John Drewry

John Drewery, DCL was an English Anglican priest in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.[1]

Drewry was born in Pulborough and educated at Lincoln College, Oxford.[2] He held livings at Pulborough and Witney. He was appointed a Canon of Chichester Cathedral in 1582 and Archdeacon of Oxford in 1592.[3] Drewry died on 9 June 1614.

Notes

1. "The Gentleman's Magazine" Sylvanus Urban p646: London; Nichols & Son; 1804
2. Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Disbrowe-Dyve
3. Horn, Joyce M. (1996), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 8, pp. 84–85