Henry Home, Lord Kames

• Honorific Prefix — The Right Honourable • Name — Lord Kames • Office — Senator of the College of Justice • Term Start — 6 February 1752 • Term End — 27 December 1782 • Predecessor — Patrick Campbell, Lord Monzie • Successor — Alexander Murray, Lord Henderland • Appointer — George II • Born — 1696 • Died — 27 December 1782 • Spouse — Agatha Drummond • Relations — David Fletcher (grandfather) • Children — George Drummond-Home • Occupation — Advocate • Illustration — An illustration of Lord Kames, Hugo Arnot and Lord Monboddo by John Kay • Illustration — The Home-Drummond grave, Kincardine-in-Menteith

Henry Home was born in 1696 at Kames House, between Eccles and Birgham, in Berwickshire. Henry was the son of George Home of Kames (son of Henry Home (d.1690) of Kames and Christian Fletcher, daughter of David Fletcher, Bishop of Argyll), and his wife Agnes or Helen Walkinshaw. Henry was homeschooled by Mr Wingate, a private tutor, until the age of 16. In 1712, Home was apprenticed as a lawyer under a Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh, and was called to the Scottish bar as an advocate bar in 1724. He soon acquired reputation by a number of publications on the civil and Scottish law, and was one of the leaders of the Scottish Enlightenment. In 1752, he was "raised to the bench", thus acquiring the title of Lord Kames. Kames held an interest in the development and production of linen in Scotland. Kames was one of the original proprietors of the British Linen Company, serving as a director of the company from 1754 to 1756. Kames was on the panel of judges in the Knight v. Wedderburn case which ruled that slavery was illegal in Scotland. In 1775, he lived in a townhouse in Canongate. The house was located the head of the street's east side, facing onto the Canongate. He died of old age, aged 86, and is buried in the Home-Drummond plot at Kincardine-in-Menteith west of Blair Drummond.

He was married to Agatha Drummond of Blair Drummond. Their children included George Drummond-Home.

• Remarkable Decisions of the Court of Session 1706 to 1728 (1728) • Essays upon Several Subjects in Law (1732) • Decisions of the Court of Session from its First Institution to the Year 1740 (1740) • Essay Upon Several Subjects Concerning British Antiquities (1747) • Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion (1751) He advocates the doctrine of philosophical necessity. • The Statute Law of Scotland (1757) • Historical Law-Tracts (1758) • The Principles of Equity (1760) • Introduction to the Art of Thinking (1761) • Elements of Criticism (1762) Published by two Scottish booksellers, Andrew Millar and Alexander Kincaid. • Remarkable Decisions of the Court of Session from 1730 to 1752 (1766) • Gentleman Farmer (1772) • Sketches of the History of Man (1773) • Elucidations Respecting the Common and Statute Law of Scotland (1777) • Loose Hints upon Education (1781)

The authorities additionally record the headings Henry Home, Lord Kames, Lord Kames Henry Home, Lord Kaims and Henry Home, Lord Kaims. His recorded language was English. He was the child of George Home, of Kames House and Agnes|Helen Walkinshaw. Recorded as anthropologist, judge, historian, philosopher and sociologist.