Hulme, F. Edward

Frederick Edward Hulme (1841-1909) was known as a teacher and an amateur botanist. He was the Professor of Freehand and Geometrical Drawing at King's College, London from 1886. His most famous work was Familiar Wild Flowers which was issued in nine volumes. Frederick Edward Hulme was born to Frederick William Hulme and his wife Caroline (born Jackson). He was born in March 1841 in Hanley, Staffordshire. In 1844 his family moved to London where his father taught and worked as a landscape painter.[2] Not only was Hulme's father an accomplished landscape painter, but his maternal grandmother had