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Sir Robert Drummond of Carnock (died 1592) was Master of Work to the Crown of Scotland from 1579 to 1583. This was the responsibility for building and repair of palaces and castles. His appointment was made to be "as Sir James Hamilton of Finnart had it."〔''Register of the Privy Seal'': HM Paton ed., ''Accounts of the Masters of Work'', HMSO (1957), introduction.〕 ==Family== He was the eldest son of Alexander Drummond, of Carnock and Arnmore (Ermore), and Marjory Bruce of Auchinbowie. Arnmore is a location at Kippen, Stirlingshire, neighbouring Broich, the home of William Schaw. Carnock is to the east of Stirling. Robert's first wife, Agnes (or Margaret), was a sister of Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange. With Robert's permission, Agnes Kirkcaldy sold a tenement in Dysart called the "Slate House" in 1540.〔Muir, William,. ed., ''Notices of the Local Records of Dysart'', Maitland Club (1853), 6.〕 Agnes's sister Elizabeth married John Mowbray grandson of Robert Barton of Over Barnton.〔Grant, James, ''Memoirs and adventures of Sir William Kirkaldy of Grange'', notes p.366.〕 Some time after 1542, he married Marjorie Elphinstone, the sister of his neighbour Lord Elphinstone.〔''The Scottish Antiquary, or, Northern Notes and Queries,'' vol. 10, no. 39, Edinburgh University Press (1896), 99-100, gives abbreviated family tree.〕 He was the grandfather of the poet William Drummond of Hawthornden. Robert's children included; *Margaret Drummond, daughter of Agnes Kirkcaldy, married Alexander Erskine, Commendator of Cambuskenneth, her daughter Annabella married Sir John Buchanan of that Ilk. *Patrick Drummond of Monzie, feuar of Carnock, royal master stabler, married Margaret Scott heiress of Monzie. *John Drummond of Slipperfield and Hawthornden, royal usher, married Susanna Fowler, father of the poet *William Drummond, a student at St Andrews with disputed appointment as Canon of Alloway in 1571〔Rogers, Charles, ''History of the Chapel Royal'', Grampian Club (1882), lxxviii.〕 *Edward Drummond, son of Marjorie Elphinstone *Agnes Drummond, married James Lockhart, younger of Lee 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「Robert Drummond of Carnock」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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