Maurice O'Connor Drury

Maurice O'Connor Drury (3 July 1907 – 25 December 1976) was an Irish[1] psychiatrist, best known for his accounts of his conversations, and close friendship, with the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

He grew up in Exeter, Devon, England, where his father, Henry D'Olier Drury, who had been a teacher in Marlborough College, retired.

[3] After graduation Drury entered the Cambridge theological college Westcott House, leaving after one year.

[3] Drury joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving in Egypt and taking part in the Normandy landings.

[3] One of his children, Luke Drury, a physicist, was elected president of the Royal Irish Academy in 2011.

[12] Drury brought Wittgenstein's "critique of language" to bear on the practice of medicine, and particularly psychology that promised the same control over the mind that physics achieved with matter.