Edward Druitt
British military officer
Lieutenant Colonel Edward Druitt (19 April 1859 – 25 July 1922) was a British military engineering officer principally known as an inspecting officer of the Railways Inspectorate in the early twentieth century.
Early life and family
Edward Druitt was born in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England. He was from an upper-middle-class background and the third son and fourth child of prominent local surgeon William Druitt, and his wife Ann (née Harvey). William Druitt was a justice of the peace, a governor of the local grammar school, and a regular worshipper at the local Anglican church, the Minster. The Druitts lived at Westfield House, which was the largest house in the town, and set in its own grounds with stables and servants' cottages. Druitt had six brothers and sisters, including an elder brothers William who entered the practice of law, and Montague who was a barrister and historically was suspected of being Jack the Ripper.
Druitt's father died suddenly from a heart attack in September 1885, leaving an estate valued at £16,579 (equivalent to £1,842,000 today).
Druitt converted to Catholicism whilst based with the army at Chatham in February 1887. In February 1889 he married Christina-Mary-Filumea Weld, the eldest daughter of Sir Frederick Aloysius Weld, a member of a prominent Catholic family in the West Country.
Career
Druitt studied at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military Academy Woolwich.
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