royalists, was garrisoned by the parliamentarians, and Charles I. was refused admission by the governor Sir John Hotham. In 1643 it stood a siege of six weeks, but the new governor Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Baron Fairfax, obliged the Royalist army to retreat by opening the sluices and placing the surrounding country under water. Hull was represented in the parliament of 1295 and has sent members ever since, save that in 1384 the burgesses were exempted from returning any member on account of the expenses which they were incurring through fortifying their town. Besides the fairs granted to the burgesses by Edward I., two others were granted by Charles II. in 1664 to Henry Hildiard who owned property in the town.
See T. Gent, Annales Regioduni Hullini (York, 1735, reprinted 1869); G. Hadley, History of the Town and County of Kingston-upon-Hull (Hull, 1788); C. Frost, Notices relative to the Early History of the Town and Port of Hull (London, 1827); J. J. Sheaham, General and Concise History of Kingston-upon-Hull (London and Beverley, 1864).
HULL (in O. Eng. hulu, from helan, to cover, cf. Ger. Hülle, covering), the outer covering, pod, or shell of beans, peas, &c., also the enclosing envelope of a chrysalis. The word may be the same as “hull,” meaning the body of a ship without its masts or superstructure, &c., but in this sense the word is more usually connected with “hold,” the interior cargo-carrying part of a vessel. This word was borrowed, as a nautical term, from the Dutch, hol (cognate with “hole”), the d being due to confusion with “to hold,” “grasp” (O. Eng. healdan). The meanings of “hull” and “hold” are somewhat far apart, and the closest sense resemblance is to the word “hulk,” which is not known till about a century later.
HULLAH, JOHN PYKE (1812–1884), English composer and
teacher of music, was born at Worcester on the 27th June
1812. He was a pupil of William Horsley from 1829, and
entered the Royal Academy of Music in 1833. He wrote an opera
to words by Dickens, The Village Coquettes, produced in 1836;
The Barbers of Bassora in 1837, and The Outpost in 1838, the last
two at Covent Garden. From 1839, when he went to Paris to
investigate various systems of teaching music to large masses
of people, he identified himself with Wilhem’s system of the
“fixed Do,” and his adaptation of that system was taught with
enormous success from 1840 to 1860. In 1847 a large building in
Long Acre, called St Martin’s Hall, was built by subscription
and presented to Hullah. It was inaugurated in 1850 and burnt
to the ground in 1860, a blow from which Hullah was long in
recovering. He had risked his all in the maintenance of the
building, and had to begin the world again. A series of lectures
was given at the Royal Institution in 1861, and in 1864 he lectured
in Edinburgh, but in the following year was unsuccessful in his
application for the Reid professorship. He conducted concerts
in Edinburgh in 1866 and 1867, and the concerts of the Royal
Academy of Music from 1870 to 1873; he had been elected to the
committee of management in 1869. In 1872 he was appointed
by the Council of Education musical inspector of training schools
for the United Kingdom. In 1878 he went abroad to report on
the condition of musical education in schools, and wrote a very
valuable report, quoted in the memoir of him published by his
wife in 1886. He was attacked by paralysis in 1880, and again
in 1883. His compositions, which remained popular for some
years after his death in 1884, consisted mainly of ballads; but
his importance in the history of music is owing to his exertions
in popularizing musical education, and his persistent opposition
to the Tonic Sol-Fa system, which had a success he could not
foresee. His objections to it were partly grounded on the
character of the music which was in common use among the early
teachers of the system. While it cannot be doubted that Hullah
would have won more success if he had not opposed the Tonic
Sol-Fa movement so strenuously, it must be confessed that his
work was of great value, for he kept constantly in view and
impressed upon all who followed him or learnt from him the
supreme necessity of maintaining the artistic standard of the
music taught and studied, and of not allowing trumpery compositions
to usurp the place of good music on account of the
greater ease with which they could be read.
