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Allan Octavian Hume

1829 - 1912

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Allan Octavian Hume, CB ICS (4 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) 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. A notable ornithologist, Hume has been called "the Father of Indian Ornithology" and, by those who found him dogmatic, "the Pope of Indian Ornithology". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Allan Octavian Hume is the 331st most popular social activist (down from 282nd in 2019), the 2,432nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,827th in 2019) and the 21st most popular British Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Allan Octavian Hume ranks 331 out of 840. Before him are Fra Diavolo, Clara Barton, Ricardo Flores Magón, Klara Zamenhof, Marie Popelin, and Natalya Estemirova. After him are Franca Viola, Cut Nyak Dhien, Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, Miriam Rodríguez Martínez, Russell Means, and Mirzo Tursunzoda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Allan Octavian Hume ranks 37. Before him are Franz Reuleaux, Ignacio Zaragoza, Moritz Cantor, Jean-Jacques Henner, Konrad Duden, and Laurence Oliphant. After him are José de Alencar, Joaquin Murrieta, Princess Louise of Prussia, Thomas Hill, Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, and Antonio Guzmán Blanco. Among people deceased in 1912, Allan Octavian Hume ranks 65. Before him are Gustave de Molinari, Thomas Byles, Julius Maggi, Pyotr Lebedev, Édouard Detaille, and Clara Barton. After him are Eloy Alfaro, Takuboku Ishikawa, Mykola Pymonenko, George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg, Francisco Lázaro, and Ernest Duchesne.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Allan Octavian Hume ranks 2,432 out of 8,785. Before him are Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein (1867), Mary Bell (1957), Mark of Cornwall (480), Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563), Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham (1670), and Mick Box (1947). After him are Stanley Myers (1930), Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516), Jamie Vardy (1987), Penelope Wilton (1946), Joseph Butler (1692), and John Baskerville (1706).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Allan Octavian Hume ranks 21. Before him are Unity Mitford (1914), Eglantyne Jebb (1876), Wat Tyler (1341), Mary Dyer (1611), Cassivellaunus (-100), and Millicent Fawcett (1847). After him are Venetia Burney (1918), Josephine Butler (1828), Sylvia Pankhurst (1882), Charles Boycott (1832), Robert Catesby (1573), and James Guillaume (1844).

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