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...
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associated Hume Dam Hume Castle, the historic 13th-century eponymous fortress of the Hume/Home family in Berwickshire Hume, Scottish Borders, a village Hume MRT...
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Allan Octavian Hume, CB ICS (4 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) was a British political reformer, ornithologist, civil servant and botanist who worked in British...
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derives from Hume Castle, Berwickshire, and its adjacent estates. The name may refer to: Abraham Hume (disambiguation) Sir Abraham Hume, 1st Baronet (1703–1772)...
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John Cockburn (Scottish officer) (section The defence of Hume Castle at the time of Cromwell's invasion of Scotland)
Cockburn led the colourfully defiant but futile Scottish resistance at Hume Castle during the Third English Civil War (1649-1651), when a Parliamentary...
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has been known as Hume Cloister or Hume Castle. Its 30-year owners placed it on the market for $5 million in April 2016. Samuel Hume was the director of...
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Home since 1611, and the principal seat following the destruction of Hume Castle during the mid-17th century. It was the home of the former British prime...
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Captain Frasers Folly (Uig Tower) Isle of Skye Dunmore Pineapple, Falkirk Hume Castle, Berwickshire Kinnoull Hill Tower, Perth McCaig's Tower, Oban, Argyll...
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Wedding of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Henry, Lord Darnley (section Rizzio and a rumour of a wedding at Stirling Castle)
diplomat was threatened by swordsmen in Edinburgh and then detained at Hume Castle. In London, a French diplomat Nicholas d'Angennes, seigneur de Rambouillet...
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