Sources

According to the National Register of Archives, U.K., the repository for the Francis Drummond collection is the Parliamentary Archives.

ACAD

Francis Maurice DRUMMOND-DAVIES
Approx. lifespan: 1839–1921
Fell.-Com. aged 16 Trinity Hall adm 1857:04:04
s. and h. of Francis Henry [Davies], Esq., of Aldermaston Court, Aldermaston, Reading, [Berkshire],
s. of Lady Clementina].
b. 1839:03:21
Matric 1857:10MT:
Mig. to Magdalene College
Adm. Inner Temple: 1859:08:19, as Davies, F. M. Drummond.
Called to the Bar: 1862, as "s. of Francis Henry DRUMMOND-DAVIES, Esq., late
Registrar in: : Court of Chancery ."
Assistant Editor: Pall Mall Gazette in1871
later, with the St James' Gazette. Subsequently joined Edmund Yates on the World, and finally became editor of that Journal. A contributor to the Westminster Gazette, to the Edinburgh Review, and to the Encyclopaedia Britannica etc.
Recognised as a leading authority on genealogy and heraldry; well known as a raconteur, also a poet of some repute.
Publ.: Comic Poets of the Nineteenth Century.
d. aged 82 Sheering Hall, Sheering, Takeley, Essex , 1921:11:21
(Foster, Men at the Bar; Law List 1920; The Times 1921:11:24)

Newspapers

Essex chronicle (Chelmsford), Friday, December 02, 1921; pg. 2; Issue 8203.

Death of Mr. F. Drummond

The funeral of Mr. Francis Drummond who had lived in retirement for many years at Takeley, and who was 83 years of age, took place on Saturday at Little Easobn Church. Mrs. Drummond is a sister of the Rev. H. B. Capel, formerly rector of Great Easton, and a cousin of the Countess of Warwick. Mr. Drummond, who was a member of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and a barrister, formerly edited the "World," and served on the "Pall Mall Gazette." He belonged to the Cambridge University Masonic Lodge. The Dunmow Lodge was represented at the funeral.

Essex chronicle (Chelmsford), Friday, December 30, 1921; pg. 6; Issue 8207.—Longevity.

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83 Mr. Francis Druumond, Takeley, Nov. 24.