HOME, David Milne (1 son of admiral Sir David Milne, d. 1845). b. 1804; ed. at Edin. univ., B.A. 1829, LLD. 1870; called to Scotch bar 1831; advocate depute 1841; succeeded to the family estate and took name of Home 1845; F.R.G.S.; tried to prevent appointment of Dr. Robert Wallace of the Old Greyfriars to the professorship of church history 1873, one of the last “heresy hunts” in the Church of Scotland; author of Our Social reforms needed in Scotland 1867; Scotch poor houses and English work houses 1873; The salmon Fisheries of Scotland 1882. d. Milne Graden, Coldstream 19 Sep. 1890. Times 23 Sep. 1890.
HOME, Francis (eld. son of James Home, professor of materia medica in Univ. of Edin.) b. Edin. 1800; ed. at high school and univ. of Edin.; advocate 1825; sheriff substitute of co. Kinross 1838 and of co. Linlithgow 1838 to death. d. Main’s house near Linlithgow 20 Jany. 1882.
HOME, Sir James Everard, 2 Baronet (elder son of Sir Everard Home, 1 bart., serjeant surgeon to George III.) b. 25 Oct. 1798; entered navy 10 April 1810; succeeded 31 Aug. 1832; captain 5 Dec. 1837; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; captain of the “Calliope” 26 guns 28 Nov. 1850 to death; F.R.S. d. Sydney 2 Nov. 1853. bur. Camperdown cemetery, Sydney 4 Nov.
HOME, John. Entered Bengal army 1803; colonel 57 Bengal native infantry 1854 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. d. Weston, Bath 12 April 1860.
HOME, John Home (son of John Home of Bassenleau, co. Berwick). b. 1797; ensign 1 foot guards 19 Jany. 1813, lieut. col. 15 April 1845 to 1 April 1849 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 22 Sep. 1858; colonel 56 foot 17 Oct. 1859 to death. d. Pall Mall, London 22 April 1860.
HOME, North Dalrymple. b. Long Ashton, Aug. 1856; ed. at Bristol gram. sch. at Montreux and Paris; engaged in London and Westminster bank 2 years; student R. Acad. of music; tenor singer in German Reed’s Co.; played in W. S. Gilbert’s Ages Ago, and in The Friar operetta by Comyns Carr 15 Dec. 1886. d. Clifton 3 July 1887. The Era, July 1887 p.
HOME, Richard. b. 1789; entered Bengal army 1804; colonel 43 Bengal N.I. 7 April 1851 to 1861; colonel 6 Bengal N.I. 1861 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Brighton 19 April 1862 aged 73.
HOME, Robert (eld. son of James Home, captain 30 foot). b. Antigua 29 Dec. 1837; 1 lieut. R.E. 7 April 1856, major 25 Aug. 1873 to death; deputy assistant Q.M.G. at Aldershot 1865–70; commander of R.E. on the Ashantee expedition 1873; C.B. 31 March 1874; assistant Q.M.G. at head quarters 1 April 1876; sent to Turkey to report on defence of Constantinople 1876; British comr. for delimitation of boundaries of Bulgaria 1877; contributed to Quarterly Rev. and Macmillan’s Mag.; translated Baron Stoffel’s Military Reports 1872; author of The law of recruiting 1872 and A précis of modern tactics 1873 the best English book on the subject. d. 21 Regent’s park terrace, London 29 Jany. 1879; Anne Josephine his widow (dau. of J. Hunt) granted civil list pension of £300, 21 April 1879. Graphic xix, 372 (1879), portrait; I.L.N. lxxiv, 185 (1879), portrait.
HOMER, John James. b. Wandsworth 1809; educated for a solicitor; proprietor of Dolphin tavern, Mare st. Hackney; was the means of abolishing a brewers’ impost known as butt-money 1836; hon. treasurer of the London Licensed Victuallers’ Protection Soc. 1838 to death; governor of Incorporated Soc. of Licensed victuallers 1850; doubled the size of the Morning Advertiser 1850; common councilman for ward of Cornhill 1866; contested Hackney 18 Nov. 1868; wine and spirit merchant 2 Royal Exchange buildings, London 1852 to death; author of A summary of the laws relating to licensed victuallers 1839; Monarch fire and life insurance co., Scenes at the election for a director 1852. d. at res. of his son-in-law Dr. William Slimon 4 York place, Bow road, London 3 March 1888. Licensed Victuallers’ Almanack (1862) 95–9, portrait; Licensed Victuallers’ Year book (1875) 70–1, portrait.
HONE, Ven. Richard Brindley (2 son of Joseph Terry Hone of Faringdon, Berks.) b. 1805; ed. at Brasen. coll. Ox., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831; R. of Halesowen, Worcs. 1836 to death; hon. canon of Worcester 10 Nov. 1845 to death, archdeacon 7 Nov. 1849 to death; author of Lives of eminent Christians 4 vols. 1834–43, 19 charges and 41 New Year’s addresses. d. Halesowen rectory 5 May 1881.