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Lieutenant-Colonel William Price Drury CBE (8 November 1861–21 January 1949) was a Royal Marine Light Infantry officer, novelist, playwright, and Mayor of Saltash from 1929 to 1931. The saying "Tell It to the Marines", often incorrectly attributed to King Charles II, actually came from the preface of his collection ''The Tadpole of an Archangel''. Drury also wrote a poem entitled ''The Dead Marines'' in tribute to the Royal Marines after the Duke of Clarence supposedly called empty alcohol bottles "Dead Marines". Drury was educated at Brentwood School, Essex, and at Plymouth College. During his Royal Marines career, he served on the China Station and with the Mediterranean Fleet. He commanded the Royal Marines from HMS ''Camperdown'' and HMS ''Astraea'' who landed on Crete after local Christians and British soldiers were massacred by Turkish Bashi-bazouk forces in 1898. He was a member of the Naval Intelligence Department from 1900 until he resigned to pursue his literary career the following year. At the outbreak of World War I, he rejoined the Royal Marines and served as an intelligence officer at Plymouth.〔''Who Was Who 1941-1952 Volume IV'', 1952,A&C Black〕 The Royal Marines Barracks at Stonehouse, Plymouth have a Drury Room containing his desk and memorabilia〔()〕 Drury's mother-in-law was the romantic novelist Mrs. Pender Cudlip.〔Sutherland, John, ''The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction'', 1989, Stanford University Press, p.165〕 The actress Ruth Kettlewell was his niece. ==List of works== *''HMS Missfire'' (1893) *''The Petrified Eye and Other Stories Originally Told to the Marines'' (1896) *''The Tadpole of an Archangel'' (1898) *''Bearers of the Burden Being Stories of Land and Sea'' (1899) 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「William Price Drury」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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