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7 unusual facts about Drury


Drury, New Zealand

As well as the former Papakura District and Franklin District, all other territorial authorities were abolished and the entire area was dissolved into a single Auckland city council.

Herbert Drury

Herb Drury (1895–1965), Canadian-born American ice hockey player

Hyphantria

One species, Hyphantria cunea Drury, 1773, was introduced in Western, Central and Eastern Eurasia.

Parnell Tunnel

The rail tunnel, originally intended in part to provide a connection to Drury for the New Zealand land wars, has been lauded as having enabled the first public railway line in Auckland, and opening the city up to the wider New Zealand.

Trail, Missouri

It formerly had its own post office with a ZIP code of 65763, but mail is now served by the post office in Drury about fifteen miles away.

Trevor Chute

In 1861 Chute and his regiment arrived in New Zealand, where they helped construct the military road from Drury to the Waikato River.

Xylocopa latipes

It was first scientifically described by the English entomologist, Dru Drury in 1773, and is a member of the group of solitary bees (Family Apidae).


Ashby cum Fenby

In the north aisle are monuments to Sir William Wray (d. 1617) and his wife Frances (d. 1647), and to Susanna Drury, sister of Frances.

Cardell Goodman

Here, according to Cibber, he made his reputation, and he is mentioned by John Downes as taking the parts of Alexas in John Dryden's All for Love, Pharnaces in Mithridates, king of Pontus, by Nathaniel Lee, acted in 1678, and Valentinian in the tragedy of Valentinian, adapted by the Earl of Rochester from Beaumont and Fletcher's play, and performed at Drury Lane in 1685.

Christopher Hancock

Hancock began acting in the theatre in the 1960s and he had roles in plays such as Richard II and Measure for Measure (both 1965) and the musical Billy (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1974).

Continental Artillery Regiment

There were two Rhode Island companies, those of Captains Ebenezer Stevens and Jotham Drury.

Drury High School

Drury competes primarily within Berkshire County, though a small portion of its non-league independent schedule includes similar-size schools from the Connecticut River Valley of Western Massachusetts and nearby Vermont.

Drury Lane

The street Drury Lane is also where The Muffin Man lives as mentioned in the popular nursery rhyme.

Drury Lane Theatrical Fund

The Drury Lane Theatrical Fund (DLTF) is a benevolent fund for established in 1766 by members of the Theatre Royal in London, England, "for the relief and support of such performers and other persons belonging to the said theater, as, through age, infirmity, or accident, should be obliged to retire from the Stage".

E. Alexander Bergstrom

While he was at Harvard, his passion for ornithology flourished; he birded with noted ornithologists Ludlow Griscom, William H. (Bill) Drury, Wendell Taber, Allan Cruickshank, Chandler Robbins, Charles Foster Batchelder and others in the Nuttall Ornithological Club.

Fred S. Clinton

Young Fred was educated in the national schools of the Creek Nation then went off to study at St. Francis Institute in Osage, Kansas, Drury College (now Drury University) (Springfield, Missouri), Gem City Business College (Quincy, Illinois), and Young Harris College in Georgia.

Fred Terry

At the Haymarket, he was particularly known for his role of Charles II in the play Sweet Nell of Old Drury by Paul Kester, which became one of his signature roles.

Gary Clarke

In July 2003, Clarke and Drury, along with two other The Virginian costars, Roberta Shore and singer Randy Boone, were guests at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina.

George Drury

George Durie, also spelt 'Dury' and 'Drury', Abbot of Dunfermline

Green room

In 1735, actor Charles Macklin got into a quarrel with Thomas Hallam (another actor) over a wig and killed the other actor in the green room by accidentally thrusting his cane through Hallam's eye at Drury Lane.

Herb Drury

In 2010, Herb Drury joined his late brother, University of Southern California football legend Morley Drury, as an inductee of the Midland (Ontario) Sports Hall of Fame, in the Athlete category.

In 1924, Drury once again saw Olympic action as a member of the U.S. Olympic team that played in the first Winter Games at Chamonix, France.

James Neale

Neale was born to Raphael and Jane Neale of Drury Lane, London and of Wollaston, Northamptonshire, England.

