as editor of the Spanish State Papers, and did sound work in this capacity. However, his official duties did not absorb all his energies. 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. 1906). He was appointed Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic by King Alfonso XIII in 1902. Hume never married. He died on 1 July 1910, at his sister's house at Forest Gate. Works His principal works were: The Year After the Armada: And Other Historical Studies (1896) The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth (1896; revised edition, 1904) Philip II of Spain (1897) Sir Walter Ralegh: the British dominion of the West (1897) The Great Lord Burghley (1898) Spain: Its Greatness and Decay, 1479–1789 (1898; revised by Armstrong, 1913) Modern Spain, 1788-1898 (1899; new edition, 1906) The Spanish People (1901) The Love Affairs of Mary Queen of Scots (1903) Spanish Influence on English Literature (1905) Queens of Old Spain (1907) The Court of Philip IV: Spain in Decadence (1907) Through Portugal (1907) Two English Queens and Philip (1908) Queen Elizabeth and her England (1910) True Stories of the Past (1910, published posthumously) Notes References at Internet Archive External links 19th-century English historians 1847 births 1910 deaths 20th-century English historians