Colin Drummond

Colin Drummond (1722 – 1776) was a Scottish merchant and politician who lived in Quebec, Canada.

Early life Drummond was born in Perthshire, Scotland in 1722. He was a younger son of John Drummond, 10th of Lennoch, 3rd of Megginch and the former Bethia Murray. Among his siblings were Adam Drummond, an MP who married Lady Catherine Powlett (a daughter of the 4th Duke of Bolton), and Jean Drummond, who married James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl and, after his death, Lord Adam Gordon (a younger son of the 2nd Duke of Gordon).

His paternal grandfather was Adam Drummond, 9th of Lennoch, a member of the Scottish Parliament and of the Privy Council of Scotland,

Through his son Adam, he was posthumously a grandfather of John Murray Drummond, 8th of Megginch (1803–1889), a captain in the Grenadier Guards who was Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Perthshire; (John Drummond, 8th of Megginch was the father of Malcolm Drummond, 9th of Megginch (1856–1924), who married the Hon.) Geraldine Margaret Tyssen-Amherst (daughter of the 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney) and grandfather of John Drummond, 15th Baron Strange, 10th of Megginch (1900–1982). a well known naturalist and ornithologist.

Through his youngest son Gordon, he was posthumously a grandfather of Elizabeth Drummond (–1894), who married Henry Howard, 2nd Earl of Effingham.