HOME, Earl of,
a title in the peerage of Scotland, dating from 1605, possessed by
the distinguished family of Home, descended from the ancient and
potent earls of Dunbar and March, originally sprung from the Saxon
kings of England and the princes or earls of Northumberland.
Patrick, second son of Cospatrick, third earl, had a son, William,
who, in the early part of the 13th century, took for his
second wife his cousin Ada, daughter of Patrick fifth earl of Dunbar
and March, and widow of a gentleman named De Courtenay, on her
marriage with whom she had obtained from her father, “in liberum
maritagium,” the lands of Home in the west of Berwickshire. These
lands her second husband became possessed of in her right, and in
consequence assumed the name of Home. He also carried the armorial
bearings of the earls of Dunbar, being a white lion in a red field,
with a green field for difference, as relative to his estate of
Greenlaw, which with other lands in Berwickshire had been bestowed
on his father by his grandfather, Earl Cospatrick. This William de
Home made a grant of various lands to the monastery of Coldstream.
He died in 1266.
His son,
William de Home, in many authentic writings styled lord of Home,
confirmed in 1268, a grant made by his mother, Ada, to the monastery
of Kelso, prior to the year 1240. He had a son, Galfridus or
Geoffrey de Home, who was one of the barons who found it expedient
to swear allegiance to Edward I. In 1296. The son of this Geoffrey,
Roger de Home, had a son, Sir John de Home, a gallant border
chieftain, who, from his successful forays across the border, always
fighting in a white jacket, acquired from the English, the nickname
of “Willie with the white doublet.”
His son,
Sir Thomas de Home, in the reign of Robert the Third married
Nicholas Pepdie, heiress of Dunglass, and got with her the lands of
that name in Berwickshire. He had three sons, Sir Alexander, who
carried on the principal line; David, the first of the family of
Wedderburn, ancestor of the earls of Marchmont (See MARCHMONT, earl
of); and Patrick Home of Rathburn. He had also two daughters.
Hitherto
this warlike family acknowledged as their feudal lords the earls of
March, whose vassals they were. When, however, George earl of March
sided with the English against his countrymen, they abandoned his
banner, and rallied round the standard of the Douglases. Sir
Alexander Home, of Home and Dunglass, fought at the head of his clan
at the battle of Homildon, 5th May 1402, against Henry
Percy and their former chieftain, George earl of March, but was
taken prisoner. On obtaining his liberty he accompanied the earl of
Douglas to France, and was slain with him at the battle of Vereuil
in 1424. He married Jean, daughter of William Hay of Locharret,
ancestor of the marquis of Tweeddale, and had three sons, namely,
Sir Alexander, his heir; Thomas, ancestor of the Homes of
Tyninghame, the Homes of Ninewells, of which family was David Hume
the historian, and other families of the name; and George,
progenitor of the Homes of Spott.
On the
forfeiture of the earldom of March in January 1435, the family of
Home ceased to be vassals, and became manorial tenants under the
crown. As they had risen on the fall of their chiefs, they were
often appointed conservators of the peace with England. In 1449, Sir
Alexander Home, the eldest son above mentioned, was one of the
guarantees of a treaty with England, and warden of the marches. He
died in 1456.
The eldest
of his five sons, Sir Alexander Home, was, in 1459, one of the
ambassadors extraordinary to treat with the English. On 2d August
1465 he was appointed by the prior and chapter of Coldingham, to the
office of ballie of the lands belonging to the convent, an office
which had been held both by his uncle and his father, but which, in
his case, was made hereditary. The same year he sat in the Estates
among the barons. He was created a lord of parliament, by the title
of Lord Home, 2d August, 1473, and from 1476 to 1485, he was
employed in various negotiations with the English. Using with
stringent vigour his power as bailie of Coldingham to make the
property of the convent his own, when James III., in 1484, obtained
the Pope’s consent to annex the revenues of the priory to the chapel
royal at Stirling, he resented this attempt to wrest them from
himself by joining, with all his strength, the party of disaffected
nobles who had conspired against him, and took an active part in the
rebellion that ended in the death of that unfortunate monarch. Lord
Home died betwixt 14th May and 16th June 1491.
He married firs, Mariota, daughter and heiress of Landales of
Landales in Berwickshire; and, secondly, Margaret, daughter of
Alexander, master of Montgomery. By the former he had, with a
daughter, three sons, namely, Alexander; George, ancestor of the
Homes of Ayton; and Patrick, ancestor of the Homes of Fastcastle. By
his second wife, he had a son, Thomas Home of Lainshaw, Ayrshire.
Alexander, the eldest son, predeceased his father before 1468,
leaving two sons, namely, Alexander, second Lord Home, and John of
Whiterigs and Ersiltain, ancestor of the present earl and of the
Homes of Bassenden, and a daughter, Elizabeth.
Alexander,
second Lord Home, is frequently mentioned in the public records
after his grandfather was created Lord Home, under the designation
of Alexander home of that ilk. In May 1488, he was one of the
ambassadors sent to England by the disaffected nobles, and
immediately after the assassination of James III. In the following
month, he got the office of steward of Dunbar, and obtained a joint
share of the administration of the Lothians and Berwickshire, during
the minority of James IV. He was sworn a privy councillor, and
constituted great chamberlain of Scotland for life, 7th
October 1488. He was served heir to his grandfather in 1492. He had
been appointed warden of the east marches for seven years, 25th
August, 1489, and at the same time he was nominated captain of the
castle of Stirling and governor of the young king. He had committed
to him the tuition of the king’s brother, John, earl of Mar, , 10th
January 1490. On the 12th of the same month he had a
charter of the office of the bailiary of Ettrick forest, and on 28th
April 1491, he was appointed by the Estates to collect the king’s
rents and dues within the earldom of March and barony of Dunbar. He
also obtained various lands in the constabulary of Haddington. In
1493, in accordance with the superstitious feeling of the age, he
made a pilgrimage to Canterbury, for which he got a safe-conduct to
pass through England, from Henry VII. From 1495 to 1504 he was
employed in several negotiations with the English.
In 1497,
when James IV. Invaded England in support of the pretensions of
Perkin Warbeck, the Homes formed part of his army on the occasion.
