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The Barony of Drum, Illustrated Comic · Chapter V of V · 1975 to today

The Undoubted Barons of Drum

A castle given to the nation, and a barony kept.

Comic panel: An empty armchair, a sealed will and an old key in the library at Drum, 1975, with visitors walking up to the tower
1975. Henry Quentin Forbes Irvine, the 24th laird, left Drum Castle to the National Trust for Scotland, and the door the family had kept for six and a half centuries opened to everyone.
Comic panel: A walled plot with a carved stone bearing the holly of Drum, the tower beyond in the morning mist
But the barony stayed in the family. A small plot of land was kept as its caput, walled in 1998 with a carved stone; the arms were matriculated again in 1978 and 1992; and the holly of Drum still flourishes, in sunshine and in shade.

On the Roll: The Barons of Drum, 1323 to today.

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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.