Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont

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Alexander Hume Campbell (1657 - 1740), 2nd Earl of Marchmont, 2nd Lord Polwarth was a Scottish nobleman, politician and judge.

Younger son of Patrick Hume, the 1st Earl, he took the name of Campbell on his marriage with the heiress of Campbell of Cessnock, Ayrshire, in 1697.

He studied law at Utrecht University and became an advocate in 1696. He was appointed to the Court of Session in 1704 with the judicial title Lord Cessnock, and served there until 1714.

He was a Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland for Berwickshire in 1706, and was a supporter of the Union with England. He was Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire from 1715 and Lord Clerk Register from 1716 to 1733.

He was envoy to Denmark from 1715 to 1721, and to the congress at Cambray in 1722.

He succeeded his father to the earldom in 1724, and was a Scottish representative peer from 1727 to 1734.

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