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.
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Mary Oxlie, authored a commendatory poem of fifty-two lines, To William Drummond of Hawthornden
He worked in London from 1617 to 1622, where he painted portraits of members of the court of James I, including Prince Charles (later Charles II), the Lord Chamberlain William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, William Drummond of Hawthornden and Ben Jonson.