Thomas Wortley Drury was an Anglican bishop

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 who later served as Master

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 of St Catharine's College, Cambridge

St Catharine's College, Cambridge

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Drury was educated at King William's College

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 and Christ's College, Cambridge

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. Ordained in 1871,. His first post was as a curate

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 at Braddon

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 after which he was Mathematical Master

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 of King William's College

King William's College

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 (his old schoo). Following this he was rector

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 of Holy Trinity, Chesterfield

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 then Principal of the Church Missionary College in Islington

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. Between 1899 to 1907 he was Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge

Ridley Hall, Cambridge

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 when he was ordained to the episcopate as the Bishop of Sodor and Man

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, a post he held for four years. In 1911 he was translated

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 to become the Bishop of Ripon

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. A Sub-Prelate

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 of the Order of St John of Jerusalem

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, he died at the Master’s Lodge at St Catharine's.