Social Victorians/People/Drummond

Also Known As

 * Family name: Drummond
 * Family name of Viscount of Strathallan, although Laurence and Katherine Mary Drummond are not in the immediate family of the Viscount Strathallan. The Viscount Strathallan is Laurence Drummond's grandfather by a subsequent son.
 * Major-General Drummond (1913)

Laurence George Drummond

 * Eton College
 * Royal Military College, Sandhurst
 * Scots Guards promotions
 * Captain (1888)
 * Major (1897)
 * Lieutenant-Colonel and then Brevet-Colonel (1904)
 * Major-General (1913)
 * Clubs
 * Turf Club
 * Bath Club

Timeline
1886 May 3, Second-Lieutenant Laurence Drummond was presented to the Prince of Wales by Prince Arthur (Duke of Connaught).

1886 May 4, Laurence Drummond and Katherine Mary Antrobus married.

1897 July 2, Friday, Major and Mrs. Drummond attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

Katherine Mary Drummond
Katherine Mary Drummond (at 309) attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball. The various accounts describe her costume in slightly different ways:


 * The Gentlewoman says she was a "lady of the Court of Louis XIII.," dressed in "pale blue satin, with petticoat edged silver braid, with three sets of ruby and diamond buttons."
 * The Morning Post, Times (and hence Evening Mail) say she was was dressed as Donna Caranado in the 17th-century procession.
 * The National Portrait Gallery says she came as a lady from the time of Charles II.

Alexander Bassano's portrait of "Katherine Mary Drummond (née Antrobus) as a lady from the time of Charles II" in costume is #75 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "Mrs. Lawrence Drummond as a lady of the time of Charles II."

Laurence Drummond
Major Laurence Drummond (at 507) was dressed as a soldier.

Demographics

 * Nationality: the Viscountcy of Strathallan is in Scotland; the Drummonds and Antrobuses are British.

Family

 * Maj.-Gen. Laurence George Drummond (13 March 1861 – 20 May 1946)
 * Katherine Mary Antrobus ( – 9 September 1947)
 * Esmé Helen Drummond (21 January 1887 – 28 July 1899)
 * Lindsay Drummond (31 January 1891 – 21 Jun 1951)
 * Stella Katherine Drummond (22 May 1895 – 21 February 1982)
 * James Arthur Lawrence Drummond (21 July 1905 – December 1995)