O’Brien, R. Barry. Thomas Drummond. Under-Secretary in Ireland 1835 – 40. Life and Letters. First Edition. London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1889. 22 x 14 cm. viii, 401 pages. With a frontispiece showing Thomas Drummond and three plates, one being a fold-out. Original decorated cloth with black title and lines on front board. Gilt title on spine. Very good condition. Spine faded. Minor rubbing and bumping. Edges age darkened. Internally some mild foxing, mainly to first and last few pages. Small neat stamp of a previous owner on title page. Bright and clean inside. Many pages unopened. A very nice copy.

Captain Thomas Drummond (1797 – 1840), from Edinburgh, Scotland, was an army officer, civil engineer and senior public official. Drummond used the Drummond light which was employed in the trigonometrical survey of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1824 Drummond was transferred to the new Ordnance Survey of Ireland and here he used the new Drummond light. He reported that the light could be observed 68 miles away and would cast a strong shadow at a distance of thirteen miles. Drummond left Ireland for a period prior to the Reform Bill of 1832. He was later appointed to the significant post of Irish under-secretary, heading up the administration in Dublin Castle, a position he held from 1835 until his death in 1840. A supporter of the Whigs, Drummond was held in high regard by Irish, whom he treated with impartiality. (wikipedia)

• Keywords: Biography & Literary Criticism · Classical & Old Literature · Great Britain · History · History of Ireland · Ireland · Literature
• Language: English
• First edition
• Inventory Number: 100726AB

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