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Drummond's house was north of the city. It was bought by
General John Scott after Drummond's death and redeveloped as a substantial villa known as Bellevue House or Lodge. It was purchased later as the Excise Office for Edinburgh. It stood in the centre of what is now
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Drummond was the grandson or great grandson of his namesake Sir George
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who was then only age 21. In 1759, Drummond also began the decades-long draining of the insanitary
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became a Quaker minister and published a book of letters.
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His daughter Jean Drummond (d. 1766) married Reverend
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