John Drummond (died 1752),[1] 10th of Lennoch and 3rd of Megginch Castle in Perthshire, was a Scottish Member of Parliament.
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.[2] His brother Adam Drummond (1679-1758) a surgeon-apothecary in Edinburgh became (jointly) the first Professor of Anatomy at the University of Edinburgh.
Career edit
At the 1727 general election he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Perthshire, defeating the sitting MP Mungo Haldane.[3] The election was closely fought, and was decided by a circle centred on Robert Craigie, who chose Drummond, the favoured candidate of the 2nd Duke of Atholl.[2]
Drummond voted infrequently in the House of Commons, and retired from Parliament at the 1734 election.[2]
Personal life edit
In 1712 he married Bethia Murray, daughter of James Murray of Deuchar in Yarrow Selkirkshire, a descendant of the Murrays of Philiphaugh. They had five sons and one daughter:[4]
- Adam (1713–1786), an army officer, and an MP for most of the years 1761–84[4]
- Patrick, Francis and John died before their parents[4]
- Colin, born 1722, who had ten children, including John (1754–1835, MP for Shaftesbury); General Gordon Drummond (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.[4]
- Jean married James Murray 2nd Duke of Atholl in 1749, after the death of the Duke's first wife.[5] After the Duke's death she remarried, to Lord Adam Gordon[4]
His nickname was "Sir Francis Wronghead", after a character in the play The Provoked Husband.[2]
References edit
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1)
- ^ a b c d Sedgwick, Romney R. (1970). R. Sedgwick (ed.). "Drummond, John (d. 1752), of Megginch, Perth". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754. Boydell and Brewer. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
- ^ Sedgwick, Romney R. (1970). R. Sedgwick (ed.). "Perthshire". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754. Boydell and Brewer. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
- ^ a b c d e Burke, Sir Bernard (1853). Index to Burke's dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Colburn and Company. p. 109. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
- ^ Henderson, Thomas Finlayson (1894). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 39. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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