![]() ![]() ![]() In 1898, he published The Great Lord Burghley, a readable study, and Spain, its Greatness and Decay, 1479–1789, a useful historical outline, which he completed in the following year by the publication of Modern Spain, 1788-1898 (1899 new edit. However, his official duties did not absorb all his energies. Next year Hume succeeded Pascual de Gayangos at the Public Record Office as editor of the Spanish State Papers, and did sound work in this capacity. In 1897, he published Sir Walter Ralegh and Philip II of Spain, the latter monograph showing insight and independence of view. ![]() Though this attracted little attention, Hume persevered, and The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth a History of the Various Negotiations for her Marriage, and The Year after the Armada, and other Historical Studies, both issued in 1896, were received with a degree of popular favour which led him to adopt authorship as a profession. Gilbert, Jack Dngas, Wilfred GILES, RONALD Duiuaa, Lillian 0. Martin Andrew Sharp Hume, born Martin Andrew Sharp, was an English historian and longtime resident of Spain.Īfter some practice in journalism, he meanwhile produced his first book, A Chronicle of King Henry VIII of England (1889), a translation from the Spanish. ![]()
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