Drury Drury-Lowe

Lieutenant-General Sir Drury Curzon Drury-Lowe GCB (3 January 1830 – 6 April 1908) was a British Army officer.

[1] He was educated privately at his home, Locko Park,[2] near Spondon in Derbyshire, before gaining a baccalaureate at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

[1] He served in the Crimean War at the Battle of Chernaya River and was at the Siege of Sevastopol when it fell.

[7] On 5 June 1879, he led the 17th Lancers into battle with Zulu irregulars as part of the Zungeni Mountain skirmish, during which his adjutant, Frederick John Cokayne Frith, was killed and the British had to withdraw.

[1] Drury-Lowe retired in 1895 and was awarded the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and then resided at Keydell House, Horndean,[12] occasionally writing to The Times.