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There are 2 men named: Henry Drummond
Too many people deliberately "confuse" them !!!
Let the reader understand.
Why do some people wish to "sanctify" one by ascribing to him the works of the other?
DRUMMOND, HENRY (1786 - 1860),
Scottish / 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 on occasion caustic and severe.
From 1847 until his death in 1860 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 Drummonds seat, Albury 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 20th of February 1860.
DRUMMOND, HENRY (1851 -1897),
Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer, was horn in Stirling on the 17th of August 1851.
He was educated at Edinburgh University, where he displayed a strong inclination for physical and mathematical science.
The religious element was an even more powerful factor in his nature, and disposed him to enter the Free Church of Scotland.
While preparing for the ministry, he became for a time deeply interested in. the evangelizing mission of Moody and Sankey,
.... in which he actively co-operated for two years.
In 1877 he became lecturer on natural science in the Free Church College,
..... which enabled him to combine all the pursuits for which he felt a vocation.
His studies resulted in his writing Natural Law in the Spiritual World,
..... the argument of which was that the scientific principle of continuity extended from the physical world to the spiritual.
Before the book issued from the press (1883),
a sudden invitation from the African Lakes Company drew Drummond away to Central Africa.
Upon his return in the following year he found himself famous.
Large bodies of serious readers, alike among the religious and the scientific classes,
discovered in Natural Law the common standing-ground which they needed;
and the universality of the demand proved,
if nothing more, the seasonableness of its publication.
Drummond continued to be actively interested in missionary and other movements among the Free Church students.
In 1888 he published Tropical Africa, a valuable digest of information.
In 1890 he travelled in Australia, and in 1893 delivered the Lowell Lectures at Boston.
It had been his intention to reserve them for mature revision,
but an attempted piracy compelled him to hasten their publication,
and they appeared in 1894 under the title of The Ascent of Man.
Their object was to vindicate for altruism, or the, disinterested care and compassion of animals for each other,
an important part in effecting the survival of the fittest,
a thesis previously maintained by Professor John Fiske.
Drummonds health failed shortly afterwards, and he died on the 11th of March 1897.
His character was full of charm.
His writings were too nicely adapted to the needs of his own day to justify the expectation that they would long survive it, but few
men exercised more religious influence in their own generation, especially on young men.
