Mrs William Hume
23 April 1861

Volume 3, page 134, sitting number 3226.

The preceding entry in the daybooks is 'William Hume M.P.' who is presumably this sitter's husband.

William Wentworth Fitzwillliam Hume was born in 1805; he assumed his uncle's surname by royal licence in 1864, becoming William Hume-Dick. From 17 July 1852 to 24 March 1880 he was Member of Parliament for County Wicklow in Ireland, where, between 1867 and 1870, he built one of the finest Victorian houses in Ireland, which he called Humewood. He died on 15 September 1892 at 20 Curzon Street, London.

According to his obituary in The Times (17 September 1892): 'He married in 1827 Margaret Bruce, daughter of Mr Robert Chaloner of Guisborough, and by her had several children, only one of whom, Mrs Hume-Long, who married the late Mr R.P. Long, M.P., of Rodd Ashton, survives him.'

The International Genealogical Index gives her date of birth as 23 December 1806 and the date of her marriage as 8 June 1829. Confusingly, the same source gives her date of death as 13 June 1837. Either the IGI is wrong, or this is a second wife of William Wentworth Hume-Dick. The lady in this portrait is clearly too young to be Margaret Bruce Hume née Chaloner.