Henry Home-Drummond
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Henry Home-Drummond Script error: No such module "If empty". (28 July 1783 – 12 September 1867) was a Scottish advocate, landowner, agricultural improver, and politician.
Life
He was born on 28 July 1783, the son of George Home Drummond of Blair Drummond and his wife (and cousin) Janet Jardine, daughter of Reverend John Jardine minister of the Tron Kirk and Dean of the Chapel Royal.[1]
He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh and then studied law at the University of Oxford graduating as a Bachelor of Civil Law (|BCL) in 1809. The family were one of the first to occupy the new houses in Edinburgh's New Town, living in a townhouse at 128 Princes Street,[2] facing onto Edinburgh Castle in addition to their other estates. His father had a similar house at 110 Princes Street.
Home-Drummond became a Scottish advocate in 1808, and served later as Vice-Lieutenant of Perthshire.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1815. His proposers were John Playfair, George Steuart Mackenzie and Macvey Napier.
He was Member of Parliament for Stirlingshire from 1821 to 1831[3] and for Perthshire as a Conservative from 1840 to 1852.[4]
In 1833 his address is listed as 28 Princes Street in Edinburgh's New Town. His country estate is shown as Blair Drummond.[5]
He is buried in Kincardine-in-Menteith in the Home-Drummond grave, just west of Blair Drummond.
Publications
- On Wedge-Draining Clay Land
- On The Salmon Fishery
- On Sawdust As Manure
Family
On 14 April 1812[6] he married Christian Moray of Abercairney (died 1864). She was the eldest daughter of Charles Moray Stirling. They had a daughter who later became Anne Murray, Duchess of Atholl, and two sons, George Stirling Home Drummond FRSE[7] and Charles Stirling Home Drummond Moray of Abercairney.
References
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- ↑ Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae; by Hew Scott
- ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1815–16
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- Oliver & Boyd's new Edinburgh almanac and national repository for the year 1850. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1850
- K. D. Reynolds, Murray, Anne, duchess of Atholl (1814–1897), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press
External links
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- 1783 births
- 1867 deaths
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies
- UK MPs 1820–1826
- UK MPs 1826–1830
- UK MPs 1830–1831
- UK MPs 1837–1841
- UK MPs 1841–1847
- UK MPs 1847–1852
- Deputy lieutenants of Perthshire
- Members of the Faculty of Advocates
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London