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Hume, Thomas, born in Portsmouth, Virginia, October 21, 1836, son of Thomas Hume. His mother, Mary Anne Gregory, was a daughter of Dr. Richard Baynham Gregory, of Gloucester county, Virginia. On the paternal side he is descended from the Rev. Thomas Hume, a Presbyterian minister of Edinburgh, who came to Virginia and joined his uncle, the Rev. Robert Dickson, of Princess Anne county. Dr. Hume received his preparation at the Virginia Collegiate Institute in Portsmouth, Virginia, from which he came to Richmond College, where he was graduated in 1855 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, receiving afterward the degree of Master of Arts. He then entered the University of Virginia, where he remained three years, being graduated therefrom in 1859 in several schools. Upon leaving the university he taught for several years and soon entered the ministry of the Baptist church. He subsequently received the de- gree of Doctor of Divinity, from Richmond College, and of Doctor of Laws from Wake Forest College, North Carolina. He became a member of the Third Regiment, Virginia Infantry, of which he was made chaplain, but was transferred to Petersburg during the siege of that place. After the war he became principal of the Petersburg Classical Institute, where he took a deep interest in the teaching of English, philology and literature. He traveled abroad, and on his return home became principal of the Roanoke Female College at Danville, Virginia, and during a part of the same period was also the pastor of the First Baptist Church of that city. From 1876 until 1885 he resided in Norfolk, and was professor of English and Latin in the Norfolk College and for four years pastor of the First Baptist Church. He published articles on various topics in the press of the country, and was largely instrumental in the establishment of the professorship of English in the University of Virginia. In July, 1885. Dr. Hume was elected professor of English language and literature in the University of North Carolina, where he organized the department of English philology and literature, and did much to promote the knowledge of the modern methods of teaching English. He then became professor of English literature in that university. For four years he was lecturer on English philology and literature in the national summer school for teachers at Glens Falls, New York, and for several years gave courses of lectures before literary societies, colleges, etc., on educational and literary topics. He was a member of the Washington Society of the University of Virginia, and is a member of the Modern Language Association of America. He was one of the organizers of the Young Men's Christian Association at the University of Virginia, the first College Young Men's Christian Association to be established, and drafted its constitution. Dr. Hume was a friend of the distinguished English scholar. Thomas R. Price, and takes great delight in his higher English work. He has written "Helps to the Study of Hamlet," and published papers on "The Moral Teachings of Shakespeare," "John Milton's Religious Opinions," "The Literature of the Bible," and has made various other notable contributions to literature. October 31, 1878, Dr. Hume married Anne Louise Whitescarver, and to them were born four children. He died July 15, 1912.

Chamberlayne, John Hampden, born in Richmond, was descended from early Eng-