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Drewry (surname)

Drewry is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Arthur Drewry (1891–1961), English director of football and FIFA president
  • Christopher Drewry, British Army general
  • David Drewry (born 1947), English glaciologist and geophysicist
  • George Leslie Drewry (1894–1918), English Royal Navy officer and Victoria Cross recipient
  • James Sidney Drewry (1883–1952), British engineer
  • Patrick H. Drewry (1875–1947), American politician
  • Kyle James Drewry (1983-Current), American Innovator

Usage examples of "drewry".

His brother Drewry was one of John's partners in this enterprise, and he had no trouble finding other young men anxious to share in the profit and the fun.

The boys shared a single bedroom, John and Drewry occupying one of the big double beds and Joel and Richard the other.

His wife slipped quietly out of the room to superintend the preparation of breakfast, and John and Drewry went to feed the stockthe first order of business on a working farm, never to be neglected in spite of illness or bad weather.

Except for Drewry whose existence was lonely and fearful, the children of John Bell Senior lived long and prospered.

Others suggested that the two older boys, John Junior and Drewry, had learned "magic arts" such as ventriloquism during their journeys to New Orleans, and had helped their little sister deceive the rest of the family.

It was beyond their control, and as their unhappy father began to suffer the normal ills of old age, exacerbated by worry and nervous hysteria, John and Drewry were unable to endure the memory of their wrongdoing.

Smile at my theory if you like, Fodor, but I'll wager that if we had been called into this case when it first began, we'd have met John and Drewry in the dark halls of the house, not Miss Betsy.