| 词条 | John Drummond, 15th Baron Strange |
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| name = John Drummond | caption= | image= | birth_date = {{birth date|1900|5|6|df=y}} | birth_place = Megginch Castle, Errol, Scotland | death_date = {{death date and age|1982|4|13|1900|5|6|df=y}} | death_place = Isle of Man | occupation = Author, farmer, hereditary peer | nationality = British Manx | genre = Fiction, Agriculture, Travel, Drama }}John Drummond, 10th of Megginch, 15th Baron Strange (6 May 1900 – 13 April 1982), was Chief of the Baronial House and Branch of Drummond of Concraig and Lennoch within the clan Drummond and Baron of Megginch.[1] Educated at Eton College, he became a Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards and Hon. Attaché H.M. Legation Warsaw in 1920. Later, he was elected county councillor for West Perth, Scotland, aged 21. He joined the Black Watch in World War II, but finding himself deskbound, he returned to farm his estate at Megginch. In addition to being an organic soil and fish farmer, he was an author (as John Drummond) of ten books of fact and fiction, inventor, record producer, restaurateur and politician. Family lifeJohn Drummond was the only son of Capt. Malcolm Drummond, JP, DL, and Geraldine Margaret Tyssen-Amherst, daughter of Lord Amherst of Hackney and one of seven sisters. He was born, brought up and lived much of his life at Megginch Castle in the Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. He had three sisters, Jean, Victoria Alexandrina and Frances Ada. His middle sister, Victoria Drummond, MBE (who was a goddaughter of Queen Victoria), distinguished herself as the first woman marine engineer in Britain and won the Lloyd's War Medal for bravery.[2] At the age of 24, on the death of his father, he inherited his ancestral home and estate, Megginch. On 8 February 1928, he married Violet Margaret Florence Jardine, daughter of Sir Robert William Buchanan-Jardine of Castlemilk,[3] 2nd Bt (Managing Director of Jardine Matheson), and Ethel Mary Piercy. They had three daughters:
Barony of StrangeOn the death in 1957 of the 9th Duke of Atholl, who was also 14th Baron Strange, the Barony of Strange fell into abeyance between the representatives of the three daughters of the 4th Duke of Atholl, Lady Charlotte, Lady Amelia Sophia and Lady Elizabeth. Following his petition to HM The Queen, the abeyance was terminated on 18 December 1964 in favour of John Drummond of Megginch.[4] He was the great-grandson of Lady Charlotte and her second husband, Vice-Admiral Sir Adam Drummond, KCB, of Megginch. In the House of Lords, he was known as a highly entertaining and controversial speaker–usually attracting a large audience. Sometimes, Hansard would have trouble recording his speeches, which would include movements such as imitating a salmon swimming upstream. His reputation as an eccentric peer lead to media appearances, including as a guest in 1970 on Derek Nimmo’s BBC Saturday night chat show, If it’s Saturday, it must be Nimmo. EnterprisesIn the 1920s, he created the Shilling Lightening Feeder chain of inexpensive restaurants in London. Afterwards, he admitted that his first restaurant was a huge success, his second a success, his third broke even but by his seventh, the venture was a disaster.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}} In the 1930s, he set up Great Scott Records to produce recordings on vinyl discs, and he enlisted various local singers and musicians.[5] In the 1950s, he made amateur movies and would put on plays at Megginch. Guests would include his friends in show business, such as the stage and film producer, director and writer, Basil Dean, and actors such as Stewart Granger, Laurence Harvey, Hermione Baddeley and Sir John Mills, who made him godfather to his daughter, the actress Hayley Mills.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}} Organic farmerDrummond was no less innovative when it came to his theories on agriculture and his farming practices on his Scottish estate. After his death, his daughter, Cherry, spoke in the House of Lords: "I also helped my noble father on his wartime book on agriculture, Charter for the Soil, in which he outlined the future importance of combine harvesting, supermarkets and direct farm marketing. He also advocated farming groups with their own farm slaughterhouse and resident scientist. He was also organic, and farmed with compost. Many of his ideas have been put into practice since 1944 when the book was published."[6] Move to the Isle of ManIn 1965, he handed over the estate of Megginch to his eldest daughter, Cherry, and went to live in the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea. The Strange title was connected to the Island and the coat of arms included the Manx emblem of three legs. The barony had passed through his ancestors, the Earls of Derby and later the Dukes of Atholl, who up until 1765 had ruled the Isle of Man, originally as Kings of Man and later Lords of Man. He saw himself as a representative of this independent Island, which had no voice at Westminster, and as a courtesy to Manx politics, he sat as a cross-bencher in the House of Lords. In the Isle of Man, he bought property, farms and river banks with a view to running a fishing lodge based at Tholt-y-Will in Sulby Glen, a remote but enchanting location. He created the first fish hatchery on the Island. However, local fishing regulations made his piscatorial plans impossible, and Tholt-y-Will became a country inn. On many evenings, he could be found entertaining his visitors at the bar. BibliographyFact
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Footnotes1. ^Pine, L.G.: "Burke's Landed Gentry 17th Edition", page 694. Burke's Peerage Ltd. in conjunction with City Ltd. London, England, 1952 {{s-start}}{{s-reg|en}}{{succession box | title=Baron Strange | before=James Stewart-Murray | after=Cherry Drummond | years=}}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Strange, John Drummond, 15th Baron}}2. ^Cherry Drummond: "The Remarkable Life Of Victoria Drummond – Marine Engineer". Information Today Inc. Oct., 1994 3. ^Charles Mosley, "Burke's Peerage & Knightage, 107th edition.", Volume 1, page 575, Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., Wilmington, DE, USA, 2003 4. ^{{London Gazette |issue=43519 |date=18 December 1964 |page=10824}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=Great Scott Records |author=Chris Hamilton|url=http://members.madasafish.com/~chamil78/Great%20Scott%20Records%20October%202000.PDF|date=2000}}{{Unreliable source?|date=November 2016}} 6. ^House of Lords Hansard, 21 January 1998, Column 1551 11 : 1900 births|1982 deaths|Barons in the Peerage of England|Scottish novelists|Scottish travel writers|People educated at Eton College|Scottish farmers|Grenadier Guards officers|Black Watch officers|Manx literature|20th-century British novelists |
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