With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing.

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.