Background
As eldest son, Patrick Hume succeeded to the family estates, including Redbraes Castle, on the death of his father in 1599.
As eldest son, Patrick Hume succeeded to the family estates, including Redbraes Castle, on the death of his father in 1599.
He rose to prominence as one of the household servants of the king, James VI, and after 1589 to the Queen Anne, becoming Scottish warden of the Marches in 1591 and keeper of Tantallon Castle the following year. He is probably best known to history through his association with the Castalian Band, the group of court poets writing in Scots headed by the king in the 1580s and 1590s. Both works have survived.
Patrick Hume was introduced to the Scottish court, probably by his father as a member of the royal household, sometime before 1580.