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DRUMMOND, JAMES: Unitarian; b. at Dublin May 14, 1835. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1855), and Manchester New College, London (1856-59), and after being assistant minister with William Gaskell at Cross Street Chapel, Manchester, 1859-69, was appointed professor of New Testament divinity in Manchester New College, which was removed to Oxford in 1889 and called Manchester College in 1893. From 1885 to 1906 he was also principal of the college, but retired from both positions in 1906. He describes himself as a "liberal Christian." He has written Spiritual Religion (sermons; London, 1870); The Jewish Messiah (1877); Introduction to the Study of Theology (1884); Philo Judæus, or the Jewish-Alexandrian Philosophy in its Development and Completion (2 vols., 1888); The Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians Explained and Illustrated (1893); Via, Veritas, Vita (Hibbert Lectures for 1894; 1894); The Epistles of Paul to the Thessalonians, Corinthians, Galatians, Romans, and Philippians (1899); Life and Letters of James Martineau (in collaboration with C. B. Upton; 1902); and The Character and Authorship of the Fourth Gospel (1904).

DRURY, AUGUSTUS WALDO: United Brethren; b. at Pendleton, Ind., Mar. 2, 1851. He studied at Western College (now Leander Clark College), Toledo, Ia. (B.A., 1872), Union Biblical Seminary, Dayton, O., from which he was graduated in 1877, and the University of Berlin (1886). After being professor of classics in Western College 1872-1873 and holding various pastorates in his denomination 1873-80, he was professor of church history in Union Biblical Seminary 1880-92. Since 1892 he has been professor of systematic theology in the same institution. He has been secretary of the United Brethren Historical Society since 1885, and was a member of the Tri-church Council (Congregational, United Brethren, and Methodist Protestant) in 1906-07. In 1891-92 he was editor of The United Brethren Quarterly Review, and has written The Life of Philip William Otterbein (Dayton, 1884); The Life of Bishop J. J. Glossbrenner (1889); Disciplines of the United Brethren in Christ (1895); Minutes of Annual and General Conferences (1897); and Baptism (1902).

DRURY, JOHN BENJAMIN: Reformed (Dutch); b. at Rhinebeck, N. Y., Aug. 15, 1838; d. at New Brunswick, N. J., Mar. 21, 1909. He studied at Rutgers College (B.A., 1858), and the New Brunswick Theological Seminary (1861), supplied the Reformed Church at Davenport, Ia., 1861-62, was pastor of the First Reformed Church at Ghent, N. Y., 1864-87. After 1887 he was editor of the Christian Intelligencer. He was president of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America in 1886. In 1883 he was Vedder lecturer in Rutgers College and New Brunswick Theological Seminary. In theology he was a liberal Calvinist. He wrote Historical Sketch of the First Reformed Church of Ghent (Chatham, N. Y., 1876); Historical Sketch of the Reformed (Dutch) Church of Rhinebeck, N. Y. (1881); and Truths and Untruths of Evolution (Vedder Lectures; New York, 1884).

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