Charles Carter Drury
Sir Charles Carter Drury | |
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Born | Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India | 27 August 1846
Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel
from 1903 to 1907.
Born in Rothesay, New Brunswick, Drury was the son of LeBaron Drury (1813–1882), British Consul and High Sheriff of Saint John, New Brunswick, by his wife Eliza Sophia Poyntz, daughter of Colonel James Poyntz (1796–1887), of the 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot.
Drury joined the
Promoted to
Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel from August 1903.[7] He was promoted to vice admiral in 1904, and became Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet from 1907 before being promoted to admiral and becoming Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in 1908.[8][9] He retired in 1911.[1]
Drury was
Queen Victoria
from 1897 to 1899.
Family
Drury married Francis Ellen Whitehead, daughter of Robert Whitehead, of Beckett, Shrivenham, Berkshire. She died at the residence of her father on 22 February 1900.[10]
His first cousin, Major General Charles William Drury, was the father of
Lady Beaverbrook
.
Arms
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References
- ^ a b "ADMIRAL SIR C. C. DRURY.; Second Lord of Admiralty from 1903 Until 1908 Dies in London". New York Times. May 19, 1914. p. 9.
- ^ HMS Hood
- ^ "No. 27100". The London Gazette. 18 July 1899. p. 4444.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36763. London. 9 May 1902. p. 10.
- ^ "The Durbar Honours". The Times. No. 36966. London. 1 January 1903. p. 8.
- ^ "No. 27511". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1903. p. 2.
- ^ "Royal Navy Flag Officers 1904 – 1975". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2010-07-17.
- ^ Attending the Prince of Wales The Duke of York's Royal Military School
- ^ Matron's Memories – the Gillingham naval orphans' home Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine Naval Historical Collectors & Research Association
- ^ "Deaths". The Times. No. 36074. London. 24 February 1900. p. 1.
- ^ "Grants and Confirmations of Arms Vol. J". National Library of Ireland. 1898. p. 397. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
External links
- The Dreadnought Project: Charles Carter Drury