Background
Born in 1829 at Edinburgh, he was a younger son of the entrepreneurial stonemason, building contractor and city councillor, George Drummond, by his wife Margaret Pringle (bc1790).
politician Member of the Senate of Canada
Born in 1829 at Edinburgh, he was a younger son of the entrepreneurial stonemason, building contractor and city councillor, George Drummond, by his wife Margaret Pringle (bc1790).
Drummond studied chemistry at Edinburgh University before coming to Montreal in 1854 to work for his brother-in-law, John Redpath, at Redpath Sugar.
She is most famously known for her work with the Red Cross. ()
In 1888, he was summoned to the Senate of Canada representing the senatorial division of Kennebec, Quebec. He served until his death in 1910.
From 1887 to 1896, he was a vice-president at the Bank of Montreal and served as its president first as the de facto from 1897 and official starting in 1905.
He helped found the Saint Margaret"s Home for Incurables in 1894, purchasing the house that had previously been built for Sir William Collis Meredith. His recreations were mirrored in other positions he held, the first president of the Royal Canadian Golf Association (1895) and president of the Art Association of Montreal.
He and his family lived on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal"s Golden Square Mademoiselle (Miss) He is buried in Mount Royal Cemetery.
Lady Drummond served as the first president of the Montreal National Council of Women of Canada () as well as President and co-founding member of the Women"s Canadian Club. As a member of the Citizen"s League he sought to improve life in Montreal and he served as president of the Royal Edward Institute, a dispensary for the prevention of tuberculosis, founded in 1909 by Jeffrey Hale Burland (1861–1914).