James Drummond, 1st Baron Perth (12 February 1744 – 2 July 1800), was a Scottish soldier, landowner and peer.
[6] 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.
Together, they were the parents of three children: Lord Perth died at Innerpeffray on 2 July 1800, at which point the barony of 1797 became extinct.
[11] The Drummond estates were inherited under a settlement of 9 June 1800 by his daughter Clementina and her heirs.
[1] In 1953, Stobhall was passed by her descendant James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 3rd Earl of Ancaster, to the heir-male John Drummond, 8th Earl of Perth (1907–2002),[5] while Drummond Castle remains a seat of Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 28th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby (b.