George Home, 4th Lord Home (died 1549) was a Scottish nobleman and Warden of the Eastern March. The son of

Alexander Home, 2nd Lord Home Alexander Home, 2nd Lord Home (c.1450s – 5 September 1506) was a Scottish nobleman and soldier, Lord Chamberlain of Scotland and Warden of the Eastern March. Life Lord Home was the son of Alexander Home, Master of Home and Agnes Hepburn, ...

and his wife Nicola Ker, daughter of George Ker of Samuelston, he succeeded his brother,

Alexander Home, 3rd Lord Home Alexander Home, 3rd Lord Home (died 1516) was a Scottish soldier and nobleman, Chamberlain of Scotland and Warden of the Eastern March. He fought at the Battle of Flodden where his forces defeated the English right wing before the Scottish army ...

, when he died on 8 October 1516. By 1522, he had rebuilt

Fast Castle Fast Castle is the ruined remains of a coastal fortress in Berwickshire, south-east Scotland, in the Scottish Borders. It lies north west of the village of Coldingham, and just outside the St Abb's Head National Nature Reserve, run by the Na ...

. George married Mariotta (Marion or Mary) Haliburton, daughter of Patrick Haliburton of

Dirleton Dirleton is a village and civil parish in East Lothian, Scotland approximately east of Edinburgh on the A198. It contains . Dirleton lies between North Berwick (east), Gullane (west), Fenton Barns (south) and the Yellowcraigs nature reserve ...

, before 30 October 1531. Their son was

Alexander Home, 5th Lord Home Alexander Home, 5th Lord Home (died 1575) was a Scottish nobleman and Warden of the Eastern March. Early life Alexander Home was the son of George Home, 4th Lord Home and Mariotta Haliburton. He became Lord Home on the death of his father who ...

. A daughter Margaret married

Alexander Erskine of Gogar Alexander Erskine of Gogar (died 1592) was a Scottish landowner and keeper of James VI of Scotland at Stirling Castle. Career Alexander was a son of John Erskine, 5th Lord Erskine and Lady Margaret Campbell, a daughter of Archibald Campbell, ...

. George led Scottish cavalry at a skirmish before the

Battle of Pinkie Cleugh The Battle of Pinkie, also known as the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh (), took place on 10 September 1547 on the banks of the River Esk, Lothian, River Esk near Musselburgh, Scotland. The last pitched battle between Scotland and England before the U ...

. George was injured, and while he lay sick at Edinburgh, Mariotta negotiated the surrender of

Hume Castle Hume Castle is the heavily modified remnants of a late 12th- or early 13th-century castle of enceinte held by the powerful Hume or Home family, Wardens of the Eastern March who became successively the Lords Home and the Earls of Home. The vi ...

on 22 September 1547.''Calendar State Papers Scotland'', vol. 1 (1898), 20–21, no. 45, terms for the delivery of Hume by pledge: Patten, William, ''The Expedition into Scotland, 1547'', London (1548)

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1549 deaths Nobility from the Scottish Borders Lords of Parliament (pre-1707) Scottish soldiers 16th-century Scottish peers Scottish people of the Rough Wooing Year of birth unknown {{Lord-of-Parliament-stub