s the eldest son of Henry Drummond, a prominent
London banker, by a daughter of the first Lord Melville. He was educated
at Harrow and at Christ Church, Oxford, but took no degree. His name is
permanently connected with the university through the chair of political
economy which he founded in 1825. He entered parliament in early life,
and took an active interest from the first in nearly all departments of
politics. Thoroughly independent and often eccentric in his views, he
yet acted generally with the Conservative party. His speeches were often
almost inaudible but were generally lucid and informing, and on occasion
caustic and severe. From 1847 until his death in 1860 he represented
West Surrey in parliament. Drummond took a deep interest in religious
subjects, and published numerous books and pamphlets on such questions
as the interpretation of prophecy, the circulation of the Apocrypha, the
principles of Christianity, &c., which attracted considerable attention.
In 1817 he met Robert Haldane at Geneva, and continued his movement
against the Socinian tendencies then prevalent in that city. In later
years he was intimately associated with the origin and spread of the
Catholic Apostolic Church. Meetings of those who sympathized with the
views of Edward Irving were held for the study of prophecy at Drummond's
seat, Albury Park, in Surrey; he contributed very liberally to the funds
of the new church; and he became one of its leading office-bearers,
visiting Scotland as an "apostle" and being ordained as an "angel" for
that kingdom. The numerous works he wrote in defence of its distinctive
doctrines and practice were generally clear and vigorous, if seldom
convincing. He died on the 20th of February 1860.

DRUMMOND, HENRY (1851-1897), Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer,
was born in Stirling on the 17th of August 1851. He was educated at
Edinburgh University, where he displayed a strong inclination for
physical and mathematical science. The religious element was an even
more powerful factor in his nature, and disposed him to enter the Free
Church of Scotland. While preparing for the ministry, he became for a
time deeply interested in the evangelizing mission of Moody and Sankey,
in which he actively co-operated for two years. In 1877 he became
lecturer on natural science in the Free Church College, which enabled
him to combine all the pursuits for which he felt a vocation. His
studies resulted in his writing _Na