Henry Home, Lord Kames

Henry Home, Lord Kames

(1696–1782) writer Kingdom of Great Britain

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Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–1782) was a Kingdom of Great Britain writer.

About Henry Home, Lord Kames

Henry Home, Lord Kames was a Scottish writer, philosopher and judge who played a major role in Scotland's Agricultural Revolution. A central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, he was a founding member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh and active in The Select Society. Home acted as patron to some of the most influential thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, including philosopher David Hume, economist Adam Smith, writer James Boswell, philosopher William Cullen and naturalist John Walker.

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