Frances Jocelyn, Viscountess Jocelyn Cowper was born in 1820, the youngest daughter of Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, a daughter of Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne. Her paternity was officially attributed to Lady Cowper's husband, the 5th Earl Cowper. However, the historian K.D. Reynolds and others have argued that Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston was actually the father of Lady Frances and her brother William. Once widowed, her mother married Palmerston, though Lady Frances did not care for him. He became Prime Minister in 1859. In 1838, Lady Frances served as a maid of honour at the Coronation of Queen Victoria, and she also
William Drummond, 1st Viscount Strathallan which were privately printed by David Laing, 4to, Edinburgh, 1831 (Lowndes, Bibl. Manual, ed. Bohn, ii. 677). A few of his letters to Glencairn, Tweeddale, Lauderdale, and Lady Lauderdale, are preserved among the Additional MSS. in the British Museum (Addit. MS. 4156; Index to Cat. of Additions to the MSS. 1854–75, p. 447). William Drummond, 1st Viscount Strathallan William Drummond, 1st Viscount of Strathallan, Lord Drummond of Cromlix (1617?–1688), was a Scottish soldier and politician. He served as a Commissioner for Perthshire in the parliaments of 1669-74, 1681-2 and 1685-6, and at the Convention of Estates of 1678. Drummond was