John Drummond, 10th of Lennoch explained

Office:	Member of Parliament for Perthshire
Term Start:	1727
Term End:	1734
Predecessor:	Mungo Haldane
Successor:	Lord John Murray
Birth Name:	John Drummond
Death Date:	1752
Parents:	Adam Drummond Alison Hay
Children:	6
Relations:	Adam Drummond (brother)

John Drummond (died 1752), 10th of Lennoch and 3rd of Megginch Castle in Perthshire, was a Scottish Member of Parliament.

Early life

He was the oldest son of Adam Drummond, 9th of Lennoch (1649–1709), and his wife Alison Hay, daughter of John Hay of Haystoun. His father was a member of the Scottish Parliament and a member of the Privy Council of Scotland. His brother Adam Drummond, 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 Member of Parliament (MP) for Perthshire, defeating the sitting MP Mungo Haldane.^[1] 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.

Drummond voted infrequently in the House of Commons, and retired from Parliament at the 1734 election.

Personal life

In 1712 he married Bethia Murray in Yarrow Selkirkshire. She was a daughter of James Murray of Deuchar and a descendant of the Murrays of Philiphaugh. Together, they had five sons and one daughter:^[2]

• Adam Drummond (1713–1786), an Army officer, and an MP for most of the years 1761–84; he married Lady Catherine Powlett, daughter of Harry Powlett, 4th Duke of Bolton, in 1734.^[3]
• Patrick Drummond, who died before his parents.
• Francis Drummond, who died before his parents.
• John Drummond, who died before his parents.
• Colin Drummond (1722–1776), Commissary-General and Paymaster to the Forces in Canada; he married Katherine Oliphant, daughter of Robert Oliphant and sister to Robert Oliphant (a Postmaster General for Scotland), in 1754.
• Jean Drummond (1725–1795), who married James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl in 1749, after the death of the Duke's first wife.^[4] After his death she married Lord Adam Gordon, son of Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon, in 1767.

His nickname was "Sir Francis Wronghead", after a character in the play The Provoked Husband.^[5] Drummond died in 1752 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Adam. Upon his death, without surviving issue, in 1786, the titles passed to the 10th's grandson, John Drummond (eldest son of his son Colin).

Descendants

Through his son Colin, he was a grandfather of ten, including John Drummond (1754–1835), MP for Shaftesbury; Elizabeth Drummond (1758–1818), wife of John Hervey, Lord Hervey; Gen. Gordon Drummond (1772–1854), and Adm. Sir Adam Drummond KCH (1770–1849), who bought Megginch Castle from his older brother, Robert Drummond (b. 1754), a Captain of an East Indiaman ship trading with the Far East.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Romney R. . Sedgwick . Perthshire . The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754 . R. Sedgwick . Boydell and Brewer . 1 July 2014 . 1970.
2. Book: Burke, Sir Bernard . Index to Burke's dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland . 109 . Colburn and Company . 1853 . 1 July 2014.
3. Web site: DRUMMOND, Adam (1713-86), of Lennoch and Megginch, Perth. .. History of Parliament Online. 3 December 2017.
4. Murray, James (1690-1764). Thomas Finlayson . Henderson. 39.
5. Web site: Romney R. . Sedgwick . Drummond, John (d. 1752), of Megginch, Perth . The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754 . R. Sedgwick . Boydell and Brewer . 1 July 2014 . 1970.