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  WILLIAM DRUMMOND - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM DRUMMOND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Drummond received his early education at the high school of Edinburgh, and graduated in July 1605 as M.A. of the recently founded university of Edinburgh.
Drummond spent two years at Bourges and Paris in the study of law; and, in i 609, he was again in Scotland, where, by the death of his father in the following year, he became laird of Hawthornden at the early age of twenty-four.
Drummond was essentially a follower of Spenser, but, amid all his sensuousness, and even in those lines most conspicuously beautiful, there is a dash of melancholy thoughtfulnessa tendency deepened by the death of his first love, Mary Cunningham.
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 William Drummond of Hawthornden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Drummond (December 13, 1585–December 4, 1649), called "of Hawthornden" Scottish poet, was born at Hawthornden, Midlothian.
Drummond spent two years at Bourges and Paris in the study of law; and, in 1609, he was again in Scotland, where, by the death of his father in the following year, he became laird of Hawthornden at the early age of twenty-four.
Drummond was essentially a follower of Spenser, but, amid all his sensuousness, and even in those lines most conspicuously beautiful, there is a dash of melancholy thoughtfulness - a tendency deepened by the death of his first love, Mary Cunningham.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Drummond_of_Hawthornden   (1369 words)

  
 3575 Sapper William Broadfoot Drummond, Australian Engineers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The officer administering the oath of attestation to Drummond was a Lieutenant L.B. Osborne.
Drummond was granted leave in England on the 14th of October 1918 while his unit was engaged in chasing the Germans to the east.
William Broadfoot Drummond was discharged from the Army in 2 Military District on the 2nd of April 1920.
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 William Hamilton Drummond
William Hamilton Drummond (1778-1865), a leading 19th century Irish non-subscribing Presbyterian minister and Unitarian Christian theologian, was also an honored poet, an educationalist and an early advocate of the rights of animals.
Born in Larne in August, 1778, Drummond was the son of William Drummond, a naval surgeon, and Rose Hare.
Drummond was both an early supporter of the establishment of the Belfast Academical Institution, the first attempt to bring higher level education to the town, and a candidate in 1815 for the Chair of Logic and Belles Lettres.
www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/williamdrummond.html   (1236 words)

  
 §4. William Henry Drummond. XI. English-Canadian Literature. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Drummond’s originality consists in conveying his theme through the medium of a speech not native to the speakers.
Drummond’s sympathy with the habitant and his passion for wild life had been dominant with him to the end.
Drummond’s work is not characterised by the polished perfection of individual lines or stanzas.
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 Significant Scots - William Drummond
The melancholy temperament of Drummond, we have before said, was one reason of his secluding himself from the world, and the ease and relief of mind which he sought, he had probably found, in his mode of life; but the rude shock which he now received rendered solitude irksome and baneful to him.
William, the eldest son, lived till an advanced age, was knighted by Charles II., and came to be the only representative of the knighted baronets formerly of Carnock, of whom in the beginning of this article we have made mention.
Drummond has left behind him many political papers, written between the years 1632 and 1646, in which, if he has not approved himself a judicious supporter of king Charles, and his contested rights and authority, he has only failed in a cause which could not then be supported, and which has never since been approved.
www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/other/drummond_william.htm   (5988 words)

  
 William Drummond
William Eugene Drummond was born in Newark, New Jersey on March 28, 1876, the son of a carpenter.
Drummond continued his independent practice designing primarily smaller churches and residences in the Prairie idiom along with a commission to design a new clubhouse for the Riverside Golf Club.
William Drummond played an active role in the planning commission of his hometown of River Forest throughout the 1920’s and 1930’s, while also providing remodeling services for several of Wright’s designs.
www.prairiestyles.com /drummond.htm   (391 words)

