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Drummond, Gordon, 1809-1856
GB-2014-WSA-019080 · Person · 1809-1856

DRUMMOND, GORDON, elder son of Gen. Sir Gordon Drummond GCB, and Margaret, eldest dau. of William Russell, Brancepeth Castle, co. Durham, colliery proprietor; nephew of John Drummond (adm. 1765, qv, if correctly identified); b. 8 Mar 1809; adm. 20 Jun 1821 (Stelfox's); Min. Can. 1822; Ensign and Lieut. , 2nd Foot Guards 10 Jun 1826; Lieut. and Capt. , 3 Aug 1830; Maj. in Army 3 Aug 1830; Lieut. -Col. in Army 29 Mar 1844; Maj. , 2nd Foot Guards 20 Jun 1854; Col. in Army 20 Jun 1854; served in Crimean War and commanded 1st battalion Coldstream Guards at fall of Sevastopol; m. 11 Nov 1837 Margaret Maria, dau. of Rev. Philip Le Geyt, Vicar of Marden, Kent; d. 17 Nov 1856.

GB-2014-WSA-06419 · Person · 1807-1827

DRUMMOND, JAMES CHARLES, brother of Robert Drummond (qv); b. 16 Oct 1807; adm. 22 Sep 1820 (Stelfox's); Cadet, EICS Bengal 1824; Ensign, 19th Bengal Native Infantry 18 Mar 1825; Lieut., 28 Mar 1826; d. at Nasirabad, Bengal 27 Nov 1827.

Drummond, John, 1723-1774
GB-2014-WSA-06420 · Person · 1723-1774

DRUMMOND, JOHN, only son of Andrew Drummond (at school under Knipe, qv); b. 27 Apr 1723; adm. Jun 1735; left 1735; succeeded father as head of Drummond’s Bank, Charing Cross; MP Thetford from 1768; m. 22 Dec 1744 Charlotte, dau. of Lord William Beauclerk MP; d. 25 Jul 1774.

Drummond, John, 1754-1835
GB-2014-WSA-06421 · Person · 1754-1835

DRUMMOND, JOHN, eldest son of Colin Drummond, Commissary-Gen. and Paymaster to Forces in Canada, and Katherine, dau. of Robert Oliphant, Rossie, Perthshire; b. 1754; adm. 19 Apr 1765; of Lennoch and Megginch, Perthshire; member of Council and Deputy Commissary-Gen. and Paymaster, Canada 1776-81; MP Shaftesbury 5 Jul 1786-90; subsequently in financial difficulties; m. 4 Aug 1788 Lady Susan Fane, half-sister of John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland (qv); d. 13 May 1835] [But Whitmore believed that the admission of 19 Apr 1765 was that of John Hay-Drummond (1756-80); was this John Drummond in fact an OW ?]

Drummond, Robert, 1804-1883
GB-2014-WSA-06422 · Person · 1804-1883

DRUMMOND, ROBERT, second son of Adm. Sir Adam Drummond KCH, Megginch Castle, Perthshire, and Lady Charlotte Murray, widow of Sir John Menzies, Bart., and eldest dau. of John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl (qv); nephew of John Drummond (adm. 1765, qv, if correctly identified); b. 22 Jun 1804; adm. 22 Apr 1818 (Packharness'); Jesus Coll. Cambridge, adm. 14 Mar 1823; migr. Trin. Coll. Camb., adm. pens. 30 Jun 1823; BA 1827; MA 1831; ordained deacon 1828, priest 1829 (both Lincoln); Vicar of Feering, Essex 20 Jun 1829-66; m. 19 Jan 1841 Hon. Charlotte Olivia Elizabeth Strutt, second dau. of Joseph Holden Strutt MP, Col. South Essex and West Essex Militias, and Charlotte, Baroness Rayleigh; d. 1883.

GB-2014-WSA-06423 · Person · 1812-1835

DRUMMOND, WILLIAM RUSSELL, brother of Gordon Drummond (qv); b. 13 Jan 1812; adm. 20 Jun 1821 (Stelfox's); entered Royal Navy; Lieut., 13 Jan 1832; killed at Callao, South America 31 Jan 1835.

GB-2014-WSA-06424 · Person · 1903-1987

Drury, Alfred Paul Dalou, son of Alfred Drury, R. A., of Wimbledon, by Phebe M., younger daughter of the Rev. G. Lyon Turner, M.A., of South Hayling, Hants; b. Oct. 14, 1903; adm. Jan. 17, 1918 (H); migrated up Grant's April 1918; left July 1920; Univ. of London; Goldsmiths' Coll. School of Art 1920-25; British Institution Scholar in Engraving 1924; Fellow of the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers, 1932; a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy and other exhibitions; served in Great War II in Orthopaedic Dept., Queen Mary's Hosp., Roehampton; m. 1937 Enid Marie, painter, only child of Victor Solomon; d. 19 May 1987.

Drury, Joseph, 1750-1834
GB-2014-WSA-06425 · Person · 1750-1834

DRURY, JOSEPH, son of Thomas Drury, London, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Hilton, London; b. 11 Feb 1750; adm. (perhaps as chorister); KS 1765; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1768, adm. pens. 1 Jun 1768, matr. Mich. 1768, but unable to remain at university through lack of means; Assistant Master, Harrow School 1769-85; ordained deacon (London) 24 Feb 1773, priest 21 Dec 1779; readm. Trin. Coll. Camb. 2 Jun 1774; BD 1784; DD 1789; Head Master, Harrow School Easter 1785 - Easter 1805; Vicar of Aldwinckle, Northants., 1 Jul 1788-1806, resigned; Rector of Pilton, Northants., 27 Dec 1794 - 1806, resigned; retired to Lockwood, near Dawlish, Devon; Prebendary of Wells from 17 Mar 1812; a successful teacher and firm disciplinarian, under whose rule Harrow increased both in numbers and in reputation; Byron refers gratefully to him in his Hours of Idleness and in a note to Childe Harold, canto iv, st. 75; m. 5 Aug 1775 Louisa, dau. of Benjamin Heath DCL, Town Clerk of Exeter, and sister of Benjamin Heath, Head Master of Harrow School; d. 9 Jan 1834. DNB.