OBITUARIES

This folder includes obituaries for jazz musicians or persons of significance to the Australian jazz community, written by several contributors. Click on the INDEX box to access a list of obituaries contained in this folder.

OBITUARY: PETER HUME 1940-2023

by Carola Hume

January, 2024

Peter Hume was born in Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland, England on August 17, 1940, and died on September 28, 2023 in Oxenford, Queensland.  His parents were Fred and Jean Hume. Sometime in the 1930s, several years before his marriage to Jean in 1936, Fred changed his surname by one letter, from Humm to Hume. Fred emigrated to Australia first before Jean and Peter, arriving on February 15, 1949 to join the UK company of Reckitt and Coleman’s Sydney office as a salesman. After Fred had established a home, Jean and Peter emigrated to Australia on the SS Orontes arriving in Sydney on November 18, 1949, Peter was then nine years two months old…