Drury, born in Middlesex in 1587, was son of William Drury, D.C.L., judge of the prerogative court (who was converted to the Catholic faith in articulo mortis), and his wife, Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Southwell of Woodrising, Norfolk, a relative of Father Robert Southwell the poet.
He was educated in London, and at the age of fourteen was sent to the English College at Douay, where he began his course of humanities, which he completed at Saint Omer.
On 9 October 1605 he entered the English College, Rome, for his higher course. In 1620 he was rector of the college at Saint Omer, and afterwards was sent on the mission to his native country, where he became a distinguished preacher. He was professed of the four vows 8 September 1622.
Occasionally he went under the names of Bedford and Stanley.
He lost his life on Sunday, 5 November (Nova Scotia) 1623, at the Fatal Vespers in Blackfriars.
