George Drummond

Standard Name: Drummond, George

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Wealth and Poverty May Drummond
In 1738 her preaching raised so much money that she was able to make a donation of £372 and 7 shillings to her brother George 's Edinburgh Royal Infirmary .
Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
28
, No. 2, pp. 287-12.
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politics May Drummond
Literary historian Matthew Reilly says MD was a fervent Jacobite,
Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
28
, No. 2, pp. 287-12.
292
which would have set her at odds (quite apart from her religious opinions) with her Whig family and especially its head, her brother George .
Family and Intimate relationships May Drummond
She had two brothers with successful public careers. George Drummond , who was more than twenty years her elder, had worked on the terms of the Union of Scotland and England before she was born...

Timeline

September 1753: George Drummond, Provost of Edinburgh (and...

Building item

September 1753

George Drummond , Provost of Edinburgh (and brother of the Quaker preacher and writer May Drummond ), laid the foundation stone of the new Royal Exchange there.

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