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Col. Alexander Drury was born
abt. 1830 and married first Fanny Elizabeth
Evans, b. May 6, 1835 in Eton, Bucks, d. June 8,
1862 in Madras, India. He later married Mary Ann
Abel (1834 - 1882) in 1868 in India. Col.
Alexander Drury and Mary Ann Abel Drury are
included in this photograph, but have not been
identified. Please email
the webmaster if you can identify them, or any of
the people in the photograph. It was taken in
India, probably sometime between 1868 and 1876. Col.
Alexander Drury was the son of Dr. Arthur Jackson
Drury (c. 1798 - January 14, 1837) and the
grandson of Mark Drury (Abt. April 27, 1759 -
July 22, 1835). Mark and his son, William, left
Harrow for Brussels leaving many debts and were
made bankrupt in 1829. Mark was the brother of
Joseph Drury, Rev., D.D., the famous headmaster
of Harrow School who taught Lord Byron. He
descended from John Drury, of Holt House, Leziate
(1626 - c. 1689) who was a Warder in the Tower of
London. (See Suffolk
Manorial Families, pages 371-372.)
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