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EARLS OF See also: earl of See also: Marchmont was See also: Sir Patrick Hume or Home (1641–1724), son of Sir Patrick Hume, See also: hart
.
(d
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1648), of Polwarth, See also: Berwickshire, and a descendant of another Sir Patrick Hume, a supporter of the See also: Reformation in Scotland
.
A member of the same See also: family was See also: Alexander Hume
(c
.
1560-1609), the Scottish poet, whose
See also: Hymns and Sacred Songs were published in 1599 (new ed
.
1832)
.
Polwarth, as Patrick Hume was usually called, became a member of the Scottish parliament in 1665
.
Here he was active in opposing the harsh policy of the earl of Lauderdale towards the See also: Covenanters, and for his contumacy he was imprisoned
.
After his See also: release he went to See also: London, where he associated himself with the duke of See also: Monmouth
.
Suspected of complicity in the See also: Rye See also: House See also: plot, he remained for a See also: time in hiding and then crossed over to the Nether-lands, where he took See also: part in the deliberations of Monmouth, toe earl of See also: Argyll and other exiles about the projected invasion o See also: Great Britain
.
Although he appeared to distrust Argyll, Polwarth sailed to Scotland with him in 1685, and after the failure of the rising he escaped to See also: Utrecht, where he lived in great poverty until 1688
.
He accompanied See also: William of Orange to
See also: England, and in 1689 he was again a member of the Scottish parliament
.
In 1690 he was made a peer as See also: Lord Polwarth; in 1696 he became lord high chancellor of Scotland, and in 1697 was created earl of Marchmont
.
When See also: Anne became See also: queen in 1702 he was deprived of the chancellorship
.
He died on the 2nd of See also: August 1724
.
His son Alexander, the 2nd earl (1676–1740), took the name of See also: Campbell instead of Hume after his
See also: marriage in 1697 with See also: Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir' See also: George Campbell of Cessnock, See also: Ayrshire
.
He was a lord of session from 1704 to 1714; ambassador to See also: Denmark from 1715 to 1721, and lord. clerk See also: register from 1716 to 1733
.
His son Hugh Hume, 3rd earl (1708–1794), who entered parliament in 1734 at the same time as his twin See also: brother Alexander (d
.
1756), afterwards lord clerk register of Scotland, was keeper of the great See also: seal of Scotland, one of Bolingbroke's most intimate See also: friends and one of See also: Pope's executors
.
His two sons having predeceased their 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
.
The 3rd earl had, however, three daughters, one of whom, See also: Diana
(d
.
1827), married Walter See also: Scott of Harden, Berwickshire; and in 1835 her son Hugh Hepburne-Scott (1758–1841) successfully claimed the Scottish See also: barony of Polwarth
.
In 1867 his See also: grandson, Walter Hugh (b
.
1838), llgcame 6th Lord Polwarth . See The Marchmont Papers, ed . Sir G . H . See also: Rose (1831)
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