This Day in History: 1863-03-26

Botanist James Drummond Snr. died after a brief illness and was buried beside his son Johnston, beneath the shade of his favourite hibiscus tree, on his property ‘Hawthornden’, north of Newcastle and old Toodyay.

Sources:
Rica Erickson. Old Toodyay and Newcastle. Toodyay Shire Council, 1974, p.173.
Rica Erickson & Robyn Taylor. Toodyay homesteads. Hesperian Press, 2006, p.87 (memorial tablet)
Rica Erickson. The Drummonds of Hawthornden. Lamb Paterson, 1969, pp. 154-155.