David Milne-Home

Born in 1805, he was a Scottish advocate who later became known not just in legal circles but also in science. He was active in geology and meteorology, and is especially noted for helping found the Scottish Meteorological Society in 1855 and serving as its chairman.

He was born David Milne and later took the name Milne-Home. Alongside his legal career, he wrote and worked on scientific subjects, building a reputation as a serious observer of the natural world. Sources also describe him as a landowner, which fits the broad public life he led in Scotland during the 1800s.

He died in 1890. Today, he is mainly remembered as one of those 19th-century figures who moved easily between professional life and scientific inquiry, contributing to the study of weather and the earth long before those fields became as specialized as they are now.