Innerpeffray Collegiate Church - view from SE

Sir John Drummond 2nd of Innerpeffray (c. 1486 – 1560) was Forester of Strathearn, and tutor to David Lord Drummond during his minority, and lived at the Drummond residence at

Innerpeffray Innerpeffray is a hamlet in Perthshire, Scotland, southeast of Crieff. It is located on a raised promontory among beech woodland above the River Earn. A fording point across the river can still be used, on what is the line of a Roman Road. The ...

. John Drummond was son of Sir John Drummond 1st of Innerpeffray, called "John Bane", (pale John), and his cousin, a daughter of John Drummond of Coldoch. His sister Sibilla Drummmond was a mistress of

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. Their younger sister Isobella Drummond married the Gordon laird of Buckie. He was on good terms with his stepsons,

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, who stayed at Innerpeffray in 1544 and 1548, and the

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. He was a supporter of the Catholic and French interest in Scotland. He attended the

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meeting at St Andrews on 19 December 1546 where the siege of St Andrews Castle was debated. On 16 May 1554,

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put his affairs in the hands of his father-in-law

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, John Drummond of Innerpeffray, and his brothers-in-law

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and John Hamilton of

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, because he had made poor decisions about his properties in his youth. This transaction was enacted before

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and the

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in her presence chamber at

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. John Drummond died in February 1560 and was buried in the chapel his family built at Innerpeffray.

Family

In 1531 John Drummond was married to

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(born c. 1497), who was his niece via his sister, and the widow of John Gordon, Lord Gordon, and an illegitimate daughter of

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and Margaret Drummond. Margaret Stewart had been brought up at

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and her household included two African servants. Following their marriage,

made John Drummond Forester of the Royal Forest of Glenartney in

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. They had five daughters. *Margaret, married

. *Jean. married James Chisholm, 3rd of Cromlix. *Elizabeth, *Agnes, married firstly Hugh Campbell of Loudoun, secondly,

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, thirdly,

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. *Isobel, married Matthew Campbell of Loudon. Their daughter Jean Campbell married

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in September 1598.''HMC Report on the Manuscripts of Colonel David Milne Home of Wedderburn Castle'', (London, 1902), p. 70
/ref> Another daughter, Margaret Campbell, married

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References

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John John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Secon ...