THE FOUNDER: THOMAS DRUMMOND (1764 - 1852)
Thomas Drummond (1764 - 1852) was the son of Lawrence Drummond, a wig-maker, originally from Perth, who lived and worked in Lower Goat Lane. Thomas lived in various addresses in Norwich, including King Street, and at the time that he purchased the site of the future cemetery in 1819, he had a house in Tombland. Admitted as a Freeman of the City in 1785, he was recorded in a trade directory of 1836 as living in a house in the grounds of the The Rosary, but by 1850 was back in King Street - perhaps living near his youngest daughter, Margaret, who ran a boarding school there. From 1805 - 13 he was the Minister at the Unitarian Meeting House, Friars Street, Ipswich. He married Ann Pilkington, the daughter of his predecessor, at the Meeting House in 1813 and they had four children*; Susan, Mary and Margaret (*historical records do not specifically state the name of Rev Drummond's son). The non-denominational basis on which the Rosary was established is fully inline with the liberal the...
