Maurice Drummond CB (9 July 1825 – 19 May 1891) was a British civil servant who was the second holder of the post of Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District.
[1] In 1848, Maurice was appointed as a clerk in the Treasury in compensation in kind for the death of his uncle Edward Drummond (1792–1843), fatally shot when he was mistaken for Robert Peel, to whom he was private secretary.
[4] Drummond was appointed George Cornewall Lewis's private secretary in 1855, a role he also later carried out for Prime Ministers Benjamin Disraeli and Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby during his ministry of 1858-59.
[5] Drummond, in addition to other accomplishments, was also hailed as a "brilliant writer" who for many years was on the staff of The Pall Mall Gazette when it wasa editdeby Frederick Greenwood.
He founded the charity the Guild of Our Lady of Ransom and in 1901 was made a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Leo XIII.