Marion Harry Spielmann summed up Drury's enduring qualities perfectly when writing of the sculptor in 1901 when she wrote 'Mr. Drury is among the most personal of our sculptors, always in search of the graceful, the tender, the placid, and the harmonious'.

He first discovered his love for sculpture as a choir boy at New College, Oxford after seeing Chantry's works. This inspired him to attend art school in Oxford before joining the National Art Training School, where he studied under the ground-breaking French sculptor Jules Dalou. Dalou was so impressed by his young student that when he returned to France he took Drury with him to work in his studio for the next four years. Upon Drury's return to England, he join...