Samuel Drake (antiquary)
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Samuel Drake (1687/8–1753) was an English Anglican clergyman and antiquary, and elder brother of Francis Drake. He proceeded M.A. at St. John's College, Cambridge, 1711, and D.D., 1724. He was rector of Treeton, Yorkshire, 1728–53, and vicar of Holme-on-Spalding Moor, 1733–53. He wrote on Christian ritual, and edited Bartholomew Clerke's Latin translation of Castiglione's Courtier, 1713.
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