The Roll of Scottish Barons
Arms of the Baron of DrumThe Baron of DrumAlexander Irvine of Drum, 27th Baron of Drum

The Barony of Drum, Illustrated Comic · Chapter IV of V · 1722 to 1746

The Heir of Entail

A merchant home from Carolina, a new branch of the family, and a sister with a lantern.

Comic panel: John Irvine comes ashore at Aberdeen from a merchant ship after twenty years in the Carolinas, 1722
1722. After twenty years abroad as a merchant in Carolina and Jamaica, John Irvine came home to Aberdeen. In time he became laird, and the creditors circling Drum had to hand the castle back. When he died in 1737, the barony passed to the Irvines of Artamford, from whom the present family descends.
Comic panel: A young woman with a lantern holds clumsy redcoats in talk while the Jacobite laird of Drum slips out of the back door, 1746
1746. After Culloden the redcoats came for the young Jacobite laird. His sister met them at the door with a lantern and a great deal of conversation, the soldiers proved remarkably clumsy, and by the time they found the back room the laird of Drum was long gone.

On the Roll: John Irvine, 15th Baron of Drum, 1735 to 1737.

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A comic, told from the history of the barony and its legends. The record is the Baron of Drum’s entry on the Roll.