Henry Home-Drummond

Henry Home-Drummond FRSE FSA (28 July 1783 – 12 September 1867) was a Scottish politician, advocate, landowner and agricultural improver.

Blair Drummond House

Life
The Home-Drummond grave, Kincardine-in-Menteith

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 Rev 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 aw at the University of Oxford graduating with a 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 was called to the Scottish Bar in 1808, and later served 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 sat as 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 seat 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
  1. Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae; by Hew Scott
  2. Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1815–16
  3. "House of Commons: Stamford and Spalding to Stroud and Thornbury". leighrayment.com. Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 4 March 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. "House of Commons: Paddington to Platting". leighrayment.com. Archived from the original on 31 December 2010. Retrieved 4 March 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. "Edinburgh Post Office annual directory, 1832-1833". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  6. The Baronetage and Knightage, by Joseph Foster, p. 323
  7. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  • 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


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