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...
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, Nov. 2015, pp. 287-12.
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which would have set her at odds (quite apart from her religious opinions) with her Whig family and especially its head, her brother George
.
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, Nov. 2015, pp. 287-12.
292
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.