After devastating the counties of Northumberland and Durham, James,
on learning that a superior force, under the earl of Surrey, was
marching against him, slowly retreated into Berwickshire, closely
pursued by Surrey, who, in retaliation of his ravages south of the
Tweed, overthrew Ayton castle and several other of the strongholds
of the Homes, as well as various places belonging to other families
in the Merse. Ford, in his dramatic Chronicle of ‘Perkin Warbeck,’
makes Surrey thus taunt the Scots for allowing these places to be
demolished:
--------------------------------------“Can
they
Look on the strength of Cundrestine defac’t;
The glory of Heydon-hall devasted, that
Of Edlinton cast downe; the pile of fulden
Overthrowne; and this the strongest of their
forts,
Old Ayton castle, yielded and demolished,
And yet not peepe abroad?”
And in Marmion,
Sir Walter Scott makes his hero say,
“I have not ridden in Scotland since
James backed the cause of that mock prince
Warbeck, the Flemish counterfeit
Who on the gibbet paid the cheat;
Than did I march with Surrey’s power,
What time we razed old Ayton tower.”
The second Lord
Home died in 1506. He had, by his wife Nicolas Ker of Samuelston, a
daughter and seven sons. Of these, Alexander, the eldest, was third
Lord Home, and George, the second, was fourth lord; David, the third
son, was prior of Coldingham, and William, the second youngest son,
was arrested and tried with his elder brother, and executed at
Edinburgh, 9th October 1516. The rest died without issue.
Alexander,
third Lord Home, succeeded to the great power and vast estates of
his family, and in 1507 was appointed to the office of lord
chamberlain. In 1513, in the midst of King James’ preparations for a
war with England, Lord Home, as warden of the eastern marches at the
head of 8,000 men crossed the border, and after laying waste the
country, carried off a large booty of cattle and other property, but
was surprised and defeated, with great slaughter, at a pass called
the Broomhouse, by Sir William Bulmer. Five hundred of the borderers
were slain upon the spot, and their leader compelled to flee for his
life, leaving his banner of the field, and his brother, Sir George
Home, and 400 men, prisoners in the hands of the English. Incensed
at this defeat, James levied one of the finest armies which Scotland
ever sent forth, at the head of which he invaded England. The
disastrous battle of Flodden was the result. Jointly with the earl
of Huntly, Lord Home led the vaward or advance of the Scots army,
and commenced the battle by a furious charge on the English right
wing under Sir Edmund Howard, which, after some resistance, was
thrown into confusion, and totally routed. Although he himself
escaped the carnage of that dreadful day, a considerable number of
his clan were slain, with Cuthbert Home, the lord of Fastcastle, the
baron of Blackadder, David Home of Wedderburn, and his son George.
Lord Home has been blamed by some historians, and even accused of
cowardice and treachery, for not hastening to the relief of his
sovereign when he saw him contending with his nobles against the
superior force of the earl of Surrey, and in the utmost danger; but
he seems to have been the only leader on the Scots side that acted
the part of a prudent general in that fatal battle, and the reserve
of the English cavalry rendered it impossible for him to go to the
aid of the king, to whose impetuosity of temper and chivalrous
valour, as well as to the mistimed and precipitate courage of the
main body of the Scots, may be attributed his defeat and death. The
subsequent inroads of the English across the border were retaliated
by Lord Home with equal promptitude and destructiveness.
In March
1514, six months after the battle, he was declared one of the
standing councillors of the queen-mother, who had been appointed
regent, and constituted chief justice of all the territories lying
south of the forth. In 1515, when the regency was withdrawn from
Queen Margaret and conferred upon the duke of Albany, Lord Home
(erroneously styled an earl by Tytler, in several instances, see
History of Scotland, vol. v. pp. 76, 108 and 112) joined the
party of the queen-mother, and plotted with her and her husband the
earl of Angus, with whom he had previously been at deadly feud, to
deliver the young king and his infant brother to their uncle the
king of England. This intrigue was defeated by the vigilance of the
new regent, and on the royal children being demanded from the
queen-mother by the authority of the Estates, she named Lord Home as
one of the four barons to whom she proposed that the charge of them
should be committed. This being deemed an evasion, Albany, among
other measures, commanded Home, who was then provost of Edinburgh,
to arrest Sir George Douglas, Angus’ brother, which he indignantly
refused to do, and under cover of night, fled to Newark, a border
tower on the Yarrow. In a private conference with Lord Dacre, the
English agent, he now concerted measures of resistance to Albany’s
authority, and requested the assistance of an English army.
Assembling a powerful force, he commenced hostilities by retaking
the castle of Home, which had been seized by the regent, and
securing the strong tower of Blacater, on the borders, within five
miles of Berwick. To this stronghold, at the head of an escort of
forty soldiers, he conveyed the queen-mother, in consequence of
which Albany, at the head of a large force, marched into
Berwickshire, and after razing Lord Home’s fortlet of Fastcastle,
and capturing the castle of Home, he overrun and ravaged his
estates. Lord Home afterwards made predatory incursions into
Scotland, and Albany, having caused the French ambassador to offer
him an amnesty and pardon, with the request of a conference, he
agreed to meet the regent at Dunglass, where he was instantly
arrested, and committed prisoner to the castle of Edinburgh, then
under the charge of the earl of Arran. He had the address, however,
to prevail on Arran, who was his brother-in-law, to let him escape,
and to accompany him in his flight to England, whither he was soon
after followed by the queen and Angus.
In March
1516, he made his peace with Albany, and was restored to his
possessions; but renewing his intrigues with England, and
encouraging disorders on the border, Albany resolved to make an
example of him as soon as he got him within his power. Inveigled by
the regent’s promise, Home and his brother William imprudently
visited the court at Holyrood palace in September 1516, when they
were arrested, tried for treason, and convicted. Lord Home was
executed on the 8th and his brother on the 9th
October, and their heads placed on the tolbooth or public prison of
Edinburgh, where they remained till 1521, when their kinsman, Home
of Wedderburn, had them taken down, and buried with funeral honours
in the Greyfriars churchyard. Lord Home’s title and estates were
forfeited to the crown. Soon after, another brother, David Home,
prior of Coldingham, was assassinated by the Hepburns. For Albany’s
treachery towards his chief, Home of Wedderburn took fearful
revenge. Pretending to besiege the tower of Langton in the Merse, he
drew Antony Darcy, styled the Sieur de la Beauté, whom Albany
had made his lieutenant and warden of the marches, into an
ambuscade, and put him to death under circumstances of savage
ferocity, on 9th September 1517.
