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DACRE, Thomas Brand, 20 Baron. b. The Hoo, Kimpton, Herts. 15 March 1774; barrister L.I. 25 June 1800; M.P. for Herts. 11 May 1807 to 3 Oct. 1819 when he succeeded his mother. d. The Hoo 21 March 1851.

DACRE, Barbarina Brand, Baroness (3 dau. of Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle, who d. 27 Aug. 1816 aged 89). b. 9 May 1767; one of the most accomplished women of her time; an excellent amateur painter and sculptor; Ugo Foscolo dedicated to her his Essays on Petrarch 1823 the last 45 pages of which contain her translations from Petrarch; her tragedy in 5 acts entitled Ina was produced at Drury Lane theatre 22 April 1815; privately printed Dramas, translations and occasional poems 2 vols. 1821; Translations from the Italian 1836; edited Recollections of a Chaperon 1833 and Tales of the peerage and the peasantry 1835, both by her only dau. Mrs. Arabella Jane Sullivan who d. 27 Jany. 1839 aged 42. (m. (1) Valentine Henry Wilmot of Farnborough, Hants. m. (2) 4 Dec. 1819 Thomas Brand, baron Dacre 1774–1851). d. 2 Chesterfield st. May Fair, London 17 May 1854. G.M. xlii, 296–97 (1854).

DACRE, Henry Otway Brand-Trevor, 21 Baron (brother of 20 Baron Dacre 1774–1851). b. 17 July 1777; ensign Coldstream guards 27 April 1793, lieut.-col. 25 July 1814 to 19 July 1821; served in Flanders 1793–95; assumed additional name of Trevor 18 Nov. 1824; colonel 31 Foot 12 July 1847 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815; succeeded 21 March 1851. d. Great Cumberland place, London 2 June 1853.

DACRES, James Richard (son of Vice admiral James Richard Dacres 1749–1810). b. Lowestoft 22 Aug. 1788; entered navy 1796; captain 14 Jany. 1806; commander in chief at Cape of Good Hope 9 Aug. 1845 to 3 Aug. 1848; V.A. 20 March 1848. d. Catesfield lodge near Fareham, Hants. 3 Dec. 1853. bur. in family vault at Tetbury, Gloucs.

DACRES, Sir Richard James (son of Vice admiral Sir Richard Dacres 1761–1837). b. 1799; ed. at R.M.A. Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 15 Dec. 1817, lieut.-col. 23 Feb. 1852; served in Crimean war 1854–5; col. commandant 28 July 1864; commandant at Woolwich, May 1859 to 1865; general 2 Feb. 1868; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; constable of Tower of London 2 July 1881 to death; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 2 June 1869. d. Palmeira sq. Brighton 6 Dec. 1886. I.L.N. lxxix, 181 (1881), portrait.

DACRES, Sir Sidney Colpoys (brother of the preceding). b. Totnes, Devon 9 Jany. 1805; entered navy 8 Feb. 1817; captain 1 Aug. 1840; captain of the Sans Pareil 70 guns, 3 June 1852 to Nov. 1855; embarked the sick and wounded after battles of Alma and Inkerman; took charge of the port of Balaklava 27 Oct. 1854; superintendent of packet service at Southampton, Feb. to July 1856; superintendent of Royal Clarence victualling yard and Royal hospital, Haslar 7 July 1856 to 25 June 1858; granted good service pension 7 Feb. 1856; captain of the fleet in Mediterranean 25 Aug. 1859, second in command Dec. 1861 to April 1863; commanded channel fleet April 1863 to 17 Nov. 1865; a lord of the admiralty July 1865, first sea lord Dec. 1868 to Nov. 1872; admiral 1 April 1870; visitor and governor of Greenwich hospital 30 Nov. 1872 to death; K.L.H. 1828, K.T.S. 1865; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865, G.C.B. 20 May 1871. d. 47 Brunswick sq. Brighton 8 March 1884. I.L.N. lxii, 319, 321 (1873), portrait.

D’AETH, George William (only son of Wm. Hughes of Betshanger, Kent, who d. April 1786). b. April 1786; entered navy June 1799; assumed name of D’Aeth 4 June 1808; captain 13 June 1815; retired captain 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 4 Oct. 1862. d. Knowlton court, Kent 28 April 1873.

