Hugh Hume-Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont
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Hugh Hume-Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont
Hume-Campbell was the son of Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont, and his wife Margaret Campbell, daughter and heiress of Sir George Campbell, of Cessnock. He was educated at a private school in London from 1716 and travelled abroad to Utrecht and Franeker in the Netherlands from 1721. He was admitted to the University of Edinburgh. On 1 May 1731, he married Ann Western, daughter of Robert Western of St Peter's, Cornhill, London and niece of Sir Richard Shirley, 3rd Baronet.[1]
As Lord Polworth, he was returned to parliament as
Marchmont was 'a man of most distinguished talents and learning; he had read... deeply in the classics, history and in civil law'.
Marchmont died in January 1794, aged 85, when the earldom became either extinct or dormant. By his first wife he had three daughters and two sons:
- Patrick Hume-Campbell, Lord Polwarth (died young)
- Lady Anne Hume-Campbell (c.1734 – 27 July 1790), married on 23 October 1735 Sir John Paterson, 3rd Baronet and had issue
- Lady Margaret Hume-Campbell (died 7 January 1764), married on 20 September 1763 James Stuart, without issue
- Lady Diana Hume-Campbell, married in 1754 Walter Scott of Harden (died 1793), and had issue; later Lady Polwarth suo jure and de jure'
- Alexander Hume-Campbell (born 15 April 1736),[3] Lord Polwarth (1750–1781); created Baron Hume of Berwick in 1776, but predeceased his father in 1781, without issue by his marriage to Amabel Grey.
By his second wife, who died on 12 February 1797, he had no issue.
The claim to his junior title
No illegitimate son is mentioned by Thomas Finlayson Henderson writing in the Dictionary of National Biography;[5] George Rose's own entry in that same edition states: 'Later gossip, which made him out a natural son of Lord Marchmont [see Hume, Hugh, third Earl of Marchmont], an apothecary's apprentice, or a purser's clerk, may safely be disregarded', showing the lack of exact detail attached to the claim (as it was in fact George Rose's father David that was said to have been Marchmont's illegitimate son).[6]
References
- ^ a b c d "HUME CAMPBELL, Hugh, Lord Polwarth (1708-94)". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
- ^ The Diaries and Correspondence of George Rose, Rev. Leveson Vernon Harcourt, Richard Bentley, 1860, vol. I, p. 18
- ^ Baptised the day he was born at St James's Church, Piccadilly. Source: The Third Register Book of the Parish of St James in the Liberty of Westminster For Births & Baptisms. 1723-1741. 15 April 1736.
- ^ The Scottish Nation: Or, The Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours, and Biographical History of the People of Scotland, vol. III, William Anderson, A. Fullarton & Co., 1863, p. 104, 363
- ^ Henderson, Thomas Finlayson (1885–1900). Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. .
- ^ "Rose, George (1744-1818)".