Hugh Hume-Campbell, Lord Marchmont

(b. Feb. 15, 1708, Canongate, Edinburgh – d. Jan. 10, 1794, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire )

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Hugh Hume-Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont (1708-1794), was a Scottish politician, and Governor of the Bank of Scotland from 1763-1790. From his first marriage he had three daughters and a son who died young. He made a second marriage in 1748 to Elizabeth Crompton (d. 1797), and they had one son, Alexander Hume-Campbell, Lord Polwarth (1750–1781). He predeceased his father in 1781, without issue by his marriage to Amabel Grey.

Also known as:

Hugh Hume-Campbell
Lord Marchmont

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