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158 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF JOHN KNOX.
12th September 1801, rented the lands of Costerton; he died
unmarried.
Edward Hume, sixth son of David Hume and Elizabeth
Martin, was born 24th April 1803. Licensed to preach by
the Presbytery of Haddington, 12th December 1826, he was,
in 1829, ordained minister of Heriot, in the county of Edin-
burgh. He was translated to the parish of Pitsligo, Aber-
deenshire, in 1834, and there died on the 1st April 1863, at
the age of sixty. He married, first, in 1835, Marion Keddie,
of the town of Peebles, by whom he had four sons and four
daughters. He married, secondly, in 1852, Eliza, daughter
of William Patton of Devonshaw, captain, 12th Eoyal
Lancers, with issue, two sons and two daughters. His eldest
son, Captain David Edward Hume, was, in 1873, elected a
younger brother of the Trinity House, and in 1874 was
appointed Superintendent Dockmaster, Port of Hull.
Thomas David Hume, seventh son of David Hume and
Elizabeth Martin, was born 24th September 1808. Commis-
sioned as an army surgeon, he attained the rank of inspector-
general. As principal medical officer of the Third and
Fourth Divisions, he served during the war in the Crimea,
and was decorated with the Turkish order of Medjidie. He
married Caroline, daughter of Colonel Slater of the 82d
Eegiment.
John Hume, eighth son of David Hume of Castlemains
was born 5th February 1811. Settling in Ceylon, he married
Mary Anne, daughter of William Patton of Devonshaw,
captain, 12th Lancers, with issue, three sons and one daughter.
Stevenson Hume, ninth son, born 3d March 1815, is princi-
pal of the treasury branch of H.M. Customs. He married
Janet Eanken, daughter of Alexander Bartholomew, and