Henry Home-Drummond

Henry Home-Drummond FRSE FSA (28 July 1783 – 12 September 1867) was a Scottish politician, advocate, landowner and agricultural improver. Life He was born on 28 July 1783, the son of George Home Drummond of Blair Drummond and his wife (and cousin) Janet Jardine, daughter of Rev John Jardine minister of the Tron Kirk and Dean of the Chapel Royal. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh and then studied aw at the University of Oxford graduating with a BCL in 1809. The family were one of the first to occupy the new houses in Edinburgh's New Town, living in a townhouse at 128 Princes Street, facing onto Edinburgh Castle in addition to their other estates. His father had a similar house at 110 Princes Street.