Background
Drummond, the son of a small farmer, was born and educated in the parish of Madderty, Perthshire, and in early life worked as a carpenter.
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During the same year he met Robert Nicoll, the poet, then apprenticed to Mistress Robertson, a grocer, on the opposite side of the street.
Career
In later years he collected of pictures and engravings. While at Glasgow as assistant in the shop of an uncle, a provision merchant, his love of literature first developed itself. Towards the close of 1832 he opened a circulating library at 15 High Street, Perth.
By Drummond"s advice Nicoll gave up grocery and started a bookselling business in Dundee.
A few years later Drummond was able to move to larger premises at 32 High Street, where he entered fully into the bookselling trade. He was here the means of introducing Jenny Lind, Giulia Grisi, and other famous singers to Perth audiences.
From 32 High Street Drummond moved to 46 George Street, and there started building what was later the Exchange Hotel. He intended to use the premises as a printing office, and perhaps to start a newspaper.
About 1859 he exhibited his collection of pictures in the Exchange Hall.
By 1873 he had retired from farming, and started to write. Drummond died suddenly at his house, Ellengowen, Almond Bank, about three miles to the north-west of Perth, on 4 September 1879, in his seventy-seventh year, and was buried at Wellshill cemetery, Perth, on the 9th.
