Lieutenant-Colonel William Price Drury, CBE (8 November 1861 – 21 January 1949) was a Royal Marine Light Infantry officer, novelist and playwright.
He was commissioned a lieutenant in the Royal Marines Light Infantry on 1 September 1880 and promoted to captain on 2 January 1890.
He was appointed to the Naval Intelligence Department in March 1900,[2] and served until he was placed on half-pay on 1 July 1902 due to medical unfitness.
At the outbreak of World War I, he rejoined the Royal Marines and served as an intelligence officer at Plymouth.
Many items from the Drury Room are now on display at Saltash Heritage Museum and Local History Centre.