Lord Home,
having only daughters, was succeeded by his brother George, fourth
Lord Home, who had at first taken refuge in England, but by means of
his kinsman, Home of Wedderburn, was brought back to his own castle
of Home, and put in possession of the family estates. He had
charters of several lands forfeited by his brother in 1517, and was
restored to the title, and to such of the estates as were held by
the crown, 12th August 1522. Conciliated by the clemency
manifested to their chief, the Homes deserted Angus, whose cause
they had hitherto supported, and taking part with the regent,
exerted their influenced towards ejecting Prior Douglas from the
monastery of Coldingham, in which, however, they were never
successful.
In 1524,
when Albany finally left Scotland, Angus usurped the regency, and
for his hostility towards himself and his kinsman, Prior Douglas,
summoned Lord Home to answer a charge of treason before the Estates,
by whom, however, he was acquitted. It would appear that he fought
on Angus’ side, in 1526, when an unsuccessful attempt was made by
Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch to rescue the young king from his
hands, on his return from the borders to Edinburgh. In 1528, after
James had made his escape from the Douglases, he assisted the earl
of Argyle in expelling Angus from the priory of Coldingham, and
driving him across the borders. In the arrests that subsequently
took place, Home was one of the border chiefs who were imprisoned
for not enforcing the laws against thieves and marauders on the
borders. In 1542 he did good service, first, by jointly with the
earl of Huntly and at the head of four hundred spears, repulsing at
Haddenrig, an incursion of the English under Sir Robert Bowes and
the exiled earl of Angus, and, next, by opposing and harassing, with
Huntly and Seton, the more formidable army which, in the subsequent
October, invaded Scotland under the duke of Norfolk. In the
following year he joined the party of Cardinal Bethune, and with
Bothwell and Scott of Buccleuch mustered his feudal array upon the
borders against the English alliance. In a skirmish with the English
at Fanside, the day preceding the battle of Pinkie, 9th
September 1547, he was thrown from his horse and severely injured.
He was carried to Edinburgh, where he died. His son and heir being
at the same time taken prisoner, Home castle, after a stout
resistance by Lady Home (Mariota, second daughter and coheiress of
the sixth Lord Halyburton of Dirleton) fell into the hands of the
protector Somerset, on the 22d of the same month, and was garrisoned
by a detachment of his troops. Lord Home had two sons and a
daughter.
Alexander,
fifth Lord Home, the elder son, distinguished himself in the
campaigns against the English of 1548 and 1549, and retaking his
family castle by stratagem, he put the garrison to the sword. He had
a charter of the office of bailie of Coldstream, 31st
December 1551. He had also the appointment of warden of the east
marches, and was one of the Scots commissioners who negotiated the
treaty of Upsetlington, 31st May 1559. He supported the
Reformation, and sat in the parliament which abolished popery in
1560. In 1565 he attached himself to the party of Mary and Darnley,
and in 1566 that unfortunate princess, with a splendid retinue,
visited the castles of Home, Wedderburn, and Langton. At this time
Randolph, the English ambassador, wrote that it was expected that
Lord Home would be created earl of March. He was one of the nobles
who signed the bond in favour of Mary’s marriage to Bothwell; but in
1567 he joined the association in favour of the young king, James
VI., and in June of that year he was one of those who signed the
order for imprisoning Mary in Lochleven castle. After the queen’s
escape, he led 600 of the border spearmen against her to the battle
of Langside, where, though wounded in the face and leg, he is said
to have decided the fortune of the field. In 1569 he deserted the
party of the regent and joined the queen’s friends, and on 16th
June, 1571, he was taken prisoner in a skirmish with the earl of
Morton in the suburbs of Edinburgh. He assisted Kirkaldy of Grange
and Maitland of Lethington in holding out the castle of Edinburgh,
which, however, surrendered in May 1573, and on 27th
October following, he was tried in parliament and convicted of
treason, but was pardoned and restored to his estates. He died 11th
August, 1575. Melvil says, “He was so true a Scotsman that he was
unwinnable to England, to do any thing prejudicial to his country.”
His son,
Alexander, sixth Lord Home, stood high in the favour of King James
VI., and in 1589, when that monarch sailed to Denmark to marry the
princess Anne, he was named among those nobles to whom the
conservation of the public peace was confided. He was very
instrumental in suppressing the insurrection of Francis earl of
Bothwell in 1592, for which service he had a grant of the dissolved
priory of Coldingham. In 1599, being a Roman Catholic, he was sent
by the king on a suspicious embassy to the papal court. In 1603,
when James VI. Departed for England, he staid a night on his way at
Lord Home’s castle of Dunglass, and was accompanied by his lordship
to London. He was sworn a privy councillor, and was there
naturalized. On 4th March 1605 he was created earl of
Home and Lord Dunglass, the patent being to him a and his heirs male
whatsoever. He died 5th April 1619.
His only
son, James, second earl of Home, was twice married, but died without
issue, in February 1633. He had two sisters. Margaret, married to
Lord Doune, afterwards fifth earl of Moray, and Anne, duchess of
Lauderdale. These ladies were served heir to him in the greater part
of his estates. In him ended the male line of the first son of
Alexander, first Lord Home. The titles devolved on the heir male,
sir James Home of Coldingknows, the sixth in descent from John Home
of Whiterigs and Ersilton, second son of Alexander, master of Home,
son of the first lord.
Sir James
Home of Coldingknows, third earl of Home, obtained from Charles I. A
ratification of all the honours, privileges, and precedencies
formerly enjoyed by the two earls of Home, his predecessors, to him
and his heirs male, 22d of May 1636, by patent dated at Hampton
court. He joined the association in favour of Charles I., at
Cumbernauld, in January 1641, and during the civil wars that
succeeded he maintained a steady loyalty. In 1644 he violently
dispossessed sir Patrick Hepburn of Waughton, of Fastcastle and the
adjacent lands of Wester Lumsdean, for which he was fined in the sum
of £20,000 Scots. In 1648 he was colonel of the Berwickshire
regiment of foot in the celebrated “Engagement” set on foot by the
duke of Hamilton to attempt the rescue of Charles I. His firm
adherence to that unfortunate monarch rendered him peculiarly
obnoxious to Cromwell, who, in 1650, immediately after the capture
of Edinburgh castle, despatched Colonel Fenwick, at the head of two
regiments, to seize the earl’s castle of Home. In answer to a
peremptory summons to surrender, sent him by the colonel at the head
of his troops, Cockburn, the governor of the castle, returned two
missives, which are worthy of being quoted for their humour. The
first was: “Right Honourable, I have received a trumpeter of yours,
as he tells me, without a pass, to surrender Home castle to the Lord
General Cromwell. Please you, I never saw your general. As for Home
castle, it stands upon a rock. Given at Home castle, this day,
before 7 o’clock. So resteth, without prejudice to my native
country, your most humble service, T. Cockburn.” The second was
expressed in doggerel rhymes, which have long been familiar in the
mouths of Scottish children:
“I,
Willie Wastle,
Stand firm in my castle;
And a’ the dogs o’ your town
Will no pull Willie Wastle down.”
