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Julius Charles Hendicott Drewe (surname originally spelt Drew) (4 April 1856 – 20 November 1931) was an English businessman, retailer and entrepreneur, known for being the creator of the successful Home and Colonial Stores, as well as for the building of Castle Drogo in Devon as his family's country home. ==Early life and career== Julius Charles Hendicott Drew (he changed the spelling to Drewe in 1913) was born at the vicarage in Pulloxhill near Ampthill, Bedfordshire, to George S.H. Drew and Mary (née Peek) a French artist. Julius was the third youngest of eight children. His siblings Mary, Edith, Ada, Reginald, William, Anna and Evelyn all moved, either to different parts of the United Kingdom or to the Colonies, including British North America. He was the nephew of Richard Peek, one of the Sheriffs of the City of London. As a child he attended the renowned and prestigious Bedford School between 1862 and 1874, a traditional private boarding school founded by King Edward VI. After leaving school at eighteen years of age, Julius started his working life as a tea buyer in China and opened his first tea shop four years later in Liverpool in 1878, aged only twenty-one. In 1883 he moved to London to expand his enterprises. The business developed rapidly under the name of Home and Colonial Stores. After only six years, in 1889, he and his partner, John Musker, were able to retire from active participation in the firm as extremely rich men. Drew was only thirty-two years old. In 1919 they sold their outstanding shares in the business for £3.5 million (estimated at £193 million today), a vastly huge sum in those days.〔(Wadhurst History Society )〕 Julius married Frances (née Richardson), on 26 September 1890. With his brother William he had always taken a keen interest in the history of the Drew family. A genealogist convinced him that his family was descended from the Norman aristocratic Drew family of Broadhembury near Honiton in Devon, who had controlled many acres of land since the Norman Conquest. This suggested that Julius descended also from the royal House of York through Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York's marriage to Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York. After discovering this, he bought land there in 1901 and installed his brother William, a wealthy and established barrister, at Broadhembury House; he later died there on 25 March 1938. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Julius Drewe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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