Quotes:Drummond, William

Zirkoff, Boris

Drummond, Sir William. English scholar and diplomatist, b. about 1770; d. at Rome, March 29, 1828. It is thought that he is the same individual as the William, son of John Drummond of Perth, who matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, Jan. 24, 1788. After serving in Parliament, he was sent, 1801, as envoy extraordinary to the court of Naples, and as ambassador to the Ottoman Porte. His diplomatic career ended in 1809, and he devoted the later part of his life to scholarly research. His two main works are: Origines, or Remarks on the Origin of several Empires, etc., 18241829, 4 vols.—*Oedipus Judaicus, printed for private circulation, London, 1811, 8vo. This work is an attempt to prove that many parts of the Old Testament are allegories, chiefly derived from astronomy—a trend of ideas well ahead of his day.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, p. 502