Sir John Drummond 2nd of Innerpeffray

Sir John Drummond 2nd of Innerpeffray (c. 1486 – c. 1565) was tutor to David Lord Drummond during his minority, and lived at the Drummond residence at Innerpeffray. He was on good terms with his stepsons, Alexander Gordon, who stayed at Innerpeffray in 1544 and 1548, and the Earl of Huntly. He was a supporter of the Catholic and French interest in Scotland.[1] He attended the privy council meeting at St Andrews on 19 December 1546 where the siege of St Andrews Castle was debated.[2]

Family

John Drummond was married to Margaret Stewart (born c. 1497), an illegitimate daughter of James IV of Scotland and Margaret Drummond. Her first husband was John Gordon, Lord Gordon.[3]

They had five daughters.

  • Margaret, married Robert Elphinstone 3rd Lord Elphinstone.
  • Jean. married James Chisholm, 3rd of Cromlix.
  • Elizabeth,
  • Agnes, married firstly Hugh Campbell of Loudoun, secondly, Hugh Montgomerie, 3rd Earl of Eglinton, thirdly, Patrick Dummond, 3rd Earl of Drummond.
  • Isobel, married Matthew Campbell of Loudon.

John Drummond was buried in the chapel he built at Innerpeffray.

References

  1. ↑ Annie I. Cameron, Scottish Correspondence of Mary of Lorraine (Edinburgh 1927), 102, 227, 269.
  2. ↑ Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, vol.1 (EDimburgh, 1877), 57-8.
  3. ↑ David Malcolm, A Genealogical Memoir of the Most Noble and Ancient House of Drummond and of the Several Branches That Have Sprung From it (Edinburgh, 1808), page 79.
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