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  Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexander Hume Campbell (1657 - 1740), 2nd Earl of Marchmont, 2nd Lord Polwarth was a Scottish nobleman, politician and judge.
Younger son of Patrick Hume, the 1st Earl, he took the name of Campbell on his marriage with the heiress of Campbell of Cessnock, Ayrshire, in 1697.
He studied law at Utrecht University and became an advocate in 1696.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Hume-Campbell,_2nd_Earl_of_Marchmont   (217 words)

  
 Lord Polwarth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was created in 1690 for Sir Patrick Hume, 2nd Baronet, of Polwarth, Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1696 to 1702 (the Baronetcy had been created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in 1637 for his father and namesake Patrick Hume).
The latter's great-grandson, the tenth Lord, was a Scottish Representative Peer from 1945 to 1963, Governor of the Bank of Scotland from 1966 to 1972 and served in the Conservative administration of Edward Heath as a Minister of State at the Scottish Office from 1972 to 1974.
Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont, 2nd Lord Polwarth (1676-1740)
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 More info about the poet: Alexander Hume - references bibliography
Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont Alexander Hume Campbell (1657 - 1740), 2nd Earl of Marchmont, 2nd Lord Polwarth was a Scottish.
Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue by Alexander Hume...
Alexander HUME, of Marta Lee VanderStarre - Genealogy · Alexander Hume, of Roller · Alexander Hume, of Collins-Clement of Kentucky...
www.poemhunter.com /alexander-hume/resources/poet-6948/page-1   (667 words)

  
 Patrick Hume
The other was to be under the conduct of the earl of Argyle, and was to land in Scotland, where it was expected that an army would be formed in the first place from his lordship’s Highland retainers, and speedily enforced by the malcontents of Ayrshire, and other parts of the Lowlands.
Sir Patrick Hume and Sir John Cochrane of Ochiltree, alike admirable for the purity and steadiness of their political views, were next in command, or at least in the actual conduct of affairs, to the earl.
The earl of Marchmont was acting as commissioner at the General Assembly of 1702, when the death of his affectionate sovereign interrupted the proceedings, and plunged him into the deepest grief.
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The 1st earl of Marchmont was Sir Patrick Hume or Home (1641–1724), son of Sir Patrick Hume, hart.
His son Alexander, the 2nd earl (1676–1740), took the name of Campbell instead of Hume after his marriage in 1697 with Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir' George Campbell of Cessnock, Ayrshire.
His two sons having predeceased their father, the earldom became dormant, Marchmont House, Berwickshire, and the estates passing to Sir Hugh Purves, hart., a descendant of the 2nd earl, who took the name of Hume-Campbell.
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 Sir George Hume 10th Barron of Weddeburn @ familyphotosandinfo.parrottfarms.com
Sir Alexander MORRISON Of Prestongrange was born in 1579 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland and died on 30 Sep 1631 in Prestonage, Hdtn, Scotland at age 52.
Sir John STEWART Earl Of Atholl, son of Sir James STEWART and Joanna BEAUFORT, was born in 1440 in Balveny, Fife, Scotland, died on 15 Sep 1512 in Laighwood, Perth, Scotland at age 72, and was buried in Dunkeld Cathederal.
Joanna BEAUFORT, daughter of John BEAUFORT Earl Of Somerset and Margaret DEHOLAND, was born in 1398 in Westminster, Middlesex, Scotland, died on 15 Jul 1445 in Dunbar Castle, Scotland at age 47, and was buried in Carthusian Church, Perth, Scotland.
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 homesgreenlaw
The eleventh Earl was in the end unfairly deprived of his earldom, castles, and estates by James I., towards the middle of the fifteenth century, in pursuance of his policy to break down the power of the great nobles.
ALEXANDER HOME, second baron, his grandson and heir, was appointed immediately after the murder of James to the office of Steward of Dunbar, and obtained besides a large share of the administration of the Lothians and Berwickshire.
David Hume, the philosopher and historian, in a letter to Alexander Home of Westfield, of date 12th April, 1758, says: 'The practice of spelling Hume is by far the most ancient and most general till about the Restoration, when it became common to spell Home, contrary to the pronunciation.
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 The Yorke Family Tree
Cocks † and a brother of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke †.
General Sir Joseph Yorke KB † was the son of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke † and Margaret Cocks † and was a brother of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke †.
Alexander Grantham Yorke was the son of of Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke † and Susan Liddell.
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 Alexander Nisbet's Heraldic Plates - Part 2
Robert of Nesbit was witness to a charter granted by Robert, son of Alexander of Lundin, to the abbey of Melrose, in the reign of king Alexander II.
Alexander Nesbit of East Nesbit was witness to an instrument on the claim of Margaret, relict of John Swinton, to the sunny third part of Cranschaws, 8th June 1453.
Alexander Ogilvy eldest Son of Sir John Ogilvie of Innerquharity a Youth scarce 20, but Valiant above his Age: For his Loyalty to his King was execute at Glasgow, 28th October 1645, with Sir Philip Nisbet eldest Son of Sir Alexander Nisbet of That-ilk, Chief of the Name, by the cruel Rebels of the Times.
www.valacar.net /nisbet/origins/plates2.htm   (4535 words)

