Edmund Drummond was a British civil servant in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

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He was the third son of James Drummond, 6th Viscount Strathallan (de jure 8th Viscount) and the brother of William Drummond, 7th Viscount Strathallan

William Drummond, 7th Viscount Strathallan

William Henry Drummond, 7th Viscount Strathallan , styled the Master of Strathallan from 1826 to 1851, was a Scottish Conservative politician...

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He was educated at Magdalen College, Cambridge. He studied law at the Middle Temple

Middle Temple

The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers; the others being the Inner Temple, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn...

 and was called to the bar in 1848.

From 7 March 1863 to 10 March 1868 he held position of Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces. In 1875 he became a member of the Council of India

Council of India

The Council of India was the name given at different times to two separate bodies associated with British rule in India.The original Council of India was established by the Regulating Act of 1773 as a council of four formal advisors to the Governor-General at Fort William...

His son Edmund Charles Drummond

Edmund Drummond (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Edmund Charles Drummond was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station.-Naval career:...

was an admiral.