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of the Reform Bill, for Stirlingshire, subsequently for Perthshire ; 
in which capacity he rendered important services, particularly by 
the laws which he procured to be enacted, of which the Act for the 
Regulation of Public Houses in Scotland, and that for the Small 
Debts Jurisdiction in the Sheriff Courts, may be mentioned as 
specially valuable. He died in 1867, and was then succeeded in 
his estates by his son, the subject of this notice. This gentleman 
was born in Edinburgh on the 1st of March 1813. He received 
his university education at Oxford, where he was entered at Christ 
Church College. Some time after leaving the university, he tra- 
velled through Palestine and other parts of the East. Of this 
tour he wrote an account, which was printed for private circula- 
tion, but never published. 
Mr Horn e-Drummond was a man of extensive culture and varied 
pursuits. With the languages and literature of ancient Greece 
and Rome he was familiar; of several of the languages of modern 
Europe he was accurately master, especially French and Italian, 
which he wrote and spoke with ease and fluency ; and in several 
branches of natural science, he was proficient. He was chiefly 
interested in antiquarian research, and became especially skilled 
in the deciphering of ancient documents. One of the fruits of his 
labours in this field was the collection of a mass of notes and 
papers relative to the Earldom of Monteith, which, it is under- 
stood, is now in the possession of a learned legal antiquary, with 
the view of being used in the preparation of a historical volume. 
Though interested in literary and scientific pursuits, Mr Home- 
Drummond did not neglect the duties of a large landholder and 
country gentleman. In this capacity as well as in the relations 
of private life, he was much respected and esteemed. He died 
somewhat suddenly in London, on the 3d of June in the present 
year. He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1869. He was 
also a Fellow of the Society of Scottish Antiquaries and a Fellow 
of the Geological Society. 
Alexander Russel was a native of Edinburgh, where he was 
born on the 10th of December 1814. His father was a solicitor 
practising in that city, and his mother, from whom it is said he 
derived much of his mental vigour and character, was the daughter 
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