Joseph Hume, Esq. M.P.

by Thomas after James Graham Hodgetts, active, Gilbert

$300 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A wonderfully robust portrait of Joseph Hume, the radical political reformer. Joseph Hume 1777 - 1855 began his career at 20 as a surgeon for the Dutch East India Company in India. He returned to Europe in 1808 with a fortune. He wrote a prose translation of Dante's Inferno. Then he began a political career, buying a place in parliament and rapidly moving on to become one of the leading radicals in parliament, though a fiscal conservative. Hume was a leader on almost all

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