Abraham Hume was born near Hillsborough, County Down, and was educated in Belfast and at Trinity College, Dublin. Before he became Vicar of Vauxhall in 1847 he was a teacher in the Liverpool Institution. He explored Chile and Peru, and was a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. He became a Doctor of Laws and of Civil Law and was Canon of Chester Cathedral. He published over a hundred pamphlets dealing with topics such as Irish dialect and folklore, as well as several volumes dealing with antiquities. He died in Liverpool. [Biography by J. C. Morley].

Born:	1814
Died:	1884