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Druce & Co. were a British furniture manufacturer and antique dealers operating in the 19th and 20th century. The company was founded by Thomas Charles Druce (b.1761 - d.1864) in the 1840s and was based in Baker Street and Portman Square, London. [1] During the 19th century, Druce expanded into a department store and an estate agency.
[10] [11] The case was taken up by George Hollamby Druce from 1903 onwards, who set up companies to finance his legal proceedings in 1905, and in 1907 even instituted a charge of perjury against Herbert Druce, the elder son of Thomas Charles Druce by his second wife, for having sworn that he had witnessed his father's death in 1864. Herbert had ...
In July 1999, while driving, Druce struck and killed 42-year-old Harrisburg pedestrian Kenneth Cains, a former U.S. Marine who had served in the Vietnam War.. After attempting to cover his tracks by repairing his Jeep SUV, filing a false accident claim with his insurance company, and lying to police, Druce eventually pled guilty to a hit and run for leaving the scene of an accident, insurance ...
Charles had been influenced by the great revival movement in Wales, and at the age of seventeen had been converted by a sermon of Daniel Rowland.This was enough to make him unpopular with many of the Welsh clergy, and being denied the privilege of preaching for nothing at two churches, he helped his old Oxford friend John Mayor, now vicar of Shawbury, Shropshire, from October until 11 January ...
Druce is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Duncan Druce (1939–2015), British composer and musicologist; Eliot Druce (1876–1934), English cricketer; Frank Druce (1875–1954), English cricketer; George Claridge Druce (1850–1932), British botanist
Bruce married Sarah Caroline Thornhill, daughter of Sir Thomas Thornhill, 1st Baronet of Riddlesworth Hall, Norfolk, in 1863.They had four children: [1] Charles Thomas Bruce (21 February 1865 – 23 October 1915), married first in 1897 Edith Mary Parker (died 1912), daughter of Samuel Sandbach Parker of Aigburth; he married secondly in 1914 Gwendolen Mary Spier, daughter of Robert Thomas ...
In the company of Joseph Austin and Charles Edward Whitlock in Chester he held a recognised position, and he toured the country. Munden was then able to borrow money purchase the share of Austin in the management of northern theatres. Here he played the leading comic business, rising in reputation and fortune. [2]
Possibly if Thomas Charles Druce's ancestry could be deduced (especially as his photographs were seen to resemble both Dr Harmer and the Duke) the story would simplify somewhat. Inspector Walter Dew makes a passing appearance in the story btw. Jackiespeel 18:27, 15 April 2009 (UTC)