Background
BICKERSTAFFE-DREW, Francis was born on February 11, 1858 in TIcadingly, Leeds. Son of late Reverend Harry Lloyd Bickerstaffe and Mona Brougham, daughter of Reverend Pierce William Drew, of Heathtield Towers, Youghal. Assumed 1879 additional surname of Drew.
Education
Studied at Edward VI. Grammar School, Lichlield. Saint Chad’s College, Denstone (A.S.N.C. 1st Class Honours). Oxford; subsequently at Saint Thomas’s Seminary, Hammersmith.
Bachelor of Divinity.
Career
Ordained Priest, 1SS4, by Bishop Wethers. Assistant Priest of ProCathedral, Kensington, 1884-S6. Acting Chaplain to the Forces, 18S6-93.
Chaplain to the Forces, Plymouth, 1893-1899.
Senior Roman Catholic Chaplain, Malta, 1899-1905, and 1909. Salisbury Plain, 1905-1909.
Private Chamberlain of His late Holiness Pope Leo XIII., 1891. Decorated with Cross of Leo XIII., Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, 1901.
An Examiner in, and Member of the Special Council of the University of Malta, 1899-1905.
A Member of the Pontifical Chamber of Malta since 1900. Private Chamberlain of Pope Pius X., 1903. Created Domestic Prelate of His Holiness, 1904.
Knight of the Sacred Military Order of the Holy Sepulchre and Count, 1909.
Senior Chaplain to the Forces (Roman Catholic), Salisbury Plain, since 1(40.