Thomas Drury (bishop)

Thomas Wortley Drury (12 September 1847 – 12 February 1926) was a British Anglican bishop[1] who served as Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge from 1920.

Priested at St Thomas the Apostle, Douglas, Isle of Man in 1872, he served as Chaplain to the Insane Asylum 1872 to 1874, after which he was mathematical master of King William's College.

‘This rests not only on those of the age required, but in great measure on parents and friends who may largely help or hinder the loyal response which should be far more widely given and be given without delay’.

Criticism of the clergy for encouraging recruitment when clerics were under orders not to volunteer themselves as combatants brought the following response from Drury ‘The call for more men is still most urgent.

[15]Drury married in 1872 Catherine Beatrice (died 1914), daughter of Captain Edward Dumergue of the Madras Army, and his wife Elizabeth Anne Perry.

Arthur Tait, Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge, whose daughter Margaret married the university administrator Bertrand Hallward.