Ao hume biography

British political reformer, civil servant, and naturalist (1829–1912)

Allan Octavian Hume, CBICS (4 June 1829^[1] – 31 July 1912^[2]) was a British political reformer, ornithologist, civil servant and botanist who worked in British India and was the founding spirit and key founder of the Indian National Congress.

He was a proponent of Indian self-rule and strongly supported the idea of Indian independence. He supported the idea of self-governance by Indians.^[3] A notable ornithologist, Hume has been called "the Father of Indian Ornithology" and, by those who found him dogmatic, "the Pope of Indian Ornithology".^[4]

As an administrator of Etawah, he saw the Indian Rebellion of 1857 as a result of misgovernance and made great efforts to improve the lives of the common people.

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 considere