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DRAKE, MONTAGU GARRARD, son of William Drake, Adderbury, Oxfordshire; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1723/4; KS 1725; buried Amersham, Bucks., 14 Aug 1725. [presumably Mountagu (sic) Drake, son of William Drake, bapt. Souldern, Oxfordshire 9 Aug 1709]

DRAKE, RICHARD; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1739/40; left 1740.

DRAKE, THOMAS, brother of William Drake (adm. 1738, qv); b. 25 Jul 1727; adm. Sep 1735 (Playford's); KS 1741; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 Feb 1744/5; BCL 1751; DCL 1759; ordained; Rector of Amersham, Bucks. , from 26 Oct 1753; Rector of St. Luke’s, Chelsea, Middlesex, from 3 Aug 1770; m. 31 Mar 1755 Elizabeth, dau. of Isaac Whittington MP, Orford, Suffolk, a Clerk in Chancery; d. 12 Apr 1775.

DRAKE, THOMAS, third son of John Drake (in school lists 1764-7, qv); b. 19 Feb 1782; adm.; KS 1795; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1799, matr. 22 May 1799, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1799 - void 25 Jun 1808; BA 1803; MA 1806; 2nd Lieut., 95th Foot 23 May 1805; 54th Foot, 5 Feb 1806; 1st Lieut., 95th Foot 15 May 1806; Capt., Canadian Fencibles 28 May 1807; 95th Foot 25 Mar 1808; Brevet Maj. and DGMG Ionian Islands 22 Apr 1813; Brevet Lieut. -Col. and QMG Mediterranean 16 Nov 1826; Brevet Col., 23 Nov 1841; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 1st Foot Guards 14 Jul 1843, retired same day; served on the Elbe 1805-6, in Peninsular War 1808-9, 1810-3, and on Walcheren expedition 1809; CMG 9 Feb 1833; m. 21 Dec 1813 Elizabeth Sarah, eldest dau. of John Fane MP, Wormsley, Oxfordshire; d. 22 Dec 1851.

DRAKE, WILLIAM WICKHAM, eldest son of John Drake (in school lists 1764-7, qv); b. 17 Jul 1778; in school list 1795, sixth form list 1796; probably the Drake who played cricket against Eton on Hounslow Heath 25 Jul 1796; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 24 Oct 1796; BA 1800; MA 1807; ordained; Rector of Malpas (lower mediety), Cheshire, from 29 Jul 1802; Prebendary of Lincoln from 17 May 1810; Perpetual Curate of Harthill, Cheshire, from 7 May 1816; m. 3 Aug 1807 Eliza Susanna, youngest dau. of Thomas Tarleton, Bolesworth Castle, Broxton, Cheshire; d. 28 Nov 1832.

DRAKE, WILLIAM, second son of Montague Garrard Drake MP, Shardeloes, Bucks., and Isabella, widow of ---, and dau. of Thomas Marshall, St. Michael Bassishaw, London, merchant; b. 12 May 1723; adm. Aug 1738 (Heath's); Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 2 Oct 1739; DCL 12 Apr 1749; Grand Tour (Italy) 1743-5; MP Amersham 26 Feb 1746-96; of Shardeloes, Bucks.; m. 9 Feb 1746/7 Elizabeth, only dau. and heiress of John Raworth, Boyland Hall, Norfolk, and Sambrook Court, Basinghall Street, London, a director South Sea Co.; d. 8 Aug 1796.

DRAKE, WILLIAM, second surviving son of Francis Drake FRS FSA, York, surgeon, author of Eboracum, and Mary, third dau. of George Woodyear, Crook Hill, near Doncaster, Yorks.; bapt. 10 Jan 1722/3; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1732; left 1741; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Mar 1740/1; BA 1744 (incorp. Cambridge 1770); Christ’s Coll. Camb., adm. 17 May 1770; MA 1770; an Usher at the School in 1747; travelling tutor in Italy 1750-1; Head Master of Felsted School, Essex 1750-77; ordained; Rector of Layer Marney, Essex 1 Dec 1764-77; Vicar of Isleworth, Middlesex, from 13 Dec 1777; FSA 29 Mar 1770; a contributor to Archaeologia; m. his cousin Mary, dau. of Rev. Nathaniel Drake, Canon of Lincoln [described as “Canon in Lincoln Cathedral” (FMG 1162)]; d. 13 May 1801. DNB. [But note that no Rev. Nathaniel Drake was Canon Residentiary or Prebendary of Lincoln : was he a Minor Canon ?].

DRAKE, WILLIAM, son of William Drake (adm. 1738, qv); b. 3 Dec 1747; in school list 1764; left May 1765 (Porten); Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 20 Jun 1765; MA 13 Apr 1768; DCL 8 Jul 1773; Grand Tour (Italy) 1768-9; MP Amersham from 1768; m. 1st, 19 Feb 1778 Mary, only dau. of William Hussey MP, Salisbury, Wilts. ; m. 2nd, 20 Aug 1781 Rachel Elizabeth, only surviving dau. of Jeremiah Ives, Norwich, merchant; d. 18 May 1795.

Drake-Brockman, Maurice Frederick, brother of Paris Villiers Drake-Brockman (qv); b. 8 Apr. 1905; adm. Apr. 1920 (R); left July 1923; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1923; d. after a car accident near Oxford 1924.

Drake-Brockman, Maurice (William), son of Lewis James Drake Brockman, of Sandgate, Kent, solicitor, by Edith Annie, daughter of Dr. Charles William Chubb, of Torpoint, Cornwall; b. March 29, 1880; adm. Sept. 27, 1894 (R); Q.S. (non-resident) Sept. 27, 1895; left Aug. 1899; was tutor to the sons of the Khedive of Egypt 1910-3; a musical composer and critic; sub-editor of Cobbett' s Cyclopaedic Survey ef Chamber Music (1928); abandoned the name William; d. (date unknown).