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HUME, DAVID (1711-1776) [(7i+x)H-2], a Scottish historian, 

 youngest child of David Hume and an orphan in infancy. His ma- 

 ternal grandfather was David Falconer (1640 ). 



HUME, JOSEPH (1777-1855), a British statesman, younger son 

 of a shipmaster. He was an orphan at 9. 



HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH (1784-1859), an English poet 

 and author. His father was a Philadelphia lawyer prior to the Revo- 

 lutionary war. He was youngest of a large family. 



HUNT, THOMAS STERRY (1826-1892), an American chemist, 

 geologist and mineralogist. 



HUNTER, JOHN (1728-1793) [65], a British surgeon and 

 physiologist, ranked as the "greatest surgical operator" of his time, 

 and "among the greatest of modern natural philosophers." He was 

 the youngest son of John Hunter (1663 ). 



HUNTER, WILLIAM (1718-1783) [55], an eminent physician 

 and anatomist, elder brother of the preceding. 



HUSS, JOHN (1373-1415), a Bohemian religious reformer. He 

 was an orphan at an early age. 



HUTTEN, ULRICH VON (1488-1523), a German scholar and 

 reformer. 



HUXLEY, THOMAS HENRY (1825-1895) [A], an English 

 naturalist, seventh and youngest surviving child of George Huxley, 

 who was second son of Thomas Huxley, who was married in 1773. 



HUYGENS, CHRISTIAN (1629-1695) [33], a Dutch astronomer 

 and natural philosopher, second son of Constantine Huygens (1596- 

 1687), a poet and diplomatist who was son of Christian Huygens, 

 secretary of the state council. 



HYPATIA (370-415), a Greek Neo-Platonic philosopher, daugh- 

 ter of Theon, a distinguished mathematician and astronomer. 

 IRVING, EDWARD (1792-1834), a Scottish preacher. 



IRVING, WASHINGTON (1783-1859) [52], an American au- 

 thor, son of William Irving (1731 ) [55+x], who was son of Magnus 

 Irving, who was of legal age in 1697. 



