Maria Jane Burnley Hume - Revision history

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	Maria Jane Burnley Hume was born on January 3, 1854 in Umballa, Bengal, India to [[Allan Octavian Hume]] and his wife Mary Anne.<ref>India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947.</ref> She was known to her family as "Minnie." Not much is known of their family life, but the 1861 census shows Mary Anne and her daughter living in the St. Sidwell parish of Exeter in Devon, England.<ref>1861 England Census.</ref> They had possibly taken refuge there from the rebellions taking place in northern India at that time. The mother, Mary Anne Hume, died on March 30, 1890.<ref>''Pall Mall Gazette'' (April 1, 1890), 6. See [http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000098/18900401/020/0006 British Newspaper Archive].</ref>		Maria Jane Burnley Hume was born on January 3, 1854 in Umballa, Bengal, India to [[Allan Octavian Hume]] and his wife Mary Anne.<ref>India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947.</ref> She was known to her family as "Minnie." Not much is known of their family life, but the 1861 census shows Mary Anne and her daughter living in the St. Sidwell parish of Exeter in Devon, England.<ref>1861 England Census.</ref> They had possibly taken refuge there from the rebellions taking place in northern India at that time. The mother, Mary Anne Hume, died on March 30, 1890.<ref>''Pall Mall Gazette'' (April 1, 1890), 6. See [http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000098/18900401/020/0006 British Newspaper Archive].</ref>

	Minnie does not seem to have been a member of the [[Theosophical Society]], ~~but after~~ moving to England she became a member of the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]].<ref>Ellic Howe, ''Fringe Masonry in England, 1870-1885'' Holmes Publishing Group, 1996.</ref> ~~In her later years, Minnie lived with her widowed father in England.<ref>1901 England Census.</ref> She died in 1927.~~		In her later years, Minnie lived with her widowed father in England.<ref>1901 England Census.</ref> She died in 1927.

			== Theosophical Society involvement ==

			Minnie does not seem to have been very active as a member of the [[Theosophical Society]]. However, she did apply for membership around April, 1979, and ten months later underwent an initiation ceremony, described by [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky\|H. P. Blavatsky]] as a model of [[brotherhood]]:

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			Miss Hume, the daughter of the Lt. Governor of Punjab, is my guest since 3 days. I am bored with her to the utmost possibility. She is leaving today for London. She came especially to be initiated into the signs and the secret word, as she joined the Theos. Society 10 months ago. Yesterday night there was a very ''impressive'' ceremony, with all the staff of officials, presidents, secretaries, librarians and fellow-members. Only there were no neophytes. Miss Hume; Honorable Scott Ross, engineer; a Parsi, worshipper of the fire; Dewan (Prime Minister) of the Maharajah of Holkar (idol worshipper); and a poor Hindu merchant from Bombay [semicolons added for clarity]. Don't lose patience. This description has its purpose.

			You see 5 different diametrically opposed personalities. Different socially, religiously, nationally and in their social status.

			After the ''initiation'' Miss Hume, a proud lady who lived for 10 years in India, and according to her own statement has never touched the hand of any ''native'', was the first to shake hands with the poor Hindu merchant, touching his cup and calling him ''brother''. The idol worshipper, a real fanatic only three months ago, who regarded the very touch of a foreigner as polluting, calls brothers a Parsi fire worshipper and a merchant who lost the privileges of his caste because of his reformatory tendencies, ''takes tea with them'', which is a great sin in the eyes of brahmins. Miss Hume, Christian follower of Swedenborg and Scott Ross also a Christian. Not long ago we had an initiation of a Mahommedan prince.<ref>H. P. Blavatsky letter to family. February 21, 1880. Published in ''H. P. B. Speaks'' Volume I (Adyar: Theosophical Publishing House, 1950): 226.</ref>
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			After moving to England she became a member of the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]].<ref>Ellic Howe, ''Fringe Masonry in England, 1870-1885'' Holmes Publishing Group, 1996.</ref>

