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| Born | 1696 |
| Died | 27 December 1782 (aged 85–86) |
| Children | George |
Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696 – 27 December 1782) 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.