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At this time, Scotland's Governor Regent Albany was planning to bring an army against the Hume family on the Scottish borders. Albany captured Hume Castle, but according to a report by Cardinal Wolsey 's chaplain, William Frankelayn, Chancellor of Durham, Lord Hume , Lord Chamberlain , retook the castle on 26 August 1515, and kept Albany's ...
George Hume was born in 1697 in Wedderburn Castle, Berwickshire, Scotland, into a distinguished noble family with deep roots in Scottish history.His father, Sir George Hume of Wedderburn, was the 3rd Baronet of Wedderburn who married his cousin Lady Margaret, daughter of Sir Patrick Hume,1st Baronet of Lumsden. [2]
Hume Castle was the original seat of the chiefs of Clan Home (Hume) When James VI of Scotland travelled to England to take possession of his new kingdom in 1603 as James I of England, he stopped at Dunglass Castle and Lord Home accompanied him to London. [2] Home was raised to the title of Earl of Home in March 1605. [2]
Hume was born on 26 April 1711, as David Home, in a tenement on the north side of Edinburgh's Lawnmarket.He was the second of two sons born to Catherine Home (née Falconer), daughter of Sir David Falconer of Newton, Midlothian and his wife Mary Falconer (née Norvell), [14] and Joseph Home of Chirnside in the County of Berwick, an advocate of Ninewells.
Hume is a village in Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. On the B6364, it lies 7 miles (11 kilometres) from Kelso, Roxburghshire. It is close to other villages and amenities, e.g. Brotherstone Hill, Smailholm, Smailholm Tower, Floors Castle, Stichill, Lambden, Nenthorn, Ednam, Birgham and Gordon.
Hume supported his patron Angus's policy in a series of letters (preserved in the History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus) on the doctrine of obedience to princes.A discussion of a sermon on the same theme by the Rev. John Craig is the subject of Conference betwixt the Erle of Angus and Mr. David Hume, which is printed in David Calderwood's History of the Kirk of Scotland. [5]
Sir George Hume, 1st Baronet (fl. 1671), of Castle Hume, Fermanagh, was a landowner and baronet of Scottish descent. He was the elder son of Sir John Hume of North Berwick , Scotland and the grandson of Patrick Hume of Polwarth, Scotland.
Now Hume Brown's reputation as a historian was established, Cambridge University Press commissioned a three-volume History of Scotland. In the year the first volume was published, 1898, Hume Brown was asked to succeed David Masson , his old teacher, as editor of the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland , which brought him financial ...