John Home Home
Lieutenant-General John Home Home was an officer of the British Army.Biography
He was the son of John Home, a captain in the Army, who inherited the estate of Bassendean from a cousin, and his wife Mary, née Mackay. Home served as commanding officer of the Grenadier Guards, and acted as lieutenant-governor and commander-in-chief in Nova Scotia. He was also colonel of the 56th Regiment of Foot. He died at his lodgings in Pall Mall, London on 22 April 1860, aged sixty-three. He had no children, and was succeeded by his nephew, John Hutcheson Fergusson, who adopted the name and arms of Home in addition to Fergusson.