DAFFORNE, James. Contributed to the Art Journal 1845 to death; wrote 7 books 1872–77 on the pictures by C. R. Leslie, C. Stanfield, J. Phillip, Sir A. W. Callcott, Sir E. Landseer, W. Mulready and J. M. W. Turner; author of The pictorial table book 1873; The Albert memorial Hyde Park, its history and description 1877; The life and works of E. M. Ward, R.A. 1879. d. Brodrick road, Upper Tooting 8 June 1880.

DAFT, Thomas Barnabas. b. Birmingham 1816; an iron founder and manufacturer of metallic hot houses 1835; maker of philosophical apparatus 1839; manager of india rubber works of Charles Mackintosh and Co. at Manchester many years; took out 28 patents 1839–77; A.I.C.E. 7 Feb. 1860. d. 95 Clapham road, London 4 Dec. 1878.

DAGLISH, Robert. b. 21 Dec. 1779; engineer to Lord Balcarres at Wigan 1804; manager of Orrell colliery near Wigan; projected Bolton and Leigh railway 1825 which has no embankments or cuttings but undulates with natural surface of the land; invented best form of parallel rail and pedestals which gained premium of £100 given by London and Birmingham railway 1834 for which there were 72 competitors, this invention was generally adopted; projector of and partner in St. Helen’s foundry; M.I.C.E. 30 March 1830. d. Orrell near Wigan 28 Dec. 1865. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvi, 561–63 (1867).

DAGLISH, Robert (3 son of the preceding). b. Wigan 1809; partner in firm of Lee, Watson & Co. iron founders, St. Helens 1830; with John Smith worked the traffic of the St. Helen’s and Runcorn Gap railway 1839–48; erected his first cotton mill at Wigan 1845; built many railway bridges in Lancashire and Yorkshire 1846–49; constructed Preston extension of East Lancashire railway 1850; sole proprietor of the foundry from 1851 until 1869 when joined by his nephew George H. Daglish, M.I.C.E.; erected coal drops at Garston near Liverpool 1852; extended his foundry works so that they covered an area of 22,400 square yards in 1882; assoc. of Instit. of C.E. 1852 and member 1874. d. 6 May 1883. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiv, 283–5 (1883).

D’AGUILAR, Sir George Charles (son of Joseph D’Aguilar, captain 2 dragoon guards). b. Winchester, Jany. 1784; ensign 86 foot 24 Sep. 1799; major 1 Greek light infantry 1 April 1813 to 24 Feb. 1816 when regiment was disbanded and he was placed on h.p.; major Rifle brigade 6 March 1817 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p.; major 3 foot 22 June 1820 to 13 Sep. 1821 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general in Ireland 22 July 1830 to 23 Nov. 1841; commanded troops in China 1843–48; col. of 58 foot 5 Feb. 1848, col. of 23 foot 31 Jany. 1851 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 6 April 1852; author of The practice and forms of Courts Martial 1843, 5 ed. 1867. d. Lower Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 21 May 1855. United Service Mag. Aug. 1847 pp. 622–27.

DAINTREE, Richard. b. Hemingford Abbotts, Hunts. Dec. 1831; ed. at Bedford gr. sch. and Ch. coll. Cam.; went to Melbourne 1852; assistant geologist of colony of Victoria 1854–56; field geologist on geological survey of Victoria 1858–64; government geologist for North Queensland 1869–72; entrusted with collection sent to Exhibition at South Kensington 1871 but steamer “Queen of the Thames” containing collection was wrecked near Cape Agulhas about 200 miles from Cape Town 18 March 1871; agent general in London for colony of Queensland, March 1872 to 1876; C.M.G. 1875. d. Holyrood house, Beckenham, Kent 20 June 1878. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxv, 51–3 (1879); Geol. Mag. v, 336, 429–32 (1878).

D’ALBERT, Charles (son of a captain of cavalry in French army). b. Nienstellen near Hamburg 1808 or 1809; pupil in London of F. W. M. Kalkbrenner the pianist; studied music and dancing at Académie Royale, Paris; maître de ballet and first dancer at Covent Garden theatre; teacher of music in London; wrote various musical albums 1848–53; an exceedingly popular composer of innumerable waltzes, polkas and galops. d. 14 Alexander sq. South Kensington, London 26 May 1886 in 78 year. Illust. news of the world viii (1861), portrait.

DALE, James. b. Brancepeth near Durham; succeeded his father as head gardener to 6 Viscount Boyne at Brancepeth Castle 1854; a great judge of fruit and flowers; kept a splendid stock of plants and fruit but never exhibited; known as “The King of Pine growers”; a clever naturalist and ornithologist; it is stated in Loudon’s Natural History that Mr. Dale was the only man in England who ever took a siskin’s nest, which he did in a pine tree; left a valuable collection of stuffed animals and preserved fish. d. Brancepeth 1 April 1882 aged 66.

