Maurice Drummond (civil servant)

Maurice Drummond CB (1825^[1] - 19 May 1881) was the second holder of the post of Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District.

Life

Born and baptised in the parish of St George's Hanover Square, Maurice was the son of Charles Drummond and Mary Dulcibella Eden, ninth child and sixth daughter of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland.^[1] His paternal uncle was Edward Drummond, fatally shot when he was mistaken for Robert Peel, to whom he was private secretary, with Maurice's appointment as a clerk in the Treasury being compensation in kind for Edward's death.^[1]

In 1846 he married Adelaide Lister, an illustrator and niece to Maria Theresa Lister - they set up home in Hampstead.^[1] Maria had married George Cornewall Lewis in 1844 and Drummond was appointed his private secretary in 1855, a role he also later carried out for Benjamin Disraeli and Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby.^[1] On retirement as Receiver he was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Norman Fairfax, From Quills to Computers - The History of the Metropolitan Police Civil Staff 1829-1979 (unpublished, 1979), pages 29, 37-38 and 99
^ "London Gazette, 16 October 1883, page 4918".

Police appointments
Preceded by John Wray	Receiver of the Metropolitan Police 1860–1883	Succeeded by Alfred Richard Pennefather

[Fairfax-1] Norman Fairfax, From Quills to Computers - The History of the Metropolitan Police Civil Staff 1829-1979 (unpublished, 1979), pages 29, 37-38 and 99

[2] "London Gazette, 16 October 1883, page 4918".

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