David Carnegie Andrew Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France… (1886)
“ Du Ry. — The Huguenot family of du Ry had extensive property in Picardy, and also the Chateau of Beauregard near Paris, all which estates were confiscated in 1685 when they became refugees in England. ”
David Carnegie Andrew Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France… (1886)
“ In their adopted country they have usually been soldiers. The first whom we meet is Lieutenant Du Ry, an officer in an English regiment quartered in Scotland in 1698; in that year, when the five Huguenot regiments were disbanded, French refugee officers quartered in Scotland were put upon half-pay. In the next generation there was Colonel Alexander Dury, commanding the Grenadier Guards ”
