George Home of Buskinburn lived at Malta House from about 1840 until his death in 1844. He was the fourth son of Alexander Home of Buskinburn (1741-1823), a captain in the Royal Navy who sailed with Captain Cook, and laid claim to the Earldom of Marchmont. George Home was born about 1797, and died of consumption on 18 February 1844, at Malta House. He served in the Royal Navy and as an excise officer, but in the 1841 census, while resident at Malta House, he was described as Independent.
George Home was author of Memoirs of an Aristocrat, Reminiscences of the Emperor Napoleon (Edinburgh, 1837).
He married Euphemia Mcausland on 6 October 1823, at Greenock. They had four children living with them at Malta House in 1841: Alexander Francis Home (born 1825, at Muckhart, Perthshire), Patrick Home (born 22 December 1826, at Dundee), Francis Home (born 1831) and May Home (born 1835).