Thomas Drury (Royal Navy Officer)
Thomas Drury may refer to: * Thomas Drury (1551–1603), one of a group of men believed to be involved in reporting the playwright Christopher Marlowe for blasphemy * Thomas Drury (1668) (1668–1723), colonial legislator from Framingham, Massachusetts * Sir Thomas Drury, 1st Baronet (1712–1759), MP Maldon 1741 * Thomas Joseph Drury (1908–1992), Roman Catholic bishop of San Angelo and of Corpus Christi * Thomas Drury (bishop) Thomas Wortley Drury (12 September 1847 – 12 February 1926) was a British Anglican bishop who served as Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge from 1920. Life to 1914 He was born on the Isle of Man the son of the Rev. William Drury, ...

Thomas Drury (1551–1603)
Thomas Drury (8 May 1551 – 26 August 1603) was a British government informer, messenger and swindler, who is noted for having been one of the main people responsible for accusations of heresy, blasphemy and seditious atheism on the part of the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe given to the Privy Council in May 1593. Within a couple of weeks, Marlowe—at just 29 the same age as William Shakespeare, but one of the single greatest influences upon his work—was dead. Early life Thomas Drury was born to Robert Drury of Hawstead, Suffolk, and his wife Audrey, née Rich, the daughter of the former Lord Chancellor, Richard Rich, notorious for his alleged perjury which led to the conviction and execution of Sir Thomas More. He was the third of four brothers—William, Robert, Thomas himself, and Henry. They were also first cousins to the Robert Rich who married the Earl of Essex's sister Penelope, the "Stella" immortalised in Sir Philip Sidney's '' Astrophel and Stella''. ...
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Thomas Drury (1668)
Thomas Drury (1668–1723) was a founder of Framingham, Massachusetts in 1700. In 1701 Drury was a Deputy of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts as the first representative from Framingham. He also served as selectman, first town clerk, and captain of the militia.Ward, Andrew Henshaw. A genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice' Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson, Publisher, 1858, 379pp Personal background Thomas Drury was born on 10 August 1668 to Lieut. John Drury and Mary (Weare) Drury in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the great grandson of Edmund Rice, a 1638 immigrant from England and founder of Sudbury, Massachusetts. Drury married Rachel Rice, his first cousin once removed, daughter of Henry Rice and Elizabeth (Moore) Rice, on 15 December 1687 in Sudbury, and they had nine children. Drury and his family resided in Sudbury for several years before taking up residence in Framingham.Schultz, John A. (1979) ''Legislators of the Massachu ...
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Sir Thomas Drury, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Drury, 1st Baronet Royal Society, FRS (1712 – 19 January 1759) of Wickham Hall near Maldon, Essex, and Overstone, Northamptonshire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons between 1741 and 1747. Background Drury was born in London and baptised on 12 November 1712 at St Andrew's Church, Holborn; he was the son of Richard Drury of Colne, Cambridgeshire, Colne, Hunts. by Joyce, daughter of Thomas Beacon of Great Ilford, Essex. He matriculated at Merton College, Oxford in 1729, and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple, London, in 1736. In 1737, as co-heir with his cousin Thomas Beacon Townsend (d.1737), Drury inherited a fortune estimated at £230,000, including an estate near Maldon, from his maternal uncle, Thomas Beacon, a brewer in Shoreditch, London. His cousin died later that year and left Drury his share of the estate. Fellow MP Joseph Townsend (MP), Joseph Townsend, who was the half-brother of Thomas Beacon T ...
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Thomas Joseph Drury
Thomas Joseph Drury DD LHD (January 4, 1908 – July 22, 1992) was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the first bishop of the Diocese of San Angelo in Texas from 1962 to 1965 and as the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Corpus Christi in Texas from 1965 to 1983. Biography Early life Thomas Drury was born on January 4, 1908, in Ballymote, Ireland.He was ordained a priest by Archbishop Robert Lucey for the Diocese of Amarillo on June 2, 1935, after immigrating to the United States. Bishop of San Angelo Drury was appointed bishop of the Diocese of San Angelo on October 30, 1961, by Pope John XXIII. He was consecrated by Archbishop Lucey on January 24, 1962. Bishop of Corpus Christi On July 19, 1965, Drury was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Corpus Christi by Pope Paul VI. He served as the bishop during the Second Vatican Council. Drury expanded diocesan activities from two to thirty-two departments, including Catholic Charities The C ...
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