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Spouses/Children:
1. Anna Frances Tayler
- Catherine Frances Drury
- Arthur James Drury
- Anna Harriett Drury
2. Anne Nicholas
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Rev. William James Joseph Drury of Brussels, M.A.
- Born: 1791, Harrow, Middlesex, England
- Christened: 7 Nov 1791, St. Mary, Harrow, Middlesex, England 1
- Married (1): 12 Dec 1816, St. Marylebone, London, England 2
- Married (2): 22 Nov 1828, Brussels, Brabant, Belgium 3
- Died: 7 Feb 1878, Brussels, Brabant, Belgium
- Buried: 12 Feb 1878, Evere Cemetery near Brussels, Belgium
 Research Notes:
William James Joseph Drury (1791–1878) was an English cleric and schoolmaster, who became chaplain to Leopold I of Belgium, and tutor to his son, the future Leopold II.
He was the son of the Rev. Mark Drury, a cleric and schoolmaster, brother of Joseph Drury of Harrow School.... He was the son of the Rev. Mark Drury, a cleric and schoolmaster, brother of Joseph Drury of Harrow School.
Drury matriculated in 1808 at Trinity College, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1811, M.A. in 1814. After Oxford, Drury himself became one of the "Drury clan" teaching at Harrow School, rising to be fifth master there....
Drury left Harrow in 1826.... By 1828, ... Drury had at least 70 pupils in a school in Brussels, then in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
According to a number of sources, Drury became the chaplain of the English Chapel in Brussels in 1829.
Alumni Oxonienses states that Drury held a post as British Chaplain in Brussels for the rest of his life. Given the presence in Brussels of the Rev. Evan Jenkins, with more official standing, it is not so clear what that meant....
From about 1840, the situation was of three Anglican priests including Drury who held services on the boulevard de l'Observatoire (Église Évangélique); the other services were in the rue du Musée (Chapelle Royale, high church) and the rue Belliard in the Quartier Léopold (evangelical)....
In 1839, Drury was living in the rue de l'Orangerie, Brussels, and taking both boarders and day boys....
Drury tutored Ernest, Prince of Saxe-Gotha and his brother Albert. This was in the period 1836–7, during which Albert was preparing for the University of Bonn, and first met Princess Victoria. While the brothers were in Brussels, for ten months and under the oversight of Adolphe Quetelet, tutoring by Drury was one of their influences, and letters from him were added to their autograph collection. Their course was dominated by Quetelet's mathematics, and Drury's instruction in English literature.
What might have been called the English Chapel, in 1829, was consecrated by bishop Matthew Luscombe, as St George's Church. Drury was there for 11 years, according to George Edward Biber, the period including the Belgian Revolution of 1830. Initially his church was used exclusively for services in English....
... Drury had official Belgian recognition as an Anglican pastor, from 1840.
Drury then officiated at the Église Chrétienne et Évangélique, on the boulevard de l'Observatoire; this church was shared, and services in French were held there also. There were pew rents and some support from the Belgian government. The official Almanach for 1852 called it the Chapelle Saint-George.
In August 1862 Drury accompanied the Duke of Brabant (the future Leopold II) on a visit to the United Kingdom, on the SS Diamant, starting from Ostend. The itinerary included the Woolwich Arsenal and the 1862 International Exhibition. 4
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DRURY.—On the 7th February, at Brussels, the Rev. William Drury, M.A., in his 87th year.
The Queenslander (Brisbane), Saturday, 13 Apr 1878, p. 33
Marriage Information:
William married Anna Frances Tayler, daughter of Archdale Wilson Tayler and Frances Eliza, on 12 Dec 1816 in St. Marylebone, London, England. (Anna Frances Tayler was christened on 5 Jun 1797 in Elstree, Hertford, England, and died on 12 Sep 1827 in Hastings, Sussex, England.)
Marriage Notes:
William James Joseph Drury, esquire, of this parish, bachelor, and Anna Frances Tayler, spinster, of the parish of Hayes in the county of Middlesex, a minor
Married by Licence with consent of Frances Eliza Tayler, the natural and lawful mother of the said minor.
Witnesses: George Robert Tayler, Frances Tayler, Eliza Drury
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Dec. 12, William Drury, Esq. of Harrow, to Anna Frances, daughter of the late A. W. Tayler, Esq.
Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser (London), 16 Dec 1816, p. 3
Marriage Information:
William also married Anne Nicholas, daughter of Robert Nicholas and Ann Clark, on 22 Nov 1828 in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium. (Anne Nicholas was born on 30 Jul 1806 in Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire, England, christened there 26 Aug 1806, and died on 19 Jan 1878 in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.)
Marriage Notes:
We, William James Joseph Drury, Clerk, Widower, and Anne Nicholas, daughter of Robert Nicholas, Esquire, late of Ashton Keynes in the County of Wilts, deceased, and Anne his wife, Spinster, both now residing in Brussels, in the Kingdom of The Netherlands, do severally make oath, that we are about to enter into the holy estate of Matrimony....
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On the 22d instant, at Brussels, the Rev. William Drury, M.A., to Anne, daughter of the late Robert Nicholas, Esq., of Ashton Keynes, Wilts, and late Chairman to the Hon. Board of Excise.
Morning Herald (London), 28 Nov 1828, p. 4
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