Hume, Joseph, 1767-1843.

Joseph Hume, a clerk in the Victualling Office at Somerset House. Not to be confused with the radical parliamentarian of the same name, this Joseph Hume was a friend of Charles Lamb and William Godwin, and published a translation of Dante's Inferno for Cadell and Davies in 1812.

From the description of Joseph Hume (Somerset House clerk) manuscript material : 4 items, 1816 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 433644375