Drummond Money-Coutts - Biography

Biography

He was born in London, the son of Crispin Money-Coutts and his first wife Lucy Deedes, the daughter of Bill Deedes. On the death in 2003 of his grandfather Hugo Money-Coutts, 8th Baron Latymer, his father became the 9th Baron Latymer, and as such Drummond Money-Coutts the heir apparent.

Money-Coutts became interested in magic in 1994 after visiting Davenports, London's oldest magic shop located on the Strand, underneath the family bank Coutts where his father worked at the time. He was educated at Westbourne House School, and then Eton College, where he founded the Eton College Magic Society and also arranged a visit by Uri Geller, from whom he learned how to bend spoons. His first professional performance came in 2000 while he was still at school, at the Royal Horticultural Society.

When Money-Coutts left Eton in 2004, his conjuring career was already well under way. By 2005, when he was at Leeds University, he had already performed before Queen Elizabeth II, Hugh Grant, and Michael Parkinson. Money-Coutts made two visits to Asia that year, speaking at an International Brotherhood of Magicians convention in Calcutta, and subsequently spent several weeks in Bangkok learning from local professional hustlers. Also in 2005, while on a visit to New York City, he studied with the professional magicians Jamy Ian Swiss, Simon Lovell, and Billy McComb.

In July 2007, Money-Coutts published a booklet called Mr Magnificent: Highlight of the Night!, a concise guide to the professional and financial aspects of magic, written for magicians.

In September 2007, an evening's magic tuition with Money-Coutts was sold by Jeremy Clarkson at a charity auction and fetched ₤5,000.

In 2009, Money-Coutts completed four months of training and qualified as a professional croupier and card dealer at the London Gaming College.

As of February 2010, Money-Coutts holds private residencies at both Annabel's Club and The George Club (Mayfair).

In 2010, Fin's shoes released exclusively the "Drummond Evening Slipper", a style of velvet shoe voted in December as Vogue magazine's "Top 100 Christmas Buys" of 2010. In February 2011, ex-Baywatch star David Hasselhoff was seen wearing a pair of Drummond Evening Slippers upon leaving a London nightclub.

By late 2011, Money-Coutts had developed himself as one of the country's foremost magicians, with international audiences including Jeremy Clarkson, David Haye, Pippa Middleton, Natalia Vodianova, Hugh Grant, Bryan Adams, Emma Watson, Sultan, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark, Sarah, Duchess of York, Sir David Frost, Prince Harry and Eddie Jordan.