Patrick Home (22 May 1728 – 19 December 1808) was the Scottish MP for Berwickshire from 1784 till 1796.
Patrick Home | |
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_-_Patrick_Home_-_PG_2839_-_National_Galleries_of_Scotland.jpg) Portrait of Patrick Home by Joshua Reynolds (1787) | |
| Member of Parliament for Berwickshire | |
| In office 1784–1796 | |
| Preceded by | Hugh Hepburne-Scott |
| Succeeded by | George Baillie |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 May 1728 |
| Died | 19 December 1808 (aged 80) |
| Spouse | Jane Home (née Graham) |
| Parents |
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| Relatives | Ninian Home (nephew) |
Patrick Home was born 22 May 1728 to Rev. Ninian Home and his second wife, Margaret Home.[1]
Early life edit
His father was parish minister of Sprouton, Roxburghshire but was deposed in 1718 for drunkenness and Jacobitism, he became the proprietor of Billie and Wedderburn by buying up the debts of their impoverished owners. Ninian Home died in 1744 and Patrick Home inherited £1,000. In 1766, he succeeded to Wedderburn on the death of the last of the Wedderburn line.[1]
Political career edit
In 1784, he was elected MP of Berwickshire with the support of Henry Dundas. In Parliament, he followed William Pitt the Younger and voted for his parliamentary reform proposals on 18 April 1785.[1]
He had hoped to make his nephew Ninian succeed him as MP in 1789 but through lobbying from Patrick and George Home, Pitt made Ninian Governor of Grenada in August 1792. On 15 March 1796, he voted against the abolition of the slave trade which was one of his last actions as MP. Home resigned in 1796 due to deafness and frailty.[2]
Marriage to Jane Graham edit
In May 1771, Patrick Home married Jane, the daughter of John Graham. Jane's brother, also called John Graham, was owner of the Douglaston estate in Grenada from 1768 and a close friend of Patrick's nephew, Ninian. Graham also owned several plots in Tobago and Patrick helped him become Governor of Tobago in 1769. While married, they lived in Italy but separated in 1779, and Jane joined a Belgian convent and became a nun. Patrick still remained friends with her family and managed the Douglaston estate on behalf of his brother-in-law. John stayed at Wedderburn until his death in 1782. Patrick was an executor of his estate and as such was responsible for selling the land and the slaves that his brother-in-law had owned alongside his fellow trustees.[2]
He died on 19 December 1808.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c d "HOME, Patrick (1728-1808), of Billie and Wedderburn, Berwick". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
- ^ a b "PATRICK HOME OF WEDDERBURN (1728-1808)". Paxton House. Retrieved 28 March 2024.