George Alexander Drummond is remembered in business for decisions whose consequences outlived the decade that made them.
The record lists George Alexander Drummond as Scottish-Canadian businessman and senator (1829-1910).
George Alexander Drummond was born at Edinburgh in 1829. His recorded nationality is Canada. He was educated at University of Edinburgh.
Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.
He worked as politician, businessperson and art collector.
What a company leaves behind is usually infrastructure, habit and employment rather than a name.
Recognition followed: Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.
That the business was built from Canada shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
George Alexander Drummond died in 1910, aged 81. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
- Educated at University of Edinburgh
