Joseph Drury (11 February 1750 – 9 January 1834) was Head Master of Harrow School 1785–1805, and first of a dynasty of Drurys to teach at Harrow.
Life
editDrury was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] Admitted to Trinity in 1768, he was unable to continue at Cambridge due to lack of means, and in 1769 became an assistant master at Harrow School.[2]
In 1771, Drury turned down the chance to join Samuel Parr's breakaway school at Stanmore.[2] He was ordained deacon in 1773 and priest in 1779. He was re-admitted to Trinity in 1774 as a "ten-year man", graduating B.D. in 1784 and D.D. in 1789.[1]
Drury succeeded Benjamin Heath the younger, his brother-in-law, as headmaster of Harrow School in 1785.[2]
Family
editIn 1775 Drury married Louisa Heath, daughter of Benjamin Heath. Of their three sons Henry Joseph Thomas Drury (1778–1841) was a master at Harrow, and Benjamin Heath Drury (1782–1835), became an assistant-master at Eton College; and their daughter Louisa Heath Drury married John Herman Merivale.[2]
His brother Mark Drury was Second Master at Harrow. He married Catherine Angelo, daughter of the fencing master Domenico Angelo.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b "Drury, Joseph (DRRY768J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c d Hunt, William (1888). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 16. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ "The Rev. William Drury". Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette. 21 February 1878.
Further reading
edit- A History of Harrow School, 1324–1991. Christopher Tyerman. Pub. 2000.
- Byron. John Nichol. Pub. 2007.