Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet

Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet (29 February 1749 – 24 March 1838, in London) was a British floriculturist and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1818.

[8] They had two daughters, both of whom predeceased him: The Baronetcy thereby became extinct and the Wormleybury estate passed to the male children of Lady Brownlow (Viscount Alford and the Hon.

After Britain was drawn into the French Revolutionary Wars, Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger proposed in 1794 that the counties should form a part-time force of Volunteer Yeoman Cavalry (Yeomanry) for home defence and internal security.

Hertfordshire began raising its Yeomanry in June, and Hume was commissioned as Lieutenant in the Southern Troop commanded by his neighbour, Captain Sir George Prescott, 1st Baronet, of Theobalds Park, Cheshunt.

In the spring of 1798 the increased threat of invasion led the government to encourage the formation of armed associations of cavalry and infantry for purely local defence.

[9][10][11] Both Sir Abraham Hume and his wife Amelia Egerton were active as rosarians and developed several rose cultivars at their estate in Hertfordshire.