James Home (academic)
James Home may refer to: * James Home, 2nd Earl of Home (died 1633), Scottish nobleman * James Home, 3rd Earl of Home (died 1666), Scottish nobleman * James Everard Home (1798–1853), British naval officer * James Home of Coldenknowes James Home of Coldenknowes (died 1592) was a Scottish landowner, soldier, and keeper of Edinburgh Castle. His grandparents were George Home, 4th Lord Home and Mariotta Haliburton. His father John Home died in 1573, his mother was Margaret Ker, a da ...

James Home, 2nd Earl Of Home
James Home, 2nd Earl of Home (died 1633) was a Scottish nobleman. Biography James was the son of Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home and Mary, Countess of Home. He became Earl of Home when his father died in London in April 1619. His mother wrote to James I on his behalf in negotiations over the properties formerly belonging to Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell. The Earl of Home attended the funeral of James VI and I at Westminster Abbey on 7 May 1625. James married firstly, Catherine Cary (1609–1626) eldest daughter of Viscount Falkland and the playwright Elizabeth Tanfield Cary author of '' The Tragedy of Mariam''. John Chamberlain reported that King James had arranged the marriage which took place in the King's chamber or presence chamber at Whitehall Palace in May 1622. The king wanted the marriage concluded before Viscount Falkland become Lord Deputy of Ireland. In Scotland, on the king's orders, the lawyer Thomas Hamilton had convened the six lairds of the Home name; ...
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James Home, 3rd Earl Of Home
James Home, 3rd Earl of Home (died 1666) was a Scottish courtier and landowner. He was the son of Sir James Home of Whitriggs and Anne Home, daughter of George Home, 1st Earl of Dunbar and Elizabeth Gordon, daughter of Alexander Gordon of Gight and Agnes Beaton, daughter of Cardinal David Beaton, Archbishop of St. Andrews, and Marion Ogilvy. He was known as Sir James Home of Whitriggs and Coldenknowes. His father was the son of Sir John Home and Marie Sinclair, daughter of Jean Hepburn and John Sinclair, Master of Caithness. They were contracted to marry in 1602, and Lord Home, who had no children at that time, promised Sir John Home the lordship of Home. At that time it was thought the marriage might effect the rehabilitation of Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell, who was the young husband's great uncle. Coldenknowes, or Cowdenknowes, was a Scottish barony east of the Leader Water, 32 miles southeast of Edinburgh in Berwickshire. It belonged to his grandfather, John Home who m ...
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James Everard Home
Sir James Everard Home, 2nd Baronet, , (25 October 1798, Well Manor, Hampshire, England – 1 November 1853, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) was an eminent nineteenth century Royal Navy, British naval officer. From 1 February 1834 to 5 December 1837, he was commander of the 18-gun sloop , serving in the West Indies. From 30 August 1841 to 8 September 1846 he was Captain (naval), captain of the Atholl-class corvette, corvette HMS North Star (1824), HMS ''North Star''. During the period 1841-42 she served at Canton (Guangzhou), Canton with Sir William Parker, 1st Baronet, of Shenstone, Sir William Parker's ships in the First Anglo-Chinese War (1839–42), known popularly as the First Opium War. On 23 March 1845, ''North Star'' arrived in New Zealand. ''North Star'' operated in the Bay of Islands during the Flagstaff War between 11 March 1845 and 11 January 1846. On 30 April 1845, Pōmare II (Ngāpuhi), Pōmare was taken on board ''North Star'' and, following the burning of his ...
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