Family Background
Robert Drury was son of Roger Drury of Hawstead, Suffolk, and was probably educated at Gonville Hall, Cambridge. With Sir Robert Drury began for this family a long connection with the courts of the Tudor sovereigns, and a succession of capable and eminent men whose careers are part of the history of this country throughout the 16th century. His first wife was Anne (d. before March 1558), daughter of Sir William Calthorpe, K.B., of Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk; they had two sons, William and Robert, and four daughters.
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