DRYDEN, JONATHAN, son of Rev. Jonathan Dryden, Vicar of Camberwell, Kent, and Prebendary of Hereford, and Martha, dau. of Eleanor Vaughan, Hereford, widow; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1656, adm. pens. 14 May 1656, scholar 1656, matr. Lent 1656/7; BA 1659/60; MA 1663 (incorp. Oxford 6 Apr 1665); Fellow of Trin. Coll. 1661-c. 1669, Tutor 1663; ordained deacon (Ely) 19 Sep 1663, priest (London) May 1665; Rector of Cheriton, Kent 1668-76; Rector of Keighley, Yorks., 1676-9; Rector of Scrayingham and of Londesborough, Yorks., from 1680; Prebendary of York from 7 Jun 1682; a letter in Latin written by him to Richard Busby (qv), dated “Prid. Cal. Feb. 1659”, is preserved among the Birch MSS in the British Museum; m. 27 Nov 1690 Margaret, widow of Samuel Mancklin, York, merchant, and afterwards of Charles Wood, York, merchant, and dau. of Henry Harrison, Holtby; d. 25 Aug 1702, aged 63.
DRYDEN, JOHN, second son of John Dryden (elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1650, qv); b. 1667; adm.; KS 1682; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1685, but did not take up his election and was placed by his father under the care of Rev. Obadiah Walker, Master of Univ. Coll. Oxford and a Roman Catholic; as a Roman Catholic convert nominated Fellow of Magdalen Coll. Oxford by James II 31 Dec 1687, admitted 11 Jan 1687/8, but removed by the Visitor 25 Oct 1688; went to Rome with his brother Charles Dryden (qv), and officiated as his brother’s deputy and perhaps replacement in the Papal household; accompanied Hon. William Cecil to Naples, Sicily and Malta Oct 1700- Jan 1701, his account of their tour being published posthumously in 1776; translated the 14th satire of Juvenal for his father’s English version; author, The Husband, his own Cuckold, a play performed at the theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields in 1696; d. unm. at Rome 16 Apr 1703. DNB.
DRYDEN, JOHN, son of Erasmus Dryden, Titchmarsh, Northants., and Mary, dau. of Rev. Henry Pickering, Rector of Aldwincle All Saints, Northants.; b. 19 Aug 1631; adm.; KS; wrote while a KS an elegy on the death of Lord Hastings, published by R. B. in Lachrymae Musarum, 1649; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1650, adm. pens. 18 May 1650, scholar 2 Oct 1650; “walled” for a fortnight and not allowed to go outside the college “excepting for sermons” Jul 1652, for disobedience to the Vice-Master (W. W. Rouse Ball, Cambridge Papers, 218-9); forfeited scholarship by non-residence and thus ineligible for a Fellowship; BA 1653/4; MA Lambeth 17 Jun 1668; mourned Cromwell’s death in Heroic Stanzas 1658; celebrated the Restoration in Astraea Redux 1660, and Charles II’s Coronation in a Panegyric 1661; one of original Fellows of Royal Society 20 May 1663; author, Annus Mirabilis 1667; Poet Laureate and Historiographer 18 Aug 1670 - 11 Dec 1688; Sir Martin Mar-All, one of his most successful plays, was produced in 1667, Aurungzebe, his finest rhymed tragedy, in 1675, and All for Love, his finest play, in 1678; his Absalom and Achitophel was published in 1681; defended Anglicanism in Religio Laici, 1682; Collector of Customs, Port of London 17 Dec 1683; a Roman Catholic convert 1686; author, The Hind and the Panther, 1687; translations by him of Juvenal and Persius were published in 1693, and of Livy in 1697; wrote Alexander’s Feast 1697 [check] and Fables Ancient and Modern, 1700; his complete works, with a life by Sir Walter Scott, were published in 1808; in a note to the third satire of Persius Dryden wrote “I remember I translated this satire when I was a King’s Scholar at Westminster School, for a Thurday-night exercise; and believe, that it, and many others of my exercises of the nature in English verse, are still in the hands of my learned master the Rev. Dr. Busby” (Works, xiii, 230); Dryden refers to Busby’s excessive use of the rod in a letter to Charles Montagu (ibid., xviii, 159-60) and to the curious custom of “custos” in Hall in a letter to Busby (ibid., xviii, 98); Dryden’s “form” was long preserved up School; m. 1 Dec 1663 Lady Elizabeth Howard, eldest dau. of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham; d. 1 May 1700. His body lay in state at the College of Physicians for ten days, and he was buried in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey. DNB.
