John Poad Drake (1794–1883) was an inventor and artist from

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. He worked at the Plymouth Dockyard. He later painted in

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(1815), Montreal and New York. He later returned to England and patented a new system for drilling screws at the shipyard. He is a descendant of Sir

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. 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).

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References

Text * *Mechanic's Magazine, lxvi
242, 251–4, 393, 422, 493–5, 538
lxviii. 107, 181, 228, 542, 609, lxix. 61; *Artisan, May 1852, March 1854; *Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, xv. 113
Boase and Courtney's Bibliotheca Cornubiensis: Comprising a supplementary catalogue of authors .... p. 1160
* “John Poad Drake (1794-1883): the First Artist to Portray the Hospital”, Montreal General Hospital News 1981, 19(l): 8-9. {{DEFAULTSORT:Drake, John Poad 1794 births 1883 deaths