Cockburn,
however, notwithstanding these two doughty epistles, was obliged to
surrender the castle, which was garrisoned by the soldiery of
Cromwell.
In 1661
earl James was reinstated in his estates. He died in December 1666.
By his countess, Lady Jane Douglas, fourth daughter of William,
second earl of Morton, he had three sons, Alexander, fourth earl,
who died, without issue, in 1674; James, fifth earl, who died
without issue in 1687; and Charles, sixth earl. The latter was in
1678 imprisoned in Edinburgh castle for his accession to the
clandestine marriage of the heiress of Ayton to the laird of
Kimmerghame. In 1681 he was chosen a member of the Estates for
Berwickshire, but his election was not sustained. He did not concur
in the Revolution, and took a principal lead in the opposition to
the Union, but died during the pendency of that treaty, 20th
August, 1706. Lockhart of Carnwath, in his Memoirs gives a high
character of him as a true patriot. With three daughters, he had
three sons, Alexander, seventh earl; Hon. James Home of Ayton, who
engaging in the rebellion of 1715, had his estate forfeited, and
died 6th December 1764, and the Hon. George Home.
Alexander,
seventh earl, was chosen one of the sixteen representative peers at
the general election of 1710, and the following year was appointed
general of the mint. On the breaking out of the rebellion of 1715,
he was committed prisoner to the castle of Edinburgh, but released
at the expiry of the act suspending the habeas corpus bill, 24th
June, 1716. He died in 1720. He had six sons and two daughters, most
of whom, with Charles, Lord Dunglass, the eldest son, died young.
William, the second son, succeeded as eighth, and Alexander, the
fifth son, as ninth earl.
William,
eighth earl, a captain in the 3d regiment of foot guards,
(commission dated in July 1743) served on the continent, but was in
Scotland in 1745 when the rebellion broke out. He joined Sir John
Cope at Dunbar in September of that year, and was at the battle of
Preston, where he endeavoured, but in vain, to rally the dragoons.
Having taken the command of the Glasgow regiment of 600 men, with it
he joined the royal army at Stirling on the 12th of the
following December. After passing through the subordinate grades, on
29th April 1752 he was promoted to be colonel of the 25th
foot, and on 16th April 1757 was appointed governor of
Gilbraltar, where he died 28th April 1761, being then a
lieutenant-general in the army. He was elected one of the sixteen
Scots representative peers at the general elections of 1741, 1747,
and 1754, also on 5th May 1761, a week after his death,
which was not then known in Scotland. Dying without issue, he was
succeeded by his brother, Alexander, ninth earl, a clergyman of the
Church of England. This nobleman died at the family seat of Hirsel,
Berwickshire, 8th October, 1786. He was thrice married:
first, to Primrose, second daughter of Charles, ninth Lord
Elphinstone, and by her, who died 18th December, 1759,
had a son, William, Lord Dunglass, a lieutenant in the Coldstream
regiment of foot guards, which he accompanied to America, and was
mortally wounded at the battle of Guildford, 15th March,
1781. He died soon after, unmarried. They had also a daughter, Lady
Eleonora Home, married to Major-general Thomas Dundas of Fingask,
M.P., who fell a victim to pestilential disease on public service in
the West Indies in 1794, and to whose memory a monument was erected
by a vote of the House of Commons, in St. Paul’s Cathedral, London.
The earl’s second wife, his cousin, Marion, daughter of the Hon.
James Home of Ayton, died without issue, 30th Oct. 1763.
By his third wife, Miss Ramey of Great Yarmouth, he had two sons and
two daughters. The eldest son died in infancy. Alexander, the second
son, became tenth earl. Lady Caroline, the elder daughter, died
unmarried 30th April 1794. Lady Charlotte, the younger,
married Rev. Charles Baillie, archdeacon of Cleveland and rector of
Middleton, 2d son of Hon. George Baillie of Jerviswoode, with issue.
Alexander,
tenth earl, born at Hirsel, 11th Nov. 1769, married
Elizabeth, 2d daughter of Henry, third duke of Buccleuch and
Queensberry, and had three sons: 1. Cospatrick Alexander, Lord
Dunglas; 2. William Montagu Douglas, born 22d Nov. 1800, died 22d
July 1822; and 3. Henry Campbell, born 1801, died in infancy. His
lordship, a representative peer, died 21st October 1841.
His only
surviving son, Cospatrick Alexander Ramsey-Home, 11th
earl, born at Dalkeith House 27th October 1799, was under
secretary of state for foreign affairs from June 1828 to Nov. 1830,
elected a representative peer in 1842, and keeper of the great seal
of Scotland from Feb. to Aug. 1852. He married in 1832, Hon. Lucy
Elizabeth Montague, eldest daughter and co-heir of the last Lord
Montague (a title in the English peerage extinct in 1848), issue,
six sons and three daughters. On the death of her cousin, the 4th
Lord Douglas, without issue, 6th April 1857, the countess
of Home succeeded to his estates, estimated worth £55,000 per annum.
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The Homes
of Wedderburn were descended from Sir David Home of Thurston, in
East Lothian, second son of Sir Thomas Home of Home. He got from
Archibald earl of Douglas a grant of the barony of Wedderburn,
county Berwick, in 1413, which received a royal confirmation 19th
April 1430. He and his wife, Alice, had an additional charter from
the superior, Archibald, 4th earl of Douglas, confirmed
by royal charter, dated at Stirling, 16th May 1450. He
had a son, David, who predeceased him, leaving two sons, George, who
succeeded his grandfather, and Sir Patrick Home of Polwarth,
immediate ancestor of the earls of Marchmont (See MARCHMONT, earl
of), also, of the Homes of Kimmerghame, Castle Hume, &c.