  
 Bank of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Hamilton Dalrymple, 10th Earl of Stair 1870-1903
Alexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Baron Balfour of Burleigh 1904-1921
Ronald John Bilsland Colville, 2nd Baron Clydesmuir 1972-1981
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 Tom's Place - Caldwells of the World
While Alexander was still King and his children were alive it seems that David gradually took possession from his lands of Northumbria of what are now the border lands of Cumbria and southern Scotland but what in those days were the rich lands of the Tweed and around both sides of the Solway Firth.
Alexander's children died and David became the heir to the throne of Scotland itself.
Earl Duncan was a native Scot and not a Norman so there might be something in the fact that Thomas Colville might have been called "le Scot" to distinguish him from his conntemporary Philip de Colville who may well have been of Norman ancestry.
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 Alexander Nisbet's Heraldic Plates - Part 4
Alexander Nisbet the eldest son of Adam Nisbet and Janet Aikenhead, was born in Edinburgh in April 1657, being baptised on the 23rd of that month.
The signature "Alexander Nisbet" occurs in the Edinburgh University matriculation record for the year 1675, and his autograph, prefixed twenty-seven years later to a copy of his Cadency in the possession of the writer, preserves in a remarkable degree the peculiarities of the boyish hand.
The achievement of the earl of Morton accompanies the preface.
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 Margaret Campbell of Cessnock
Marriage: Hume, Alexander 2nd Earl of Marchmont and Baron Polwarth (Sir) on 29 Jul 1697
Margaret married Sir Alexander Hume 2nd Earl of Marchmont and Baron Polwarth, son of Sir Patrick Hume 1st Earl of Marchmont and Baron Polwarth and Grisell Ker of Cavers, on 29 Jul 1697.
(Sir Alexander Hume 2nd Earl of Marchmont and Baron Polwarth was born on 1 Jan 1675,
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~humefamily/21882.htm   (176 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Helen Wauchope and others
She was the daughter of Sir Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont and Margaret Campbell.
He was the son of Sir Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont and Grizel Ker.
She married Sir Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont, son of Sir Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont and Grizel Ker, on 29 July 1697.
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 MARCHMONT, EARLS OF - Online Information article about MARCHMONT, EARLS OF
chancellor of Scotland, and in 1697 was created earl of Marchmont.
Hugh Hume, 3rd earl (1708–1794), who entered parliament in 1734 at the same time as his twin See also:
father, the earldom became dormant, Marchmont House, Berwickshire, and the estates passing to Sir Hugh Purves, hart., a descendant of the 2nd earl, who took the name of Hume-Campbell.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /MAL_MAR/MARCHMONT_EARLS_OF.html   (617 words)

  
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Alexander, afterwards Bishop of Derry and Archbishop of Armagh.
He was raised to the peerage as Earl of Beaconsfield in 1876, and was a Knight of the Garter.
BOSWELL, JAMES (1740-1795).--Biographer, _s._ of Alexander B. of Auchinleck, Ayrshire, one of the judges of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, was _ed._ at the High School and Univ. of Edin., and practised as an advocate.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/3/2/4/13240/13240-8.txt   (20819 words)