	== Marriage to Ross Scott ==		== Marriage to Ross Scott ==
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	One day Mrs. Scott was at the headquarters of the [[Theosophical Society]], in Bombay, along with her husband~~, [[~~, [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky\|Madame Blavatsky]], [[Henry Steel Olcott\|Colonel Olcott]], [[Damodar K. Mavalankar]], [[Godolphin Mitford\|M. Murad Ali Beg]], and [[Bhavani Shankar]]. They all saw [[Morya\|Master M.]] appearing into the room next to the one they were occupying and leaving a letter, before disappearing again.<ref>First Report of the Committee of the Society for Psychical Research, Appendix XIV at http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/app14.htm Published by The Blavatsky Archives Online</ref></blockquote>		One day Mrs. Scott was at the headquarters of the [[Theosophical Society]], in Bombay, along with her husband, [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky\|Madame Blavatsky]], [[Henry Steel Olcott\|Colonel Olcott]], [[Damodar K. Mavalankar]], [[Godolphin Mitford\|M. Murad Ali Beg]], and [[Bhavani Shankar]]. They all saw [[Morya\|Master M.]] appearing into the room next to the one they were occupying and leaving a letter, before disappearing again.<ref>First Report of the Committee of the Society for Psychical Research, Appendix XIV at http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/app14.htm Published by The Blavatsky Archives Online</ref></blockquote>

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			[[Category:Christians\|Hume, Maria J. B.]]
	[[Category:People who encountered Mahatmas\|Hume, Maria J. B.]]		[[Category:People who encountered Mahatmas\|Hume, Maria J. B.]]
	[[Category:People who witnessed phenomena\|Hume, Maria J. B.]]		[[Category:People who witnessed phenomena\|Hume, Maria J. B.]]
	[[Category:People\|Hume, Maria J. B.]]		[[Category:People\|Hume, Maria J. B.]]

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Marriage to Ross Scott

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	This is confirmed in a letter from [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky\|Mme. Blavatsky]] to [[Alfred Percy Sinnett\|A. P. Sinnett]]. She asked the Masters to help Mr. Scott and "... was told to provide him with a wife — 'Miss Hume would do first rate for him.'"<ref>A. Trevor Barker, ''The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett'' Letter No. 10c (Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, 1973), 15.</ref>		This is confirmed in a letter from [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky\|Mme. Blavatsky]] to [[Alfred Percy Sinnett\|A. P. Sinnett]]. She asked the Masters to help Mr. Scott and "... was told to provide him with a wife — 'Miss Hume would do first rate for him.'"<ref>A. Trevor Barker, ''The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett'' Letter No. 10c (Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, 1973), 15.</ref>

	They had a son, Montague Allan Hume Ross Scott, who served with the Royal Engineers in India.		They had a son, Montague Allan Hume Ross Scott, who served with the Royal Engineers in India. Ross Scott died in 1908.

	== Encounter with Mahatma ==		== Encounter with Mahatma ==

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	Maria Jane Burnley Hume was born on January 3, 1854 in Umballa, Bengal, India to [[Allan Octavian Hume]] and his wife Mary Anne.<ref>India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947.</ref> She was known to her family as "Minnie." Not much is known of their family life, but the 1861 census shows Mary Anne and her daughter living in the St. Sidwell parish of Exeter in Devon, England.<ref>1861 England Census.</ref> They had possibly taken refuge there from the rebellions taking place in northern India at that time. The mother, Mary Anne Hume, died on March 30, 1890.<ref>''Pall Mall Gazette'' (April 1, 1890), 6. See [http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000098/18900401/020/0006 British Newspaper Archive].</ref>		Maria Jane Burnley Hume was born on January 3, 1854 in Umballa, Bengal, India to [[Allan Octavian Hume]] and his wife Mary Anne.<ref>India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947.</ref> She was known to her family as "Minnie." Not much is known of their family life, but the 1861 census shows Mary Anne and her daughter living in the St. Sidwell parish of Exeter in Devon, England.<ref>1861 England Census.</ref> They had possibly taken refuge there from the rebellions taking place in northern India at that time. The mother, Mary Anne Hume, died on March 30, 1890.<ref>''Pall Mall Gazette'' (April 1, 1890), 6. See [http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000098/18900401/020/0006 British Newspaper Archive].</ref>

