{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} [[File:Joseph Drury memorial, St Mary's, Harrow on the Hill, 2015 01.jpg|thumb|Joseph Drury memorial, St Mary's, Harrow on the Hill]] '''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== Drury was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge.<ref name="alum-cantab">{{acad|id=DRRY768J|name=Drury, Joseph}}</ref> 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.<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Drury, Joseph|last=Hunt|first=William|volume=16}}</ref>
In 1771, Drury turned down the chance to join Samuel Parr's breakaway school at Stanmore.<ref name="DNB"/> 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.<ref name="alum-cantab"/>
Drury succeeded Benjamin Heath the younger, his brother-in-law, as headmaster of Harrow School in 1785.<ref name="DNB"/>
==Family== In 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.<ref name="DNB"/>
His brother Mark Drury was Second Master at Harrow. He married Catherine Angelo, daughter of the fencing master Domenico Angelo.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Rev. William Drury |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000187/18780221/058/0007 |work=Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette |date=21 February 1878}}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
==Further reading== * ''A History of Harrow School, 1324–1991''. Christopher Tyerman. Pub. 2000. * ''Byron''. John Nichol. Pub. 2007.
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