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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Drummond, Thomas, 1797-1840 NRA: Drummond, Thomas (1797-1840) Engineer and Administrator DNB: Drummond, Thomas (1797-1840), administrator in Ireland and military engineer LBT ID: ThDrumm1840 VIAF ID: 18005136 LOC ID: n88255373 | B/BAP: 1797-10-10 DIED: 1840-04-15 |
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Educated at Edinburgh University, he was an inventor of scientific instruments, chairman
of the Parliamentary Boundary Commission (1831), and under-secretary of Ireland
(1835). | |
REFERENCES TO Thomas Drummond: John Whishaw to Charles Romilly, 14 July 1835 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of
John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1:
¶ 1 William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 28 September [1835] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Sydney Smith to Sir George Philips, 11 January 1836 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1:
¶ 4 Francis Bond Head to John Murray, 9 September 1838 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1:
¶ 1 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early
Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter VIII Found 1:
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