Vice-Admiral The Honourable Edmund Rupert Drummond CB MVO DL (8 May 1884 – 9 September 1965) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief of the New Zealand Division.
Born the son of James Drummond, 10th Viscount Strathallan,[1] and educated at the Royal Naval College Dartmouth, Drummond was promoted to lieutenant in 1906.
[2] He was appointed Commanding Officer of the cruiser HMS Capetown in 1927,[3] Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth in 1930[4] and Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief American and West Indies Station[5] before becoming Commander-in-Chief of the New Zealand Division in 1935.
[4] He served in World War II as Captain of the Dockyard at Portland from August 1939 and as Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth from 1942 until September 1945 when he retired.
[4] In retirement he lived at Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis and was Deputy Lieutenant of Ross and Cromarty.