Peter Drummond-Murray of Mastrick

William Edward Peter Louis Drummond-Murray of Mastrick (24 November 1929 – 13 April 2014) was a Scottish herald, Private Officer of Arms, stockbroker and banker. He was also active in Catholic philanthropy.

Biography

Educated at Beaumont College, he was the son of Edward John Drummond-Murray of Mastrick (1907–1976) by (div. 1936) Eulalia Ildefonsa Wilhelmina Heaven (d. 1988), daughter of William Anthony Raymond Heaven (1873–), Aberdeenshire, JP and wife Doña Maria Guadelupe Ramirez de Arellano y Braceras, 4th Marquesa de Braceras, and her paternal uncle was Francis Joseph Heaven (1877–), Conde de Ramirez de Arellano,

He worked as a banker and a stockbroker, but his passion was heraldry and history, in particular, the Jacobites who numbered among his ancestors, including William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan. He was also active in charity; he founded a volunteer service to help provide meals on wheels and transport for the housebound. When the nuns at one of Mother Teresa's Scottish hostels had trouble with guests, Drummond-Murray of Mastrick slept in the hostel once a week to keep an eye on things.

From 1977 to 1989, he was chancellor of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in the United Kingdom. He encouraged the order's involvement in establishing nursing homes and a cancer hospice at the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in London, where he was a chief executive from 1978 to 1982.

Heraldry

In 1982, the Lord High Constable of Scotland, Merlin Hay, 24th Earl of Erroll, appointed him as the Slains Pursuivant of Arms.

In 1993, Drummond-Murray of Mastrick published Blood of the Martyrs (1993), a list of the martyr ancestors of the British Knights of Malta. At the time of his death, he was working on a book to be called A Roll of Banners and Standards of the Order of St John in England.

Honours Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta 1971. Knight Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion in Obedience Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta 1984, Bailiff February 2014. Genealogist Sovereign Military Order of Malta, 2000–2005. Knight of Justice Most Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem 1988. (CStJ, 1977)