Lt-Col Henry Edward Stirling Home-Drummond-Moray (15 September 1846 – 16 May 1911) was a Scottish soldier, politician, and landowner.
Life
The son of Charles Stirling Home-Drummond-Moray of
Abercairny and
Blair Drummond and Lady Anne Douglas, daughter of 5th Marquess of Queensberry, he was born in
Edinburgh
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and educated at
Eton College
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. He served in the
Scots Guards from 1866 to 1880, rising to rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
In 1877, he married Lady Georgina Emily Lucy Seymour (1848-1944), daughter of
Francis Seymour, 5th Marquess of Hertford.
He dropped the name of Moray on succeeding his father in the estate of Blair Drummond in 1891.
He was a Conservative Member of Parliament for
Perthshire
Perthshire (locally: ; gd, Siorrachd Pheairt), officially the County of Perth, is a historic county and registration county in central Scotland. Geographically it extends from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, ...
from 1878 to 1880, and Vice-
Lieutenant
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The meaning of lieutenant differs in different militaries (see comparative military ranks), but it is often sub ...
and Convener of Perthshire.
He played in goal for the Old Etonians in the replayed
FA Cup Final of 1875. His usual position, however, was as a half-back.
[The Early F.A. Cup Finals and the Southern Amateurs; Keith Warsop, 2004 Soccerdata publications]
He is buried at Kincardine-in-Menteith, west of
Blair Drummond, in front of the large Home-Drummond family monument.
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1846 births
1911 deaths
Men's association football midfielders
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies
Old Etonians F.C. players
People educated at Eton College
Scots Guards officers
Scottish Tory MPs (pre-1912)
Scottish men's footballers
Scottish landowners
UK MPs 1874–1880
19th-century Scottish businesspeople
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