Julius Drewe
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Julius Charles Drewe was an English businessman, retailer and entrepreneur who founded Home and Colonial Stores, and who ordered the building of Castle Drogo in Devon.
Portrait of Julius Charles Drewe by Charles Martin Hardie (1902)
Castle Drogo, Devon
Castle Drogo
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Castle Drogo is a country house and mixed-revivalist castle near Drewsteignton, Devon, England. Constructed between 1911 and 1930, it is the last castle built in England. The client was Julius Drewe,
Julius Drewe
…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. Julius Charles Drew (he changed the spelling to Drewe in 1913) was born at the vicarage in Pulloxhill near Ampthill in Bedfordshire, the son…
"Drogo does not pretend to be a castle. It is a castle..."
Arms showing lion passant and Motto in sculpted relief above the main entrance
Dining Room of Castle Drogo
Chapel & south façade of house