George Steuart Hume

George Steuart Hume, also known as George Home, (1747 – 1787/1788) 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 family's substantial Scottish estates.

Church tower of St. Ninians, Stirlingshire, where Hume married his first wife, Mary Erskine of Powis, in 1777.

Revolutionary War Hume's family was divided by the Revolutionary War, and he would never return to his Maryland birthplace. However, according to the memoirs of his nephew Richard Sprigg Steuart, Hume supported the ideals of the American rebels, and "was a staunch whig, and voted only for such members of parliament as went deadweight against the government and the war."

According to Alexander B Barty, in his book Argaty, its Lairds and its Barony: "At that time there was a doubt whether under the Entail Sophia Home was entitled to succeed her, or whether George Home's brothers, namely Charles Steuart, was now heir. Was decided in favour of the infant Sophia."