Allan Octavian Hume
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Mr Allan Octavian Hume (6/6/1829-31/7/1912)
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Biography
An Indian Civil Servant, he is variously called "Father of the Indian National Congress" or "Father of Indian Ornithology". He collaborator with F H Davey on the 'Flora of Cornwall' (1909), and established (1910) and endowed the South London Botanical Institute Norwood Road, Tulse Hill (SLBI web page).
William Henry Griffin was employed as his assistant in the herbarium which he established and later became Curator at the SLBI. Hume received the collections of Frederick Townsend and William Hadden Beeby after their deaths, and thus could included these in the SLBI herbarium. In Wedderburn's biography (see below; page 113 and following]) Griffin contributed a description of his work with Hume and of the beginnings of the SLBI.
For a detailed obituary/biography - see Journal of Botany, A.B. Rendle (1912) 50,347-348.
William Wedderburn wrote (1913) a biography "Allan Octavian Hume, C.B.; father of the Indian National Congress, 1829 to 1912".
See Wikipedia entry for Alan Octavian Hume.
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Inferred associations
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- Frederick Townsend
- William Henry Griffin
- Frederick Hamilton Davey
- Joseph Woods
- Augustin Ley
- Edward Francis Linton
- D J McCosh
- James Fraser
- Thomas Hilton
- Edward Shearburn Marshall
- James Groves
- Henry & James Groves
- Cecil Prescott Hurst
- Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles
- William Richardson Linton
- Chambre Corker Vigurs
- William Gardiner
- Henry Groves
- Watson Botanical Exchange Club
- William Moyle Rogers
- A Hamburgh
- Robert Albert Phillips
- Alexander Somerville
- James Edgar Dandy
- George Taylor
- Henry William Lett
- Set Of British Willows Set of British Willows
- Arthur Bennett
- Coslett Herbert Waddell
- Harold Stuart Thompson
- Charles Edgar Salmon
- Beverley Alan Miles
- Herbert William Pugsley
- Harry Joseph Riddelsdell
- Charles Bailey
- Henry Dixon Hewitt
- William Barclay
- Job Edward Lousley
- William Robert Sherrin
- William Williamson Newbould
- Francis Chalmers Crawford
- David Elliston Allen
- William Barratt
- Nathaniel Colgan
- William Borrer
- William Andrew Shoolbred
- Isaac A Helsby
- E F & W R Linton
- Ernest William Swanton
- W H Hammond
- Francis José
- John Braybrooke Marshall
- Anthony Clive Jermy
- Albert John Hambrough
- F Hewett
- George Claridge Druce
- Charles Cardale Babington
- James Alfred Wheldon
- James Walter White
- Spencer Henry Bickham
- G Hodgson
- Anthony Hurt Wolley Dod
- Hewett Cottrell Watson
- Ernest Stanley Salmon
- J Fraser
- Benjamin Thompson Lowne jnr
- William Hadden Beeby
- Henry Ibbotson
- Edward Gillett Gilbert
- William Charles Richard Watson
- Eric John Clement
- Alexander Goodman More
- William Hunt Painter
- Symers MacDonald Macvicar
- John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme
- Alfred James Wilmott
- Alfred Fryer
- Robert Desmond Meikle
- Robert Collett
- James Eustace Bagnall
- Botanical Society of Edinburgh
- Andrew Bloxam
- C Billot C Billot et al - Flora exsiccata
- Charles Edward Britton
- J Denham
- George Stacey Gibson
- Robert Lloyd Praeger
- Charles Waterfall
- William Allport Leighton
- John Edwards Griffith
- William Wise
- The South London Botanical Institute
- Frederick Janson Hanbury
- J Pratt
- R D Randall
- Hugh Neville Dixon
- Thomas Richard Archer Briggs
- Friedrich Wilhelm Noe
- A E Vigurs
- Franz Johann Schultz
- James Edward Winterbottom
- Botanical Society of London
- A S Lean
- Edward Cleminshaw
- Charlotte Ellen Palmer
- Daniel Sharpe
- Arthur Oliver Chater
- N Griffin
- George Nicholson
- Edward Walter Hunnybun
- Albert Bruce Jackson
- Donald Peter Young
- John Gilbert Baker
- Walter Waters Reeves
Collection activity by county
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1911
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