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John Drummond, 10th of Megginch, 15th Baron Strange (born 1900, Scotland – d.1982, Isle of Man), Chief of the Baronial House and Branch of Drummond of Concraig and Lennoch within the clan Drummond and Baron of Megginch.〔Pine, L.G.: "Burke's Landed Gentry 17th Edition", page 694. Burke's Peerage Ltd. in conjunction with City Ltd. London, England, 1952〕 Educated at Eton College, he became Lieutenant, Grenadier Guards and Hon. Attaché H.M. Legation Warsaw in 1920. Later he was elected county councillor for West Perth in Scotland aged 21. Joined the Black Watch in World War II but finding himself deskbound, he returned to farm his estate at Megginch. In addition to being an organic soil and fish farmer, he was an author (as John Drummond) of ten books of fact and fiction, inventor, record producer, restaurateur and politician. ==Family life== John Drummond was the only son of Capt. Malcolm Drummond, JP, DL and Geraldine Margaret Tyssen-Amherst, daughter of Lord Amherst of Hackney and one of seven sisters. He was born, brought up and lived much of his life at Megginch Castle in the Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. He had three sisters, Jean, Victoria Alexandrina and Frances Ada. His middle sister, Victoria Drummond MBE, (who was a goddaughter of Queen Victoria) distinguished herself as the first woman marine engineer in Britain and won the Lloyd's War Medal for bravery.〔Cherry Drummond: "The Remarkable Life Of Victoria Drummond – Marine Engineer". Information Today Inc. Oct., 1994〕 At the age of 24 on the death of his father, he inherited his ancestral home and estate, Megginch. On 8 February 1928, he married Violet Margaret Florence Jardine, daughter of (Sir Robert William Buchanan-Jardine ) of Castlemilk,〔Charles Mosley, "Burke's Peerage & Knightage, 107th edition.", Volume 1, page 575, Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., Wilmington, DE, USA, 2003〕 2nd Bt. Managing Director of Jardine Matheson and Ethel Mary Piercy. They had three daughters: * Jean Cherry, 16th Baroness Strange (b. 1928 d. 2005) m. Captain Humphrey Evans (later Drummond of Megginch), MC * Heather Mary, (b. 1931) m. Lt.Cmdr. Andrew Christian Currey, RN * Margaret April Irene, (b. 1939) m. Sir Quentin Agnew-Somerville, 2nd Bt, whose daughter is the actress Geraldine Somerville 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Drummond, 15th Baron Strange」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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