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unusual facts about William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan


Basil Champneys

In 1876 he married May Theresa Ella, a daughter of Maurice Drummond, descendant of William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan, they had two sons and two daughters.


Henry Edward Fox

The smallness of his force (made yet smaller when Major-General Mackenzie Fraser was sent to occupy Alexandria) meant he refused the repeated requests from the Sicilian court and William Drummond, British minister at the Sicilian court, for land operations on the Italian mainland.

John Ayrton Paris

A lithograph of him by William Drummond is in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Robert P. Arthur

William Drummond, the colonial Governor and a principal player in Bacon’s Rebellion, was the first man hanged in Virginia for insurrection and a possible relative of the Scottish poet, William Drummond.

William Drummond, 1st Viscount Strathallan

At the battle of Worcester in 1651, where he commanded a brigade, he was taken prisoner and carried to Windsor, but managed to escape and reach the king at Paris.


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