Sir William Errington Hume CMG FRCP (14 July 1879, Newcastle-on-Tyne – 1 January 1960) was a British physician and cardiologist.
[1][2][3] After education at Repton, William Errington Hume matriculated in October 1897 at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and graduated there BA in 1900.
[1] Though essentially a general physician his special interest was in cardiology; he was a master of the Mackenzie ink-polygraph and published one of the early papers on auricular flutter (Quart.
[4] In the First World War he became, though still in his thirties, consulting physician to the 1st Army in France; in this post he did notable work on poison gas, on the so-called D.A.H.
[1]On 21 February 1922, Hume wrote to John Cowan (1870–1947) with a suggestion for those physicians who had been attending meetings to give advice on heart disease to the Ministry of Pensions.
[citation needed] Under the auspices of the Royal College of Physicians, Hume in 1930 gave the Bradshaw Lecture on Paroxysmal tachycardia.
[1] After retiring in 1939 from the Honorary Staff of the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Hume became a cardiologist at the Newcastle General Hospital and helped to initiate a Regional Cardiovascular Department there.