John Poad Drake (1794–1883) was an inventor and artist from Stoke Damerel, in present-day Devon.
He later painted in Halifax, Nova Scotia (1815), Montreal and New York.
He later returned to England and patented a new system for drilling screws at the shipyard.
[1] Drake was a student of the Royal Academy in London.
Drake's painting of the Last Supper hangs in the new Christ Church Cathedral, on St. Catherine Street, Montreal (1825).