Henry Home-Drummond

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FSA (28 July 1783 – 12 September 1867) was a

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politician,

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, landowner and agricultural improver.

Life

The Home-Drummond grave, Kincardine-in-Menteith

He was born on 28 July 1783, the son of George Home Drummond of Blair Drummond and his wife (and cousin) Janet Jardine, daughter of Rev John Jardine minister of the Tron Kirk and Dean of the Chapel Royal. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh and then studied aw at the University of Oxford graduating with a BCL in 1809. The family were one of the first to occupy the new houses in Edinburgh's New Town, living in a townhouse at 128

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, facing onto

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in addition to their other estates. His father had a similar house at 110

. Home-Drummond was called to the Scottish Bar in 1808, and later served as Vice-Lieutenant of Perthshire. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1815. His proposers were John Playfair,

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and Macvey Napier. He sat as Member of Parliament for Stirlingshire from 1821 to 1831 and for

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as a Conservative from 1840 to 1852. In 1833 his address is listed as 28

in Edinburgh's

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. His country seat is shown as Blair Drummond. He is buried in Kincardine-in-Menteith in the Home-Drummond grave, just west of Blair Drummond.

Publications

*''On Wedge-Draining Clay Land'' *''On the Salmon Fishery'' *'' On Sawdust as Manure''

Family

On 14 April 1812 he married Christian Moray of Abercairney (died 1864). She was the eldest daughter of Charles Moray Stirling. They had a daughter who later became Anne Murray, Duchess of Atholl, and two sons, George Stirling Home Drummond

and Charles Stirling Home Drummond Moray of Abercairney.

References

*''Oliver & Boyd's new Edinburgh almanac and national repository for the year 1850''. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1850 *K. D. Reynolds, ''Murray, Anne, duchess of Atholl (1814–1897)'', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press

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* 1783 births 1867 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies UK MPs 1820–1826 UK MPs 1826–1830 UK MPs 1830–1831 UK MPs 1837–1841 UK MPs 1841–1847 UK MPs 1847–1852 Deputy Lieutenants of Perthshire Members of the Faculty of Advocates Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{Scotland-UK-MP-stub