DRYDEN, CHARLES, eldest son of John Dryden (elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1650, qv); b. 6 Sep 1666; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1680; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1683, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1683, aged 17, scholar 10 Apr 1684, matr. 1683; became a Roman Catholic; resident in Italy 1692-8; Chamberlain to Pope Innocent XII; translated the seventh satire of Juvenal for his father’s English version, and author of at least two published poems; drowned in the Thames, near Datchet, Bucks., 20 Aug 1704. DNB.
DRURY, WILLIAM, son of Thomas Drury, Nottingham; b.; adm.; KS 1677; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1679, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1679, aged 18, scholar 1680, matr. 1682; BA 1682/3; MA 1686; Fellow of Trinity Coll. from 1685, Junior Dean 1710-3; Senior Proctor 1706-7; signed petition to Bishop of Ely against Dr Richard Bentley 1709; buried Trinity Coll. Chapel 16 Nov 1714.
DRURY, JOSEPH, son of Thomas Drury, London, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Hilton, London; b. 11 Feb 1750; adm. (perhaps as chorister); KS 1765; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1768, adm. pens. 1 Jun 1768, matr. Mich. 1768, but unable to remain at university through lack of means; Assistant Master, Harrow School 1769-85; ordained deacon (London) 24 Feb 1773, priest 21 Dec 1779; readm. Trin. Coll. Camb. 2 Jun 1774; BD 1784; DD 1789; Head Master, Harrow School Easter 1785 - Easter 1805; Vicar of Aldwinckle, Northants., 1 Jul 1788-1806, resigned; Rector of Pilton, Northants., 27 Dec 1794 - 1806, resigned; retired to Lockwood, near Dawlish, Devon; Prebendary of Wells from 17 Mar 1812; a successful teacher and firm disciplinarian, under whose rule Harrow increased both in numbers and in reputation; Byron refers gratefully to him in his Hours of Idleness and in a note to Childe Harold, canto iv, st. 75; m. 5 Aug 1775 Louisa, dau. of Benjamin Heath DCL, Town Clerk of Exeter, and sister of Benjamin Heath, Head Master of Harrow School; d. 9 Jan 1834. DNB.
DRUITT, ROBERT, eldest son of Robert Druitt MD FRCP FRCS, Strathmore Gardens, Kensington, and Isabella, dau. of William Hopkinson; b. 2 Apr 1847; adm. 27 Jan 1857 (James'); QS 1862; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1866, matr. 23 May 1866; BA 1870; adm. solicitor Hilary 1874; in practice at Christchurch, Hampshire; Registrar and High Bailiff, County Court there; Mayor of Christchurch 1910-3; m. 24 Jan 1882 Alice Mary, dau. of Daniel Tupper, Lord Chamberlain’s Office, St. James’s Palace; d. 9 May 1917.
DRIWOOD, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; QS; a contributor to the congratulatory verses by QSS to Queen Elizabeth c. 1586 (Salisbury MSS, Hatfield) and to a similar collection of verses c. 1687 in Westminster Abbey Library. [Probably William Drywood, Trinity Coll. Cambridge, matr. Mich 1588, scholar 1589, and probably William Drywood, son of Thomas Drywood, Warley Franks, Essex, who m. 14 Jun 1595 Catherine, sister of Robert Dewhurst (qv) and who was buried Cheshunt, Herts., 10 Jan 1598].
DRINKWATER-BETHUNE, JOHN ELLIOT, eldest son of Lieut-Col. John Drinkwater-Bethune CB, Comptroller of Army Accounts, and Eleanor, dau. of Charles Congalton, Congalton, Midlothian; b. 12 Jul 1801; adm. Midsummer 1814; KS (aged 14) 1816; left 31 Oct 1816; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 25 Jan 1819, scholar 1821, matr. Mich. 1819; 4th Wrangler and BA 1823; MA 1826; adm. Middle Temple 12 Jan 1821, called to bar 4 May 1827; Parliamentary Counsel, Home Office 28 Sep 1835 - 10 Feb 1848; drafted Municipal Reform Act, Tithe Commutation Act and County Courts Act; assumed with his father the additional surname of Bethune 1836; legislative member, Supreme Council of India, from 11 Apr 1848; President, Council of Education, Calcutta 1848; founder of Bethune’s Girls’ School, Calcutta, endowed by his will; d. at Calcutta 12 Aug 1851. DNB.
DRINKWATER, PETER; b.; adm.; KS 1630; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1635, adm. pens. 14 Mar 1635/6, scholar 1636; BA 1638/9; MA 1642.