then had been administered by the provincial treasurer, was given its own minister (Charles Alfred Drury

estates. The richest of these included the legacy that former chief justice Ward Chipman* had bequeathed to Ward Chipman Drury (both were

Mowat to make him minister of agriculture after Charles Alfred Drury was defeated in the

DRURY, CHARLES ALFRED, farmer, politician, and office holder; b

enthusiastic audience that included Governor Henry Arthur Blake and his wife. Afterwards the governor was heard to remark to Danielle that “outside of Drury Lane Theatre, the exhibition was the best he had ever

. 28 Nov. 1826 in Lincoln, England, elder child of Richard Clarke and Jane Drury; m. first 2