James Drummond, 1st Baron Perth

Drummond was born on 12 February 1744 at Lundin, Fife, as James Lundin. He was the son of James Lundin and the former Lady Rachel Bruce, a daughter of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Kincardine. His elder sister, Veronica Drummond, married Duncan Campbell of Kames, and his elder brother was Thomas Drummond, Lord Drummond. The Lundins descended from Thomas de Lundin, a natural son of King William the Lion. James' paternal grandparents were Robert Lundin (1675–1716) and Anne Inglis (a daughter of Sir James Inglis of Cramond). His grandfather Robert was a younger son of John Drummond, 1st Earl of Melfort (younger son of the 3rd Earl of Perth), by his first wife, Sophia Maitland. ==Career==

The younger James Lundin, now also known as Drummond, joined the British Army in 1771. and served with the Battalion in India. Upon his father's death on 18 July 1781, James succeeded to his father's claim to the earldom of Perth (his elder brother Thomas, who moved to America, had died the previous November), but did not use the title. In 1784, an Act was passed allowing the Crown to grant to the heirs-male the estates that had been forfeited in 1745, and on 8 March 1785 the Court of Session declared that he was the person entitled to the Drummond estates (including Drummond Castle), which he was duly granted. He submitted a claim to be Earl of Perth in 1792, but withdrew it in 1796, and on 26 October 1797 was created a Peer of Great Britain as Lord Perth, Baron Drummond of Stobhall in the County of Perth. ==Marriage and issue==

On 31 March 1785, Drummond married the Hon. Clementina Elphinstone (1749–1822) in Edinburgh. Clementina was a daughter of Charles Elphinstone, 10th Lord Elphinstone, and Lady Clementina Fleming (daughter of John Fleming, 6th Earl of Wigton). Together, they were the parents of three children: • James Drummond (1791–1799), who died in childhood. He succeeded his father as Baron Gwydyr in 1820 and his mother as Baron Willoughby de Eresby in 1828. As the Hon. Mrs Drummond Burrell she was one of the Lady Patronesses of Almack's in 1814 as described in Captain Gronow's memoirs. • Jemima Rachel Drummond (1787–1788), who died in infancy. The Drummond estates were inherited under a settlement of 9 June 1800 by his daughter Clementina and her heirs. ==In literature==

Drummond provided the inspiration for the character Captain James Drummond in James Hogg's A Tale of an Old Highlander first published in the Metropolitan in February 1832. ==References==