1855; m. 19 Mar 1857 Emma, younger dau. of Joseph Sykes, Raywell; d. 19 Aug 1892.

Hume, Sir (Hubert) Nutcombe, son of Frederick Nutcombe Hume, by Caroline Mary, daughter of Hulbert Isaac Walton, of Bombay, and afterwards wife of Walter Francis Corfield (q.v.); b. Sept. 4, 1893; adm. Sept. 27, 1906 (H); migrated up Grant's; left July 1911; R. M.C. Sandhurst 1911-12; chairman of the Charterhouse Investment Trust, Charterhouse Group and other cos.; Censorship Branch, War Office, 1939-40; Director of Finance (Com­mercial), Ministry of Supply, 1940; a member of the Colonial Development Corporation 1948; deputy chairman 1953; served in France in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 1st Batt. the Hampshire Regt. Sept. 15, 1914; Lieut. May 1, 1915; Capt. April 27, 1917; resigned March 4, 1919; wounded July 1, 1916; mentioned in despatches L. G. Jan. 1, 1916, and Aug. 13, 1918; M.C. Jan. 1, 1916; C.B.E. Jan. 1, 1946; K. B. E. May ::p, 1956; m. 1st May 18, 1916, Vera Lilian, younger daughter of George Hope, M.R.C.S., of Hanwell, Middlesex; wd May, 1927, Jessie Anne, daughter of Donald Campbell, of Connel, Argyllshire; d. 1967.

HUME, JAMES DEACON, younger son of James Hume, Secretary of the Customs, and Elizabeth Capps; nephew of Nathaniel Hume (qv); b. 28 Apr 1774; adm. 13 Jan 1783; was victorious in a “mill’ with Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Bart. (adm. 1784, qv), “who, though the bigger boy of the two, was not so good a gladiator” (Badham, Life of J. D. Hume, 1859, 9); left 1791; Indoor clerk, Custom House 1791; rose to position Controller of the Customs; drafted Consolidated Customs Acts which received royal assent Jul 1825; Joint Secretary, Board of Trade 15 Jul 1829 – 4 Jan 1840; one of founders of Political Economy Club; a founder and Deputy Chairman, Atlas Assurance Company; a convinced Free Trader; author, Thoughts on the Corn Laws, 1815, and other works; m. 4 Jun 1799 Frances Elizabeth, widow of Charles Ashwell, Grenada, West Indies, and dau. of Edward Whitehouse, Customs House, Gentleman Usher Quarterly Waiter to George III; d. 12 Jan 1842. DNB.

HUME, JAMES JOHN, son of Nathaniel Hume (qv); b. 12 Oct 1776; adm. 28 Jan 1786; KS (aged 14) 1791; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1795, matr. 3 Jun 1795, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1795 – void by marriage 17 Sep 1800; BA 1799; MA 1816; ordained; Vicar of West Kington, Wilts., from 2 Feb 1801; Vicar of Hanney, Berks., from 19 Jul 1816; m. 1st, 1800 (?); m. 2nd, 1 Feb 1807 Lydia, youngest dau. of Thomas Lane, Grittleton House, Wilts.; d. 30 Oct 1816 (M. I. West Kington, Wilts. ).