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SIR WILLIAM DRURY (1527-1579)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 603 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:WILLIAM See also:DRURY (1527-1579)  , See also:English statesman and soldier, was a son of See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Drury of Hedgerley in See also:Buckinghamshire, and See also:grandson of another Sir Robert Drury (d . 1536), who was See also:speaker of the See also:House of See also:Commons in 1495 . He was See also:born at Hawstead in See also:Suffolk on the 2nd of See also:October 1527, and was educated at Gonville See also:Hall, See also:Cambridge . Fighting in See also:France, Drury was taken prisoner in 1544; then after his See also:release he helped See also:Lord See also:Russell, afterwards See also:earl of See also:Bedford, to quell a rising in See also:Devonshire in 1549, but he did not come to the front until the reign of See also:Elizabeth . In 1559 he was sent to See also:Edinburgh to See also:report on the See also:condition of Scottish politics, and five years later he became See also:marshal and See also:deputy-See also:governor of See also:Berwick . Again in See also:Scotland in See also:January 1570, it is. interesting to See also:note that the See also:regent See also:James See also:Stewart, earl of See also:Murray, was proceeding to keep an See also:appointment with Drury in See also:Linlithgow when he was mortally wounded, and it was probably intended to See also:murder the English See also:envoy also . After this event Drury led two raids into Scotland; at least thrice he went to that See also:country on more peaceable errands, during which, however, his See also:life was continually in danger from assassins; and he commanded the force which compelled Edinburgh See also:Castle to surrender in May 1573 . In 1576 he was sent to See also:Ireland as See also:president of See also:Munster, where his stern See also:rule was very successful, and in 1578 he became lord See also:justice to the Irish See also:council, taking the See also:chief See also:control of affairs after the departure of Sir See also:Henry See also:Sidney . The rising of the earl of See also:Desmond had just broken out when Sir See also:William died in October 579• Drury's letters to Lord See also:Burghley and others are invaluable for the See also:story of the relations between See also:England and Scotland at this See also:time .

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