John Drummond, 10th of Lennoch

John Drummond (died 1752), 10th of Lennoch and 3rd of Megginch Castle in Perthshire, was a Scottish Member of Parliament.

Early life He was the oldest son of Adam Drummond, 9th of Lennoch (1649–1709), and his wife Alison Hay, daughter of John Hay of Haystoun. His father was a member of the Scottish Parliament and a member of the Privy Council of Scotland. The election was closely fought, and was decided by a circle centred on Robert Craigie, who chose Drummond, the favoured candidate of the 2nd Duke of Atholl.

Adam Drummond (1713–1786), an Army officer, and an MP for most of the years 1761–84; he married Lady Catherine Powlett, daughter of Harry Powlett, 4th Duke of Bolton, in 1734. Patrick Drummond, who died before his parents. After his death she married Lord Adam Gordon, son of Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon, in 1767. Drummond died in 1752 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Adam. Upon his death, without surviving issue, in 1786, the titles passed to the 10th's grandson, John Drummond (eldest son of his son Colin).

Descendants Through his son Colin, he was a grandfather of ten, including John Drummond (1754–1835), MP for Shaftesbury; Elizabeth Drummond (1758–1818), wife of John Hervey, Lord Hervey; Gen. Gordon Drummond (1772–1854), and Adm. Sir Adam Drummond KCH (1770–1849), who bought Megginch Castle from his older brother, Robert Drummond (b. 1754), a Captain of an East Indiaman ship trading with the Far East.