James Drummond, 1st Baron Perth

James Drummond, 1st Baron Perth (12 February 1744 – 2 July 1800) was a Scottish landowner and peer.

Drummond was born at Lundin, Fife as James Lundin. The Lundins descended from Thomas de Lundin, a natural son of King William the Lion. On the death of John Lundin of Lundin in 1684 he was succeeded by his daughter Margaret, wife of Robert Maitland (a younger son of John Maitland, 1st Earl of Lauderdale). Their son John Lundin of Lundin was succeeded by his sister Sophia, first wife of John Drummond, 1st Earl of Melfort. Lundin was inherited by their son James Lundin, then his brother Robert Lundin (died 1716), who married Anne, daughter of Sir James Inglis of Cramond, and was the father of John (10 November 1704 – 9 October 1735) and James (born 6 November 1707). James married Lady Rachel Bruce, a daughter of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Kincardine, and was the father of the subject of this article. On 6 February 1760, following the death of Edward Drummond, sixth Jacobite-jurisdiction Duke of Perth, the elder James Lundin became heir to the Earldom of Perth, which had been forfeit since 1716 owing to the attainder of James Drummond, 2nd Duke of Perth. (The first Earl of Melfort was the younger son of James Drummond, 3rd Earl of Perth.) James Lundin assumed the surname of Drummond and styled himself 10th Earl of Perth. In 1776, following the death of Jean Drummond, Duchess of Perth in 1773, he took up residence at the Drummond estate of Stobhall in Perthshire.

The younger James Lundin, now also known as Drummond, joined the British Army in 1771. On 2 September 1780 he was promoted to Captain in the 2nd Battalion 42nd Highlanders, and served with the Battalion in India.

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