HUME, PATRICK [SSNE 5037]

Surname

HUME, HOME, [aka WALLACE]

First name

PATRICK

Title/rank

2nd BARON POLWARTH, 1st EARL OF MARCHMONT

Nationality

SCOT

Region

POLWARTH, BORDERS

Social status

NOBILITY

Text source

Sir Patrick Hume (1641-1724), 2nd Baronet of Polwarth, 1st Earl of Marchmont became associated with the Ryehouse Plot of 1683 after which he fled to the Dutch Republic. He joined Argyll's ill-fated expedition to Scotland of 1685 after which his estates were confiscated and titles forfeited. Hume returned once more to the Dutch Republic where he acted as a surgeon in Utrecht and lived under the name of Wallace. On 1 July 1688 he wrote to Andrew Russell [SSNE 143] pointing out that he had been promised money from a Mr Walton who said that Russell would forward Hume 100 guilders. The letter to Russell was trying to clarify that. He expected a reply quickly as he expected to be ordered into the field within days and further sent kind regards to Mrs Russell, their children and all mutual friends. Hume returned as a military advisor to William of Orange in 1688 where he also seved as a member of the Prince of Orange's Guards. Once home he became a Scottish Privy Councillor and Baron Polwarth. The Scottish part of his career can be read in his DNB entry. Interestingly, Sir Patrick was made a Freemason in Mary's Chapel Lodge in Edinburgh on St John's Day 1667. This was the same lodge as Sir Robert Moray [SSNE 6599].

National Archives of Scotland, Russell Papers, RH15/106/663. Patrick Hume to Andrew Russell, 1 July 1688; D. Murray-Lyon, The History of Freemasonry in Scotland (Edinburgh, 1873), p.90; Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage (8 vols., 1904-1911), VI, p.16; DNB; D. Stevenson, The First Freemasons; Scotland's Early Lodges and their Members (Aberdeen, 1988), p.31.

Service record

THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, UTRECHT, PRINCE OF ORANGE GUARDS

Arrived 1685-01-01, as OFFICER

Departed 1688-07-30, as OFFICER

Capacity REFUGEE, SURGEON, POLITICAL ADVISOR, purpose MILITARY, DIPLOMACY