George Stirling Home Drummond

He was born at 110 Princes Street[1] in Edinburgh on 1 March 1813 the son of Henry Home Drummond and his wife Christian Moray of Abercairney (1779-1864).

[3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1867 his proposer being Sir James Edward Alexander.

[2] In 1868 he commissioned plans for expansion of old Blair Drummond House, but instead was persuaded to pursue a more radical scheme, demolishing the ancient house and replacing it with a huge new sprawling mansion in the Scots Baronial fashion, as was the fashion of the time.

[4] His secondary estate of Ardoch in Perthshire contained a substantial Georgian villa of around 1790.

[8] He was portrayed c.1872 by J. M. Barclay wearing full Highland regalia, with a small terrier by his feet, in front of Blair Drummond.