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.
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