page_title: James Syme Drew
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: James Syme Drew / Early life / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: unknown artist; Lowerhouse Printworks, Burnley; Towneley Hall Art Gallery &amp; Museum; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/lowerhouse-printworks-burnley-151293
context_page_description: Major-General Sir James Syme Drew KBE CB DSO MC DL was a decorated British Army officer who saw service during both the world wars. He served as Aide-de-camp to the King, commanded the 52nd Infantry Division, was Colonel to the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, and became Director-General of the Home Guard and Territorial Army.
context_section_description: James Syme Drew was born on 1 September 1883 in Manchester, England, the youngest son of Thomas Auchterlonie Drew of Fallowfield, a master calico printer, and Elizabeth Beatrice Jane (née Syme), daughter of James Syme Esquire – manager of the British Linen Banking Company, Scotland.
  Although the Drew family was of Scottish ancestry (at least 6 generations on both sides) in the early 1870s, Drew's grandfather, Alexander of Dalmonach and Blairmore (1815 – 1899), relocated his printing business to Lowerhouse Printworks in Burnley, establishing offices in Glasgow and Manchester.
  Drew's father Tom, who was a director of the family printing business in Burnley, settled in the suburbs of Manchester, at Oak House, Fallowfield.
caption: Lowerhouse Printworks, Burnley. c1830
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