Sir Abraham Hume, 1st Baronet

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2017}}

{{short description|British businessman and politician (1703–1772)}}

Sir Abraham Hume, 1st Baronet (1703 – 10 October 1772) was a British businessman and MP.

File:Wormleybury in 1816.jpg

He was the fourth son of Robert Home (subsequently Hume) of Ayton, Berwick.

Hume was a Principal Managing Owner for groups which built ships and hired them to the East India Company.Anthony Farrington, Catalogue of East India Company Ships' Journals and Logs 1600-1834, British Library, 1999 He was elected Member of Parliament for Steyning in 1747–54, and Tregony in 1761–68, both rotten boroughs.{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/hume-abraham-1703-72

|title=HUME, Abraham (1703-72), of Wormleybury, Herts.|publisher= History of Parliament Online|accessdate= 24 February 2018}}

After inheriting the Wormleybury estate from his brother Alexander in 1765 he rebuilt the house his brother had commissioned in 1734. He was given a baronet on 4 April 1769.

He was the father of 2 sons and a daughter by his wife Hannah, sixth daughter of Sir Thomas Frederick and was succeeded by his eldest son Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet. Their daughter Hannah married the wit James Hare.