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DRUMMOND, HENRY (1786-r86o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 600 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DRUMMOND, See also:HENRY (1786-r86o) , See also:English banker, politician and writer, best known as one of the founders of the See also:Catholic Apostolic or " Irvingite " See also:Church, was See also:born at the See also:Grange, near Alresford, See also:Hampshire, on the 5th of See also:December 1786. , He was the eldest son of Henry Drummond, a prominent See also:London banker, by a daughter of the first See also:Lord See also:Melville. He was educated at See also:Harrow and at See also:Christ Church, See also:Oxford, but took no degree. His name is permanently connected with the university through the See also:chair of See also:political See also:economy which he founded in 1825. He entered See also:parliament in See also:early See also:life, and took an active See also:interest from the first in nearly all departments of politics. Thoroughly See also:independent and often See also: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 See also:caustic and severe. From 1847 until his See also:death in 186o he represented See also:West See also:Surrey in parliament. Drummond took a deep interest in religious subjects, and published numerous books and See also:pamphlets on such questions as the See also:interpretation of prophecy, the circulation of the Apocrypha, the principles of See also:Christianity, &c., which attracted considerable See also:attention. In 1817 he met See also:Robert See also:Haldane at See also:Geneva, and continued his See also:movement against the Socinian tendencies then prevalent in that See also: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 See also:Edward See also:Irving were held for the study of prophecy at Drummond's seat, See also:Asbury See also:Park, in Surrey; he contributed very liberally to the funds of the new church; and he became one of its leading See also:office-bearers, visiting See also:Scotland as an " apostle " and being ordained as an " See also:angel " for that See also:kingdom.

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

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