DALE, James Murray (son of Very Rev. T. Dale 1797–1870). b. 20 July 1822; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; a solicitor in London 1843–73; author of Clergyman’s Legal handbook 1858, 6 ed. 1881; Church extension law 1864; Legal ritual, Judgments of privy council and dean of arches 1871. d. Cromer 2 March 1877.

DALE, John. b. Settle, Yorkshire 1 March 1803; articled to Reay and Collison, surgeons, Liverpool; played under Samuel Russell’s management in the provinces 1823; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre as Rob Roy 5 Oct. 1825; went to Paris with the Kean, Macready, Kemble company 1827; the original Adrastus in Talfourd’s tragedy Ion at Covent Garden, May 1836; played Cromwell to Macready’s Wolsey at Covent Garden; acted at Surrey and Victoria theatres; one of his best characters was Creve Cœur in The Bohemians. d. Manchester 25 Oct. 1872. Theatrical Times iii, 137, 146 (1848), portrait.

DALE, Joseph. Gardener to Society of the Middle Temple, London 1843 to decease, where he arranged annual exhibitions of chrysanthemums in November; greatly assisted and encouraged the plantation of trees in various parts of London; presented with a testimonial at the Salutation tavern, Newgate st. London 31 Jany. 1878; author of On the cultivation of the chrysanthemum 1856. d. Vicarage road, Leyton 31 Dec. 1878 aged 65. Gardener’s Magazine xxi, 59 (1878), xxii, 7, 80 (1879).

DALE, Very Rev. Thomas (son of William Dale of Pentonville, London). b. Pentonville 22 Aug. 1797; ed. at Christ hospital 1805–17 and C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1870; C. of St. Michael’s, Cornhill, London 1822–26; professor of English language and literature at London Univ. 1828–30, at King’s coll. London 1836–39; minister of St. Matthew’s chapel, Denmark hill 1830–35; V. of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London 3 Jany. 1835 to 1846; Golden lecturer at St. Margaret’s, Lothbury 1840–1849; preb. of St. Paul’s, March 1843 to Feb. 1846; canon of St. Paul’s 20 Oct. 1843 to 1870; V. of St. Pancras, July 1846 to March 1861 when that parish was subdivided into 20 incumbencies; R. of Therfield, Herts. 26 March 1861 to 1870; declined deanery of Ely 1869; dean of Rochester 23 Feb. 1870 to death, installed April 1870; author of The widow of Nain and other poems 1817; The outlaw of Taurus 1818; The tragedies of Sophocles translated into English verse 2 vols. 1824; Poetical works 1836; The sabbath companion being essays on first principles of Christian faith and practice 1844, 3 ed. 1853 and about 70 other books. d. 2 Amen corner, St. Paul’s, London 14 May 1870. Palmer’s St. Pancras (1870) 43, 142, 159–61; Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, fourth series (1860), portrait; Church of England photographic portrait gallery 1859, portrait 24; I.L.N. xxxv, 647 (1859), portrait, lvi, 563, 643 (1870).

DALGAIRNS, Rev. John Dobree (son of Wm. Dalgairns). b. Guernsey 21 Oct. 1818; ed. at Elizabeth coll. Guernsey and Ex. coll. Ox., scholar 27 May 1837; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; joined J. H. Newman’s band of disciples at Littlemore; received into R.C. church 29 Sep. 1845, ordained at Langres in France 1846; a preacher and confessor at the London Oratory King William st. Strand 1849 to 1853 and 1856 to 1863, at Birmingham Oratory 1853–56; superior of London Oratory, Brompton 1863–65; wrote some of the lives in J. H. Newman’s Lives of the English saints; author of The devotion to the heart of Jesus with an introduction on the history of Jansenism 1853, 2 ed. 1854; The German mystics of the fourteenth century 1858; The Holy Communion, its philosophy, theology and practice 1861 frequently reprinted, and of many articles in the British Critic, Dublin Review and Contemporary Review. d. in monastery of the Cistercians at Burgess hill, near Brighton 6 April 1876. bur. in private cemetery of the Fathers of the Brompton oratory at Sydenham. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 3–5 (1885).

DALGLISH, Robert (son of Robert Dalglish, provost of Glasgow). b. Glasgow 1808; a calico printer at Glasgow; M.P. for Glasgow 1 April 1857 to 26 Jany. 1874. d. Lennox-mill cottage, Lennoxtown near Glasgow 20 June 1880.

