Drue Drury (courtier)

In November 1586 he was sent to Fotheringay to assist Sir Amias Paulet in the wardership of Mary, Queen of Scots.

William Camden described Drury as a sincere, honest man, and a puritan in his religion.

[8] Drury married, firstly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Philip Calthorpe,[9] by Amata Boleyn,[10] the daughter of William Boleyn and the aunt of Anne Boleyn,[11] making Elizabeth the first cousin of Anne Boleyn and first cousin once removed of Elizabeth I. Elizabeth Calthorpe was the widow of Sir Henry Parker, knight, the son and heir of Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley,[9] and of Sir William Woodhouse of Waxham, Norfolk.

Some correspondence between Drury and his second wife and Sir Julius Cæsar, which was written in 1588, 1596, and 1603–1614, is held in the Lansdowne collection in the British Library.

Drury is to be distinguished from a Drue Drury of Eccles and Rollesby, Norfolk, who married Anne, daughter and coheiress of Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh, and was knighted at Whitehall on 23 July 1603, before the coronation of King Charles I.