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MEMOIR. 



Colonel David Milne Home of Wedderhurn, late 



Organizing Secretary of the Club. 



By Commander F. M. Norman, R.N. 



It is surely a sorrowful and striking circumstance in our 

 annals, that within the short space of three years we should 

 have to record the loss of three successive Secretaries, each 

 honoured and lamented, and each distinguished in his time 

 and way for having rendered essential services to the Club. 



The notable Borderer, however, who is the subject of the 

 present Memoir, occupied a more extensive sphere in life than 

 his predecessors in the office ; and there can be nothing 

 disparaging to their memory in the remark that his loss was 

 more widely felt ; while the circumstances of his end were 

 at once more tragic and impressive. 



He was one of my own oldest and most valued friends, and 

 I cannot but be sensible of a feeling of sadness to find that 

 it has fallen to my lot to write obituary notices of two such 

 friends in the same volume. 



David Milne Home was the only son and fourth child of 

 Mr David Milne Home of Milne Graden, near Coldstream, 

 and Jean his wife ; grandson of Admiral Sir David Milne, 

 G.C.B. ; and nephew of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander 

 Milne, Bart., G.C.B. 



He was born at 10 York Place, Edinburgh, on September 

 25th 1838, and, as the following genealogical outline will 

 show, was the representative of the ancient and distinguished 

 family of the Homes of Wedderburn, and Heir of entail 

 of the estates of Wedderburn, Billie, and Paxton. 



In 1450 there was a Sir David Home of Wedderburn, 

 whose great-grandson, Sir David, fell at Flodden in 1513. 

 In Vol. XVI. of our Transactions appeared an interesting 

 account by the Colonel himself of the banner carried at 



