DRUMMOND, James Lawson (son of William Drummond, surgeon R.N.) b. Larne, co. Antrim 1783; surgeon in the navy 1807 to 21 May 1813; M.D. Edin. 24 June 1814; practised in Belfast from 1814; professor of anatomy Belfast Academical Institution 15 Dec. 1818 to Nov. 1849 when collegiate part of the Instit. was merged in Queen’s College; chief founder of Belfast natural history society 5 June 1821; author of Thoughts on the study of natural history 1820, anon.; First steps to botany 1823; Letters to a young naturalist 1831; First steps to anatomy 1845. d. 8 College sq. north, Belfast 17 May 1853. bur. Ahoghill, co. Antrim 19 May. Proc. of Belfast Nat. Hist. and Philos. Soc. (1882) 13.
DRUMMOND, John (only son of John Drummond of The Boyce Court near Ledbury, who d. 13 May 1835 aged 81). b. 5 Oct. 1793; ed. at Harrow; ensign Coldstream guards 22 Nov. 1810, captain 22 June 1826 to 13 April 1832 when placed on h.p.; general 10 Feb. 1865. d. The Boyce court 15 April 1875.
DRUMMOND, John Gavin. Entered Bengal army 1807; lieut. col. 30 Bengal N.I. 1847 to death; quartermaster general Bengal army 8 Feb. 1850 to death; C.B. 30 Oct. 1844. d. Ghelum, Bengal 11 Jany. 1852.
DRUMMOND, Peter Robert. b. parish of Madderty, Perthshire 1802; kept a circulating library at 15 High st. Perth 1832; a bookseller at 32 High st. Perth and then at 46 George st.; built the Exchange hotel, Perth; a farmer at Balmblair, Perthshire; gained a medal for a churn at Great Exhibition 1851; author of The tenants and landlords versus the free traders, By Powdavie 1850; Perthshire in bygone days, one hundred biographical essays 1879; The life of Robert Nicoll poet, edited by James Drummond 1884. d. Ellengowen, Almond Bank near Perth 4 Sep. 1879 in 77 year.
DRUMMOND, Rev. William Hamilton (brother of James Lawson Drummond 1783–1853). b. Larne, co. Antrim, Aug. 1778; ed. at Belfast academy and Glasgow college; licensed by Unitarian presbytery of Antrim 9 April 1800; second minister of Belfast 26 Aug. 1800 to 1815; kept a boarding school at Mount college, Belfast; D.D. Marischal college, Aberdeen 29 Jany. 1810; minister at Strand st. Dublin from 15 Oct. 1815; M.R.I.A. librarian, retired 1861; author of Juvenile poems, By a Student of the University of Glasgow [1795]; The Man of Age 1797, 2 ed. 1798; The doctrine of the Trinity 1827, 3 ed. 1831; The life of Michael Servetus 1848 and 20 other books. d. Lower Gardiner st. Dublin 16 Oct. 1865. Sermons of Rev. W. H. Drummond with memoir by J. S. Porter 1867, 2 portraits.
DRURY, Byron (son of Rev. Henry Drury of Harrow school). b. 1815; entered navy 13 Aug. 1830; surveyed coast of New Zealand 1850–56; captain 8 Aug. 1857; retired 31 March 1866; retired admiral 7 April 1885; F.R.G.S. d. 4 Cambridge villas, Cheltenham 6 Nov. 1888.
DRURY, Venerable Henry (eld. son of Henry Joseph Thomas Drury 1778–1841). b. Harrow 11 May 1812; ed. at Harrow and Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; R. of Alderley, Gloucs. 1843; V. of Bremhill, Wilts. Jany. 1845 to death; exam. chaplain to bishop of Salisbury 1850 to death; preb. of Salisbury cath. 1855 to death; chaplain of House of Commons, Sep. 1857 to death; archdeacon of Wilts, July 1862 to death; published with some friends a collection of translations into Latin and Greek by Cambridge men entitled Arundines Cami 1841, 6 ed. 1865. d. Bremhill vicarage 25 Jany. 1863. G.M. xiv, 660–61 (1863).
DRURY, William Barker (eld. son of Rev. Richard Drury of Dublin). b. Dublin 1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1835; registrar of Irish Court of Chancery 1859 to death; published Reports of cases in the Court of Chancery tempore Sugden 1843–4, Dublin 1851; Select cases in the Court of Chancery tempore Napier 1858–9, Dublin 1860; published with F. W. Walsh Reports of cases in the Court of Chancery tempore Plunket 1837–40, 2 vols. Dublin 1839–42; with R. Warren Reports of cases in the Court of Chancery tempore Sugden 1841–43, 4 vols. Dublin 1843–46. d. Harcourt st. Dublin 9 Jany. 1885 in 73 year.
DRY, Sir Richard. b. Elphin near Launceston, Tasmania 15 June 1815; member of council of Tasmania, Feb. 1844; member for Launceston of legislative council 1851–62, for Tamar 1862 to death; speaker of council 30 Dec. 1851 to 1855; knighted by patent 12 March 1858; colonial secretary and premier 24 Nov. 1866 to death. d. Hobart Town 1 Aug. 1869. Fenton’s History of Tasmania (1884) 74, 338, 459.
DUANE, William John (son of William Duane of Philadelphia, journalist 1760–1835). b. Clonmel, Ireland 1780; a printer, afterwards a paper dealer; admitted to the bar 1815; represented Philadelphia in the legislature; assistant editor of the Aurora, Philadelphia paper to 1822; sec. of the U.S. treasury 1833, removed by Jackson 23 Sep. 1833, for declining to remove the deposits from the United States bank; author of The law of nations investigated 1809; Letters to the people of Pennsylvania, on internal improvements 1811; Narrative and correspondence concerning the removal of the deposits 1838. d. Philadelphia 27 Sep. 1865.