I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.

He joined with Francis Place of Westminster and other philanthropists to help improve the condition of the working classes labouring especially to establish schools for them on the Lancastrian system and forming savings banks. Between 1808 and 1811 he travelled around England and Europe and in 1812 publiJoseph Humed a blank verse translation of The Inferno. Joseph Hume FRS (22 January 1777 – 20 February 1855) was a Scottish doctor and Radical MP born in Montrose Angus.

Joseph Hume FRS (22 January 1777 – 20 February 1855) was a Scottish doctor and Radical MP born in Montrose Angus.