DRURY, Sir Robert (1575-1615), of Hawstead, Suff. and Drury House, Westminster

Family and Education

b. 30 Jan. 1575, 1st s. of Sir William Drury† of Hawstead, gov. of Bergen-op-Zoom 1588-90, and Elizabeth, da. of Sir William Stafford† of Chebsey, Staffs.J. Cullum, Hist. and Antiqs. of Hawsted, 69; HP Commons, 1558-1603, ii. 58-9. educ. privately (Richard Brabon); Corpus, Camb. 1588, MA 1599. PROB 11/126, f. 252v; Al. Cant. m. 30 Jan. 1592 (with £1,600), Anne (d. 5 June 1624), da. of Sir Nicholas Bacon†, 1st bt. of Culford, Suff., 2da. d.v.p. suc. fa. 1590; Cullum, 31-2, 69-70; R.C. Bald, Donne and the Drurys, 19, 26, 156 Kntd. ?27 Sept. 1591. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 89. d. 2 Apr. 1615. Cullum, 32 sig. R[obert] Drury.

Offices Held

Vol. Normandy 1591, Shaw, ii. 89. Low Countries 1600; Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, i. 103 capt. of ft. [I] 1599, CSP Ire. 1599–1600, pp. 127, 462. 1601–2 (Dutch army). D.J.B. Trim, ‘Fighting "Jacob’s Wars". The Employment of English and Welsh Mercenaries in the European Wars of Religion: France and the Neths. 1562–1610’, (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 2002), p. 423.

Commr. musters, Suff. 1598; APC, 1597–8, p. 307. gamekpr. (jt.), Thetford, Norf. 1607; CSP Dom. 1603–10, p. 387. j.p. Suff. by 1606–d., C66/1682; 66/1918 dep. lt. by 1609 – d., capt. militia ft. 1613–d. Harl. 3786, f. 35v; HMC 13th Rep. IV, 438; Add. 39245, ff. 8v, 25v.

Member, embassy to Spain 1605; R. Treswell, Relation of Such Things as were Observed to Happen in the Journey of Right Hon. Charles Earl of Nottingham (1605), p. 3. gent. of the privy chamber by 1605. HMC Buccleuch, i. 57

Member and cttee. Virg. Co. 1609; A. Brown, Genesis of US, 210, 232. member, E.I. Co. by 1614. CSP Col. E.I. 1513–16, p. 305.

Parlimentarian

DRURY, Sir Robert (1575-1615), of Hawstead, Suff. and Drury House, Westminster

Main residences: Hawstead, Suff.; Drury House, Westminster.

Author

J.P.F.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

DRURY, Sir Robert (1575-1615)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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