Drummond
Drummond names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Drummond HENRY, a Scotch geologist and religious writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY, a Scotch geologist and religious writer; born in Stirling in 1851. He studied theology at Edinburgh University. In 1877 he was appointed Professor of Natural Science in the Free Church College, Glasgow. "Natural Law in the Spiritual World" (1883), and its successor "The Ascent of Man," applications of modern scientific methods to the immaterial universe, made his popular fame. He traveled in central Africa (1883-1884) studying its botany and geology, and later wrote "Tropical Africa" (1888). Other semireligious writings of his are: "Pax Vobiscum" (1890); "The Greatest Thing in the World" (1890); "The Programme of Christianity" (1892). He died in Tunbridge Wells, England, March 11, 1897. ✓ DRUMMOND, THOMAS, a Scotch scientist; born in Edinburgh in 1797. During his professional training at Woolwich and Chatham he showed high mathematical and mechanical abilities, with aptitude for the practical application of scientific principles. In 1920 he was an assistant in the trigonometrical survey of the United Kingdom. The incandescence of lime having been brought under hiş notice at a lecture on chemistry, he str he made experiments, experiments, and the result was the Drummond Light, noticed in the "Philosophical Transactions" (1826). He invented a heliostat or reflecting mirror, described in the same paper. Experiments for adapting his light to lighthouses are detailed in the "Philosophical Transactions" (1830). In 1835 he went to Dublin with Lord Mulgrave as under-secretary for Ireland. He died in Dublin, April 15, 1840.
Drummond SIR GEORGE GOR- DON, an English soldier
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR GEORGE GOR- DON, an English soldier; born in 1771. He entered the British army as ensign in 1789; became lieutenant-colonel, 1794; served with distinction in the Holland campaign, 1794-1795, and in Egypt, 1800; was staff-officer at Jamaica several years; on duty in Canada, 1808-1811; promoted lieutenant-general, 1811; again ordered to Canada as second in command under Sir George Prevost, 1813; planned and effected the capture of Fort Niagara, and planned the successful attack on Black Rock and Buffalo; led a combined military and naval force against Oswego and destroyed the American works and stores, May, 1814; was in command of the British forces at the battle of Lundy's Lane, July 25, and in August invested, but failed to capture, Fort Erie. In 1815 he was appointed Governor-General of Canada, resigned and returned to England, and in 1817 received the grand cross of the Order of the Bath. He died in 1854.
Drummond WILLIAM, a Scotch poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM, a Scotch poet; born in Edinburgh, Dec. 13, 1585. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, after which he spent four years in foreign travels. On his return to Scotland he retired to Hawthornden. He entertained Ben Jonson, on the occasion of a visit which the English dramatist made to Scotland in the winter of 1618-1619, and took notes of Jonson's conversation, which were first published in 1711. He was the first Scotch writer to abandon the native dialect for the language raised to supremacy by the Elizabethan writers. His chief productions are: "The Cypress Grove," in prose, containing reflections upon death; "Flowers of Zion, or Spiritual Poems"; "Tears on the Death of Mœliades"; "Poems, Amorous, Funeral, Divine, Pastoral, in Sonnets, Songs, Sextains, Madrigals"; "The River Forth Feasting" and "History of the Lives and Reigns of the Five Jameses, Kings of Scotland." He died in Edinburgh, Dec. 4, 1649.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The biographical facts Collier's set down in 1921 still stand, but the reputations have moved. Henry Drummond's "Natural Law in the Spiritual World" sold in the hundreds of thousands in its day; it is now read chiefly as a period document of Victorian attempts to reconcile evolution with faith, though "The Greatest Thing in the World" is still reprinted by devotional publishers. Thomas Drummond's lime light (the entry's "1920" is a slip for 1820) lit theatre stages until electric arc and filament lamps displaced it around 1900, leaving behind only the phrase "in the limelight" — while in Ireland he is remembered less for optics than for his 1838 warning to the Tipperary magistrates that "property has its duties as well as its rights." William Drummond's notes of Ben Jonson's talk remain the single richest record of Jonson's opinions and are printed in the 2012 Cambridge edition of Jonson's works; his house at Hawthornden has been a retreat for writers since 1982.
Written for this edition, 2026.