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Hume, Thomas, born in Portsmouth, Vir- Church. He published articles on various

ginia, October 21, 1836, son of Thomas topics In the press of the country, and was

Hume. His mother, Mary Anne Gregory, was largely instrumental in the establishment of

a daughter of Dr. Richard Baynham Greg- the professorship of English in the Univer-

ory, of Gloucester county, Virginia. On the sity of Virginia. In July, 1885, Dr. Hume was

paternal side he is descended from the Rev. elected professor of English language and

Thomas Plume, a Presbyterian minister of literature in the University of North Caro-

Edinburgh, who came to Virginia and joined ^^"^' where he organized the department of

hi;-, uncle, the Rev. Robert Dickson, of Prin- cess Anne county. Dr Hume received his in-eparation at the Virginia Collegiate Insti- tute in Portsmouth, Virginia, from which he came to Richmond College, where he was graduated in 1855 with the degree of Bach- elor 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 1059 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 Divinitv, from Richmond

English philology and literature, and did much to promote the knowledge of the mod- ern 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 sev- eral years gave courses of lectures before literary societies, colleges, etc., on educa- tional 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

College, and of Doctor of' Laws from Wake ^'^'stian Association at the University of

Forest College, North Carolina. He be- came a member of the Third Regiment, Vir- ginia Infantry, of which he was made chap- lain, but was transferred to Petersburg dur- ing the siege of that place. After the war he became principal of the Petersburg Clas

X'irginia, 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

sical Institute, where he took a deep interest '"^^^P^ ^ ^he Study of Hamlet," and pub-

ir. the teaching of English, philology and "'^^ ^^^"^ °" '"^^^ ^""'^^ Teachmgs of

literature. He traveled abroad, and on his Shakespeare," "'John Milton's Religious

return home became principal of the Roan- <^^P'"'0"s," "The Literature of the Bible,"

oke Female College at Danville, Virginia ''"'^ ^""^ '^^""^^ various other notable contri-

and during a part of the same period was' ^^"■*'°"' ^° literature. October 31, 1878, Dr.

also the pastor of the First Baptist Church of that city. From 1876 until 1885 he re- sided in Norfolk, and was professor of Eng- lish and Latin in the Norfolk College and for four years pastor of the First Baptist Richmond, was descended from early Eng-

Hume married Anne Louise Whitescarver, and to them were born four children. He died July 15, 1912.

Chamberlayne, John Hampden, born in