Humphrey Hume Wrong

Humphrey Hume Wrong
Humphrey Hume Wrong c. 1915
Born	(1894-09-10)September 10, 1894 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died	January 24, 1954(1954-01-24) (aged 59) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Other names	Hume Wrong
Known for	Statesman
Spouse(s)	Mary Joyce Hutton
Children	Dennis Wrong and June Rogers

Humphrey Hume Wrong (September 10, 1894 – January 24, 1954) was a Canadian historian, professor, career diplomat, and Canada's ambassador to the United States. He was born in Toronto and died in Ottawa.

Wrong was the grandson of Liberal Party leader Edward Blake and son of historian George MacKinnon Wrong. At age five he suffered the loss of an eye in an accident.

Hume Wrong graduated from high school at Ridley College and was a graduate of the University of Toronto where he joined The Kappa Alpha Society. During World War I, Wrong served in the British Expeditionary Force where he was sent to the front before being invalided. After the war, he went to the University of Oxford for graduate study, and in 1921 became a history professor, working at his fathers Department at the University of Toronto until 1927.

Hume was one of five siblings: educator, Margaret Christian Wrong (1887–1948); historian, Oxford academic, and Magdalene College Don, Edward Murray Wrong (1889–1928); British Army officer, Harold Verschoyle Wrong (born 1891, killed in action July 1, 1916, at the Battle of the Somme); and Agnes Honoria Wrong (1903–1995).

In April 1927 he became First Secretary to Vincent Massey, head of the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC. Thus Wrong joined the newly expanded Canadian Department of External Affairs around the same time as fellow future star diplomats Lester Pearson, Norman Robertson, and Hugh Keenleyside; this expansion was engineered by Oscar D. Skelton. Wrong served in the League of Nations and in 1938 he represented Canada at the Évian Conference.