Eric Drummond, 16th Earl of Perth

James Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth GCMG, CB was a British politician and diplomat as well as the first SecretaryGeneral of the League of Nations . After his time with the League of Nations he became British ambassador to Rome and later, chief adviser on foreign publicity in the Ministry of Information . In 1946 he became deputy leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords. Drummond died of cancer onDecember 1951 at his home in Sussex.

Drummond was born into a Scottish family of aristocratic origin, the Clan Drummond. His father, Sir James David Drummond , the 10th Viscount Strathallan, held the title of the 14th Earl of Perth. Sir James David Drummond, an army officer of Machany in Perthshire, had three children with his second wife Margaret Smythe , the daughter of William Smythe of Methven Castle in Perthshire. Of these three children James Eric Drummond was the eldest and the only son. Furthermore, Drummond had two halfsisters and one halfbrother, William Huntly Drummond, from his fathers first marriage to Ellen Thornhill.

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