Professor John R. Hume OBE is an architectural and business historian, author and photographer.
He spent 20 years at the University of Strathclyde, researching and lecturing on Economic and Industrial History, before being employed as the principal inspector of ancient monuments, and then of historic buildings, for Historic Scotland.
He holds honorary professorships at both the University of Glasgow and the University of St Andrews,[1] and he continues to serve as a patron of the Glasgow City Heritage Trust,[2] and as a member of the panel of judges for the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame.
[4] Hume donated to RCAHMS over 40,000 photographs of a wide range of industrial, business and transport subjects taken by him over decades, and are accessible through Canmore.
[5] His photographic record of the decline of Scotland's industrial landscapes in the twentieth century is the subject of a book by Daniel Gray, published in August 2021.