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About Lewis Thomas Drummond
- Lewis Thomas Drummond (May 28, 1813 – November 24, 1882) was a Quebec lawyer, judge and political figure. He was born in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland in 1813.
- His father, an attorney, died while he was young and he came to Lower Canada with his mother in 1825.
- He studied at the Séminaire de Nicolet, then studied law with Charles Dewey Day in Montreal and was called to the bar in 1836.
- He set up practice in Montreal and defended a number of persons involved in the Lower Canada Rebellion.
- Drummond, a supporter of Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the city of Montreal in an 1844 by-election, but was defeated in the general election that followed.
- However, he was elected in Portneuf.
- In 1848, he was named Queen's Counsel and, in the same year, was elected to represent Shefford in the assembly.
- Drummond was a director of the Montreal City and District Savings Bank, president of the Stanstead, Shefford and Chambly Railroad and helped found the Garden River Mining Company.
- He was solicitor general for Canada East from 1848 to 1851, a post that was not part of the cabinet at the time.
- In 1851, he became attorney general for Canada East, serving until 1856.
- Although he had become a seigneur by marriage, he developed legislation limiting seigneurial privileges which was later amended to abolish seigneurial tenure.
- He was reelected in Shefford in 1858; however, when he was forced to run in a by-election for his seat after being named attorney general, he was defeated but was then elected in Lotbinière.
- In 1861, he was elected in Rouville; however, when he was named to the executive council as Commissioner of Public Works, he was unable to gain reelection and was forced to resign.
- In 1864, he was named puisne judge in the Court of Queen's Bench.
- He retired due to poor health in 1873. He died in Montreal in 1882 from chronic bronchitis.
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