Educated at Norwich Grammar School and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he was a clergyman in Norwich (1811-38) and rector of West Halton (1835-74). He was a botanist friend of Sir James Edward Smith.

REFERENCES TO William Fitt Drake:

William Roscoe to Jane Roscoe, [1804] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833)