Originally from Scotland the Humes came to Tipperary in the 14th century. They were shipbuilders and were classed as the richest commoners in the country. In 1632, Thomas Hume bought the land now known as Humewood. The eccentric and controversial architect, William White, designed Humewood, which subsequently became one of the most remarkable Victorian buildings in Ireland. The commission came in 1864, from the Right Honorable William Wentworth Fitzwilliam Dick of Humewood, Member of Parliament for County Wicklow, who had assumed his mother's family surname of Dick in lieu of his own, Hume...