John Drummond

Awarded the compensation for the enslaved people on Lower Works Pen in St Elizabeth as trustee of Joseph Royal [sic], and also appearing as a trustee of Sir John Boyd.

1. Will of Joseph Royall of St Marylebone proved 25/6/1814. Drummond does not appear in the online transcription of the will, the chief beneficiaries of which were Sir William Pepperell (ne Sparhawk, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Royall of Massachusetts in 1767 and died 1816) and his family and Catherine Smyth (nee Vanheelen), the wife of Francis George Smyth (q.v.) and mother of Dame Harriet Catherine Capel, the wife of the Hon. Thomas Bladen Capel (also whom q.v.). Letters of administration of the estate of Joseph Royall were granted to Dame Harriet Catherine Capel in 1854.

2. The will of John Drummond Banker of Charing Cross was proved 21/6/1833; no subsequent partner of the same name appears in the 1850s or 1860s.

T71/870 St Elizabeth no. 818.

1. PROB 11/1558; Anne Powers August 2011,  www.aparcelofribbons.co.uk accessed 20/7/2012; Burke, 'A genealogical and historical history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies' (1838), 'Pepperell of Massachusetts' and 'Pepperell of Boston', p. 405.

2. PROB 11/1817/161