Biography

Hugh Hume Campbell. (1708-1794) (aka. 3rd Earl of Marchmont)

Married (1731) to Anne Western of London (1708-1747). Married (1748) to Elizabeth Crompton. Member of Parliament for the Country of Berwick (1734-1740) as Lord Polwarth, and sometime leader of the opposition. Appointed First Lord of Police in 1747. Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland (1764-1794). A friend of Alexander Pope.

Life with James Boswell:

Boswell visited Marchmont House with Henry Home on October 18, 1762. He met his lordship, describing him as "a man of fire and good elocution, by which he was distinguished as a commoner, and by having more knowledge and application to business than is commonly found amongst the nobility, he is now of consequence in the House of Lords. He is a true politician, so that the qualities of the heart must be dispensed with. He is artful and false; he is insolent and a coward. This last division of his charcter I gathered from Lord Kames. But as they are inveterate enemies, it is possibly too deeply coloured. He behaved to me with much affability of address".

External links:

• Significant Scots: Hugh Hume Campbell - from Electric Scotland

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