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| James Home, Lord Dunglass | |
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| Name | James Home, Lord Dunglass |
| Birth date | c. 1590s |
| Death date | 1666 |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Occupation | Nobleman, Soldier, Jurist |
| Titles | Lord Dunglass, heir of Home of Coldenknowes |
James Home, Lord Dunglass was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman, soldier, and judicial figure associated with the House of Home and the Scottish peerage during the reigns of James VI and I and Charles I of England and Scotland. A member of the Borders gentry, he participated in the complex network of Scottish aristocratic, military, and legal institutions that intersected with the Coventry Parliament, the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and the administration of Scotland in the early modern period. His life connected prominent families including the Humes of Wedderburn, the Douglases, and the Hepburns through alliances and property transactions.
Born into the landed family of Home of Coldenknowes, he was the son of Sir Patrick Home of Polwarth and a descendant of the Homes of the Scottish Borders, a lineage linked to ancestral figures such as Alexander Home, 1st Lord Home and George Home, 1st Earl of Dunbar. His formative years unfolded amid the border culture that included interactions with neighbouring houses like the Kerrs of Ferniehirst and the Scott family of Buccleuch. Contemporary records place him in the milieu of royal servants and courtiers attached to the households of Anne of Denmark and Prince Henry, Duke of Cornwall, where familial ties with the Humes and marriages into the networks of the Livingstons and the Heseltines were significant. His household maintained correspondence with legal officers such as the Lord Advocate (Scotland) and with officials serving the Privy Council of Scotland.
As heir to branches of the Home estates, he bore the judicial and territorial style associated with the barony of Dunglass and the lands of Coldenknowes, holdings with feudal connections to the Scottish Borders and the Berwickshire (county). His designation as Lord Dunglass reflected customary Scots practice of territorial honorifics used by lairds and commissioners in the Parliament of Scotland. He held charters and sasines recorded before the Court of Session (Scotland) and engaged with Crown officers including the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Lord Chancellor of Scotland over feudal tenure, entail, and feu-farm duties. Estates under his control often interfaced with neighbouring properties held by families such as the Hume of Wedderburn, the Frasers of Lovat, and the Maxwells of Nithsdale.
His career combined local military command with participation in national politics during turbulent decades marked by the Bishops' Wars, the constitutional crises involving Charles I of England and Scotland, and the outbreak of the English Civil War. He served as a military officer in regional levies that coordinated with leaders like the Earl of Huntly and the Marquess of Argyll depending on shifting loyalties. In parliamentary contexts he acted alongside commissioners to the Convention of Estates and engaged with policies shaped by figures such as Archibald Johnston, Lord Warriston and John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale. His military involvement included garrison duties and border security that brought him into operational contact with commanders from the Covenanter army and occasionally with Royalist leaders like James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose.
Within the Scottish judicial framework he operated near institutions such as the Court of Session (Scotland) and the Justiciary which adjudicated over feudal disputes, criminal prosecutions, and ministerial patronage cases. He corresponded with and petitioned senior office-holders including the Lord President of the Court of Session and the Lord Justice-General on matters of sheriffdom appointments and preservation of estate rights. At court he navigated the patronage networks dominated by Anne of Denmark's household, the Scottish Privy Council, and influential ministers like Thomas Hope (advocate) and Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall. His legal dealings intersected with ecclesiastical controversies mediated by presbytery structures, connecting him indirectly to disputes involving the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
He consolidated alliances through marriage into prominent Scottish families, linking his line to houses such as the Hepburns of Waughton and the Douglases of Cavers. These unions produced heirs and cadet branches who later associated with estates in Berwickshire and East Lothian, maintaining representation among the county commissioners and barons. His progeny intermarried with kin related to the Grahams, the Stewarts of various branches, and the Hamiltons, creating reciprocal obligations recognized by the Register of Sasines and the Burgess rolls of regional burghs. Descendants participated in subsequent political developments, including alignments during the Glorious Revolution and service in the British Army during later 17th- and 18th-century conflicts.
He died in 1666, and his death occasioned the transmission of territorial interests and titles through the legal processes of Scots law governing inheritance, entail, and sasine. Succession to his principal estates passed to a designated heir who entered into legal instruments ratified by the Court of Session (Scotland), while portions of the patrimony were subject to settlements negotiated with relatives such as the Homes of Wedderburn and allied houses including the Kers and the Frasers. The disposition of his estates influenced local power balances in the Borders and contributed to the genealogical records preserved in the registers maintained by the National Records of Scotland.
Category:17th-century Scottish people Category:Scottish nobility Category:Home family