Robert James Drummond

Robert James Drummond (1858–1951) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland in 1918.

[3] In 1890 he replaced Rev James Aitken at Lothian Road United Presbyterian Church in Edinburgh on a stipend of £500 per annum ( a very healthy salary at that time).

[6] In June 1891 the church commissioned MacGibbon & Ross to create new halls to the rear, and began discussing the introduction of instruments into the service (i.e. an organ).

[9] Around 1897 the church purchased a Limelight Magic Lantern to begin to give visual bible stories.

The funds tangentially released from this death (£100 per annum) allowed Drummond's stipend to increase to £550 and a "Bible nurse" to be employed: a Miss Murray, formerly an urban missionary in Old Calabar.

However, the Church Secretary, Mr Cochrane, received a written complaint from the elders stating he had overstepped his authority in allowing this.

[16] In 1918 Drummond succeeded Rev Dugald Mackichan as Moderator of the General Assembly, the highest position in the UF Church.

Their son Captain Robert Kenneth Drummond MC died of wounds serving with the Cameron Highlanders in Buzancy in the First World War.

Their daughter Joan married Rev James Kyd Thomson, minister of North Mayfield Church in Edinburgh.

[19] His sister Jane Elizabeth Drummond married Joseph H. Whitehorn of London possibly the brother of Rhoda.