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    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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    Clan Home (redirect from Clan Hume)
    Clan Home (pronounced and sometimes spelt Hume) is a Scottish clan. It held immense power for much of the Middle Ages and dominated the eastern Scottish...
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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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  • 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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    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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