	~~Maria~~ became a member of the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]].<ref>Ellic Howe, ''Fringe Masonry in England, 1870-1885'' Holmes Publishing Group, 1996.</ref> In her later years, Minnie lived with her widowed father in England.<ref>1901 England Census.</ref> She died in 1927.		Minnie does not seem to have been a member of the [[Theosophical Society]], but after moving to England she became a member of the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]].<ref>Ellic Howe, ''Fringe Masonry in England, 1870-1885'' Holmes Publishing Group, 1996.</ref> In her later years, Minnie lived with her widowed father in England.<ref>1901 England Census.</ref> She died in 1927.

	== Marriage to Ross Scott ==		== Marriage to Ross Scott ==

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	This is confirmed in a letter from [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky\|Mme. Blavatsky]] to [[Alfred Percy Sinnett\|A. P. Sinnett]]. She asked the Masters to help Mr. Scott and "... was told to provide him with a wife — 'Miss Hume would do first rate for him.'"<ref>A. Trevor Barker, ''The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett'' Letter No. 10c (Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, 1973), 15.</ref>		This is confirmed in a letter from [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky\|Mme. Blavatsky]] to [[Alfred Percy Sinnett\|A. P. Sinnett]]. She asked the Masters to help Mr. Scott and "... was told to provide him with a wife — 'Miss Hume would do first rate for him.'"<ref>A. Trevor Barker, ''The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett'' Letter No. 10c (Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, 1973), 15.</ref>

			They had a son, Montague Allan Hume Ross Scott, who served with the Royal Engineers in India.

	== Encounter with Mahatma ==		== Encounter with Mahatma ==

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	== Personal life ==		== Personal life ==

	Maria Jane Burnley Hume was born on January 3, 1854 in Umballa, Bengal, India to [[Allan Octavian Hume]] and his wife Mary Anne.<ref>India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947.</ref> She was known to her family as "Minnie." Not much is known of their family life, but the 1861 census shows Mary Anne and her daughter living in the St. Sidwell parish of Exeter in Devon, England.<ref>1861 England Census.</ref>		Maria Jane Burnley Hume was born on January 3, 1854 in Umballa, Bengal, India to [[Allan Octavian Hume]] and his wife Mary Anne.<ref>India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947.</ref> She was known to her family as "Minnie." Not much is known of their family life, but the 1861 census shows Mary Anne and her daughter living in the St. Sidwell parish of Exeter in Devon, England.<ref>1861 England Census.</ref> They had possibly taken refuge there from the rebellions taking place in northern India at that time. The mother, Mary Anne Hume, died on March 30, 1890.<ref>''Pall Mall Gazette'' (April 1, 1890), 6. See [http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000098/18900401/020/0006 British Newspaper Archive].</ref>

	In her later years, Minnie lived with her widowed father in England.<ref>1901 England Census.</ref> ~~Her date of death is not known~~.		Maria became a member of the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]].<ref>Ellic Howe, ''Fringe Masonry in England, 1870-1885'' Holmes Publishing Group, 1996.</ref> In her later years, Minnie lived with her widowed father in England.<ref>1901 England Census.</ref> She died in 1927.

