Born in Southwark on 12 May 1858, the eldest son and third child of Beriah Drew, a wholesale chemist, and Jane Millicent Clarke, his wife. He was educated at a city school and then proceeded to Guy's Hospital where he gained the first-year's scholarship and the J Hoare exhibition. He afterwards held the offices of resident obstetric assistant and assistant demonstrator of anatomy. He served as a ship's surgeon with the P & O Company, and on his return to England was appointed surgeon to the Croydon General Hospital. He practised subsequently at Blatchington, Seaford, Sussex. On 13 May 1918 he received a commission as temporary captain, RAMC, and was appointed surgeon specialist to the Connaught Hospital at Aldershot and later to the Kitchener Hospital, Brighton. He married on 22 February 1922 Judith E Tiptaft, widow of Charles Knowlton Morris, who survived him but without children. He died on 3 December 1934 at The Cottage, Blatchington, Seaford, and was buried at Alfriston. Publications:- *The pathology of chorea*, prize essay, Guy's Hospital Physical Society, 4 February 1886, MS. in Wills Library, Guy's Hospital. Avulsion of leg and part of thigh, with great sciatic nerve; amputation through thigh; escape of cerebro-spinal fluid; recovery. *Brit med J*. 1889, 1, 356.