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See also:MARCHMONT, EARLS OF . The 1st See also:earl of Marchmont was See also:Sir See also:Patrick See also:Hume or See also:Home (1641–1724), son of Sir Patrick Hume, See also:hart. (d. 1648), of Polwarth, See also:Berwickshire, and a descendant of another Sir Patrick Hume, a supporter of the See also:Reformation in See also: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 See also:parliament in 1665. Here he was active in opposing the harsh policy of the earl of See also:Lauderdale towards the See also:Covenanters, and for his See also:contumacy he was imprisoned. After his See also:release he went to See also:London, where he associated himself with the See also: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 (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
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 See also: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
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William of See also: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 See also: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, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
- CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
- CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN
- CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
- CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
- CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
- CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)
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; See also:ambassador to See also:Denmark from 1715 to 1721, and lord. clerk See also:register from 1716 to 1733. His son See also: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 See also: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 See also: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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