Alexander Home, 1st Lord Home

ALEXANDER HOME Lord Home

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

28 February 1491: Procuratory of resignation by Patrick Hume of Fastcastell [Fastcastle] to Thomas Hume of Langschawis [Langshaws], his brother, Alexander Ellaham, Alexander Hume, Gilbert Hume and Alexander Jaksone [Jackson], his curators, to resign into the hands of Alexander, Lord Hume, his father, the lands of Balwolssy and Gordounehall [Gordonshall], in sheriffdom of Fife. National Records of Scotland, Papers of Phineas Bell Brander, solicitor, Edinburgh, reference GD63/7

Genealogy

Stirnet: Home 01

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=namegame&...

From thePeerage.com:

Alexander Home, 1st Lord Home was the son of Sir Alexander Home of Home and Dunglas and Janet Hay. He married, firstly, Marion Lauder, daughter of John Lauder and Katherine de Landells, before 1424. He married, secondly, Margaret Montgomerie, daughter of Alexander Montgomerie, 1st Lord Montgomerie and Margaret Boyd, before 14 July 1467. He died between February 1490 and April 1491.

In 1450 he founded the Collegiate Church of Dunbar. He held the office of Scottish Ambassador to England in 1459.1 He was created 1st Lord Home [Scotland] on 2 August 1473.

Children of Alexander Home, 1st Lord Home and Margaret Montgomerie

1. Sir Thomas Home
2. Elizabeth Home

Children of Alexander Home, 1st Lord Home and Marion Lauder

1. Alexander Home, Master of Home+ d. c 1456
2. John Home
3. George Home
4. Patrick Home
5. Helen Home+1,3 d. a 1512
6. *Jonet Home+ d. a 1471
7. Katherine Home

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notes

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Home,_1st_Lord_Home

Before July 1467 Sir Alexander Home remarried (2) Margaret, daughter of Alexander, Master of Montgomerie by his spouse Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Adam Hepburn of Hailes. They had a further three boys:

• Sir Thomas, of Langshaw, Ayrshire.
• Nicholas (indicating that Nicholas by the first marriage had probably died young)
• David.

Links

• http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getper...

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From Wikipedia:

The title Earl of Home (pronounced /ˈhjuːm/ "Hume") was created in 1605 in the Peerage of Scotland for Alexander Home of that Ilk, who was already the 6th Lord Home.

The Earl of Home holds the subsidiary titles of Lord Home (created 1473), and Lord Dunglass (1605), in the Peerage of Scotland; and Baron Douglas, of Douglas in the County of Lanark (1875) in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Various Earls of Home have also claimed the title of Lord Hume of Berwick. The Earl is also Chief of the Name and Arms of Home and heir general to the House of Douglas. The title Lord Dunglass is the courtesy title of the eldest son of the Earl.

The most famous recent holder of the title was the 14th Earl, Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, better known as Sir Alec Douglas-Home. After the unexpected resignation of Harold Macmillan, the 14th Earl was named Prime Minister by the monarch. For the first time in over sixty years, a sitting Prime Minister was a member of the House of Lords rather than of the House of Commons. Because he believed that it was impractical and unconventional to remain a member of the Lords, the Earl disclaimed his peerages in 1963 under the Peerage Act passed in the same year. He then contested the House of Commons seat of Kinross and Western Perthshire by standing in the Kinross and West Perthshire by-election, 1963. The seat had been vacated by the death of the previous Member of Parliament, Gilmour Leburn. The Earldom and subsidiary titles belonged to no-one until the death of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, when they passed to his son, the present holder, David Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home.

The family seats are The Hirsel, Berwickshire and Castlemains, Douglas, South Lanarkshire.

Lords Home (1473)

   * Alexander Home, 1st Lord Home (d. 1490)

   * Alexander Home, 2nd Lord Home (d. 1506)

   * Alexander Home, 3rd Lord Home (d. 1516)

   * George Home, 4th Lord Home (d. 1549)

   * Alexander Home, 5th Lord Home (d. 1575)

   * Alexander Home, 6th Lord Home (c. 1566–1619) (created Earl of Home in 1605)

Earls of Home (1605)

   * Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home (c. 1566–1619)

   * James Home, 2nd Earl of Home (d. 1633)

   * James Home, 3rd Earl of Home (c. 1615–1666)

   * Alexander Home, 4th Earl of Home (d. 1674)

   * James Home, 5th Earl of Home (d. 1687)

   * Charles Home, 6th Earl of Home (d. 1706)

   * Alexander Home, 7th Earl of Home (d. 1720)

   * William Home, 8th Earl of Home (d. 1761)

   * Alexander Home, 9th Earl of Home (d. 1786)

   * Alexander Home, 10th Earl of Home (1769–1841)

   * Cospatrick Alexander Home, 11th Earl of Home (1799–1881) (created Baron Douglas in 1875)

   * Charles Alexander Douglas-Home, 12th Earl of Home (1834–1918)

   * Charles Cospatrick Archibald Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home (1873–1951)

   * Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home (1903–1995) (disclaimed 1963)

   * David Alexander Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home (b. 1943)

The heir apparent is Michael David Alexander Douglas-Home, Lord Dunglass (b. 1987)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunglass_Collegiate_Church,_East_Lothian

The date of building the Chapel, dedicated to St. Mary of Dunglass, is unclear but when Sir Alexander Home of that Ilk was granted a charter, in 1421, to the lands of Dunglass [1] the chapel was in existence. In 1423, Sir Alexander of Dunglass employed priests (a college) to pray for the family's souls and the chapel was raised to collegiate status [2] which was confirmed by King James II of Scots in 1450 and confirmed by Pope Nicholas V. The college was composed of a provost, three chaplains and four boy choiristers.