Drummond, author of Travels through the different Countries of Germany, Italy, Greece, and parts of Asia Minor, as far as the Euphrates, with an Account of what is remarkable in their present State and their Monuments of Antiquity, was the son of George Drummond of Newton, and younger brother of George Drummond, lord provost of Edinburgh.
Of his early years there is no accountant He started on his travels, via Harwich and Helvoetsluys, in May 1744, reached Venice in August and Smyrna in December that year, and Cyprus in March 1745. In one of these excursions he reached Beer, on the Euphrates.
Drummond was British consul at Aleppo from 1751–1758.
He was also a Freemason, being named Provincial Grand Master of Pour l"Orient Grand Lodge, established by the Grand Lodge of Scotland. He died at Edinburgh on 9 August 1769.
A portrait of him is catalogued in Evans"s "Engraved Portraits".
