Individual Details

Robert Drury was son of Roger Drury of Hawstead, Suffolk, and was probably educated at Gonville Hall, Cambridge.[1] 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.

Of his daughters by Anne Calthorpe, Ursula married Sir Giles Alington, Knt., of Horseheath, Cambridgeshire. Sir Robert Drury's Will is very extensive and detailed, and mentions "Robert Alyngton my daughter Ursula's son" as being under age at the time of writing. (Drury's sons William and Robert are also mentioned). Another daughter, Anne, married [1] George Waldegrave (ca. 1483 – 8 July 1528) of Smallbridge, Suffolk, from whom descend the Earls Waldegrave, as well as a branch of the Higham of Higham Green and Denham family. She married [2] Sir Thomas Jermyn, Knt.,(ca. 1500 – 1552) of Rushbrooke, Suffolk, from whom descend that family (includes the Jacobite peer) as well as the Crane family of Chilton, later baronets.

Found on the website www.historyofparliamentonline.org:
"The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History"
Members 1386-1421
Drury, Sir Robert I (1456-1535) of Hawstead, Suffolk, and London.
Sir Robert served in Parliament from Suffolk 1491,1496, and perhaps again in 1510. He was Speaker of the House of Commons in 1495.
He was the first son of Roger Drury of Hawstead by Felice, daughter and heir of William Denston of Besthorpe, Norfolk.
By 1494 he married his first wife Anne, daughter of Sir William Calthorpe of Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk. By 1531, he was married to Anne, daughter of Edward Jerningham of Somerleyton, Soffolk who was the widow of Lord Edward Gray (dead by 1517), possible of a Berkeley, and of Henry Barley, who died 12 Nov 1529.
Robert Drury was knighted 17 Jun 1497, after fighting against the rebels at Blackheath.
Drury made his will on 1 May 1531 and died on 2 Mar. 1535. In accordance with his request he was buried in St. Mary’s church, Bury St. Edmunds, where a stone monument with effigies of himself and his first wife bears the inscription ‘Such as ye be, sometime were we, such as we are, such shall ye be. Miserere nostri’. His rich household hangings, goods and plate, and large flocks of sheep he left chiefly to his wife and sons. His dwellings included a house in College Street, Bury St. Edmunds and a ‘place’ in the parish of St. Clement Dane, London, which later gave its name to Drury Lane. His widow married Sir Edmund Walsingham

Birth	By 1456
Death	2 Mar 1535
Marriage		Anne Calthorpe
Burial		Bures Saint Mary, Suffolk, England

Spouse	Anne Calthorpe ( - )
Child	Anne Drury ( - 1572)

Father	Roger Drury Esq ( - )
Mother	Felice Denston ( - )