Septs: Ayton, Bunckle, Buncle, Douglas, Dunbar, Eaton, Grady, Greenlaw, Haddock, Haliburton, Holmes, Landale, Landels, Mack, Nesbitt, Nisbet, Palmer, Paxton, Rutherford, Wedderburn and other spelling variations.
The Home/Hume Clan claims descendancy from the Saxon Princess of Northumberland through Cospatrick, Earl of Dunbar. Sir Alexander Home of Dungalss' three sons were the first branches of the family. There father was taken prisoner at the battle of Homildon in 1402 and later killed in 1424. His eldest grandson, as Lord of Parliment, took the title "Lord Home" in 1473. His son, the second "Lord Home", became joint administrator of the Lothians and Berwichsire during the minority of James IV and Great Charmberlain of Scotland in 1488. He and his followers were in an army levied by James IV to invade England in 1513. After the invasion Home was appointed one of the counsellors to the Queen Regent which was transferred to the Duke of Albany, as a result the Homes suffered. Lord Home was executed for conspiring with the English in 1516, his title given to his brother George who died in 1547.
The 6th Lord Home, Alexander, was created 1st Earl of Home and Dunglass in 1605 by King James I of England. Through marriage to the heiress of the Douglas fortune, he inherited the lands of Douglass, Bothwell, and others in Angus. In 1875 the 11th Earl was created Baron Douglass.
Today the clan leader is David Douglas-Home the 15th Earl of Home. He became Earl when his father, the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Knight of the Thistle, died on Oct 9, 1995.
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