Charles Edward Francis Drake, M.D., a native of Atlanta, Georgia, is the son of Dr. Charles Hinton Drake and Estelle Carolyn Nail. Dr. Drake is married to Rita Jayne Elizabeth Chabot, with whom he has two daughters, Vivienne and Julia.
Dr. Drake was graduated summa cum laude from Georgia Southern University with a B.S. in Physics. He received his M.D. from the Medical College of Georgia , and completed advanced graduate work in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Louisville.
Dr. Drake is a practicing interventional cardiologist. His career includes extensive medical staff leadership, serving variously as chairman of Internal Medicine, Cardiology, President of the Medical Staff, and Medical Director of cardiac rehabilitation, non-invasive cardiology, and the cardiac catheterization laboratory. Dr. Drake is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Nuclear Cardiology, and Interventional Cardiology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Cardiology, and the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions.
Memberships
Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut
General Society of Colonial Wars
One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal
Order of Indian Wars of the United States
Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion
Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers
Order of Lafayette
Jamestowne Society
Descendant member of The Society of the Friends of St. George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter
Military Order of the Stars and Bars
Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America
Order of the Crown in America
General Society of Mayflower Descendants
Baronial Order of the Magna Charta
Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
Order of the Conqueror, The Augustan Society
Order of the Conqueror's Companions, The Augustan Society
General Society Sons of the Revolution (member of the Georgia Society)
National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Order of the Merovingian Dynasty
Order of Descendants of the Justiciars
Hereditary Order Descendants of Loyalists and Patriots of the American Revolution
National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland
Saint David's Society of Savannah
National Huguenot Society
National Society Americans of Royal Descent
National Society of Sons of the American Colonists
General Society of the War of 1812
First Families of Georgia 1733-1797 (Surgeon General)
Order of First Families of North Carolina
Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1585-1861
National Society of First Families of Delmarva
National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861
Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783
National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
Colonial Order of the Crown
Plantagenet Society
Society of Descendants of Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter
Sovereign Colonial Society Americans of Royal Descent
L'Alliance Francaise of Savannah
Pilgrim Edward Doty Society
Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia
North American Manx Association
Chivalric Orders
The Most Venerable Order of Saint John of Jerusalem (Officer Brother)
Royal Order of Francis I of the Royal House of Bourbon–Two Sicilies (Knight)
Order of Sts. Maurice and Lazarus, Royal House of Savoy (Ufficiale)
Order of the Eagle of Georgia (Knight Commander)
Royal Order of Saint Michael of the Wing (Knight)
Authorship
The Drake Family of Washington County, Georgia (Gateway Press, 2005), as well as articles, including those published in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, The Genealogists’ Magazine, The Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly, and The Genealogist.
Armorial
Arms: Azure, on a bend Argent, a Wyvern Gules, a bordure counter-compony Argent and Purpure charged with three oak leaves Or.
Crest: A Wyvern Gules, charged on the wings, one visible, with a wheel Argent.
Motto: NUNQUAM CAPTAT MUSCAS
Grant: Court of the Lord Lyon, 26 April 2006; Vol. 87, folio 73, Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland
The arms were granted with an extended remainder to the descendants of Dr. Drake’s thrice great-grandfather. The bordure counter-compony argent and purpure represents his grandfather as the eighth son, the seventh having issue, of his great-grandfather, who was himself a sixth son and is represented by the oak leaves charging the bordure.
Other Notes
Dr. Drake is a member of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels. He is Baron Baillie of Tranent, Haddington, Scotland, and Lord of the Manor of Noseley, Leicestershire.
He is an avid genealogist and heraldist, and his memberships include the Heraldry Society of Scotland, the American Heraldry Society, the Virginia Genealogical Society, the Society of Genealogists, and the Manorial Society of Great Britain. He is President of the Augustan Society and is a recipient of the Order of the Augustan Eagle.
Dr. Drake is a member of the Chatham Club. He is Communicant of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Savannah.
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