	== Marriage to Ross Scott ==		== Marriage to Ross Scott ==

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	Maria Jane Burnley Hume was born on January 3, 1854 in Umballa, Bengal, India to [[Allan Octavian Hume]] and his wife Mary Anne.<ref>India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947.</ref> She was known to her family as "Minnie." Not much is known of their family life, but the 1861 census shows Mary Anne and her daughter living in the St. Sidwell parish of Exeter in Devon, England.<ref>1861 England Census.</ref>		Maria Jane Burnley Hume was born on January 3, 1854 in Umballa, Bengal, India to [[Allan Octavian Hume]] and his wife Mary Anne.<ref>India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947.</ref> She was known to her family as "Minnie." Not much is known of their family life, but the 1861 census shows Mary Anne and her daughter living in the St. Sidwell parish of Exeter in Devon, England.<ref>1861 England Census.</ref>

	In her later years, Minnie lived with her widowed father in England.<ref>1901 England Census.</ref>		In her later years, Minnie lived with her widowed father in England.<ref>1901 England Census.</ref> Her date of death is not known.

	== Marriage to Ross Scott ==		== Marriage to Ross Scott ==

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	== Personal life ==		== Personal life ==

	On [[December 28]], 1881, she married [[Ross Scott]].		Maria Jane Burnley Hume was born on January 3, 1854 in Umballa, Bengal, India to [[Allan Octavian Hume]] and his wife Mary Anne.<ref>India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947.</ref> She was known to her family as "Minnie." Not much is known of their family life, but the 1861 census shows Mary Anne and her daughter living in the St. Sidwell parish of Exeter in Devon, England.<ref>1861 England Census.</ref>

			In her later years, Minnie lived with her widowed father in England.<ref>1901 England Census.</ref>

			== Marriage to Ross Scott ==

			On [[December 28]], 1881, she married [[Ross Scott]]. This marriage seems to have been a request from the [[Masters of Wisdom\|Masters]]. The [[Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (book)\|''Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett'']] states:

			<blockquote>HPB was told by the Mahatmas to try to find a suitable wife for him — certainly one of the strangest things in the [[Mahatma letters\|Letters]].<ref>George E. Linton and Virginia Hanson, eds., ''Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett'' (Adyar, Chennai, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1972), 244.</ref></blockquote>

			This is confirmed in a letter from [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky\|Mme. Blavatsky]] to [[Alfred Percy Sinnett\|A. P. Sinnett]]. She asked the Masters to help Mr. Scott and "... was told to provide him with a wife — 'Miss Hume would do first rate for him.'"<ref>A. Trevor Barker, ''The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett'' Letter No. 10c (Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, 1973), 15.</ref>

	== Encounter with Mahatma ==		== Encounter with Mahatma ==

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'''Maria Jane Burnley Hume''', also known as "Minnie Hume", was the only daughter [[Allan Octavian Hume]]. She married [[Ross Scott]], an associate of [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] and [[Henry Steel Olcott]], [[Founders#The Founders|the Founders]] of the [[Theosophical Society]], during their early days in India.

== Personal life ==

On [[December 28]], 1881, she married [[Ross Scott]].

== Encounter with Mahatma ==

One day Mrs. Scott was at the headquarters of the [[Theosophical Society]], in Bombay, along with her husband, [[, [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|Madame Blavatsky]], [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]], [[Damodar K. Mavalankar]], [[Godolphin Mitford|M. Murad Ali Beg]], and [[Bhavani Shankar]]. They all saw [[Morya|Master M.]] appearing into the room next to the one they were occupying and leaving a letter, before disappearing again.<ref>First Report of the Committee of the Society for Psychical Research, Appendix XIV at http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/app14.htm Published by The Blavatsky Archives Online</ref></blockquote>

== Notes ==
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[[Category:Associates of HPB|Hume, Maria J. B.]]
[[Category:Nationality English|Hume, Maria J. B.]]
[[Category:People who encountered Mahatmas|Hume, Maria J. B.]]
[[Category:People who witnessed phenomena|Hume, Maria J. B.]]
[[Category:People|Hume, Maria J. B.]]