John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire

He married firstly Mary Anne Drury, daughter of Sir Thomas Drury, 1st Baronet, and secondly Caroline, daughter of William James Conolly, but died without surviving male issue and was succeeded by his half-brother.

John Mottley

Mottley was joint author with Charles Coffey of the comic opera, ‘The Devil to pay, or the Wives Metamorphosed,’ produced at Drury Lane on 6 August 1731, and frequently revived.

John Stephen Hill

Hill's West End work include his leading role debut in Deathtrap (Garrick Theatre), Ladies in Retirement (Fortune Theatre), and a tap-dancing Aggie footballer choreographed by Tommy Tune in the original UK production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane).

Kettler Capitals Iceplex

The building was designed by William R. Drury of the Reston, Virginia based firm, Architecture, Incorporated, and completed in November 2006 at a cost of $42.8 million.

Leonora O'Reilly

O'Reilly accompanied her mother to meetings at Cooper Union and her father's friend, Victor Drury, helped instill in her an appreciation for the Italian nationalist Mazzini.

Mary Kent

She continued to appear in minor roles at Drury Lane up to 1710, and had her first and only taste of female lead roles at the theatre operated by William Penkethman at Greenwich during the summer season of 1710.

Mary Martha Pearson

Miss Smithson of Drury Lane Theatre in the character of Ellen in the Falls of the Clyde (exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1823).

Morley Drury

In 2010, Morley Drury joined his late brother, former NHL hockey player and United States Olympian Herb Drury, as an inductee of the Midland (Ontario) Sports Hall of Fame, in the Athlete category.

New Zealand Muslim Association

Drury, Abdullah, “A Short History: New Zealand’s First Mosque” in The Muslim World League Journal (Dhul-Qa‘adah 1421 - February 2001), Vol.28, No.11, pp.

Nigel Abbott

Nigel Drury Gresley Abbott AM (29 March 1920 – 13 November 2011) was an Australian politician.

Peter Drury

Since then, Drury has held down a high-profile position as ITV's number two commentator to Clive Tyldesley.

However, following the departure of Rob Hawthorne to Sky Sports, Drury stepped up to the roster, and over the next three seasons was a highly regarded member of Five Live's commentary team, a team which included Alan Green, Mike Ingham, and his future ITV colleague Jon Champion.

Philip Butler

Philip Butler married Elizabeth Drury in 1510, a daughter of Sir Robert Drury of Hawstead, Suffolk.

Rod Drury

In 2005 Drury joined the board of TradeMe, New Zealand's most successful eCommerce internet site, as an independent director.

Shane Drury

Drury was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and was reared with his two brothers, Chad and Jesse, in Rapid City, South Dakota.

St. James Canadians

Roster: Pat Angers, Don Atamanchuk, Al Baty, Gary Bergman, Ernie Bradawaski, Rene Brunel, Ted Green, Howie Hughes, Allan Ingimundson, Ken King, Ted Knight, Jerry Kruk, Laurie Langrell, Wayne Larkin, Al LeBlanc, Bob Leiter, Doug Monro, Zenon Moroz, Lew Mueller, John Rodger, Paul Sexsmith, John Sutherland, Bob Wales, Wayne Winstone, Ernie Wakely, J. D. (Jack) Perrin Jr. (President), Bill Addison (Manager), Bill Allum (Coach), Jim Drury (Trainer).

Stephen Drury

Drury has performed and recorded a range of compositions by classical and contemporary composers including Igor Stravinsky, Charles Ives, John Cage, Frederic Rzewski, Elliott Carter, and John Zorn.

The Fortune of War

Admiral Drury - admiral on station at Pulo Batang in the Dutch East Indies.

The Night Before Larry Was Stretched

The melody and first verse of "To the Hundreds of Drury I write" are in John Barry Talley's 'Secular Music in Colonial Annapolis', 1988.

The Strumbellas

Hembrey, James, Drury and Ward are all originally from Lindsay, Ontario, while Ritter and Ritchie joined after Ward posted a call for additional musicians to Craigslist.

Timothy Drury

Drury performed on Felder's latest record Road to Forever.

United Company

The King's Company theatre, the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, was used mainly for plays, while the Duke's Dorset Garden Theatre was devoted to operas and spectaculars.


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