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Born January 22, 1777 • Montrose • Scotland
Died February 20, 1855 (aged 78) • Norfolk • England
Role In Catholic Emancipation

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Joseph Hume, detail of a portrait by J.W. Walton, 1854; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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