Sir John Richard Gray Drummond (25 November 1934 – 6 September 2006) was a British arts administrator who spent most of his career at the BBC. He was described by Rodney Milnes of Opera magazine as "one of the most formidable figures in the arts world of the UK for 40 years". Early life Drummond was born in London, the son of a Scottish Sea Captain in the British India line and an Australian singer, principally of lieder. He spent much of his childhood in Bournemouth, being evacuated to the resort at the beginning of World War II, spending hours in the public library absorbing all he could on creative arts, and also attending concerts by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. He was educated at Canford School on a scholarship (becoming head boy) and, during his National Service in the Navy, he studied Russian on the course at Bodmin. On a major open scholarship, gained in 1953, he read History at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1955 to 1958. At Cambridge he organised cabarets for the Footlights Society and in 1956 wrote a musical about Regency Brighton entitled The First Resort. Kenneth Tynan queried why Cambridge was "wasting time on trash like this when they could be producing Brecht", but it did gain a run a London's Arts Theatre. His contemporaries included Derek Jacobi, Peter Cook, Michael Frayn and Ian McKellen, and he was also a member of the Marlowe Society, performing in Christopher Marlowe's Edward II, which was broadcast on the Third Programme in 1958 with Jacobi in the title role.

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Sir John Richard Gray Drummond (25 November 1934 – 6 September 2006) was a British arts administrator who spent most of his career at the BBC. He was described by Rodney Milnes of Opera magazine

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