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Authorised form of nameDrummond; Sir; William (c 1770 - 1828)
Datesc 1770 - 1828
Date of birthc. 1770
Place of deathRome, Italy
Date of death29 March 1828
OccupationDiplomat
ActivityEducation:
DCL (1810, Oxford)
Career:
MP for the borough of St Mavers (1795); MP for Lostwithiel, Cornwall (1796-1802); Envoy extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Naples (1801); Ambassador to the Ottoman Porte (1803); claimant for the Roxburghe peerage (1808)
Honours:
Kt c 1813 or 1814
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election04/04/1799
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/103645778
CodeNA3548
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1798/16Drummond, Sir William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/1/160Letter from James Heywood Markland, Temple, to the Royal Society13 November 1828
MC/1Volume 1 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1800-1831
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