The
grandson, George Home of Wedderburn, was killed by the English near
his own house in 1497. His son and successor, Sir David Home, was
slain at Flodden, with his eldest son, George. He had seven sons
altogether, who were called “the spears of Wedderburn.” The second
son, David, inherited the estate. The third son, Alexander Home of
Manderston, was ancestor of the Homes, earls of Dunbar, the Homes of
Renton, and the family of Home Drummond of Blair Drummond in
Perthshire. The fourth son, John, was progenitor of the Homes of
Blackadder, who possess a baronetcy. The younger son, Patrick, was
styled of Broomhouse.
The second
son, Sir David Home, was the energetic baron of Wedderburn, who
revenged the execution of his chief, Lord Home, and his brother, by
the assassination of Anthony de la Bastie in September 1517, as
above related, when he was assisted by his brothers, John and
Patrick. With cockburn of Langton and others who had been accessary
to the murder, they were cited to appear before the court of
justiciary at Edinburgh on 19th February following, but
disregarding the citation, they were declared by parliament rebels
and traitors, and their estates confiscated. When the earl of Arran,
at the head of a strong force, entered Berwickshire against him, Sir
David shut himself up in the castle of Edrington, about three miles
from Berwick, and defied all his attempts to take him prisoner. That
nobleman at length returned to the capital, after having placed
garrisons in the castles of Home, Langton, and Wedderburn. Sir
David, however, still possessed so much power in the Merse, that it
is stated “none almost pretended to go to Edinburgh, or any where
else out of the country, without first both asking and obtaining his
liberty.” Blackadder, prior of Coldingham, alone refused to submit
to him, and having accidentally met one day while following the
chase, they fought with such obstinacy that the prior and his six
attendants were slain on the spot. He soon recovered the castles
which had been garrisoned by the regent’s forces, his own fortress
of Wedderburn being the first that surrendered to him. He and his
kinsmen, the Homes of Ayton, Fastcastle, and Manderston, swelled,
with their retainers, the forces of the earl of Angus in the famous
street encounter, “Cleanse the Causeway,” against the Hamiltons at
Edinburgh in 1520. On the return of Albany from France in the
following year, with cockburn of Langton and others concerned in the
death of De la Bastie, they put their respective fortresses of
Fastcastle, Wedderburn, Buncle, and Billie, into a strong condition.
They were again declared traitors, but a compromise was, in August
1522, entered into with albany, and as the Homes were restored to
their estates, they were thenceforth found on the side of the
regent. With three daughters, he had three sons.
The eldest
son, Sir George Home, with his chief, Lord Home, and his kinsmen of
Ayton, Renton, and Fastcastle, were among the number of those who
were taken prisoners at Solway Moss in 1542. He was slain at the
battle of Pinkie in 1547, and was succeeded by his next brother, Sir
David. His youngest brother, John, was styled of Crumstane.
Sir David
Home of Wedderburn was taken prisoner at Pinkie. With the Homes of
Ayton and Manderston, the latter of whom was slain, he fought under
the banners of his chief, against Queen Mary at the battle of
Langside. He died in 1574. He had, with three daughters, four sons,
namely, George, his heir; David, of Godscroft, the well-known author
of a ‘History of the House and Race of Douglas and Angus,’ a memoir
of whom is given under Hume.
The eldest
son, Sir George Home of Wedderburn, was appointed warden of the east
marches in 1578, and comptroller of Scotland in 1597. He died 24th
November 1616. He had an only son, Sir David Home of Wedderburn,
slain at the battle of Dunbar in 1650, with his son, George Home,
whose son, also named George, inherited the estate, and died before
1715. With a daughter, he had two sons, George, his heir, and
Francis Home of Quixwood, from whom the claimant of the Marchmont
peerage derives his descent.
The elder
son, George, was put in possession of the family estate in 1695, and
engaging in the rebellion of 1715, was taken at the battle of
Preston, tried and condemned, but obtained a pardon, and died at
Wedderburn in 1720. By his wife, Margaret, eldest daughter of Sir
Patrick Home, baronet, of Lumsdean, he had nine children. David, the
eldest son, died laird of Wedderburn, in 1762. His next brother,
George, having predeceased him in 1758, he was succeeded by the
third son, Patrick, who died in 1766. John and James, the two
youngest sons, were captains in the royal navy, and both died,
unmarried, in 1758, the latter killed in action with the French.
Margaret, the eldest daughter, married in 1782, Ninian Home of
Billie, and was mother of Patrick Home, who succeeded to the estate
of Wedderburn, and was a member of parliament. Isabella, the second
daughter, married Alexander Home of Jardinfield, and was mother of
Ninian Home of Paxton, in the parish of Hutton, Berwickshire,
governor of Grenada, who was murdered there by Fedon, in 1795, and
of George Home, who succeeded to the estates of Wedderburn and
Paxton, and resided for many years at his seat of Paxton. He was a
member of the celebrated literary circle of Edinburgh which included
Henry Mackenzie, the author of the Man of Feeling, Lord Craig, &c.,
and several of his papers appeared in the Lounger and Mirror. Jean,
the youngest daughter, married the Rev. John Tod, minister of
Ladykirk, and had three sons and three daughters. None of these
married except the eldest daughter, Margaret, who, in 1799, became
the wife of John foreman, Esq., and died in 1820. With a daughter,
Jean, married to the Rev. Dr. Smith, she had three sons, John
Foreman Home, burn 29th January 1781, who succeeded to
the estate of Wedderburn, and married Mademoiselle Adelaide Rocharde,
without issue; William Foreman Home, of Paxton House, born 24th
April 1782, married in January 1811, Jean, daughter of the Rev.
George Home of Gunsgreen, and had four daughters, of whom the
eldest, Jean Foreman, now of Wedderburn and Paxton, married 30th
July 1832, David Milne, Esq., eldest son of Admiral Sir David Milne,
G.C.B., with issue a son, David, and five daughters. Ninian, the
third son, died young.
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TheHomes
of Blackadder are descended from John Home, fourth son of Sir David
Home of Wedderburn, and one of “the seven spears.” By his marriage
with Beatrix Blackadder, eldest daughter of one of the two heirs
portioners of Robert Blackadder of that ilk, he acquired that
estate, and was thereafter designed John Home of Blackadder. He had
one son, also named John, whose son, Sir John Home, was created a
baronet of Nova Scotia in 1671. He distinguished himself much by his
loyalty and patriotism. B his wife, Mary, daughter of Sir James
Dundas of Arniston, he had two sons, Sir John, his successor, and
Sir David.
