Drewe, Alfred | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

DREWE, Alfred later known as Alfred Drewe-Mercer (1849-1924), born in Berkshire, England and active in Margate, England, was commissioned to design a stone pulpit for St. Matthew's Anglican Church, St. Jean Street, QUEBEC CITY, QUE. in 1882 (Builder [London], xliii, 22 July 1882, 128, descrip.). The church itself was designed by William T. Thomas in 1870, with additions in 1875 and a new tower in 1882. The pulpit was intended as a memorial to the late Rev. George Hamilton, who was "the late curate of St. Matthew's Church, Quebec".
Drewe trained under Charles Smith of Reading, England in 1864-69 and opened his own office in Margate in 1871 after winning the competition for Crescent College in that town. He later moved to London in 1889 and changed his surname from Drewe to Drewe-Mercer. He was nominated as a Fellow of the R.I.B.A. in 1889, and died at Farnham, England in September 1924 (inf. R.I.B.A., Directory of British Architects 1834-1914, Vol. 1, 2001, 561)