This memorial is sited in the North Transept, an area now largely occupied by the organ. The memorial was thought to be totally obscured from view but in 2012 Alexander Hume, a descendant of John Hume managed to take the partial photograph seen below..
(From the 1873 Guide)
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN HUME, SURGEON, OF HIS MAJESTY'S 59TH REGIMENT WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 12TH AUGUST 1828 IN THE 48TH YEAR OF HIS AGE
Further Information
[Provided by Alexander Hume]
John Hume MD, Army Surgeon
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Born:
Commissioned:
Married:
Sailed for India:
Joined Regiment:
Children:
Left Regiment:
Sailed from Calcutta:
Will drawn up:
Died:
Buried:
Will proved:
5th child born:
5th child christened:
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Donegal, ca. 1781
7th June 1800, Surgeon 2nd Battn South Devonshires
1802 “on the Irish Half-Pay”
1803 Joined 72nd (Seaforth Highlanders) Regt. of Foot
1819 Joined 59th (East Notts.) Regt. of Foot
Anne Louisa Parke of Dunally on 2nd November 1819, in Sligo
1819
13th May 1820, at Berhampore then Cawnpore
1 daughter & 3 sons born in India
21st February 1828, travelling from Cawnpore to Calcutta
("on sick leave" according to regimental diary)
early 1828, in Sir Edward Paget, Indiaman
17th July 1828, at sea "off Western Isles"
12th August 1828, either at sea or shortly after landing
Garrison Church, Portsmouth (plot 69)
22nd August 1828, London
23rd August 1828 (Bliss John Hume)
12th September 1828, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
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Anne Louisa and the five children probably returned to Ireland. By the 1850’s she was definitely living with her daughter in King’s County (now Offaly). She lived until the late 19th century, having seen her daughter make a good marriage, one son become a general, another (the Great-grandfather of Alexander Hume) a senior civil servant in Ceylon, and another disappeared (strongly suspected as murdered by a business partner!), having gone to the USA to seek his fortune.
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