The
latter, sir David Home of Crossrig, was admitted advocate 3d June
1687, having studied the civil law on the continent, and was amongst
the first judges in the court of session nominated by King William
at the Revolution. He took his seat on the bench 1st
November 1689, by the title of Lord Crossrig, and was appointed a
lord of justiciary 27th January 1690. Shortly afterwards
he was knighted by King William. In November 1700, he presented a
petition to parliament respecting the loss of his papers at the
great fire in the meal market. Edinburgh, 5th February of
that year. The fire broke out in the lodging immediately under his
house, while part of his family were in bed, and his lordship was
going to bed, and the alarm was so sudden that he was forced to
escape in his night clothes, with his children undressed. Only a
small portion of his papers were recovered. In a litter from Duncan
Forbes of Culloden to his brother, giving him an account of the
fire, he says, “Many rueful sights, such as Corserig naked, with a
child under his oxter, happing for his life.” His petition was
remitted to a committee of three, upon whose report an act of
parliament was passed 31st January 1701, entitled “An act
for proving the tenor of some writs in favour of Sir David Home of
Crossrig.” The writs related chiefly to the lands of Crossrig, which
were adjudged to Sir John Home of Blackadder, and his son James, by
Elizabeth Home, &c., of Crossrig, and came afterwards to Lord
Crossrig by disposition of the above-mentioned James Home, designed
of Greenladean. His lordship died 13th April 1707. He was
twice married; his second wife was a daughter of Sir Alexander
Swinton of Swinton, by whom he had issue.
From Lord
Crossrig’s eldest surviving son, Mr. Home of Eccles, advocate,
author of several works professional and historical, descended the
Homes of Cowdenknows, the first of that family, Dr. Francis Home, an
eminent physician of Edinburgh, being his grandson. The latter, who
was the third son of Mr. Home of Eccles, was born 17th
November 1719. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, and was among the
few who founded the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. As surgeon
of a regiment of dragoons he served in Flanders during the whole of
the seven years’ war. After studying for some time at Leyden, at the
termination of the war he settled in Edinburgh, and graduated there
in 1750. The subject of his inaugural dissertation was the remittent
fever, which had prevailed very severely in the army, a treatise yet
quoted as one of the best on that disease. In 1768 he was appointed
professor of materia medica in the university of Edinburgh, and
continued in that chair for thirty years, having contributed, with
his eminent colleagues, to maintain the high character of that
university as a medical school. He was also one of the king’s
physicians for Scotland. He died a bachelor on 15th
February 1813, at the advanced age of 94. Dr. Home was the author of
several valuable medical works. His ‘Principia Medicinae,’ written
in correct and elegant Latin, contains an excellent scientific
history of diseases. It went through several editions, and on the
continent was soon adopted by several professors as a text-book. He
was the first who described the croup as a separate and distinct
disease. His works entitled ‘Medical Facts and Experiments,’ and
‘Clinical Experiments, Histories, and Dissertations,’ form valuable
collections of very important facts regarding the history of
diseases and their treatment. In 1751 he published a treatise on the
Dunse Spa, which brought that mineral spring into notice. For a work
entitled ‘Experiments on Bleaching,’ he obtained a gold medal from
the Honourable board of Trustees for the Improvement of Manufactures
in North Britain. It was published in 1756 by request of the Board.
His essay on the Principles of Agriculture long continued to be the
most scientific account of that most important art, and obtained for
him in 1790, when it was founded, the first professorship of
agriculture in the university of Edinburgh.
Lord
Crossrig’s elder brother, Sir John Home, 2d baronet of Blackadder,
married his cousin, Mary, eldest daughter of Sir James Dundas, 2d of
Arniston, and had 2 sons, Sir John, who succeeded him, and William,
a colonel in the army.
The eldest
son, Sir John Home, 3d baronet, had, with a daughter, 3 sons. The
eldest, Sir John, 4th baronet, had, with a daughter, 4
sons. The eldest, Sir John, 4th baronet, dying without
surviving issue, was succeeded by his next brother, Sir James, 5th
baronet, who died before 1755. His son, Sir James, a clerk to the
signet, had, with a daughter, 1 son, Sir George, 6th
Baronet, who early entered the navy, and became vice-admiral. He
died at Daruhall in 1803.
His eldest
son, Sir James, 7th baronet, born March 17, 1790, was in
the East India Company’s civil service, and died in 1836. He had two
sons, Sir John, 8th baronet, born August 4, 1829, who
also entered the navy, but died, unmarried, March 26, 1849, and Sir
George, 9th baronet, advocate, born Sept. 23, 1832,
married, in 1858, Ann Oliphant, only child of Graham Speirs, Esq.,
Sheriff of Mid-Lothian; captain of the city of Edinburgh volunteer
rifles, 1859.
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The Homes
of Renton were descended from Patrick Home of Kill-know, Coldingham,
second son of Sir Alexander Home of Maderston, and ancestor of the
earls of Dunbar. Patrick obtained the lands of Renton, and other
estates, by his marriage in 1558 with Janet, daughter and sole
heiress of David Ellem of Renton, sprung from an ancient family in
the county of Berwick.
His son,
Sir Alexander Home of Renton, was appointed sheriff principal of
Berwickshire in 1616, on the resignation of Alexander earl of Home,
and continued in that office till 1621. He was very rigorous against
those accused of witchcraft, and as we learn from a letter from his
son to Sir Patrick Home of Polwarth, sheriff, dated may 15, 1624,
burned seven or eight witches at Coldingham. His son, Sir John Home
of Renton, was bred to the law. In 1633 he was one of the
commissioners in parliament for the county of Berwick. For his
adherence to Charles I., his lands and property were pillaged to the
value of £8,000 sterling, for which, after the Restoration, he was
rewarded with a grant of the crown feu duties payable out of his
estate. He was knighted, sworn a privy councillor, and appointed a
lord of session, 4th June 1663, and took his seat on the
bench, the 20th, with the judicial title of Lord Renton.
