Genealogical memoir of the most noble and ancient house of Drummond

sect. iv. Of Lieut.-Gen. A. John Driimmond, 117
was an officer under General Sir William Howe, and
served under his royal highness the duke of York on the
continent. At the most dangerous crisis of the late
French war, he was appointed a major-general on the
North British staff", and had the command of the western
district of Scotland. At the late peace, he was colonel
of the 2 d battalion of the 5 th regiment of foot, which was
then reduced. Since that time he has chiefly resided in
retirement, at his beautiful seat of Strathallan House,
superintending the improvements of his estate. He is
at present colonel of the 11th battalion of Royal Veter-
ans, and remains unmarried.
Family of C his holm qfCromlix.
Edmund Chisholm was the first of the family of Crom-
]ix, a family which has frequently intermarried with that
of Drummond, He was the son of the laird of Chis-
holm's house in Teviotdale, descended from the Chis-
holms of Tindall in England. He married, l s «, Margaret
Sinclare, a widow, and daughter of the house of Dry-
den, by whom he had two sons.
1. James Chisholm, a learned and wise man, chaplain
to James III, afterwards, in i486, sent to Rome to
Pope Innocent VIII, who promoted him to the
bishoprick of Dunblane, where he died in 1533.
Sir John Ramsay, laird of Balmain, and treasurer
of Scotland, was his half brother by his mother.
He was page to James III, and saved by the king
when Cochran and his party were hanged over the
bridge of Lauder, in 1481. Bishop James had two
natural sons, 1. Malcolm, whose son Matthew was
father to Sir John Chisholm, archdeacon of Dun-
blane in 1542. 2. John.