His baptism transcript from Ancestry:

Name:           James Hoolbrooke Drummond
Gender:         Male
Record Type:    Christening (Baptism)
Baptism Date:   17 Oct 1833
Baptism Place:  Downe, Kent, England
Father:         James Drummond
Mother:         Mary Drummond
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He is on the Register of pupils at Rossall Scool, Fleetwood, Lancs:

Drummond, James Houlbrooke (1833).
   Bombay Native Infantry, colonel, 1881.”
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His death index:

Name:                           Age at Death (in years):  
DRUMMOND, JAMES HOULBROOKE      59  
GRO Reference: 1893  S Quarter in EASTBOURNE  Volume 02B  Page 45
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Note: I only found this 1881 census, later, because someone had found it on Ancestry; it reveals that they were in England in 1881 and they did have a child here, Leopold, thereby making my reservations about him below into rubbish.

In 1881 they were in England at 18, Liston Road, Clapham, Wandsworth, London:

First name(s)  Last name  Role  Marital status  Sex  Age  Birth year  Occupation  Birth place
James     Drummond     Head  M  M  47  1834  Lieut col in the army  Kent, England
Kittie    Drummond     Wife  M  F  24  1857  -                      India
George    Fairbrother  BinL  S  M  19  1862  Scholar                Ireland
Ethel     Drummond     Daur  S  F   4  1877  -                      India
Elsie     Drummond     Daur  S  F   2  1879  -                      India  
Leopold   Drummond     Son   S  M   0  1881  -                      Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Keziah    Cornwall     Serv  S  F  22  1859  Nurse                  Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire
Margaret  Barclay      Serv  S  F  30  1851  Cook                   Ireland
Mary A    Baily        Serv  S  F  15  1866  Housemaid              Clapham, Surrey

Ref:
Archive reference  RG11
Piece number       634
Folio              113
Page               24
Combined:          1881: ref: RG11, piece 634, folio 113, p. 24
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The 1891 census shows he and his wife and family had been in India from marriage to around 1890.  I would even guess they married there too.  Anyhow in 1891 they were at Powys Court, Carew Road, Eastbourne, Sussex:

First name(s)  Last name  Role  Marital status  Sex  Age  Birth year  Occupation  Birth place
James H     Drummond  Head  M  M  57  1834  Colonel Indian staff corps on cols office(?)
                                                            Kent, Down
Emily K M   Drummond  Wife  M  F  34  1857  -               India
Ethel L P   Drummond  Daur  S  F  14  1877  -               India
Elsie K M   Drummond  Daur  S  F  12  1879  -               India
Eileen A P  Drummond  Daur  S  F   8  1883  -               Arabia, Aden
Gladys M P  Drummond  Daur  S  F   3  1888  -               India
James G P   Drummond  Son   S  M   1  1890  -               Eastbourne, Sussex
Helen E     Bayly     -     S  F  53  1838  Governess       Midhurst, Sussex
Mary        Hills     Serv  S  F  24  1867  Cook            East Peckham, Kent
Jane        Hills     Serv  S  F  19  1872  Parlourmaid     Ashurst, Kent
Edith E     Allen     Serv  S  F  16  1875  Nurse           Kent, Tunbridge Wells
Cicely      Allen     Serv  S  F  15  1876  Housemaid       Kent, Tunbridge Wells

Ref:
Archive reference  RG12
Piece number       774
Folio              39
Page               12
Combined:          1891 ref: RG12, piece 774, folio 39, p. 12  
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The baptism of their children abroad, all from FindMyPast’s file of British India Office Births & Baptisms (hopefully copies of the original documents will be found later to check up on a couple of minor oddities, below, when entering each child’s full details):

Last name  First name(s)          Year Of Birth  Location
Drummond   Ethel Louisa Powys     1876           Ahmedabad, Bombay
Drummond   Herbert Cecil Powys    1877           Ahmedabad, Bombay
Drummond   Elsie Kathleen Mary    1879           Belgaum, St Mary, Bombay
Drummond   Eileen Amy Powys       1882           Aden
Drummond   Eileen Amy Powys       1882           Bombay, St Mary, Bombay
Drummond   Gladys Margaret Pawys  1887           Mahableshwar, Bombay

This gives an additional child in the form of Herbert.  Had he died?  Or was he at the tender age of 5 already away at school?

