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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden
Descended lineally from one of the most ancient families in Scotland, of which the elder branch had been matri monially linked with the throne of that kingdom, the father of the poet is found, very naturally, the possessor of wealth and honour ?owing from the Crown. The second son of Sir Robert Drummond of Carnock, J ohn who acquired the estate, and founded the family of Haw thornden - was, in 1590, appointed Gentleman Usher to James VI and, on his sovereign's accession to the English sceptre, received from him the rank of knight hood. He married Susannah Fowler, daughter of a respectable burgess of Edinburgh, who subsequently had also the accolade, and served as Secretary to Queen Anne and by her he had a family of four sons and three daughters, of which issue William was the eldest. The outline of his life may be concisely drawn.
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