James (2nd Duke of Perth) Drummond^[1]

Abt 1673 - 1720  (47 years)

• Name	James (2nd Duke of Perth) Drummond
  Birth	Abt Feb 1673
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Apr 1720	Paris
  Person ID	I120008	First tree
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2013

  
  

  Father	James (4th Earl 1st Duke of Perth) Drummond   d. 11 May 1716, St Germains, Paris, France
  Mother	Lady Jane (of Douglas) Douglas   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	18 Jan 1670
  Family ID	F10598	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jane (of Gordon) Gordon   d. 30 Jan 1773
  Marriage	5 Aug 1706
  Children	1. James (3rd Duke of Perth) Drummond,   b. 11 May 1713   d. 13 May 1746 (Age 33 years)   2. John (4th Duke of Perth) Drummond   d. 1747   3. Mary Drummond,   b. 1707   d. 1770, Unmarried (Age 63 years)   4. Henrietta Drummond   d. Unmarried
  Family ID	F10596	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2013

  
  

• Notes

  From John Griffiths Contact for info if you want it jig.pcug.org.au "An Outline History of the Drummonds: In 1693 James II, after his deposition, created. him Marques of Drummondand Duke of Perth (titles acknowledged and confirmed in 1701- by Louis XIV.of France), and conferred upon him various high offices; James died in 1716; superseded by his son (8) James who was styled '2nd Duke of Perth" andwho having been attainted in 1716, could not succeed the Earldom of Perth; superseded by his eldest son [9] James, "3rd Duke", wounded at Culloden: (attainted 1746); superseded by his brother [10) John , "4th Duke".. attainted 1746, died without issue 1747; superseded by his uncle [11] John. "5th Duke". died 1757; superseded by his brother [12], Edward "6th Duke" died 1760 supposedly without issue, however: ...." "...James Drummond, the lineal descendent of John, Earl of Melfort, laidclaim and obtained a decreet of the court of Session, 8th March 1785,finding him to be the person who would have been entitled to succeed byinvestitures of the estate of Perth had it not been forfeited; andthereupon he obtained from the crown a grant of the estate of Perth. Thereason......was the appearance of a person in London who assumed the nameof John Drummond, and asserted that he was the son of Edward, stiled theDuke of Perth, and Elizabeth Middleton; but he could not substantiate hisdescent," (From "Biographical Sketches of the Lives of the Attainted Noblemen ofScotland") From John Griffiths Contact for info if you want it jig.pcug.org.au

  
  

• Sources

  [S2822] Hamish Maclaren.