  
 ipedia.com: William Drummond of Hawthornden Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
William Drummond, called "of Hawthornden" Scottish poet, was born at Hawthornd...
William Drummond (December 13, 1585 - December 4, 1649), called "of Hawthornden" Scottish poet, was born at Hawthornden, near Edinburgh.
His father was a gentleman usher at the English court (as he had been at the Scottish court from 1590) and William, in a visit to London in 1606, describes the festivities in connexion with the visit of the king of Denmark.
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 Clan Drummond
Lord Drummond was just then building his new mansion of Drummond Castle in Strathearn, and one morning after breakfast there, in 1501, the Lady Margaret, with her sisters, Lady Fleming and Sybilla, were seized with sudden sickness, believed to have been caused by poison, and in a few hours were dead.
This second son, Sir James Drummond, G.C.B., was a Lord of the Admiralty, Officer of the Legion of Honour, and Knight of the Medjedie, while his third son, Edmond, was Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Provinces of India, and his great-grandson is the eleventh Viscount, now Earl of Perth, and Chief of the Drummonds.
Margaret Drummond married King David II in 1369; Annabella Drummond was wife to King Robert III and mother of James I. In 1488 the Barony of Drummond was created; later generations added the titles Earl of Perth, Lord M adderty and Viscount Strathallan.
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 Lieutenant General William Francis Drummond Jervois   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
William Francis Drummond Jervois was born on the 10
He was the eldest son of Sir William Jervois, K.H. Jervois was educated at the Royal Military Academy Gosport and the Royal Military Academy Woolwich prior to being commissioned in the Royal Engineers.
At the ceremony, Sir William announced that the College was to be a thoroughly democratic institution, open to all, women as well as men, and to all classes [16].
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 The Drummond Legacy - July 1 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
John and Jean Drummond are the ancestor to the Drummond’s of Craigie, Mauchline and Sorn.
WILLIAM Craig DRUMMOND the youngest son of Robert and Jean was born December 8, 1782 in Mearns, South Muirhouse, Eaglesham, and died July 7, 1853 at Fairwells.
WILLIAM LAMBIE DRUMMOND was born December 9, 1857 at Bogwood and died January 7, 1919 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan of the Spanish Flu and is buried in Minnedosa, Manitoba.
www.e-ayrshire.co.uk /local/sornweb/drummonds.htm   (14037 words)

  
 William Drummond
William Drummond was born in New Jersey, but moved to the Austin area of Chicago in 1886.
In 1915, Drummond entered a contest hosted by the Chicago City Club that involved the designing of “Neighborhood Centers for Chicago.” He won second place for his entry of a River Forest master plan.
Drummond once said of his design, “Our villages and cities consequently are all quite similar and appallingly featureless.
www.oprf.com /OPRFHIST/drummond.htm   (269 words)

  
 154-155   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Drummond was born in County Leitrim, Ireland, son of an officer in the Royal Irish Constabulary.
Drummond was left with four young children to raise.
Drummond had no intention of publishing “The Julie Plante,” intending it for the pleasure of his family and close friends.
collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume6/154-155.htm   (839 words)

  
 SLAINTE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
William Drummond was born at Hawthornden, Midlothian, in 1585, and died there in 1649.
Drummond's father, Sir John, was gentleman-usher to James VI and accompanied the King to England in 1603.
Drummond can be regarded as the first Scots poet to write in English, the forerunner of a tradition extending to today's Morgan or MacCaig.
www.slainte.org.uk /scotauth/drummdsw.htm   (484 words)

  
 §16. Sir William Alexander; Drummond of Hawthornden. XII. The Elizabethan Sonnet. Vol. 3. Renascence and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The old paths of imitation were not forsaken, but the spirit of adaptation showed to higher advantage in the work of a few writers who, for the time, withheld their efforts from the press.
Chief among these was the courtly Scottish poet, Sir William Alexander, afterwards earl of Stirling, who deferred the publication of his sonneteering experiment—“the first fancies of his youth”—till 1604.
Another Scottish poet, whose muse developed in the next generation, William Drummond of Hawthornden, began his literary career as a sonneteer on the Elizabethan pattern just before queen Elizabeth died.
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 William Drummond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Drummond, British portraitist of the first half of the 19th century.
Bill Drummond (1953-), Scottish author, artist and formerly one half of The KLF.
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Drummond   (102 words)

  
 Drummond, William --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The character of the habitant, or French-Canadian farmer and backwoodsman, is reflected in the poems of William Henry Drummond.
British biochemist Jack Cecil Drummond served as a professor of biochemistry at the University of London between 1922 and 1945.
William Harvey's studies were the beginnings of the science of physiology.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9031256   (757 words)

  
 Clan Drummond Society of North America Newsletter
Unfortunately, at the time we held our convention, the Drummond name was a bit controversial, since a lot of people had just been laid off their jobs as some mines closed down.
In 1663, Sir William Berkley, Governor of the Colony of Virginia, visited the province called "Colony of Carolina," which King Charles II of England had granted him and seven others on March 24, 1663.
William Drummond became the first Governor of North Carolina, in the county of Albermable in 1663 and continued until his death by hanging January 20, 1667 for his part in "Bacon's Rebellion." Even though Sir William Berkley of Virginia had appointed William Drummond as Governor of North Carolina they had become enemies.
www.angelfire.com /al/metaphysicsgalore/News.html   (1341 words)

  
 UC Berkeley Journalism / Faculty / William Drummond
For Marketplace Radio, Professor William Drummond produces a radio piece on Marketplace Radio and KQED-FM examining the shrinking endowment at UC and other institutions of higher learning.
For SoundPrint Radio, Professor William Drummond produces a public radio documentary about teaching the "Arc of Crisis" class - a course that trained students to bring more context and meaning to reporting about the terrorist attacks and the Middle East.
Drummond goes on a NASA laser mapping mission as part of a radio documentary on coastal erosion.
journalism.berkeley.edu /faculty/drummond   (329 words)

