1. Rev John Home was a Scottish minister, soldier and author.
11 Facts About John Home
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John Home's play Douglas was a standard Scottish school text until the Second World War, but his work is largely neglected.
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John Home's mother was Christian Hay, the daughter of an Edinburgh lawyer.
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John Home took it to London, England, and submitted it to David Garrick for representation at Drury Lane, but it was rejected as unsuitable for the stage.
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John Home was an active participant in the social life of Edinburgh, and joined the Poker Club in 1762.
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John Home sustained severe injuries in a fall from horseback which permanently affected his brain, and was persuaded by his friends to retire.
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The Works of John Home were collected and published by Henry Mackenzie in 1822 with "An Account of the Life and Writings of Mr John House," which appeared separately in the same year, but several of his smaller poems seem to have escaped the editor's observation.
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Voltaire published his, Londres, as a translation from the work of Hume, described as, but John Home seems to have taken no notice of the mystification.
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John Home is amongst the sixteen writers and poets depicted on the lower capital heads of the Scott Monument on Princes Street in Edinburgh.
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John Home appears at the far right side on the east face.
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John Home's house was demolished in the 1950s and now holds a modern housing development.