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.

REFERENCES TO Sir William Drummond:

Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 11 July 1801 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 19 August 1801 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Sydney Smith to Francis Jeffrey, 18 November 1807 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)

Francis Hodgson to James Hodgson, 15 June 1810 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)

Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson, 8 December 1811 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)

Lord Byron to William Harness, 8 December 1811 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson, 8 December 1811 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Lord Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Lord Byron to John Murray, 8 February 1822 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

John Gibson Lockhart to Henry Hart Milman, 4 October 1840 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)