HENRY

See also:

• HENRY DRUMMOND (1786-r86o)
• DRUMMOND, HENRY (1851-1897)
• DRUMMOND, THOMAS (r797-1840)
• DRUMMOND, WILLIAM (1585-1649)

DRUMMOND (1786-r86o)  , English banker, politician and writer, best known as one of the founders of the Catholic Apostolic or " Irvingite " Church, was born at the Grange, near Alresford, Hampshire, on the 5th of December 1786 . , He was the eldest son of Henry Drummond, a prominent London banker, by a daughter of the first Lord Melville . He was educated at Harrow and at Christ Church, Oxford, but took no degree . His name is permanently connected with the university through the chair of political economy which he founded in 1825 . He entered parliament in early life, and took an active interest from the first in nearly all departments of politics . Thoroughly independent and often eccentric in his views, he yet acted generally with the Conservative party . His speeches were often almost inaudible but were generally lucid and informing, and qn occasion caustic and severe . From 1847 until his death in 186o he represented West Surrey in parliament . Drummond took a deep interest in religious subjects, and published numerous books and pamphlets on such questions as the interpretation of prophecy, the circulation of the Apocrypha, the principles of Christianity, &c., which attracted considerable attention . In 1817 he met Robert Haldane at Geneva, and continued his movement against the Socinian tendencies then prevalent in that city . In later years he was intimately associated with the origin and spread of the Catholic Apostolic Church . Meetings of those who sympathized with the views of Edward Irving were held for the study of prophecy at Drummond's seat, Asbury Park, in Surrey; he contributed very liberally to the funds of the new church; and he became one of its leading office-bearers, visiting Scotland as an " apostle " and being ordained as an " angel " for that kingdom .

The numerous

works he wrote in defence of its distinctive doctrines and practice were generally clear and vigorous, if seldom convincing . He died on the loth of February 1860 .