Patrick Hume (other)
Patrick Hume may refer to: * Patrick Hume of Polwarth (c. 1550–1609), Scottish courtier and poet of the Castalian Band * Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont (1641–1724), Scottish statesman * Patrick Hume (editor) Patrick Hume ( fl. 1695) was a Scottish schoolmaster in London, author of the first commentary on the '' Paradise Lost'' of John Milton. Career In 1695 he edited for Jacob Tonson the sixth edition of Milton's ''Paradise Lost'' with elaborate no ...

Patrick Hume Of Polwarth
Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth and Redbraes (c.1550– June 1609) was a Scottish courtier and makar (court poet). Family background He was the eldest son of Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth & Redbrayes (d. May 1599) and his spouse Agnes, daughter of Alexander Home of Manderston, Berwickshire, all major Scottish Borders families with landholdings in The Merse. As eldest son, Patrick Hume succeeded to the family estates, including Redbraes Castle, on the death of his father on 20 May 1599. The cleric, poet and courtier Alexander Hume (c. 1557–1609) was his brother. Career Patrick Hume was introduced to the Scottish court, probably by his father as a member of the royal household, sometime before 1580. He became one of the household servants of the king, James VI and in 1580 was appointed to attend the king at his "riding and passing to the field". He is probably best known to history through his association with the Castalian Band, the group of court poets writing in Scots headed by ...
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Patrick Hume, 1st Earl Of Marchmont
Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont (13 January 16412 August 1724), known as Sir Patrick Hume, 2nd Baronet from 1648 to 1690 and as Lord Polwarth from 1690 to 1697, was a Scottish statesman. His grandfather was the poet and courtier Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth and Redbraes who died in 1609. Life Born at Polwarth, Berwickshire, he was raised as a strict Presbyterian, and after a term of law study at Paris he became a member of the Scottish parliament in 1665 as shire commissioner for Berwickshire, where he at once took a foremost place as defender of the Covenanters. He went so far as to bring imprisonment upon himself, and on being freed was suspected of complication in the Rye House Plot, so that he was forced to remain in hiding until he could escape in disguise to the Netherlands. There, he joined Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll and embarked with him on the unsuccessful 1685 expedition to Scotland. Hume became a refugee with a price set upon his head; but he o ...
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