The younger son of Robert Druitt, senr, surgeon, of Wimborne Minster, Dorset, and of Jane, daughter of Dr Mayo, Head Master of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Wimborne, and brother of Robert Druitt (qv). He was educated at Wimborne Grammar School and next became a pupil of his uncle, Charles Mayo (qv), then well known as one of the Surgeons to Winchester Hospital. It was mainly due to the admirable training he received at Winchester, and the large experience he gained there from the many accidents occurring during the construction of the London and South-Western Railway, that he owed the diagnostic and operative skill which enabled him to take and maintain the high professional position he held so long. Having completed his medical training at St George's Hospital, he joined his father in practice at Wimborne, where he rapidly acquired a good practice. When he was already a very busy man he studied for the Fellowship examination shortly after its institution. One of those who obtained the FRCS with him in 1849 was Henry Smith, Professor of Surgery at King's College. Druitt retired in 1876 after a long and successful career, for his health was then failing. He continued, however, to do a certain amount of public work on the Board of Guardians until his death at Wimborne on September 27th, 1837.