Robert Drummond of Cadland (abt. 1728 - abt. 1804)

Born about 13 Nov 1728 in Machany, Perthshire, Scotland

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Died about 19 Jan 1804 at about age 75 in London, England, United Kingdom [uncertain]

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Robert Drummond was born about November 13, 1728 in Machany, Perthshire, Scotland, son of William Drummond (~1690–1746) and Margaret Murray (<1692–1773).

Robert married Winifred Thompson (born about 1734). Their children were:

• Andrew Berkeley Drummond (1755–~1833)
• Charles Drummond (1759–1823)

According to the official history of the Drummond Bank ^[1] "... (of Robert) had roistered round the town with the 'Gang'" indicating that he was by way of a wealthy rake about town. Robert had joined the business, now part of the Royal Bank of Scotland, in 1749 working for his uncle Andrew Drummond with whom he and his brother Henry lived, over the bank at Charing Cross. In 1769 he and his cousin John took over the business when Andrew died, but it was Robert who took most responsibility for the daily affairs of the bank.

Robert was living at Cleveland Row at St. James's in Westminster when the small dining club known as "the Gang" met for their monthly sessions.

Robert lived in Westminster, but in 1772 purchased the manor of Cadland in Hampshire which cost, including the landscaping by Lancelot Brown, around £75,000. The estate was on the waterside shore of the Southampton Water south of the peninsular on which Southampton stands and also south of the town of Hythe. The estate included the village of Fawley and the family memorials are to be found on the wall of Fawley parish church. The estate was gradually added to and it spread into the New Forest and around the coastline to include Calshot and most of the land facing the Solent along to the Beaulieu River by Exbury.

His house, Cadland House, has since been demolished to make way for the construction in the twentieth century of the Esso oil refinery which dominates the skyline on that coastline. The two lodge houses built at the entrance to the estate are still extant. The purchase of Cadland is the reason for the "of Cadland" which the Drummond family favour to distinguish this Robert in their historical records. There is a new Cadland House, which had previously acted as a Dower house for the estate and it overlooks the Solent and the Isle of Wight on Stanswood Bay.

Robert died about January 19, 1804 in London, England, United Kingdom, aged about 75.

Sources

1. ↑ Bolitho, H and Peel, D (1967), The Drummonds of Charing Cross, Geo. Allen and Unwin, London

• details from notes taken by by John Orchard at the family archive of the Drummond's of Cadland, courtesy of Mr. Maldwin Drummond, JP, DSc. Hon., DL, in June 2006
• Bolitho, H and Peel, D (1967), The Drummonds of Charing Cross, Geo. Allen and Unwin, London
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p2762.htm#i27614