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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 == | ||
Revision as of 16:19, 16 February 2018
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, the Founders of the Theosophical Society, during their early days in India.
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.[1] 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.[2]
In her later years, Minnie lived with her widowed father in England.[3]
Marriage to Ross Scott
On December 28, 1881, she married Ross Scott. This marriage seems to have been a request from the Masters. The Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett states:
HPB was told by the Mahatmas to try to find a suitable wife for him — certainly one of the strangest things in the Letters.[4]
This is confirmed in a letter from Mme. Blavatsky to 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.'"[5]
Encounter with Mahatma
One day Mrs. Scott was at the headquarters of the Theosophical Society, in Bombay, along with her husband, [[, Madame Blavatsky, Colonel Olcott, Damodar K. Mavalankar, M. Murad Ali Beg, and Bhavani Shankar. They all saw Master M. appearing into the room next to the one they were occupying and leaving a letter, before disappearing again.[6]
Notes
- ↑ India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947.
- ↑ 1861 England Census.
- ↑ 1901 England Census.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ A. Trevor Barker, The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett Letter No. 10c (Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, 1973), 15.
- ↑ 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