Frederick Edward Hulme

Frederick Edward Hulme (March 1841 – 10 April 1909) was known as a teacher and an amateur botanist. He was the Professor of Freehand and Geometrical Drawing at King's College London from 1886. His most famous work was Familiar Wild Flowers, which was issued in nine volumes.

Life Frederick Edward Hulme was born to Frederick William Hulme and his wife Caroline (born Jackson). He was born in March 1841 in Hanley, Staffordshire.

In 1844 his family moved to London where his father taught and worked as a landscape painter. Not only was Hulme's father an accomplished landscape painter, but his maternal grandmother had also been a painter of porcelain. Hulme attended South Kensington School of Art, which is now called the Royal College of Art.

Hulme became the drawing master at Marlborough College in 1870. He was drawing master at Marlborough until 1883. In the preceding year he had become a lecturer to the Agricultural Association.

Botany seems not to be his only interest as he also published books on heraldry, and on cryptography (Cryptography, the History, Principles, and Practice of Cipher-Writing) - a brief history and an explanation of various techniques of cryptography to his day (end of 19th century).

Hulme died at his home at Kew on 10 April 1909. His ninth volume of Familiar Wild Flowers was in production. This and the earlier other eight volumes were published after his death.

Works Plant Form, 1868 Bards & Blossoms; or The Poetry, History, and Associations of Flowers, London, Marcus Ward & Co., 1877 Familiar wild flowers, 1878–1905, ninth volume posthumous Suggestions in Floral Design, 1880 Natural history, lore and legend, 1895 Wild fruits of the country-side, 1902 Proverb Lore: Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources, 1902 Butterflies and moths of the countryside, 1903 Wild Flowers in their Seasons, 1907 Familiar Swiss flowers, 1908 The history, principles and practice of heraldry, London, Swan Sonnenschein & co., 1892. Cryptography, the History, Principles, and Practice of Cipher-Writing, London, Ward, Lock and Co. Ltd. 1898

Prose Myth-land, 1886 The Town, College, and Neighbourhood of Marlborough, 1881 The Flags of The World: Their History, Blazonry, and Associations, 1887

Illustration Sylvan spring by F.G.Heath (illustration only) Familiar garden flowers by Shirley Hibberd (Illustration only)