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Monsignor Francis Browning Bickerstaffe-Drew K.H.S., better known as John Ayscough, (11 February 1858 – 3 July 1928) was an English writer and Roman Catholic priest.
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Biography
He was born in Headingley, Leeds, the son of Harry Lloyd Bickerstaffe, a Church of England Clergyman, and Elisabeth Mona Brougham Drew. In 1878, he converted to Catholicism while an undergraduate at Pembroke College, Oxford. Msgr. Drew was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1884 and served as a chaplain in the British army for more than thirty years. He was made a private Chamberlain by Pope Leo XIII in 1891 and by Pius X in 1903, was a member of the Pontifical Chamber of Malta and was a knight of the sacred military Order of the Holy Sepulchre.
Francis Bickerstaffe-Drew died in Salisbury, England.
Honors
Msgr. Drew held honorary degrees from the University of Notre Dame and Marquette University. In 1901, he received the cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice.