Colonel David Milne Home (1838 – 19 November 1901) was a British soldier and

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politician.

Career

Milne Home was born in

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, the eldest son of

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(thus making him a grandson of Admiral Sir David Milne) and his wife Jean Home, heiress of William Foreman Home. After being educated at

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and

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, he joined the

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in 1861. In politics, Milne Home was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for the English borough constituency of

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in February 1874. He lost his seat in the 1880 general election, but the election was declared void and he was re-elected at a by-election in July 1880. He retired from parliamentary politics upon his defeat in the Scottish county constituency of

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in the general election of 1885. Returning to the army, he served as second in command of the Household Cavalry Regiment in the

Anglo-Egyptian War The British conquest of Egypt (1882), also known as Anglo-Egyptian War (), occurred in 1882 between Egyptian and Sudanese forces under Ahmed ‘Urabi and the United Kingdom. It ended a nationalist uprising against the Khedive Tewfik Pasha. It ...

in 1882, and was present in the engagements at El Magfar, Mahamma and

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. He completed his period of command of the

in 1887, promoted to the substantive rank of colonel, he was appointed the 11th Regimental district from 1890 until 1896, when he retired from service with the rank of full colonel.

Family

Milne Home inherited the Home estates from his mother, including

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and

Paxton House, Berwickshire Paxton House is a historic house at Paxton, Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders, a few miles south-west of Berwick-upon-Tweed, overlooking the River Tweed. It is a country house built for Patrick Home of Billie in an unsuccessful attempt to ...

. He married first, in 1867, Jane Buchan Hepburn, second daughter of Sir Thomas Buchan-Hepburn, Bart. After her death, he married Mary Pamela Ellis, daughter of Major Ellis. Milne Home died 19 November 1901, in the fishing village of Eyemouth,

where he had attended a meeting. His eldest son David William Milne Home (1873-1918) was a Captain of the South East Scotland Artillery, and inherited the estates. His grandson

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was a Labour MP.

References

;Bibliography * ''British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885'', compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1977) * ''British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918'', compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1974) * ''Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832-1885'', edited by Michael Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976) *

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Milne Home, David 1838 births 1901 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1874–1880 UK MPs 1880–1885 Royal Horse Guards officers Politicians from Edinburgh British Army personnel of the Anglo-Egyptian War People educated at Cheltenham College Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge