James Home, 2nd Earl of Home (died 1633) was a Scottish nobleman.

Biography James was the son of Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home and Mary, Countess of Home. Known as "Lord Dunglass", he became Earl of Home when his father died in London in April 1619.James Balfour Paul, Scots Peerage, vol. 4 (Edinburgh, 1907), p. 466 His mother wrote to James I on his behalf in negotiations over the properties formerly belonging to Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell.J. Maidment, Letters and State Papers of the Reign of James VI (Edinburgh, 1838), pp. 297-8, from National Library of Scotland Adv.33.1.1 vol. 10. The Earl of Home attended the funeral of James VI and I at Westminster Abbey on 7 May 1625.John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 4 (London, 1828), p. 1048.

James married firstly, Catherine Cary (1609–1626) eldest daughter of Viscount Falkland and the playwright Elizabeth Tanfield Cary author of The Tragedy of Mariam.Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, Writing Women in Jacobean England (Cambridge MA, 1993), 184-5, 189.Heather Wolfe, Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland (Cambridge: RTM, 2001), pp. xi. John Chamberlain reported that King James had arranged the marriage which took place in the King's chamber or presence chamber at Whitehall Palace in May 1622.N. E. McClure, Letters of John Chamberlain, vol. 2 (Philadelphia, 1939), 437, noting her name as 'Anne' rather than 'Catherine'. The king wanted the marriage concluded before Viscount Falkland become Lord Deputy of Ireland. In Scotland, on the king's orders, the lawyer Thomas Hamilton had convened the six lairds of the Home name; Wedderburn, Ayton, Blackadder, Polwarth, Manderston, Hutton Hall, and North Berwick. He told them the details of the earl's marriage, and that King James wished them to be "instruments of peace and love between him and his lady." The lairds hoped that Home's mother would consult with them about the earl's business and consider their advice. Otherwise they would not be content to intervene in the earl's affairs.The Melros Papers, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1837), pp. 403-4.

Friends of Elizabeth, Lady Falkland, who may have supported the marriage plans, include Mary, Countess of Buckingham, and mother of the royal favourite, the Duke of Buckingham, her stepmother Cecily, Lady Manners, wife of Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland, and Margaret Butler, Viscountess Mountgarret.Heather Wolfe, Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland, Life and Letters (RTM, 2001), pp. 14, 130, 305.

In December 1622, the Earl of Home had a serious infection in the mouth, and his wife also had a tooth pulled out.Richard Simpson, The Lady Falkland, Her Life. From a MS. in the Imperial Archives at Lille (London, 1861), p. 129. The Life of Lady Falkland relates that Catherine, Countess of Home, had a religious vision in Scotland.Heather Wolfe, Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland, Life and Letters (Cambridge: RTM, 2001), pp. 81–83, 91. Catherine's death in childbirth in 1625 and the vision were said to have caused her mother's conversion to Catholicism.G. Fullerton, The Life of Elisabeth Lady Falkland, 1585–1639 (London, 1883), pp. 48–53: The Lady Falkland, Her Life (London, 1861), p. 18.Heather Wolfe, Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland, Life and Letters (RTM, 2001), pp. 114, 126–127.Nandini Das, This Little World: A New History of Tudor and Stuart England (Bloomsbury, 2026), pp. 215–216.

One of Catherine's maids, Bessie Poulter, returned to England to serve Lady Falkland and was said to have been affected by preaching about witchcraft and Catholic priests in Scotland.Heather Wolfe, Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland, Life and Letters (RTM, 2001), p. 137: Richard Simpson, The Lady Falkland, Her Life. From a MS. in the Imperial Archives at Lille (London, 1861), p. 35.

In May 1626, James married Grace Fane (d. 1633), eldest daughter of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Mary Mildmay.Kathryn. A. Morrison, Apethorpe: The Story of An English Country House (Yale, Historic England, 2016), p. 187. She also had connections with the Villiers family.James Balfour Paul, Scots Peerage, vol. 4 (Edinburgh, 1907), p. 467

An account of expenses mentions his dogs and his horse "Sweepstakes" and money in gold sent to England for his expenses or investment.HMC Report on the Manuscripts of the Duke of Athole & Earl of Home (London, 1891), pp. 108-9 no. 59

James died in London in his lodging in St Martin's Lane without an heir on 13 February 1633,James Balfour Paul, Scots Peerage, vol. 4 (Edinburgh, 1907), p. 477 attended by the court physician Théodore de Mayerne,Marilyn M. Brown & Michael Pearce, 'The Gardens of Moray House, Edinburgh', Garden History, 47:1 (2019), p. 47: NRAS 859 papers of the Earls of Home. and Grace died soon afterwards at Apethorpe.Marion O'Connor, "Entertainments and Poems by Lady Rachel Fane", Malone Collections, 17 (2016), p. 179. The next Earl of Home was Sir James Home of Coldenknowes.

References

External links Physic and Lace Bonnets: Letters to the Countess of Home