Laurence Drummond

Major-General Laurence George Drummond (13 March 1861 – 20 May 1946) was a British Army general officer. Drummond saw active service in the Bechuanaland Expedition (1884–1885), the Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War (1895–1896), the Soudan Expedition, the Second Boer War, and the Great War of 1914–1918, and retired to Kent in 1920 to become a magistrate and a keen gardener. Life The only son of Admiral Sir James Robert Drummond, a younger son of Viscount Strathallan, by his marriage to Catherine Frances Elliot, Drummond was educated at Eton College and from 1874 to 1877 was second Page of Honour to Queen Victoria. After training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the Coldstream Guards on 13 August 1879, but in September transferred to the Scots Guards. He saw active service on the Bechuanaland Expedition of 1884–1885 in command of a troop of Methuen's Horse, and on 3 May 1886, on his return from Bechuanaland, the Duke of Connaught presented him to his brother the Prince of Wales at a Levée at St James's Palace. The next day, 5 May 1886, Drummond married Katherine Mary Antrobus, the daughter of Hugh Lindsay Antrobus and Mary Adam and a granddaughter of Admiral Sir Charles Adam.