  
 Alibris: William Drummond
Drummond was a Canadian poet born in Ireland.
Edward William Drummond served in the Confederate army while his brother Clark served for the Union.
William Drummond of Hawthornden : poems and prose
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 Poet: William Henry Drummond - All poems of William Henry Drummond
William Drummond was born at Hawthornden Manor into a wealthy Scots family.
When his father died in 1610 he became laird of Hawthornden and settled into the life of a wealthy man of letters, in the manor he was to occupy until his..
WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND, the poet of the habitant, was born in the village of Mohill,...
www.poemhunter.com /p/t/poet.asp?poet=3059   (316 words)

  
 William Drummond Young  -  Photographers
William Drummond Young was born on 18 April 1854 and died on 21 May 1924.
William was commissioned to take special portraits of King Edward VII on his way to the Great Review in Holyrood Park in September 1905.
W Drummond Young and Co Drummond Young and Co appear in a directory for 1896, but this may be a misprint.
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 William Drummond
DRUMMOND, William, colonial governor, born in Scotland ; died in Virginia, 20 January 1677.
He received his appointment from Sir William Berkeley, governor of Virginia and joint proprietary of Carolina, who, according to instructions from his associates, instituted a simple form of government and an easy tenure of lands.
When Sir William Berkeley returned with a band of hirelings, collected at Accomack, and occupied Jamestown, Drummond prepared for defense, and sent for Bacon, who had returned from an expedition against the Indians, and had disbanded his men.
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 George William Drummond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
George William Drummond was born 17 JUL 1854.
He was the son of Stephen Drummond (1819-1884) and Catherine Simpson (1818-1907).
His siblings were Cecelia Drummond (1842-1909), Janet Drummond (1843-1885), John Drummond (1844-1928), Mary Wilson Drummond (1846-1860), James Drummond (1848-?), David Berry Drummond (1849-1937), Catherine Drummond (1853-1925), Eliza Jane Drummond (1855-1920), Andrew Drummond (1857-1922), Isabella Drummond (1857-1941), Stephen Drummond (1860-?).
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 Rev. William Drummond's Journal April 5, 1770 to May 12, 1771
William Drummond journeyed from Cowden, Scotland to St. John's Island (now Prince Edward Island) in 1770 aboard the Falmouth.
The attached typewritten copy of a Journal kept by the Rev. William Drummond, who proceeded from Greenock to St. John's Island in April, 1770, is a gift of group Captain H. Stewart, 165 Carling Ave, Ottawa.
William Drummond in his voyage from Cowden to St. John's Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in North America.
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 William Henry Drummond
Drummond practised his profession for four years in the district about Brome, and then returned to the City of Montreal, where he continued to reside until his lamented death in 1907.
Drummond's memoir of her husband, she relates that he read with many misgivings, one of his earliest poems, 'Le Vieux Temps,' at a dinner of the Shakespeare Club, of Montreal, and further says:
In 1902, the University of Toronto conferred on him the degree of LL.D. Subsequently he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature of England, and, later, of the Royal Society of Canada.
digital.library.upenn.edu /women/garvin/poets/drummond.html   (2200 words)

  
 RPO -- Selected Poetry of William Henry Drummond (1854-1907)
Drummond's sentiments were welcomed by Louis Fréchette, a well-known French-Canadian poet, in an enthusiastic introduction to this book that closes: "le Canadian-français sent que c'est là l'expression d'une âme amie; et, à ce compte, je dois à l'auteur plus que mes bravos, je lui dois en même temps un chaleureux merci" (x).
Drummond went on to publish five more books of poetry, Phil-o-Rum's Canoe (1848), Johnnie Courteau (1901), The Voyager (1905), and The Great Fight (1908), and to become one of the most widely-read and loved poets of his nation.
He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1899 and received two honorary degrees, the first from the University of Toronto in 1902, and then from Bishop's University in 1905.
eir.library.utoronto.ca /rpo/display/poet106.html   (362 words)

  
 Clan Drummond Crest - descriptions and graphics
The image to the left is that of the colour rendition of the Clan Drummond Badge.
The conventions set, allow the clan members to display the crest without any heraldic infringement, which can be a major concern in countries with heraldic authorities.
Please not that this colour rendition is artistic property of William Drummond as he is the artist.
cdronan.addr.com /crest.html   (190 words)

  
 KLF ONLINE [ About | Bill Drummond | Biography ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
aka King Boy D. William E. Drummond was born in South Africa in 1953 but he grew up in Galloway and Corby in the borders of Scotland.
Bill was an Elvis-fan who ran away to sea to become a fisherman off the North East coast of Scotland when he was still a teenage boy, which he described as "my youth years lost afloat".
During the period of 1986 through 1987 Drummond was Zodiac's partner in crime and producer of Zodiac's work.
www.klf.de /home/about.php3?x=drummond   (571 words)

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