George Steuart Hume

Dr George Steuart Hume, also known as George Home, was a Maryland physician and landowner who emigrated to Scotland before the American Revolutionary War. Born George Hume Steuart in Maryland, he left for Scotland in 1758, where he studied Medicine, changing his name to his maternal name of Hume in order to inherit his familys substantial Scottish estates.

Hume was born in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, in 1747, the eldest son of planter and physician George Hume Steuart , and Anne Digges. As the eldest son he stood to inherit the family plantation of Dodon in Maryland, but the coming of the Revolutionary War forced his father to divided his property between his sons. Hume was eventually to inherit the Scottish estates, with the Maryland lands being divided between his brothers, now loyal to the fledgling United States of America. These however were substantial through his father he inherited the estates of Ballachallan, Argaty and Annat. These estates were held under entail, and Steuart changed his name to Hume in order to be able to inherit.

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