These Are Some Pictures Of Headstone And Grave Of Famous Indian Civil Servant Allan Octavian Hume, The Founder Of Indian National Congress Located At Brookwood Cemetery London, England.
Allan Octavian Hume (6 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) Was A Member Of The Imperial Civil Service That Later Named As Indian Civil Service. Mr. A.O. Hume Was A Botanist Ornithologist And Political Reformer in British India. He Was The Founder Of The Indian National Congress, a Political Party Founded In 1885. Later It lead in Indian independence Movement. Mr. Hume Is Remembered As "The Father Of Indian Ornithology".
As an administrator of Etawah, Hume saw The Indian War Of Independence of 1857 As a Result of Misgovernance. He Made Great Efforts to Improve The Lives of The Common People In Sub-Continent. The District Of Etawah Was Among The First to be Returned To Normalcy And Over The Next Few Years Hume's Reforms Led to The District Being Considered a Model of Development. He rose in His Rank In 1871 To The Position of Secretary to The Department of Revenue, Agriculture, and Commerce Under Lord Mayo. His Criticism of Lord Lytton Led to His Removal From The Secretariat in 1879.
He Founded Journal Stray Feathers in Which He And His Subscribers Recorded Notes On Birds From Across India. He Also Built Up a Vast Collection of Bird Specimens at His Home in Shimla by Making Collection Expeditions and Obtaining Specimens Through His Network of Correspondents. Following the Loss of Manuscripts That Had Been Maintaining For Long in The Hope of Producing a Magnum Opus on The Birds of India, He Gave up Ornithology and Gifted Away His Collection to The British Museum of Natural History Where it Continues to Be The Single Largest Collection Of Indian Bird Skins. Mr. A. O. Hume Left India in 1894 To Live in London From Where He Continued to Take an Interest in the Indian National Congress.
Hume Retired From Civil Service in 1882. In 1883, He Wrote an Open Letter to The Graduates of Calcutta University, Calling Upon Them to Form Their Own National Political Movement. This Led To The First Session of The Indian National Congress held in Bombay .
Hume Left India in 1894 And Settled at The Chalet, 4, Kingswood Road, Upper Norwood in London. He Died at The Age of Eighty-Three on 31 July 1912. His Ashes were Buried in Brookwood Cemetery. The Bazaar in Etawah Was Closed on Hearing of His Death And The Collector, H. R. Neville, Presided Over a Memorial Meeting.
The Indian Postal Department Released a Commemorative Stamp With His Portrait in 1973 And a Special Cover Depicting Rothney Castle, His Home In Shimla Was Released in 2013.
Allan Octavian Hume (6 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) Was A Member Of The Imperial Civil Service That Later Named As Indian Civil Service. Mr. A.O. Hume Was A Botanist Ornithologist And Political Reformer in British India. He Was The Founder Of The Indian National Congress, a Political Party Founded In 1885. Later It lead in Indian independence Movement. Mr. Hume Is Remembered As "The Father Of Indian Ornithology".
As an administrator of Etawah, Hume saw The Indian War Of Independence of 1857 As a Result of Misgovernance. He Made Great Efforts to Improve The Lives of The Common People In Sub-Continent. The District Of Etawah Was Among The First to be Returned To Normalcy And Over The Next Few Years Hume's Reforms Led to The District Being Considered a Model of Development. He rose in His Rank In 1871 To The Position of Secretary to The Department of Revenue, Agriculture, and Commerce Under Lord Mayo. His Criticism of Lord Lytton Led to His Removal From The Secretariat in 1879.
He Founded Journal Stray Feathers in Which He And His Subscribers Recorded Notes On Birds From Across India. He Also Built Up a Vast Collection of Bird Specimens at His Home in Shimla by Making Collection Expeditions and Obtaining Specimens Through His Network of Correspondents. Following the Loss of Manuscripts That Had Been Maintaining For Long in The Hope of Producing a Magnum Opus on The Birds of India, He Gave up Ornithology and Gifted Away His Collection to The British Museum of Natural History Where it Continues to Be The Single Largest Collection Of Indian Bird Skins. Mr. A. O. Hume Left India in 1894 To Live in London From Where He Continued to Take an Interest in the Indian National Congress.
Hume Retired From Civil Service in 1882. In 1883, He Wrote an Open Letter to The Graduates of Calcutta University, Calling Upon Them to Form Their Own National Political Movement. This Led To The First Session of The Indian National Congress held in Bombay .
Hume Left India in 1894 And Settled at The Chalet, 4, Kingswood Road, Upper Norwood in London. He Died at The Age of Eighty-Three on 31 July 1912. His Ashes were Buried in Brookwood Cemetery. The Bazaar in Etawah Was Closed on Hearing of His Death And The Collector, H. R. Neville, Presided Over a Memorial Meeting.
The Indian Postal Department Released a Commemorative Stamp With His Portrait in 1973 And a Special Cover Depicting Rothney Castle, His Home In Shimla Was Released in 2013.
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