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Thomas Wortley Drury
Bishop of Sodor and Man
Installed	1907
Term ended	1911
Predecessor	Norman Dumenil John Straton
Successor	James Denton Thompson
Personal details
Born	(1847-09-12)12 September 1847
Died	2 December 1926(1926-12-02) (aged 79)
Spouse	Catherine Beatrice Drury
Alma mater	King William's College Christ's College, Cambridge

Thomas Wortley Drury (12 September 1847 – 12 February 1926) was a British Anglican bishop who served as Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge from 1920.

Life to 1914

He was born on the Isle of Man the son of the Rev. William Drury, Vicar of Braddan. He was educated at King William's College and Christ's College, Cambridge.

Ordained deacon in 1871, by Bishop Horatio Powys of Sodor and Man, Drury's first post was as a curate at Braddan. Priested at St Thomas the Apostle, Douglas, Isle of Man in 1872, he served as Chaplain to the Insane Asylum 1872 to 1874, after which he was mathematical master of King William's College. Following this he was rector of Holy Trinity Church, Chesterfield from 1876 to 1882, then Principal of the Church Missionary College in Islington from 1882 to 1899.

Drury was an Examining Chaplain to Bishop Ryle of Liverpool from 1892 onwards. Between 1899 and 1907 he was Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge. Ordained in 1907 to the episcopate as the Bishop of Sodor and Man, he held the post for four years. In 1911 he was translated to become the Bishop of Ripon.

World War I

Drury was a strong supporter of British entry to the Great War. Although his wife died on 29 July 1914, Drury prepared an article for the monthly diocesan gazette published in September, 1914. He wrote that it was the duty of the nation to respond to the national call for a much increased army. ‘This rests not only on those of the age required, but in great measure on parents and friends who may largely help or hinder the loyal response which should be far more widely given and be given without delay’. This appeal to the families and friends of young men not to stand in the way of voluntary recruitment was used by other bishops and clergymen.

Pressure for volunteers to join the army continued for over two years before conscription was introduced. Criticism of the clergy for encouraging recruitment when clerics were under orders not to volunteer themselves as combatants brought the following response from Drury ‘The call for more men is still most urgent. It is hard to press this point when one cannot fight oneself, but many of us have readily given our sons to the cause, and we must not fail to press home the call where it has fallen on deaf ears.’ Both of Drury’s sons were engaged in the War, Edward as a Lt-Commander in the Royal Navy on HMS EURYALUS and Braddan in the Indian Police. Criticism of clergy resulted in a Roll of Honour being created in the diocese on which names of clergy and their families serving in the British forces were listed. They included those who were killed and wounded.

One of Drury’s main occupations centred on providing for the army camps in the Ripon, Richmond and Catterick areas. Tens of thousands of men were trained in these camps, and the diocese, with the support of Wakefield diocese, provided huts, leisure activities, clergy and other volunteers to support the many young men far from home.

Death

A Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, he died at the Master's Lodge at St Catharine's.

Styles of Thomas Drury
Reference style	The Right Reverend
Spoken style	My Lord
Religious style	Bishop

Family

Drury married in 1872 Catherine Beatrice (died 1914), daughter of Captain Edward Dumergue of the Madras Army, and his wife Elizabeth Anne Perry. They had two sons and five daughters. Their daughter, Isabel Wortley Drury, was the wife of Charles Lisle Carr, later Bishop of Coventry and then of Hertford.

He was the father-in-law of the Rev. Arthur Tait, Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge, whose daughter Margaret married the university administrator Bertrand Hallward.

Publications

• How We Got Our Prayer Book
• Confession and Absolution: the teaching of the Church of England, as interpreted and illustrated by the writings of the reformers of the sixteenth century
• Elevation in the Eucharist : Its History and Rationale
• English Church Teaching on Faith, Life and Order

References

1. National Archives
2. ^ "Drury, Rt Rev. Thomas Wortley". Who's Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 2 January 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
3. ^ A History of the Manx Church 1698-1911 by John Gelling, Douglas IOM 1998 p. 214
4. "Drury, Thomas Wortley (DRRY866TW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
5. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
6. Church website
7. Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 434.
8. Principal Manx Events of 1907
9. New Bishop Of Ripon. Translation Of The Bishop Of Sodor And Man The Times Tuesday, Nov 14, 1911; pg. 6; Issue 39742; col G
10. Rip on Diocesan Gazette, September, 1914
11. See for example York Diocesan magazine
12. Rip on Diocesan Gazette, December, 1914
13. Ripon Diocesan Gazette, October, 1915
14. Ripon Diocesan Gazette has monthly references to wartime activities in the diocese.
15. Obituary Dr. T. W. Drury. Bishop And Cambridge Head The Times Saturday, Feb 13, 1926; pg. 7; Issue 44195; col F
16. "Married". Morning Post. 27 October 1852. p. 8.

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Robert Woodlark Richard Roche John Tapton John Wardall Richard Balderston Thomas Green Reginald Bainbrigge Edwin Sandys Edmund Cosyn John May Edmund Hownde John Overall John Hills Richard Sibbes Ralph Brownrigg William Spurstowe John Lightfoot John Eachard Sir William Dawes Thomas Sherlock Thomas Crosse Edward Hubbard Kenrick Prescot Lowther Yates Joseph Proctor Henry Philpott Charles Kirkby Robinson Claude Hermann Walter Johns Thomas Wortley Drury Frederick Margetson Rushmore Henry John Chaytor Donald Portway Edwin Ernest Rich Peter Swinnerton-Dyer Barry Supple Terence English David S. Ingram Jean Thomas Mark Welland John Benger

• 1847 births
• People educated at King William's College
• Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge
• 19th-century Manx Anglican priests
• 20th-century Church of England bishops
• Bishops of Sodor and Man
• Bishops of Ripon (modern diocese)
• Masters of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
• 1926 deaths
• Sub-Prelates of the Venerable Order of Saint John
• Deans of Peel
• Staff of Ridley Hall, Cambridge