William Edward Peter Louis Drummond-Murray of Mastrick KStJ CStJ was a Scottish herald, Private Officer of Arms, stockbroker and banker.
Background
Educated at Beaumont College, he was the son of Edward John Drummond-Murray of Mastrick (1907-1976) by (div 1936) Eulalia Ildefonsa Wilhelmina Heaven (d 1988), daughter of William Anthony Raymond Heaven of Ashfield, Queen's County. On his father"s side, he was descended from the Murrays of Mastrick in Aberdeenshire and the Earls of Perth. His mother, who was half Spanish, was named after her godmother, the Infanta Eulalia of Spain and was descended from the Kings of Navarre.
Career
He was also active in Catholic philanthropy. Barbara Mary Hope, fourth and youngest daughter of Arthur Hope, 2nd Baron Rankeillour. He worked as a banker and a stockbroker, but his passion was heraldry and history, in particular, the Jacobites who numbered among his ancestors, including William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan.
He was also active in charity.
He founded a volunteer service to help provide meals on wheels and transport for the housebound. When the nuns at one of Mother Teresa’s Scottish hostels had trouble with guests, Drummond-Murray of Mastrick slept in the hostel once a week to keep an eye on things.
He encouraged the order"s involvement in establishing nursing homes and a cancer hospice at the Hospital of Street John and Street Elizabeth in London, where he was a chief executive from 1978-1982. In 1982, the Lord High Constable of Scotland, Merlin Hay, 24th Earl of Erroll, appointed him as the Slains Pursuivant of Arms.
In 1993, Drummond-Murray of Mastrick published Blood of the Martyrs (1993), a list of the martyr ancestors of the British Knights of Malta.
At the time of his death, he was working on a book to be called A Roll of Banners and Standards of the Order of Street John in England. Amongst many others, he prepared the petition to Lord Lyon King of Arms dated 18 February 2009 which enabled the grant to Anne Lillian Dawes of the arms with crest and motto of her ancestor Sir Edwyn Sandys Dawes Knight Commander of the Order of Street Michael and Saint George, with a crescent for difference to be matriculated 16 December 2009. Clan Hay website announcement of death.