caption resting_place death_date children birth_place image_size resting_place_coordinates nationality birth_date known_for spouse signature image article_title name occupation
c. 1838 by henry william pickersgill ireland 1840 three daughters edinburgh 240px mount jerome dublin scottish 1797 cartography drummond lamp maria kinnaird drummond thomas signature.jpg thomas_drummond . jpg thomas drummond
 thomas drummond civil engineer
thomas drummond

captain thomas drummond -lrb- 10 october 1797 -- 15 april 1840 -rrb- , from edinburgh , scotland , was an army officer , civil engineer and senior public official .
drummond used the drummond light which was employed in the trigonometrical survey of great britain and ireland .
he is sometimes mistakenly given credit for the invention of limelight , at the expense of sir goldsworthy gurney .
however , it was drummond who realised their value in surveying .
