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unusual facts about John Drummond, 15th Baron Strange



John Drummond, 15th Baron Strange

In the Isle of Man, he bought property, farms and river banks with a view to running a fishing lodge based at Tholt-y-Will in Sulby Glen, a remote but enchanting location.

Following his petition to HM the Queen, the abeyance was terminated 18 December 1964 in favour of John Drummond of Megginch.

John Drummond, 1st Earl of Melfort

At Rome, he enjoyed considerable social success, but none politically for Pope Alexander VIII had adopted an anti-French position in the Nine Years' War.

He was suspected of treachery to Jacobite interests, and sent to Angers.

He secured the post of deputy governor of Edinburgh Castle in 1679, followed by Lieutenant-General and Master of the Ordnance in 1680.

John Drummond, 4th Duke of Perth

John Drummond was brought up by his mother at Drummond Castle till his father's death in 1720, when his mother took him and his elder brother James to France.

He was educated at Douai, showed decided military tastes, and passed through several grades in the French Army.

John Drummond, 8th Earl of Perth

After beginning a banking career, he went to Paris during the Second World War to help Noël Coward in a propaganda office, then returned to London to work in the War Cabinet office and later at the Ministry of Production.


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