David Drummond

David Thomas Kerr Drummond (1805–1877) was a Scottish Evangelical minister. A previous member of the Scottish Episcopal Church, he resigned in 1842 to establish the English Church in Edinburgh. This split is known in Scottish religious history as "The Drummondite Schism". He is separately noted as an early amateur photographer. Life He was born in Edinburgh, the son of James Drummond of Strageath on 25 August 1805. His father appears to have been an advocate, living at the then new and desirable address of 51, Queen Street in Edinburgh's New Town. He attended the High School in Edinburgh and studied Divinity at the University of Edinburgh and then Worcester College, Oxford, graduating with a BA from the University of Oxford in 1830. He was ordained as a deacon in the Church of England in 1830, and served as a curate in Compton Greenfield, Gloucestershire, 1830-32. He was ordained as priest in January 1832. In 1832, he returned to Edinburgh to take over Old St Paul's on Carrubbers Close in the Old Town. In 1837 he moved to the then-new Holy Trinity Church on the west edge of Dean Bridge, serving the expanding Episcopal Church in Edinburgh (which always had a high percentage of English inhabitants).