Henry Drury

Who was Henry Drury?

Henry Drury, was Archdeacon of Wilts, England and Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons.

Drury, eldest son of Henry Joseph Thomas Drury, by his wife Caroline, daughter of A. W. Taylor of Boreham Wood, Hertfordshire, and grandson of Joseph Drury, was born at Harrow, London, on 11 May 1812. After passing through Harrow with distinction he was admitted minor pensioner of Caius College, Cambridge, 14 June 1831, and began residence in the following October.

In 1833 he won the Browne medal for the Latin ode, and in 1835 that for the epigrams. An eye complaint prevented further academic successes as an undergraduate. In 1837 he took the ordinary B.A. degree, proceeding M.A. in 1840. In 1838 he became classical lecturer at Caius, but, having been ordained, he left Cambridge in 1839 to take sole charge of Alderley, Gloucestershire, a curacy which he exchanged the following year for that of Bromham, Wiltshire.

Drury, together with some friends, projected and published the Arundines Cami, a collection of translations into Latin and Greek verse by different Cambridge men.