John Drummond, 12th of Lennoch, 5th of Megginch (18 October 1754 – 13 May 1835), was a Scottish politician who served as MP for Shaftesbury.
[1] He was the eldest son of the former Katherine Oliphant and Colin Drummond, a Scottish merchant who relocated his family to Quebec.
He obtained a leave of absence in August 1779 before resigning his office as deputy Commissary General in April 1781.
He stood for Perthshire in 1790 but was defeated[1] Shortly after his succession, he sold the Lennoch estate due to financial difficulties and, in 1795, disposed of Megginch Castle to his brother, Capt.
[3] Through his son John, he was a grandfather of Georgiana Matilda Drummond (d. 1904), who married cricketer George Onslow Deane in 1852.