Sir William James Charles Maria Drummond of Logiealmond FRS FRSE DCL (bapt.
His book Academical Questions (1805) is arguably important in the development of the ideas of English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
[2] In 1798, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposers being Dugald Stewart, Alexander Keith and John Playfair.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1799 [3] He became sworn as a Privy Counsellor in 1801,[4] and left Parliament as a diplomat, as Envoy to the court of Naples.
Pulos's 1954 book, The Deep Truth: A Study of Shelley's Scepticism, Drummond uses Sceptical Humean ideas in an attempt to refute the British philosophy predominant in his day, the Common Sense ideas of Thomas Reid and his followers.