MARCHMONT, EARLS OF

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MARCHMONT, EARLS OF . The 1st

earl

EARL

of Marchmont was Sir Patrick Hume or

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(16411724), son of Sir Patrick Hume, hart. (d. 1648), of Polwarth, Berwickshire, and a descendant of another Sir Patrick Hume, a supporter of the Reformation in

Scotland

. A member of the same family was Alexander Hume
(c. 1560-1609), the Scottish poet, whose 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

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

in 1665. Here he was active in opposing the harsh policy of the

earl

EARL

of Lauderdale towards the

Covenanters

COVENANTERS

, and for his contumacy he was imprisoned. After his release he went to London, where he associated himself with the duke of Monmouth. Suspected of complicity in the Rye

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

plot, he remained for a time in hiding and then crossed over to the Nether-lands, where he took part in the deliberations of Monmouth, toe earl of Argyll and other exiles about the projected invasion o

Great

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 Utrecht, where he lived in

great

GREAT

poverty until 1688. He accompanied William of Orange to England, and in 1689 he was again a member of the Scottish

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

. In 1690 he was made a peer as Lord Polwarth; in 1696 he became lord high chancellor of Scotland, and in 1697 was created earl of Marchmont. When Anne became queen in 1702 he was deprived of the chancellorship. He died on the 2nd of August 1724. His son Alexander, the 2nd earl (16761740), took the name of Campbell instead of Hume after his

marriage

MARRIAGE

in 1697 with Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir' George Campbell of Cessnock, Ayrshire. He was a lord of session from 1704 to 1714;

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

to Denmark from 1715 to 1721, and lord. clerk register from 1716 to 1733. His son Hugh Hume, 3rd earl (17081794), who entered parliament in 1734 at the same time as his twin brother Alexander (d. 1756), afterwards lord clerk register of Scotland, was keeper of the great seal of Scotland, one of Bolingbroke's most intimate friends and one of Pope's executors. His two sons having predeceased their father, the earldom became dormant, Marchmont

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

, 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, Diana
(d. 1827), married Walter Scott of Harden, Berwickshire; and in 1835 her son Hugh Hepburne-Scott (17581841) successfully claimed the Scottish barony of Polwarth. In 1867 his grandson, Walter Hugh (b. 1838), llgcame 6th Lord Polwarth.
See The Marchmont Papers, ed. Sir G. H. Rose (1831).

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