DUNBAR. The right to the Earldom of Dunbar [S.], tho' unquestionably still remaining has never been fully recognised since the death of the grantee of 1605. It appears to be as under. ( a ) XIII. 1612. 2. Jons (Home), Earl of Dunbar [8.1, next elder br. and {more Scotico) heir, being 3d a. of his father aboveuauied. He d. s.p. 1614. XIV. 1614- 3. David Home living 1571 (butwho apparently (/. s.p.) was the next eldest br. while ALEXANDER Home, of Manderston, was the elder br. of the 1st Earl, but whether either of these were alive in 1614 is unknown. Sir George Homk, of Manderston, only s. and h. of the latter was living in 1631, and one of these three must, apparently, from 1611 have been de jure Earl of Dunbar [S.] On 6 Aug. 1634, the Lord Advocate [S.] certified to the King that that dignity " lawfully descended " to the above named Sir George Home, the collateral male heir, and failing him that it would devolve upon Sir Alexander Home, then at the Hague. The said George d. before 1651. XV. 1 1651? 4.1 Sir Alexander Home beir male (probably s. and h. of the( b ) above) ; sometime in tho service of the Princess of Orange at Hague. To him on 6 May 1651, Charles II. confirmed the Earldom of Dunbar [S.] He d. s.p.m. before 1689. XVI. ? 1G89? 51 Alexander Home, of Manderston afsd,, Capt. of a troop of horse in the service of the States of Holland, nephew andh. male of the above. To him 14 Oct. 1689, King William III. confirmed the Earldom of Dunbar [S.] exemplifying the previous confirmation thereof by Charles II. The family is said to have resided in Holland and to have there become extinct in the male line during the 17th century.( c ) Viscountcy [S.] 1. Sir Henry Constable, of Burton in tho West I ICO riding, co. York, only s. and h. of Henry C. of the same, by Margaret, da. of Sir William Dormer, of Elthorp, Bucks, svc. his father 1608, was knighted, 14 March 1614, at the Tower of (a) See especially Riddell's "Scotch Peerage Law" [1S33], p. 16. See also " Hewlett." ( b ) Drummond's "Noble British families" where there appears to be the best pedigree of thiB branch of the family tho' one by no means entirely reliable. (°) In 1776 John Home, of the family of Wedderburn, descended from the eldest br. of Alexander Home (grandfather of the 1st Earl of Dunbar) was rctoured heir male of the Earl of Dunbar, but this service was reduced by the Court of Session at the instance of Sir George Home, Bart., of Blackader, descended from the next ytt. br. of the said Alexander. There appears, however, to be issue male in existence from Patrick Home, of Killknow, son of the said Alexander and uncle of the 1st Earl, which would have a preferable claim. Such issue was (1) the Baronets of Benton [S.] cr. about 1675; ex. 1788 (2) the Baronets of Lumsden [S.] cr. 1697 ; ex. 1784 (3 J the house of Home of Kaimes represented by the well known Heury Home, a Lord of Session (as Lord Kaimes) 1752-82. His great grandson and h. male was (according to Drummond's " Noble British families," 1846) George Drummond of Blair Drummond, co. Perth, " undoubtedly the male representative of the Earldom of Dunbar, cr. in 1604" Such claim, however, does not appear to have been made by the family itself ; neither is the pedigree of Home of Kaimes free from suspicion. It may be observed that they omit this claim in the Red Book of Menteith and seem to notice chiefly their Drummond ancestry.
