DRAKE, Charles Frederick Tyrwhitt (younger son of Col. Wm. Tyrwhitt Drake of the Royal horse guards, who d. 21 Dec. 1848). b. Amersham, Bucks. 2 Jany. 1846; ed. at Rugby, Wellington coll. and Trin. coll. Cam. but took no degree; spent winters of 1866 and 1867 in Morocco; visited Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Greece and Turkey 1868–70; engaged on survey of Palestine for Palestine exploration fund society 1870 to death; F.R.G.S.; author of Modern Jerusalem 1875; author with Sir R. F. Burton of Unexplored Syria 2 vols. 1872. d. Jerusalem 23 June 1874. Literary remains of C. F. T. Drake by W. Besant 1877; Modern Jerusalem by the late C. F. T. Drake with a memoir 1875; Palestine Fund Reports (1874) pp. 131–4.
DRAKE, John Poad (son of Thomas Drake of Stoke Damerel, Devon, who d. 20 May 1835). Baptised at Stoke Damerel 20 July 1794; painted a picture of Napoleon on board the Bellerophon at Plymouth 1815 which he exhibited in New York; occupied with schemes for breechloading guns 1829–37; laid proposals before government for ironcased floating batteries and steam rams 1832–40; patented his diagonal system of shipbuilding and a screw trenail fastening 1837; failed to obtain adoption of any of his inventions. d. Fowey, Cornwall 26 Feb. 1883. Dict. of Nat. Biog. xv, 447 (1888).
DRAKE, Samuel, stage name of Samuel Bryant. b. England 15 Nov. 1768; apprenticed to a printer; ran away and became an actor; managed a theatre in West of England; acted at Boston theatre, U.S. 1809–13, and at Albany, New York 1813–15; managed theatres at Frankfort, Lexington and Louisville all in Kentucky 1815 to about 1827, afterwards managed theatres in Ohio, Tennessee, Missouri and Indiana; may properly be called the pioneer of the drama in the West. d. Oldham county, Kentucky 16 Oct. 1854.
DRAKE, Sir Thomas Trayton Fuller-Eliott, 1 Baronet (3 son of John Trayton Fuller of Ashdown house, Sussex, who d. 1812). b. Heathfield park, Sussex 8 Feb. 1785; lieut. 52 foot 5 Oct. 1804, major 26 May 1814 to 25 May 1815 when placed on h.p.; assumed additional surnames of Eliott and Drake by r.l. 31 March 1813; created baronet 22 Aug. 1821; sheriff of Devon 1822; edited Life of Sir F. Drake 1828. d. Nutwell court near Exeter 6 June 1870.
DRAKE, Thomas Tyrwhitt (eld. son of Thomas Drake of Shardeloes, Bucks., who d. 1810). b. 16 March 1783; M.P. for Amersham, Bucks. 31 Jany. 1805 to 3 Dec. 1832; sheriff of Bucks. 1836; master of hounds in the Bicester country many years. d. Bucknell, Oxfordshire 23 March 1852.
DRAKE, Sir William Henry (son of John Drake, deputy commissary general, who d. 24 June 1867 aged 84). b. 1812; deputy assistant commissary general 16 April 1835, commissary general 21 June 1859; controller in Ireland 1867, in Great Britain 1869; director of supplies and transports 3 Sep. 1871 to 29 Sep. 1872; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 20 May 1871. d. 10 Clanricarde gardens, Bayswater, London 28 Jany. 1882.
DRAPER, Rev. Daniel James. b. parish of Wickham, Hants. 28 Aug. 1810; became a Wesleyan Methodist 1830; minister of Chatteris circuit 1834; minister at Sydney, N.S.W. 1836–37, 1842–46, at Melbourne 1846–47 and 1855 to 1865, at Adelaide 1847–55; president of the Conference 1859; drowned with 244 other passengers in the wreck of the “London” steamship in the Bay of Biscay 11 Jany. 1866. F. J. Jobson’s Memorial tribute to D. J. Draper 1866, portrait.
DRAPER, John William (son of John C. Draper, Wesleyan minister, who d. 1829). b. St. Helen’s near Liverpool 5 May 1811; ed. at Woodhouse grove school, London Univ. and Univ. of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1836; professor of chemistry and natural philosophy in Hampden Sidney college, Virginia 1836–39; professor of medical department in Univ. of New York 1839, of chemistry 1840–81; pres. of New York medical college 1850–73; made first photographic portrait from life 1839 and first photograph of moon’s surface 1840; LLD. Princeton 1860; first pres. of American Chemical Soc. 1876; author of Text book of chemistry 1846; Text book of human physiology 1856; History of the intellectual development of Europe 2 vols. 1864; History of the American civil war 3 vols. 1871; History of the conflict between religion and science 1874, translated into 9 languages. d. Hastings on river Hudson 20 miles north of New York 4 Jany. 1882. Barker’s Memoir of J. W. Draper 1882, portrait; Appleton’s American Biog. ii, 226–27 (1887), portrait; Graphic xxv, 68, (1882), portrait.
DRAPER, William Henry (son of Rev. Henry Draper, lecturer of St. George’s ch. Southwark). b. near London 11 March 1801; arrived in Cobourg, Canada 4 June 1820; called to bar in Canada 16 June 1828; reporter to the King’s Bench 18 Nov. 1829 to March 1837; solicitor general of Upper Canada 23 March 1837, member of executive council, Dec. 1837, the first attorney general for Upper Canada 13 Feb. 1841 to 28 May 1847; Q.C. 1842; a legislative councillor of Canada 10 April 1843 to Jany. 1845; member of legislative assembly Jany. 1845 to 28 May 1847; a puisne judge of Queen’s Bench 12 June 1847; chief justice of Common Pleas 5 Feb. 1856; chief justice of Upper Canada 22 July 1863 to 20 Oct. 1868; C.B. 23 June 1854; pres. of court of error and appeal Ontario 20 Oct. 1868; author of Upper Canada King’s Bench Reports 1729–31, 2 vols. 1861–62. d. Yorkville, Toronto 3 Nov. 1877. Law Magazine and law review xxvii, 362 (1869).
DRAYTON, Henri. b. Philadelphia 1822; ed. at Paris Conservatoire; primo basso in Italian opera in France and Belgium 1848–50; sang in English opera in London 1850–59; gave parlor opera entertainments with his wife in the United States 1859–61 when he returned to England; sang with Riching’s English Opera company in America 1867–70; author of dramas and operas. d. 57 East ninth st. New York 11 Aug. 1872. I.L.N. xxx, 411 (1856), portrait.