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.

DREW, THOMAS, sixth son of Robert Drew MP, South Broom, Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire, and Jane, second dau. of John Jackman, London, citizen and grocer; bapt. Southbroom St. James, Wilts., 11 Dec 1608; adm.; KS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1629, matr. 26 Oct 1632, aged 19, Westminster Student to 1641; BA 1633; MA 1636; ordained priest (Peterborough) 26 Feb 1642/3; Vicar of Harringworth, Northants., 1 Apr 1642 [check]-6; Rector of Bulwick, Northants., 16 Oct 1646 - c. Sep 1651.

DREW, GEORGE HENRY, eldest son of George Drew, Streatham, Surrey, and Mary Harvey (IGI); b. 25 Sep 1817; adm. 10 Jan 1825; KS 1831; Capt. of the School 1835; rowed against Eton 12 May 1836; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1836, adm. pens. 2 Jun 1836, scholar 1837, matr. Mich. 1836; BA 1840; MA 1844; adm. Inner Temple 11 Jan 1838; adm. solicitor Hilary 1846; practised in Bermondsey Street, London; a Taxing Master in Chancery 1870-91; JP Sussex; m. 5 Aug 1843 Susannah Henrietta, eldest dau. of Robert Gray, Brompton Crescent, London; d. 14 Oct 1906.

DRAYCOTT, JOHN, son of William Draycott, London, and Martha (Lacey ?) (IGI); bapt. St. Anne, Soho 13 Nov 1763 (IGI); adm. 16 Jan 1775; KS (aged 16) 1780; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1784, adm. pens. 9 Jun 1784, scholar 8 Apr 1785; BA 1788; ordained deacon (London) 21 Dec 1788; buried Lisbon, Portugal 1793.