History
It was founded by George Overend Drewry in the 1870s, apparently to sell hydroleine, his cod-liver-oil preparation (The Times, 25 December 1880)
Drewry (1839–1892), its physician, was the author of Common-Sense Management of the Stomach (1875), Consumption and Wasting Diseases Successfully Treated by “Hydrated Oil,” etc (1877), and also editor of the journal Health: A Family Magazine (1877–1881)
He lived in 2 rooms at 23 Great James Street at the time of the 1891 census; his relationship, if any, to the novelists Edith Stewart Drewry of Queen Square and Laurentia Drewry is unknown
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Where in Bloomsbury
It was at 163 Gower Street (right at the top, on the west side) in the late 1870s and early 1880s (Medical Press and Circular, 1877; Post Office directory, 1881)
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