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Hugh Hume-Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont

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20: 182:. David Rose was tutor to Marchmont's eldest son, Lord Polwarth, and George Rose was recommended by Marchmont for the position of deputy-chamberlain of the Tally court of the Exchequer, and on Marchmont's death, serving as his sole executor, was bequeathed his library, 'consisting of one of the most curious and valuable collections of manuscripts in Great Britain'. George Rose's son, politician Sir 92:, and in February 1738 took part in a debate on the army. He vacated the seat on inheriting the peerage on the death of his father on 27 February 1740. He was appointed First Lord of the Police (in Scotland) on 22 November 1747 and retained the post until 1764. His wife died in 1747, and he married again on 30 January 1748, to Elizabeth Crompton. From 1750 to 1784 he sat in the 199:; George Rose's own entry in that same edition states: 'Later gossip, which made him out a natural son of Lord Marchmont , an apothecary's apprentice, or a purser's clerk, may safely be disregarded', showing the lack of exact detail attached to the claim (as it was in fact George Rose's father David that was said to have been Marchmont's illegitimate son). 65:, and his wife Margaret Campbell, daughter and heiress of Sir George Campbell, of Cessnock. He was educated at a private school in London from 1716 and travelled abroad to Utrecht and Franeker in the Netherlands from 1721. He was admitted to the 534: 266:
The Scottish Nation: Or, The Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours, and Biographical History of the People of Scotland, vol. III, William Anderson, A. Fullarton & Co., 1863, p. 104, 363
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Marchmont was 'a man of most distinguished talents and learning; he had read... deeply in the classics, history and in civil law'. In 1753, he was elected a
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Marchmont died in January 1794, aged 85, when the earldom became either extinct or dormant. By his first wife he had three daughters and two sons:
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was vested in his granddaughter Anne Anstruther. Marchmont is also said to have fathered an illegitimate son, Rev. David Rose, father of
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The Third Register Book of the Parish of St James in the Liberty of Westminster For Births & Baptisms. 1723-1741
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The Diaries and Correspondence of George Rose, Rev. Leveson Vernon Harcourt, Richard Bentley, 1860, vol. I, p. 18
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Alexander Hume-Campbell (born 15 April 1736), Lord Polwarth (1750–1781); created
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Lady Margaret Hume-Campbell (died 7 January 1764), married on 20 September 1763
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in 1776, but predeceased his father in 1781, without issue by his marriage to
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Lady Anne Hume-Campbell (c.1734 – 27 July 1790), married on 23 October 1735
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Baptised the day he was born at St James's Church, Piccadilly. Source:
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
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By his second wife, who died on 12 February 1797, he had no issue.
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between 1724 and 1740, was a Scottish politician who sat in the
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from 1734 until 1740 when he succeeded to the peerage as
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PC
FRS
House of Commons
Earl of Marchmont
House of Lords
Scottish representative peer
Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont
University of Edinburgh
Sir Richard Shirley, 3rd Baronet
Member of Parliament
Berwick-upon-Tweed
1734 British general election
Porteous Riots
House of Lords
Scottish representative peer
Fellow of the Royal Society
Privy Counsellor
Governor of the Bank of Scotland
Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland
Sir John Paterson, 3rd Baronet
James Stuart
Lady Diana Hume-Campbell
Lady Polwarth
Baron Hume of Berwick
Amabel Grey
Lord Polwarth
George Rose
George Henry Rose
Thomas Finlayson Henderson

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