Now for the English Drummond births with a Fairbrother mother:

Name:                             Mother's Maiden Surname:
DRUMMOND, LEOPOLD DOUGLAS BELL    FAIRBROTHER  
GRO Reference: 1880  D Quarter in TUNBRIDGE  Volume 02A  Page 606

Name:                              Mother's Maiden Surname:
DRUMMOND, JAMES GEOFFREY POWYS     FAIRBROTHER  
GRO Reference: 1889  S Quarter in EASTBOURNE  Volume 02B  Page 78

I don’t believe the 1880 birth is theirs, it is unlikely that they made a trip back to England considering the time it would have taken.  Let’s see if he appears in any later censuses.  Or even elsewhere in the 1991 census.
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London Gazette:

March 10 1882:  The undermentioned Lieutenant-Colonels of the Indian
                Staff Corps to be Colonels.  Dated 1st July, 1881 :—
                . . . .
                James Houlbrooke Drummond, BOMBAY

I can’t find the Gazetting of his retirement of promotion to major-general.
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James Holbrooke died at the age of 59 so I have continued to resolve all their children in their mother’s Notes as the data only becomes clear after James’ death:

Name:                          Age at Death (in years):  
DRUMMOND, JAMES HOULBROOKE     59  
GRO Reference: 1893  S Quarter in EASTBOURNE  Volume 02B  Page 45
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In an Indian Army records of “Contributions to the Bombay Military Fund by James Houlbrooke Drummond of the Bombay Staff Corps, there was two relevant records:

1. that he married Miss Emilie Katherine Mary Elizabeth Fairbrother born 14th July 1857
        and she died on 15th Decr 1936
2. That they had the following seven children:
   Order  Sex   Name                  Date of Birth    Date of death  Marr date
    (1)   Dau.  Ethel Louisa Powys     3rd Octr  1876  10th Sep 1943
    (2)   Son   Herbert cecil Powys   29th Decr  1877  24th Feb 1881
    (3)   Dau.  Elsie Kathleen Mary   25th March 1879                 27 A~pr 1915
    (4)   Son   Leopold Douglas Bell  14th Novr  1880
    (5)   Dau.  Eileen Amy Powys       8th April 1882                 18 Apr 1921
    (6)   Dau.  Gladys Margaret Powys  4th April 1887                  3 Nov 1908
    (7)   Son   James Geoffrey Powys  27th July  1889

3. That he died on 2 July 1893.

A related record shows pension payments to their children and their marriage or death dates, added to above.  Marriages:

  (3) Elsie to Mr Robert Aubrey McGee
  (5) Eileen to
  (6) Gladys to Tobert John Hennell

This record included that J H Drummonnd was “M Genl.”.
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His burial register image, thanks Ancestry, transcript by me:

>             Lambeth  >  Norwood Cemetery, Norwood Road, Lambeth  >  1892-1895

“                     [ Page 10492(?) ]
“BURIALS in the Year 1893 in the South Metropolitan Cemetery
“                  under Stat 6&7 William IV, cap 129.
“. . . .
Name:         “James Houlbrooke Drummond
No:           ‘A13103
Abode:        “Powys court, Carew Road, Eastbourne
When Buried:  “1893 July 5
Age:          “59
Celebrant:    “W R Rowan Hart, Curate St Henry  Scarborough
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Curiously no will, probate or administration has been found on the new Iron Mountain will site.  But it was found on FindMyPast and Ancestry, see his Will Notes.
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What was his second name?  Houlbrooke, or Hoolbrooke or Holbrooke?

I have seen a variety of spellings:

1833: at baptism the register entry is Hoolbrooke
1875: At marriage the register entry is Houlbrooke
1876: At the baptisms of his children the entries were:
Up t0 1893, his army entries were all as Houlbrooke
1893: At his death registration it was Houlbrooke
1893: At burial the register has Houlbrooke
1893 at his probate it was Houlbrooke

(awaiting info from the baptisms.)
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His probate index:

1893
DRUMMOND James Houlbrooke of Powys-court Carew Road Eastbourne retired major-general Bombay Staff Corps died 2 July 1893  Probate Lewes 4 October to Emilie Katherine Elizabeth Mary Drummond widow  Effects £288 10s. 2d.

His will is to be ordered.
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From the British India Office via FindMyPast (thanks for the image, their marriage register, transcript by me:

“Marriage solemnized at Mhow

When married:
  Year:   1875
  Month:  November
  Day:    1

                   His                        Hers
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Names:          James Houlbrooke           Emilia Katherine Mary Elizabeth
Age:            42                         18
Condition:      Bachelor                   Spinster
Profession:     Major, Bombay Staff Corps  -
Residence:      Mhow                       Mhow
Father:         James Drummond             James Fairbrother
Signatures:     J H Drummond               E K E M Fairbrother
Witnesses:      J Fairbrother,             J Kefferman

Banns/Licence:  Licence
Celebrant:      Chas J Waterhouse, M.A. Chaplain

I Edward Gabriel Davis do hereby certify the foregoing are true and faithful copies of all the entries in the Register of Marriages kept at Christ Church Mhow as therein entered and made between the first day of October and the thirtyfirst day of December 1875.
  Witness my hand
    Edward G Davis
      Chaplain of Mhow

Mhow Jany 1st 1876
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