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The Hulme family's pedigree was recorded by the Heralds in a Visitation in 1567 but relatively little is known about Hulme's life. [1] He is recorded as having been baptised at Bolton in 1631, the son of William Hulme (d.1637) of Hulme Hall, Reddish , Lancashire .
Hulme was stationed with the 96th Regiment at Halifax from September 1824, and in Bermuda from September 1825, where a son, William, was born in October 1825. [1] Another son, John Wills, though, was born on 4 April 1827; baptised at St David, Exeter , Devonshire, 12 May 1827. [ 1 ]
Originally named The Hulme Grammar School, in 1939 it changed its name to William Hulme's Grammar School. [4] Until 1975 it was a direct grant school; when this scheme was abolished, it chose to become independent. [5] In 2006, the school announced that it was joining the state sector, abolishing all tuition fees and selection.
The doorway of the original Oldham Hulme Grammar School building with its date stone and a window were incorporated into the current school building in the 1920s. [1] When the school was refounded in 1887 it obtained some money from a charitable trust created in 1691 by a bequest from William Hulme , after whom the new school was named.
The Battle of Puketutu (Māori: Puketutu) was an engagement that took place on 8 May 1845 between British forces, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel William Hulme, and Māori warriors, led by Hōne Heke and Te Ruki Kawiti, during the Flagstaff War in the Bay of Islands region of New Zealand.
Bridge accompanied Lieutenant Colonel William Hulme's expedition to Ōtūihu pā on 30 April. Following a tense stand-off between the Pōmare's warriors and detachments of the 58th and 96th Regiments, Hulme persuaded Pōmare to meet in person, took him prisoner on board HMS North Star and burnt the pā.
With his only son, Banaster Hulme (1658–73) having died at the age of 15, William Hulme left his property to his wife and after her death to be held in trust forming “Hulme’s Charity”. [ 3 ] The Trust was to use the money for educational purposes: Hulmeian Exhibitions were established at Brasenose College, Oxford to support four poor ...
It was the site of the first, successful for the British, battle of the Flagstaff War of 1845–46 against Hōne Heke's Ngāpuhi tribe fraction. Lieutenant-Colonel William Hulme and his force of about 200 soldiers, marines and volunteers having destroyed a coastal pā at Ōtuihu moved on Hōne Heke at his new pā (Te Mawhe Pā) on the Lake Ōmāpere side of Puketutu which they arrived at on ...