Robert Drury (1587–1623) was an English Jesuit.
Biography
Drury was born in 1587 in
Middlesex
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,
Kingdom of England
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, son of
William Drury
Sir William Drury (2 October 152713 October 1579) was an English statesman and soldier.
Family
William Drury, born at Hawstead in Suffolk on 2 October 1527, was the third son of Sir Robert Drury (c. 1503–1577) of Hedgerley, Buckinghamshir ...
, D.C.L., judge of the prerogative court (who was converted to the Catholic faith in
articulo mortis), and his wife, Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Southwell of
Woodrising, Norfolk
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, a relative of Father
Robert Southwell the poet. He was educated in London, and at the age of fourteen was sent to the
English College at Douay
The English College ( French: ''College des Grands Anglais'') was a Catholic seminary in Douai, France (also previously spelled Douay, and in English Doway), associated with the University of Douai. It was established in 1568, and was suppressed ...
, where he began his course of humanities, which he completed at
St. Omer.
On 9 October 1605 he entered the
English College, Rome
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, for his higher course. After receiving minor orders he joined the
Society of Jesus
The Society of Jesus (; abbreviation: S.J. or SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits ( ; ), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome. It was founded in 1540 ...
in October 1608, and subsequently he repaired to
Posna to finish his theology, arriving there 28 February 1611–12. In 1620 he was rector of the college at St. Omer, and afterwards was sent on the mission to his native country, where he became a distinguished preacher. He was professed of the four vows 8 September 1622. Occasionally he went under the names of Bedford and Stanley.
He lost his life on Sunday, 5 November (N.S.) 1623, at the ''
Fatal Vespers'' in Blackfriars.
Works
There is a eulogium of Drury in the preface to a book called ''F. Robert Drury's Reliquary'' (1624), containing his prayers and devotions. Stow says that he was reputed by his fellow-churchmen to be a man of great learning, and generally admitted to be of good moral life.
Notes
References
;Attribution
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**Cunningham's ''Handbook for London'' (1849), i. 94
**Dodd's ''Church Hist''. ii. 410;
**''Diaries of the English College'', Douay, pp. 218, 232, 234;
**Foley's ''Records'', i. 77–97, v. 1007, vi. 235, 247, vii. 211;
**Fuller's ''Church Hist''. (Brewer), v. 539;
**Gillow's ''Bibl. Dict''.;
**Lowndes's ''Bibl. Man.'' (Bohn), i. 211;
**More's ''Hist. Missionis Anglic. Soc. Jesu'', p. 451;
**''Notes and Queries'', 3rd ser. x. 447;
**Oliver's ''Jesuit Collections'', p. 83;
**Pennant's ''Account of London'' (1793), p. 238;
**Thornbury's ''Old and New London'', i. 199–204.
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17th-century English Jesuits
1587 births
1623 deaths
Roman Catholic clergy from London
Accidental deaths in London