Hume baronets of Wormleybury (1769)

The Hume baronetcy, of Wormleybury in the County of Hertford, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 4 April 1769 for Abraham Hume, Member of Parliament for Steyning and Tregony. He was a government contractor.[1][2]

He was succeeded by his son, the 2nd Baronet, a Member of Parliament and founder of the Geological Society. The title became extinct on his death in 1838.[3]

Hume baronets, of Wormleybury (1769)

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Cokayne, George Edward (1906). Complete Baronetage. Vol. V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co., Ltd. pp. 149–150.
  2. ^ a b "Hume, Abraham (1703-72), of Wormleybury, Herts., History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
  3. ^ a b Collinge, J. M. "Hume, Sir Abraham, 2nd Bt. (1749-1838), of Wormleybury, Herts., History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.