18 MEMOIR OF DRURY. 



to hare it in our power to give some account, for 

 the first time, of the most remarkable incidents of 

 Drury's life, along with extracts from his voluminous 

 correspondence, which was carried on with nearly 

 all such of his cotemporaries as took an interest in 

 the subject to which he was so warmlv attached. * 



DRU DRURY was born on the 4th February 1725, 

 in Wood Street, Cheapside, London. His father, 

 who was of the same name, was a manufacturer of 

 silver spoons and knife and fork handles, in Love 

 Lane, Wood Street ; he also resided for some time 

 at Hutton, in Essex. He was married four times. 

 By his first wife, Mary Grundy, he had five chil- 

 dren, all of whom died young. By his second wife, 

 Mary Hesketh, he had eight children, all of whom 

 died before attaining the age of puberty, except 

 Dm, the subject of this memoir, who was the second. 

 By his third and fourth wives, Mary Cholmeley 

 and Mary Pedley, he had no children. His death 

 took place on the 18th April 1763, at the age of 

 seventy-five. 



It appears from an account of the family of Drury, 

 accompanied with a genealogical tree, in a work 

 entitled the History and Antiquities of Hamstead, 



* The materials from which this biographical notice is 

 drawn up, as well as the painting from which the prefixed 

 portrait is engraved, have been supplied to us by Messrs. 

 Drury of London, grandsons of the subject of this Memoir, to 

 whom we beg leave to offer our best thanks for their courtesy 

 and attention. 



