John David Drummond, 17th Earl of Perth PC (13 May 1907 - 25 November 2002) was a Scottish peer, banker and politician. Nephew of the fifteenth Earl of Perth and son of the 16th Earl, he was educated at Downside School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was styled Viscount Strathallan from 1937-51.

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  • John David Drummond, 17th Earl of Perth PC (13 May 1907 - 25 November 2002) was a Scottish peer, banker and politician. Nephew of the fifteenth Earl of Perth and son of the 16th Earl, he was educated at Downside School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was styled Viscount Strathallan from 1937-51. After beginning a banking career, in the Second World War he went to Paris to help Noel Coward in a propaganda office, then returned to London to work in the War Cabinet office and later at the Ministry of Production. After the war he joined Schroders in 1945 and was a partner until 1956. He was a Representative Peer for Scotland from 1952-63, and in 1956 he was appointed Minister of State for Colonial Affairs in Harold Macmillan's government. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1957. He served as First Crown Estate Commissioner from 1962-77. He was Chairman of the Ditchley Foundation from 1963-66, and Chairman of the Reviewing Committee on Export of Works of Art from 1972-76. In 1934 he married Nancy Fincke (died 1996). The couple had two sons.
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  • 1951-2002
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  • John David Drummond, 17th Earl of Perth PC (13 May 1907 - 25 November 2002) was a Scottish peer, banker and politician. Nephew of the fifteenth Earl of Perth and son of the 16th Earl, he was educated at Downside School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was styled Viscount Strathallan from 1937-51.
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  • John Drummond, 8th Earl of Perth
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