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Charles Drury (priest)

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Charles Rous Drury (1823–1891) was an Anglican Archdeacon in India in the late 19th century.[1]

Drury was born at Pondicherry on 1 October 1823. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge[2] and ordained in 1847.[3] After curacies in Apuldram, Compton, West Sussex and St Pancras he was Vicar of Leominster from 1852 to 1856. In that year he went as a Chaplain to Madras. He was Archdeacon of Madras from 1875 to 1881. Returning to Sussex he was the incumbent at Westhampnett from 1881[4] until his death on 29 October 1891. His widow Agnes died in London on 6 January 1924.[5]

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