Julius Drewe

Julius C Drewe
Portrait of Julius Charles Drewe by Charles Martin Hardie (1902)
Born
Julius Charles Drew

(1856-04-04)4 April 1856
Pulloxhill near Ampthill, Bedfordshire
Died10 November 1931(1931-11-10) (aged 75)
Drewsteignton, Devon
NationalityBritish/Anglo-French
EducationBedford School
OccupationTea merchant/trans-global businessman/entrepreneur
Known forHome and Colonial Stores
ChildrenAdrian, Basil, Cedric, Mary and Frances
Arms of Drewe of Castle Drogo: Ermine, a lion passant per pale gules and or in chief three ears of wheat stalked and bladed of the last.[1] This is a differenced version of the arms of Drewe of The Grange, Broadhembury (Ermine, a lion passant gules), from which family Julius Drewe claimed descent

Julius Charles Drewe (or Julius Drew; 4 April 1856 – 20 November 1931) was an English businessman, retailer and entrepreneur who founded Home and Colonial Stores, and who ordered the building of Castle Drogo in Devon.

  1. ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.643