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 Hughes, Sir Walter Watson, founder of Adelaide University, son of Thomas Hughes, of Pittenweem, Fifeshire, was born on August 22nd, 1803, at Pittenweem, where he served his apprenticeship to a cooper. He then went into the merchant service, and purchased a vessel, in which he traded between Calcutta and China, and in which he came to Adelaide in 1842. Settling in South Australia, he suffered severe reverses, but ultimately acquired great wealth through his connection with the Moonta, Wallaroo and Yorke's Peninsula Copper Mines, which he discovered and developed. In 1872 he was desirous of making a donation of £20,000 to Union College, Adelaide, which had been established for the training of candidates for the Nonconformist ministry; but was induced, mainly by Mr. Jefferis, to apply the sum to the endowment of a university on a broader basis. From this act of munificence sprang the now flourishing university of Adelaide, of which Sir Walter, who stipulated that the money should be applied to the endowment of a classical and an English professorship, is commonly styled "the Father." He was knighted in 1880, and resided in England for many years prior to his death, which took place at Fancourt, Chertsey, on New Year's Day 1887. Sir Walter married, in 1841, Sophia, eldest daughter of John Henry Hickman, of Warnbunga, S.A., who died in 1885.

Hull, Hugh Munro, son of George Hull, of Tolosa and Brien's Bridge, was born in Westminster on March 19th, 1818. He was appointed clerk to the Governor of Tasmania in April 1834; senior clerk, Colonial Secretary's Office, in July 1841; Statistician and Secretary to Committee of Officers in 1844; Police Magistrate, J. P., Coroner, and Chairman of Quarter Sessions in 1856; Clerk Assistant in Parliament in 1857; captain 2nd Volunteer Rifles in 1860; clerk of the House of Assembly in April 1864. He was secretary to the Reception Committee of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, and also to the Intercolonial Exhibition Commission, and secretary to the Philadelphia Exhibition Commission. He is the author of "Forty Years in Tasmania," "Tasmania in 1871," "Hints to Emigrants," and "Tasmania as a Field for British Emigration." He was secretary to the Tasmanian Commission for the Sydney International Exhibition of 1879 and the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880. Mr. Hull, who married first Antoinette Martha, daughter of James Aitken, of Glen Esk, and secondly, in 1854, Margaret Basset, daughter of William Tremlett, of St. Leonards, died on April 3rd, 1882.

'''Hume, Lieut.-Col. Arthur''', Inspector of Prisons, New Zealand, is the son of John Hume and Annie Parker his wife, and was born in Dublin, Ireland, on June 21st, 1840. Lieut.-Col. Hume was an officer in the 79th Highlanders from 1859 to 1874, and Deputy Governor of Dartmoor, Millbank, Portland, and Wormwood Scrubs prisons from the latter year till 1880, when he was appointed Inspector of Prisons in New Zealand, arriving in that colony in Nov. 1881. In addition to this office, Col. Hume is Commissioner of Police and acting Under-Secretary for Defence. He married at Murree, Punjab, India, on Oct. 11th, 1864, Miss Ruby Macintire.

Hume, (Alexander) Hamilton, F.R.G.S., son of Andrew Hamilton Hume, by his wife, Elizabeth Moore, second daughter of the Rev. John Kennedy, vicar of Sexton and Nettlestead, Kent, was born on June 18th, 1797, at Parramatta, N.S.W. When only seventeen he explored the Berrima district in company with his brother, John Kennedy Hume, and made numerous journeys into the interior, during which he opened up the Yass and Goulburn Plains districts between 1816 and 1824, when he conducted an expedition overland from Sydney to Port Phillip, the party discovering the Tumut, Hume, Mitta Mitta, Ovens, Goulburn, and Hovell rivers en route. They started from Appen on Oct. 2nd, and after finding their progress barred by the Australian Alps, then unnamed, reached Port Phillip on Dec. 17th, accomplishing the return journey to Sydney, viâ Lake George, in a little over a month. In 1828 be acted as second in command of Captain Start's expedition to trace the Macquarie river. Mr. Hume, who was rewarded for his services with grants of land, published in 1855 "A Brief Statement of Facts in connection with an Overland Expedition from Lake George to Port Phillip in 1824." He married Miss Dwight, and died at Yass on April 19th, 1873. 242