# Joseph Drury

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'''Joseph Drury''' (11 February 1750 – 9 January 1834) was Head Master of [Harrow School](/source/Harrow_School) 1785–1805, and first of a dynasty of Drurys to teach at Harrow.

==Life==
Drury was educated at [Westminster School](/source/Westminster_School) and [Trinity College, Cambridge](/source/Trinity_College%2C_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](/source/Samuel_Parr)'s breakaway school at [Stanmore](/source/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](/source/ten-year_man)", graduating [B.D.](/source/Bachelor_of_Divinity) in 1784 and [D.D.](/source/Doctor_of_Divinity) 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](/source/Benjamin_Heath). Of their three sons [Henry Joseph Thomas Drury](/source/Henry_Drury_(educator)) (1778–1841) was a master at Harrow, and Benjamin Heath Drury (1782–1835), became an assistant-master at [Eton College](/source/Eton_College); and their daughter Louisa Heath Drury married [John Herman Merivale](/source/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](/source/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 ==
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==Further reading==
* ''A History of Harrow School, 1324–1991''. [Christopher Tyerman](/source/Christopher_Tyerman). Pub. 2000.
* ''Byron''. John Nichol. Pub. 2007.

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