  
 Hugh Hume-Campbell 3rd Earl of Marchmont and Baron Polwarth
Hume, Patrick 1st Earl of Marchmont and Baron Polwarth (Sir)
Hume, Alexander 2nd Earl of Marchmont and Baron Polwarth (Sir)
Upon Hugh Hume's death, the earldom of Marchmont became dormant, but the right to the barony of Polwarth devolved to his grand-daughter, Anne (Patterson) Anstruther.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~humefamily/21886.htm   (634 words)

  
 The British Peerage in 1818
Earl¡¯s marriage could not be verified, making it unclear which one of his six sons was heir to the earldom.
Earl of the Isle of Thanet, on 27.03.1786.
Earl of the Island of Jersey, on 22.08.1805.
www.napoleon-series.org /research/miscellaneous/Britishpeerage/c_britishpeerage4.html   (1948 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Grizel Ker and others
She married Sir Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont, son of Sir Patrick Hume, 1st Bt.
Sir Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont b.
Sir Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont+ b.
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 Family Tree genealogy and Scottish clan history from AncestralScotland - Search Results
Sir Alexander fought as an ally of the Earl of Douglas at Homildon in 1402.
The 7th Earl was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle during the Rising of 1715 and his brother’s part in the rebellion, James Home of Ayton, he had his estates confiscated.
The 8th Earl asserted his father’s claim in 1745 and joined the government forces under Sir John Cope at Dunbar later fighting in the battle of Preston.
www.ancestralscotland.com /clandetails.html?clan=home.html   (343 words)

  
 home04
Agnes Hume (dau of Alexander Hume of Manderston)
Alexander Hume, 2nd Earl of Marchmont (b 01.01.1675, d 27.02.1740)
Helen Acheson (dau of Alexander Acheson of Gosford)
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 Aristocratic Women, Part 1
After his father’s death in 1764 he became 2nd Earl of Hardwicke and was a minister without portfolio in Rockingham’s short lived government in 1766.
Amabel was the elder daughter of Philip and 2nd Earl of Hardwicke and Jemima, Marchioness Grey.
Mary Jemima was the younger daughter of Philip, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke and Jemima, Marchioness Grey.
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 Quotes - Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
He attached himself to Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford (afterwards Lord Oxford), then speaker, and distinguished himself by his eloquence in debate, eclipsing his schoolfellow, Robert Walpole, and gaining an extraordinary ascendancy over the British House of Commons.
The earl, of Oxford was removed on Tuesday, he wrote to Swift on August 3, the queen died on Sunday What a world is this and how does fortune banter us According to Herville, the French envoy, Bolingbroke declared to him that in six weeks he could have secured everything.
He was succeeded in the title as 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke, according to the special remainder, by his nephew Frederick, 3rd Viscount St John (a title granted to Bolingbrokes father in 1716), from whom the title has descended.
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 D & D Galleries Pre 1700 English Language Books
A[lexander]." and "On the report of the Death of the Author" by Sir Wm.
The divorce betwixt the Lady Frances Hoeard and Robert Earl of Essex...about the murther of Sir Thomas Overbury...III.
The third version is found in the 2nd issue of the 1st Edition where the leaf B1 has been entirely reprinted and the original leaf canceled containing the altered version of the first line "I sing the warre made in the Holy Land", a fine wide margined copy.
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 Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Outline Descendant Tree: Alexander/Hume/Home Descendants of Dunkeld the Thane
23 Alexander Hume, 2nd Earl of Marchmont d: 1740...................................................................
24 Francis Hume of Quixwood b: in Quixwood, Scotland d: 1721 in Virginia......................................................................
22 Third Earl of Dunbar Alexander b: in Dunbar, Scotland d: 1675 in Dunbar, Scotland.......................................................
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 The National Archives | Search the archives | National Register of Archives | Details
Bruce, Alexander (c 1629-1680) 2nd Earl of Kincardine (5)
Hay, John (1645-1713) 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale (4)
Hume, Patrick (1641-1724) 1st Earl of Marchmont (5)
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