Thomas Medwin:

Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron

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Sir William Drummond (1770 c.-1828)

Scottish classical scholar and Tory MP; succeeded Lord Elgin as ambassador to the Ottoman Porte (1803); his Oedipus judaicus, in which he interpreted the Old Testament as an astrological allegory, was privately printed in 1811. Scottish classical scholar and Tory MP; succeeded Lord Elgin as ambassador to the Ottoman Porte (1803); his Oedipus judaicus, in which he interpreted the Old Testament as an astrological allegory, was privately printed in 1811.