John Drummond (died 1752), 10th of Lennoch and 3rd of

Megginch Castle Megginch Castle is a 15th-century castle in Perth and Kinross, in central Scotland. It was the family home of Cherry, 16th Baroness Strange. It is now lived in by Lady Strange's daughter, Catherine Drummond-Herdman, her husband and four childre ...

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, ...

, was a Scottish

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. He was the oldest son of Adam Drummond of Megginch (1649-1709), 9th of Lennoch and his wife Alison, daughter of John Hay of Haystoun. His father was a member of the Scottish Parliament and a member of the

Privy Council of Scotland The Privy Council of Scotland ( — 1 May 1708) was a body that advised the Scottish monarch. In the range of its functions the council was often more important than the Estates in the running the country. Its registers include a wide range of ...

. His brother Adam Drummond (1679-1758) a surgeon-apothecary in Edinburgh became (jointly) the first Professor of Anatomy at the University of Edinburgh.

Career

At the 1727 general election he was elected as the

(MP) for

, defeating the sitting MP

Mungo Haldane Mungo Haldane ( – 1 June 1755) was a Scottish politician who sat in the House of Commons intermittently between 1715 and 1727. Haldane was the eldest son of John Haldane MP of Gleneagles and his wife Mary Drummond, daughter of David Drummond, ...

. The election was closely fought, and was decided by a circle centred on

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, who chose Drummond, the favoured candidate of the 2nd Duke of Atholl. Drummond voted infrequently in the House of Commons, and retired from Parliament at the 1734 election.

Personal life

In 1712 he married Bethia Murray, daughter of James Murray of Deucar. They had five sons and one daughter: *

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(1713–1786), an army officer, and an MP for most of the years 1761–84 * Patrick, Francis and John died before their parents * Colin, born 1722, who had ten children, including

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(1754–1835, MP for

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); General

Gordon Drummond General Sir Gordon Drummond, GCB (27 September 1772 – 10 October 1854) was a Canadian-born British Army officer and the first official to command the military and the civil government of Canada. As Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, Drumm ...

(1772–1854), and Admiral Sir Adam Drummond KCH, who bought Megginch Castle from his older brother, Robert Drummond, a Captain of an East Indiaman ship trading with the Far East. * Jean married the 2nd Duke of Atholl in 1749, after the death of the Duke's first wife. After the Duke's death she remarried, to Lord Adam Gordon His nickname was "Sir Francis Wronghead", after a character in the play ''

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''.

References

Year of birth unknown 1752 deaths People from Perthshire Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Scottish constituencies British MPs 1727–1734 {{Scotland-GreatBritain-MP-stub