William Errington Hume

Sir William Errington Hume (14 July 1879, Newcastle-on-Tyne – 1 January 1960) was a British physician and cardiologist.

Biography After education at Repton, William Errington Hume matriculated in October 1897 at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and graduated there BA in 1900. After medical education at the London Hospital, he graduated MB BChir and MA in 1904 and MD in 1913 from the University of Cambridge.

At the London Hospital, he clerked for Sir Bertrand Dawson. at age 28 he was appointed assistant physician. Six months later, he was promoted to full physician. was William Errington Hume's father. His mother was Frances Diana Jackson of Canada West (daughter of Minchin Jackson an Irish farmer and Frances Errington of the gentry High Warden branch). William Hume's younger brother was killed in WWI.

In 1918, William Hume married Marie Élisabeth Tisseyre, eldest daughter of a colonel in the French Army. The couple (a Protestant husband and a French Catholic mother) had two sons and three daughters, who were raised as Catholic. Their elder son George Haliburton Hume became a priest and later advanced to Basil Cardinal Hume, English Roman Catholic bishop, later Cardinal. Their younger son, John Hume, became a medical doctor in Sunderland. Their eldest daughter, Madeleine Frances Hume, married Sir John Charles, a doctor.

Selected publications

with S. J. Clegg: with Bertrand Dawson and S. P. Bedson:

with Paul Szekely: