rector of Ardley vicar of Cumnor
Drope, a younger son of the Review Thomas Drope, Bachelor of Divinity, vicar of Cumnor, Berkshire, and rector of Ardley, near Bicester, Oxfordshire, was born at Cumnor vicarage about 1629, became a demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1645, three years after his brother John, and graduated as Bachelor of Arts in 1647.
Magdalen College.
He then became an assistant-master in a private school, kept by one William Fuller, at Twickenham. At the Restoration he proceeded Master of Arts (23 August 1660), and in 1662 was made fellow of his college. He subsequently graduated as Bachelor of Divinity (12 December 1667), and was made a prebendary of Lincoln (17 February 1669 – 1670).
He died 26 September
1671, and was buried in the chancel of Cumnor Church. His one work, ‘A Short and Sure Guide in the Practice of Raising and Ordering of Fruit-trees,’ is generally described as posthumous, being published at Oxford, in Octavo, in 1672. The work is eulogised in the ‘Philosophical Transactions,’ volunteer vii., Number.
86, p.
5049, as written from the author"s own experience.