He was also constituted justice-clerk for life by patent of the same
date; and general and master of the ceremonies; his commission for
the latter office being dated 10th December 1663. He died
in the summer of 1671. According to Wodrow, (vol. i. p. 256), he was
one of the greatest zealots for the prelates in Scotland. He married
Margaret, daughter of John Stewart, commandator of Coldingham, son
of Francis, the turbulent earl of Bothwell, and had three sons,
namely, 1st, Sir Alexander Home of Coldingham, whose male
line terminated at the death of his grandson, Sir John Home, in
January 1788; 2d, Sir Patrick Home of Renton, created a baronet of
Nova Scotia in 1682. He sat in the Union parliament, and adhered to
the protest of the duke of Argyle against that measure. His male
line is said to have expired at the death of his grandson, Sir James
Home, third baronet, in 1785. 3d, Henry Home of Kames, Berwickshire,
whose grandson was the celebrated Henry Home, Lord Kames, of whom a
memoir is given below.
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The old
Homes of Kimmerghame and Redhaugh (which lands were exchanged for
those of Houndwood and Ferneyside) terminated in an heiress,
Elizabeth Home, married first to William Macfarlane Brown of
Dalgowrie and Kirkton, and second, on 23d December 1778, to her
cousin-german, Robert Robertson of Brownsbank, and Penderguest,
Berwickshire. Mrs. Robertson died 9th July 1785, leaving
her estate of Ferneyside to her distant relative, Sir Abram Hume of
Wormleyburgh, baronet, and it is now possessed by his descendant,
Earl Brownlow, who assumes the name of Hume and Egerton, as heir of
line of the marriage of Sir Abram Hume with Amelia, sister of John,
earl of Bridgewater, and granddaughter of Henry de Grey, duke of
Kent. Robertson of Penderguest, on whose second son the estate of
Ferneyside had been settled previously to the deed of Mrs. Robertson
in favour of Sir Abram Hume, is represented by Robert Bruce
Robertson Glasgow, Esq. of Montgreenan, Ayrshire, Ensign 27th
foot, 13th in descent from Alexander, 1st Lord
Home.
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From the
Homes of Greelaw castle, also in the county of Berwick, descended
Sir Everard Home, baronet, an eminent surgeon, born at Hull 6th
May 1746, died at London, 31st August 1832. His sister,
Anne Home, authoress of a volume of poems printed at London in 1802,
was married in July 1771, to the celebrated anatomist, John Hunter.
A David
Home, a Protestant minister educated in France, was employed by
James VI. To reconcile the differences between Tilenus and Duimoulin
on the subject of Justification; and if possible to induce the
Protestants throughout Europe to agree to one single form of
doctrine. His is often confounded with David Hume of Godscroft, to
whom some of his works have been ascribed.
His chief
work is, – Apologia Basilica; seu Machiavelli Ingenium Examinatum.
Paris, 1626, 4to.
There are
also attributed to him, De Unione Insulae Britannicae, Tractatus.
Lond. 1605, 4to.
Lusus
Poetici. Lond. 1605, 4to.
Le Contr’
Assassin; on Response a l’Apologie des Jesuites. Geneve, 1612, 8vo.
Lettres et
Traictez Chrestiens, pleins d’Instructions et consolations Morales
et Sainctes. Bergerac, 1613, 12mo.
Illustrissimi Principis Henrici, Justa. Lond. 1613, 4to.
Regi suo,
Scotiae Gratulatio. Edin. 1617, 4to.
L’Assassinat du Roi; on Maximes du Viel de la Montague, Pratiquees
en la personne de defunt Henri le Grand. 1617, 8vo.
Poemata
Omnia. Paris, 1639, 8vo.
He is
likewise the author of several compositions in the Deliciae Poetarum
Scotorum.
HOME, or HUME,
LADY GRIZEL,
better known as lady Grizel Baillie, celebrated for her amiable,
prudent, and exemplary conduct as a daughter, wife, and mother, as
well as for her poetical talents, was the eldest daughter of the
first earl of Marchmont, and was born at Redbraes castle,
Berwickshire, December 25, 1665. When only twelve years of age, she
acted a most heroic and courageous part on two remarkable occasions.
Her father, then Sir Patrick Hume, and that eminent patriot, Mr.
Robert Baillie of Jerviswood, were very intimate friends, and on the
imprisonment of the latter, Sir patrick sent his daughter Grizel
from Redbraes to Edinburgh, to endeavour to convey a letter to Mr.
Baillie in prison, and bring back what intelligence she could. In
this difficult enterprise she succeeded, and having, at the same
time, met with his son, George Baillie, afterwards of Jerviswood, a
friendship was formed, which, after the Revolution, was completed by
their marriage, on September 17, 1692. During her father’s
concealment in the vaults of Polwarth church, she went every night
alone at midnight, carrying victuals to him, which, to prevent the
suspicions of the servants, she conveyed from off her own plate into
her lap, while she was at dinner. In their subsequent exile in
Holland, she managed all the family matters, and by her prudent
conduct and cheerful disposition lightened the gloom and hardships
of their lot. At the Revolution she was offered the situation of
maid of honour to the princess of Orange, which she declined,
preferring to return to Scotland with her family. Her daughter, Lady
Murray of Stanhope, wrote a very interesting account of her life and
character, which is appended to Rose’s Observations on Fox’s
Historical Work, in 1809, and was also published separately by
Thomas Thomson, Esq., Advocate, in 1822. One or two of Lady Grizel
Baillie’s ballads were printed in the Tea Table Miscellany, and
other collections of Scottish song. One of these is the well-known
humorous song, “Were na my heart light I wad dee.’ Lady Murray says,
that she possessed a book of songs of her mother’s writing when in
Holland, “many of them interrupted, half writ, some broke off in the
middle of a sentence,” &c. Lady Grizel died December 6, 1746, in the
81st year of her age. And was buried beside her husband
at Mellerstain. An elegant inscription by Judge Burnet, engraved on
marble, was placed on her monument. She had one son, who died young,
and two daughters, Grizel, married to Sir Alexander Murray of
Stanhope, baronet, and Rachel, who became the wife of Charles Lord
Binning.
HOME, HENRY,
LORD KAMES,
a judge distinguished for his profound knowledge of law, and for his
numerous legal and metaphysical writings, was born in 1696. He was
the son of George Home of Kames, in Berwickshire, and received his
education at home, under a private tutor. In 1712 he was apprenticed
to a writer to the signet, and assiduously studied the law at
Edinburgh, with the view of practising at the bar. In January 1724
he was admitted advocate. In 1728 he published his collection of
‘Remarkable Decisions of the Court of Session from 1706 to 1728,’
which at once brought him into practice. In 1732 appeared ‘Essays on
several Subjects in Law;’ and in 1741 ‘Decisions of the Court of
Session from its first Institution to the year 1740,’ in the form of
a dictionary; to which two volumes were afterwards added by his
friend and biographer, Lord Woodhouselee. During the rebellion of
1745 he employed himself in writing ‘Essays upon several Subjects
concerning British antiquities,’ which were published in 1747. These
subjects are, Introduction of the Feudal Law into Scotland;
Constitution of parliament; Honour, Dignity; Succession or Descent,
with an Appendix on the Hereditary and Indefeasible Rights of Kings.
