The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.

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.