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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.