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Lieutenant-General Sir Drury Curzon Drury-Lowe GCB (3 January 1830 – 6 April 1908) had a distinguished military career in the 19th century British Army. ==Biography== He was born on 3 January 1830 at Aston Lodge in Aston-on-Trent when he was called Drury Curzon Holden. His father was William Drury Holden and he changed his name to Lowe when he inherited the Locko Park inheritance.〔(Biography of Sir Drury Curzon Drury-Lowe (1830-1908) ), University of Nottingham, accessed November 2009〕 He was educated privately at his home, Locko Park,〔(Ancestral home )〕 near Spondon in Derbyshire, before gaining a BA at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He joined the 17th Lancers〔(Regimental web-site )〕 in 1854 as a Cornet. He was commissioned a Lieutenant in November 1854 and Captain in November 1856. He served in the Crimean War at the Battle of Chernaya River and was at the Siege of Sevastopol when it fell. He also saw service in the Indian Mutiny in 1858–1859. He purchased a commission as Major in 1862, and was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel of the 17th Lancers in 1866.〔ffrench Blake,R.l.V: London, Hamish Hamilton, 1968 ISBN 978-0-241-01543-8〕 Sometime between 1862 and 1867 he assumed the surname Drury-Lowe in place of Lowe. He commanded the regiment for 12 years — most notably at the Battle of Ulundi,〔(Rourke's Drift web-site )〕 the last pitched battle of the Anglo-Zulu War.〔''The Field Guide to the Anglo-Zulu War'' Laband, J./Thompson, P.(1999 Scottsville University of Natal Press) ISBN 0869809512〕 He was appointed CB in 1879. In the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War, he received the surrender of Urabi Pasha.〔(Feted by neighbours on return )〕 He was publicly thanked in the House of Commons, and knighted on 18 November 1882. Drury-Lowe was Inspector of Cavalry at Aldershot from 1885 to 1890.〔The DNB (Supplement 1901-1911 Volume 1 Abbey-Eyre) notes he "made no major innovations": Drury Lowe was, first and last a field soldier.〕 He was promoted to Lieutenant-General in 1890. He became Colonel of the 17th Lancers in 1892.〔 He retired in 1895 and was awarded the G.C.B. and then resided at Keydell House, Horndean〔''Horndean 2000'' Singleton,B. (1999, Horndean, Horndean Parish Council〕 occasionally writing to The Times.〔''The First Cuckoo:letters to The Times, 1900-1980'' (Gregory, K. Ed.) London, George Allen & Unwin, 1981 ISBN 0048080314 Letter written 8 May 1903 arguing for the retention of the lance.〕 He died on 6 April 1908.〔His widow on 17 January 1931. ''Havant Museum, Local History Collection, Horndean Collection, Vol 4 (Keydell)'' Autobiographical notebook of Margaret Strange, Keydell resident (Farmhouse) 1928-53〕 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「Drury Drury-Lowe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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