Thomas Andrew Hume CBE (1917–1992) was the first director of the Museum of London.
Born on 21 June 1917, the only son of Thomas Hume of Burnfoot, Oxton and Lillias Dodds, Hume was educated at the Heaton Grammar School in Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne before attending King's College, Durham University, where he won the Gladstone and Joseph Cowen prizes for academic excellence.
Marrying Joyce MacDonald in 1942, he served as a navigator in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
Hume's professional career began in 1949 with his appointment as curator of Kirkstall Abbey House Museum in Leeds, a position he retained until 1952, when he moved to the Buckinghamshire County Museum in Aylesbury.
His talents were quickly noticed and he became director of the City of Liverpool Museums in 1960, remaining in the position until 1972.