Collection: William Drummond

William Drummond, born c.1770, was the son of John Drummond of Logie Almond and Lady Catherine Murray. He studied at St Andrews and Oxford. He served as a diplomat in Copenhagen, Turkey, and Sicily. He was known as the author of Philosophical Sketches on the Principles of Society and Government (1793), Review of the Government of Sparta and Athens (1795), and Œdipus Judaicus (1811). He died in Rome in 1828, “a martyr to gout.”