Joseph Drury
Head Master of Harrow school
About Joseph Drury
Lived 1750 – 1834 (aged 83–84).
Joseph Drury (11 February 1750 – 9 January 1834) was Head Master of Harrow School 1785–1805, and first of a dynasty of Drurys to teach at Harrow.
Life Drury was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Admitted to Trinity in 1768, he was unable to continue at Cambridge due to lack of means, and in 1769 became an assistant master at Harrow School.
In 1771, Drury turned down the chance to join Samuel Parr's breakaway school at Stanmore.
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Head Master of Harrow school
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Joseph Drury was born in 1750.
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Joseph Drury died in 1834.
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