George Stirling Home Drummond

George Stirling Home Drummond of Blair Drummond and Ardoch FRSE FSAS FGS (1813–1876) was a Scottish landowner and antiquarian.

Life

He was born at 110 Princes Street in Edinburgh on 1 March 1813 the son of Henry Home Drummond and his wife Christian Moray of Abercairney (1779–1864). The family's Edinburgh town-house faces Edinburgh Castle. He would largely have been raised at the family's country seat of Blair Drummond. He was educated at Oxford University.

He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1851. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1867 his proposer being Sir James Edward Alexander. His secondary estate of Ardoch in Perthshire contained a substantial Georgian villa of around 1790. This fell derelict by the 1980s and has now been demolished.

He died at his London address of St George's Place, Hyde Park Corner in London on 3 June 1876. He is buried in the family grave at Kincardine-in-Menteith just west of Blair Drummond.

The lectern of the Church of the Holy Rude in Stirling is dedicated to his memory.

Family

He was married twice, firstly (1840) to Mary Hay of Dunse Castle (b.1817), secondly (1863) to Kalitza Janet Erskine Christian Hay (b.1833). He had no children by either marriage.

Artistic recognition

He was portrayed c.1872 by J. M. Barclay wearing full Highland regalia, with a small terrier by his feet, in front of Blair Drummond. A studio photograph of the same date exists and seems to be the basis of the painting.