Hume, Joseph

Education

M.D. 1.2.1790 on testimonials signed by John Cook and William Cleland, physicians, Paisley.

Birth/childhood

Possibly baptised 17.3.1753 son of William Hume, Glasgow and Susannah Dewar.

Career

Studied Edinburgh - medical student 1773-1774 and Glasgow Universities.

Practised Hamilton from 1774. [Doctor]

Town Councillor, Hamilton until 1802.

Sources

  • P.J. Wallis and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (Newcastle, 1988)
  • Edin. Ann. Reg. 1821 death of wife 14.2.1821
  • Dundee Advertiser 14.2.1828 death of 2 son 18.11.1827