In 1751 appeared ‘Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural
Religion, in two parts.’ The latter work, in which he advocates the
doctrine of philosophical necessity, was believed to have a tendency
to infidelity, and it was accordingly attacked in two able
pamphlets, by the Rev. Mr. Anderson, who also brought the subject
before the church courts, but his death soon after put an end to the
controversy.
In
February 1752 Mr. Home was raised to the bench of the court of
session, when he took the title of Lord Kames. In 1755 he was
appointed a member of the board of trustees for the encouragement of
the Fisheries, Arts, and Manufactures of Scotland, and shortly after
one of the commissioners for the management of the forfeited
estates. In 1757 he published, in one volume 8vo, ‘The Statute Law
of Scotland abridged, with Historical Notes,’ which has gone through
several editions, and is still among the books consulted by
practitioners. In 1759, with a view of improving the law of Scotland
by assimilating it as much as possible to the law of England, and
after corresponding on the subject with Lord-chancellor Hardwicke,
he published ‘Historical Law Tracts;’ which was followed in 1760 by
a work, with a similar object, entitled ‘The principles of Equity.’
In 1761, quitting professional subjects, he brought out a small
volume on the elementary principles of education, styled
‘Introduction to the Art of Thinking,’ which was originally written
for the use of his own family. In 1762 he published, in three
volumes, his ‘Elements of Criticism,’ a valuable and ingenious work,
which, of all others, established his reputation in England.
In April
1763 Lord Kames was appointed one of the lords of the justiciary
court, and uniformly distinguished himself in the trial of criminals
by his strict impartiality, diligence, and ability. At all times
remarkable for his public spirit, his lordship took an active part
in promoting every measure calculated for the improvement of the
country. In 1765 he published a small pamphlet on the progress of
Flax-Husbandry in Scotland, with the patriotic design of stimulating
his countrymen to continue their exertions in a most valuable branch
of national industry. In the year following appeared his ‘Remarkable
Decisions of the Court of Session from 1730 to 1752;’ which includes
the period of his own practice at the bar. In 1772 he produced ‘/The
Gentleman Farmer, being an attempt to improve Agriculture by
subjecting it to the test of Rational Principles;’ a very useful
work, characteristic of the genius and disposition of the author. In
1773 he published, in two volumes, his ‘Sketches of the History of
Man,’ containing some curious metaphysical disquisitions concerning
the nature and gradations of the human race.
The
subjoined woodcut of Lord Kames is from a portrait by D. Martin, in
the Scots Magazine for July 1801 (vol. ixiii.), engraved by Beugo:
[woodcut of Henry Lord Kames]
Even after he had attained his 80th year, his mind
had lost none of its vigour, and he continued his usual pursuits
with unabated ardour and perseverance. In 1777 he published
‘Elucidations respecting the Common and Statute Law of Scotland,’
and in 1780, ‘Select Decisions of the Court of Session, from 1752 to
1768.’ He closed his literary labours with ‘Loose Hints upon
Education, chiefly concerning the Culture of the Heart,’ published
in 1781, when the venerable author had reached his 85th
year. He died of extreme old age, December 27, 1782. He had married,
in 1741, Agatha, daughter of Mr. Drummond of Blair, by whom, in
1766, he acquired the extensive estate of Blair-Drummond in
Perthshire. His son in consequence assumed the name of Home
Drummond.
HOME, JOHN,
an eminent dramatic poet, the son of Mr. Alexander Home, town-clerk
of Leith, of the ancient family of Bassenden, lineally descended
from Alexander first Lord Home, was born in the parish of Ancrum,
Roxburghshire, September 22, 1722. He was educated at Edinburgh for
the Church of Scotland. In April 1745 he was licensed to preach the
gospel, and the same year, when the rebellion broke out, he joined a
volunteer corps on the side of the government, and was taken
prisoner at the battle of Falkirk, but contrived, with some others,
to escape from Doune castle, where he was confined. In 1746 he was
ordained minister at Athelstaneford, in East Lothian, vacant by the
death of the Rev. Robert Blair, author of ‘The Grave.’ Having
written a tragedy, named Agis, he went to London in 1749, and
offered it to Garrick, then manager of Drury Lane, who refused it.
In February 1755 he again visited the metropolis, taking with him
his tragedy of Douglas, which was also rejected by Garrick. It was,
however, performed at Edinburgh with the most enthusiastic applause,
December 14, 1756, the author and several other ministers being
present at the first representation. For this bold violation of the
rules of clerical propriety, his friends were subjected to the
censures of the church, which he himself only escaped by resigning
his living in June 1757. By the influence of the earl of Bute, the
tragedy of Douglas, the plot of which is taken from the beautiful
old ballad of ‘Gil Morice,’ was brought out at London with great
success, and became a stock piece. His tragedy of Agis was now
acted, but with temporary success, while the siege of Aquileia,
another play of his, represented in 1759, was a complete failure. In
1760 he published his three tragedies in one volume, dedicated to
the prince of Wales, who, soon after his accession to the throne,
granted him a pension of £300 a-year. The sinecure situation of
conservator of Scots privileges at Campvere was likewise conferred
on him, and, in 1763, he was appointed one of the commissioners of
Sick and Wounded Seamen. In 1769 was produced The Fatal Discovery;
in 1773, Alonzo; and in 1778, Alfred, tragedies which were all
unsuccessful. In 1770 Mr. Home married a lady of his own name, by
whom he had no children. In 1779 he removed to Edinburgh, where he
spent the latter years of his life. Soon after his return the duke
of Buccleuch raised a regiment of Fencibles, in which Mr. Home
accepted of a captain’s commission, which he held till the
disbandment of the corps on the succeeding peace. In 1802 appeared
his History of the Rebellion of 1745, which universally disappointed
public expectation. Home died September 5, 1808, in his 86th
year. His portrait is subjoined.
[portrait of john home]
