Henry Home-Drummond

Henry Home-Drummond

Henry Home-Drummond (1783 – 1867) was a Scottish politician.

He was called to the Scottish Bar in 1808, and later served as Vice-Lieutenant of Perthshire. He served as the Member of Parliament for Stirlingshire from 1821 to 1831 and Perthshire from 1840 to 1852.

He married Christian, eldest daughter of Charles Moray Stirling, in 1812; they had two sons and a daughter, the latter later to become Anne Murray, Duchess of Atholl.

References

*"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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