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- He is a descendant of David Drummond, 2nd Lord Drummond's younger son, James Drummond, 1st Lord Madderty
A chess player
In 1911, William married Anna, the daughter of Jacob Strauss of Prague, and at the outbreak of the Great War had been resident in Munich for several years, whereupon he was immediately seized by the German authorities as a suspicious alien. He was imprisoned in a fortress in southern Germany before being moved to Ruhleben Camp, a converted racecourse near Berlin, where he spent the duration of the war with 5,500 others. Although conditions there were tough, the Geneva Convention was observed, and as the probable alternative for him, as a former Captain in the Black Watch, was the trenches of the Western Front, it is a matter of some conjecture which was the better option. One fellow prisoner, Francis Gribble, recalled in his memoirs of the camp…"our most brilliant chess-player, if a player of my own poor capacity may presume to judge, was the Earl of Perth, who had long settled at Munch".
His half-brother, Sir Eric Drummond, British Ambassador to Italy, inherited the title.
In 2013, a claim was made as to there being three sons. This was with drawn in 2020.
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1871 - 1937 (66 years)