Peter Drummond Murray

"Peter Drummond-Murray, who has died aged 84, was by profession a banker and stockbroker; his heart, however, was in the world of heraldry, in the long-lost cause of the Jacobites, and in his charitable work carried out with the Sovereign Order of Malta.
His career in banking and then stockbroking was a rewarding one, even if he was not always easy to employ. When a French firm declined to sack him because it meant paying compensation, he hung large pictures of Waterloo and Trafalgar in his office: eventually they gave in. Asked what he knew about stockbroking by the firm he decided to join, he replied “Absolutely nothing” — but got the job and ended as a senior partner.
Drummond-Murray became a Knight of Malta in 1971. Founded in 1048, the Roman Catholic religious order was expelled from its Mediterranean island base in 1798 and has since devoted itself to humanitarian activities. From 1977 to 1989 Drummond-Murray was Chancellor of the British Association, encouraging its involvement in care homes (there are now 77) and its establishment of a cancer hospice at the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in London.
Later, as Delegate for Scotland, he founded a volunteer service to provide transport for the housebound, meals on wheels and other help for the needy. When the sisters at one of Mother Teresa’s Scottish hostels had trouble with unruly down-and-outs he made a point of sleeping in the hostel once a week, to keep order. Appointed a Knight Grand Cross in 1988, he was promoted Bailiff Grand Cross in 2013, the Order’s highest rank.
William Peter Louis Drummond-Murray was born on November 24 1929. In the male line he descended from the Murrays of Mastrick in Aberdeenshire and, through his Drummond grandmother, from the Earls (Jacobite Dukes) of Perth. His half-Spanish Anglo-Irish mother, Eulalia Heaven, was named after her godmother, the Infanta Dona Eulalia of Spain, and could trace her descent from the Kings of Navarre.
Peter was proudest, however, of his Jacobite forebears, and especially of Lord Strathallan: at Culloden, as the last man left of Prince Charles Edward’s cavalry, Strathallan charged the Hanoverian troops single-handed; mortally wounded, he is said to have taken Communion in the form of whisky and oatcake from his Episcopalian chaplain.
Drummond-Murray had happy memories of his Jesuit school, Beaumont, despite its severe discipline. He also enjoyed National Service as a subaltern in the King’s African Rifles, taking part with gusto in operations against the Mau Mau."
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