He was the third son of James Drummond, 6th Viscount Strathallan (de jure 8th Viscount) and the brother of William Drummond, 7th Viscount Strathallan.
[1] He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
He studied law at the Middle Temple and was called to the bar in 1848.
[2] In 1875, he became a member of the Council of India[1] His son Edmund Charles Drummond was an admiral.
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