HULME, WILLIAM (1631–1691), English philanthropist,
was born in the neighbourhood of Manchester, and died on the
29th of October 1691. Having lost his only son Banastre, Hulme
left his property in trust to maintain “four exhibitioners of the
poorest sort of bachelors for the space of four years” at Brasenose
College, Oxford. This was the beginning of the Hulme Trust. Its
property was in Manchester, and owing to its favourable situation
its value increased rapidly. Eventually in 1881 a scheme
was drawn up by the charity commissioners, by which (as
amended in 1907) the trust is now governed. Its income of
about £10,000 a year is devoted to maintaining the Hulme
Grammar School in Manchester and to assisting other schools,
to supporting a theological college, Hulme Hall, attached to the
university of Manchester, and to providing a number of scholarships
and exhibitions at Brasenose College.
See J. Croston, Hulme’s Charity (1877).
HÜLS, a town of Germany, in the Prussian Rhine province, 4 m. N. of Crefeld and 17 N.W. of Düsseldorf by rail. Pop. (1905) 6510. It has two Roman Catholic churches, a synagogue and manufactures of damask and velvet. In the neighbourhood ironstone is obtained.
HULSE, JOHN (1708–1790), English divine, was born—the eldest of a family of nineteen—at Middlewich, in Cheshire, in 1708. Entering St John’s College, Cambridge, in 1724, he graduated in 1728; and on taking orders (in 1732) was presented to a small country curacy. His father having died in 1753, Hulse succeeded to his estates in Cheshire, where, owing to feeble
health, he lived in retirement till his death in December 1790. He bequeathed his estates to Cambridge University for the purpose of maintaining two divinity scholars (£30 a year each) at St John’s College, of founding a prize for a dissertation, and of instituting the offices of Christian advocate and of Christian
preacher or Hulsean lecturer. By a statute in 1860 the Hulsean professorship of divinity was substituted for the office of Christian advocate, and the lectureship was considerably modified. The first course of lectures under the benefaction was delivered in
1820. In 1830 the number of annual lectures or sermons was
reduced from twenty to eight; after 1861 they were further
reduced to a minimum of four. The annual value of the Hulse
endowment is between £800 and £900, of which eight-tenths
go to the professor of divinity and one-tenth to the prize and
lectureship respectively.
An account of the Hulsean lectures from 1820 to 1894 is given in J. Hunt’s Religious Thought in the 19th Century, 332-338; among the lecturers have been Henry Alford (1841), R. C. Trench (1845), Christopher Wordsworth (1847), Charles Merivale (1861), James Moorhouse (1865), F. W. Farrar (1870), F. J. A. Hort (1871), W. Boyd Carpenter (1878), W. Cunningham (1885), M. Creighton (1893).
HUMACAO, a small city and the capital of a municipal district and department of the same name, in Porto Rico, 46 m. S.E. of San Juan. Pop. (1899) of the city, 4428; and of the municipal district, 14,313. Humacao is attractively situated near the E. coast, 9 m. from the port of Naguabo and a little over 6 m. from its own port of Punta Santiago, with which it is connected by a good road; a railway was under construction in 1908, and some of the sugar factories of the department are now connected by rail with the port. The department covers the eastern end of the island and includes all the islands off its coast, among which are Culebra and Vieques; the former (pop. in 1899, 704) has two excellent harbours and is used as a U.S. naval station; the latter is 21 m. long by 6 m. wide and in 1899 had a population of nearly 6000. Grazing is the principal industry, but sugar-cane, tobacco and fruit are cultivated. There are valuable forests in the mountainous districts, a part of which has been set aside for preservation under the name of the Luquillo forest reserve. Humacao was incorporated as a city in 1899. It suffered severely in the hurricane of 1898, the damage not having been fully repaired as late as 1906.
HUMANE SOCIETY, ROYAL. This society was founded in England in 1774 for the purpose of rendering “first aid” in cases of drowning and for restoring life by artificial means to those apparently drowned. Dr William Hawes (1736–1808), an