DALHOUSIE, James Andrew Brown-Ramsay, 1 Marquis of (youngest child of 9 Earl of Dalhousie 1770–1838). b. Dalhousie castle, co. Edinburgh 22 April 1812; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1838; contested city of Edin. Jany. 1835; M.P. for East Lothian 1837–38; succeeded as 10 Earl of Dalhousie 21 March 1838; P.C. 10 June 1843; vice pres. of Board of Trade 10 June 1843, pres. 5 Feb. 1845 to 6 July 1846; lord clerk register of Scotland 12 Dec. 1845; an elder brother of Trinity house 1846; governor general of India 4 Aug. 1847, arrived at Calcutta 19 Jany. 1848, left there 6 March 1856; annexed the Punjaub 1849, Pegu 1852, Nagpore 1853 and Oudh 1856; K.T. 12 May 1848; created Marquis of Dalhousie of Dalhousie castle and of the Punjaub 25 Aug. 1849; constable of Dover castle and lord warden of the Cinque Ports 13 Jany. 1853. d. Dalhousie Castle 19 Dec. 1860. Sir C. Jackson’s Vindication of the policy of Dalhousie’s Indian administration; J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known (1874) 98–104; I.L.N. xiv, 36 (1849), portrait, xxii, 61 (1853), portrait.

DALHOUSIE, Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11 Earl of (eld. son of 1 Baron Panmure 1771–1852). b. Brechin castle, Forfarshire 22 April 1801; ed. at the Charterhouse; ensign 79 foot 3 June 1819, captain 31 Oct. 1826, sold out 1831; M.P. for Perthshire 1835–37, for Elgin district of burghs 1838–41, for Perth 1841–52; under sec. of state for home department 18 April 1835 to 15 June 1841; vice pres. of board of trade 28 June to 3 Sep. 1841; P.C. 28 June 1841; sec. of state for war 6 July 1846 to Feb. 1852 and 8 Feb. 1855 to Feb. 1858; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1842; lord lieut. of Forfarshire 16 June 1849; keeper of privy seal of Scotland 25 May 1853; K.T. 28 Oct. 1853; G.C.B. 29 Oct. 1855; succeeded as 2 baron Panmure 13 April 1852 and as 11 Earl of Dalhousie 19 Dec. 1860. d. Brechin castle, Forfarshire 6 July 1874. The statesmen of England (1862), portrait; Illust. news of the world, i, (1858), portrait; I.L.N. xvi, 245 (1850), portrait, xxvi, 152 (1855), portrait, lxv, 61, 67, 115, 523 (1871), portrait.

DALHOUSIE, George Maule-Ramsay, 12 Earl of (2 son of hon. John Ramsay 1775–1842, col. of 79 foot). b. 26 April 1806; entered navy Dec. 1820; captain 20 March 1843; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 27 July 1857 to 1 Sep. 1862; commander in chief on South American station 7 May 1866 to 17 March 1869; succeeded as 12 Earl 6 July 1874; created Baron Ramsay of Glenmark, co. Forfar in peerage of the U.K. 12 June 1875; retired admiral 30 July 1875. d. Dalhousie castle 20 July 1880.

DALHOUSIE, John William Ramsay, 13 Earl of (son of the preceding). b. 29 Jany. 1847; naval cadet Jany. 1861; commander 4 March 1874, commanded the Britannia 1877–79, retired 26 July 1884; contested Liverpool 6 Feb. 1880; M.P. for Liverpool, March 1880 to 20 July 1880 when he succeeded his father; a lord in waiting to the Queen, Sep. 1880 to June 1885; K.T. Nov. 1881; P.C. 3 April 1886; sec. of state for Scotland 5 April 1886 to 26 June 1886. d. Havre 25 Nov. 1887. bur. parish church of Cockpen, co. Edinburgh 1 Dec. 1887. London Figaro 3 Dec. 1887 p. 5, col. 2, portrait.

DALLAS, Rev. Alexander Robert Charles (2 son of Robert Charles Dallas, miscellaneous writer 1754–1824). b. Colchester 29 March 1791; clerk in commissariat office of Treasury 1805–10, deputy assistant commissary general 5 June 1810 to 1 July 1814 when placed on h.p., retired 1820; gentleman commoner of Worcester coll. Ox. 29 Feb. 1820; C. of Radley, Berks. 17 June 1821, of Highclere Hants. 1821, of Woburn 1824, of Burford, Oxon. 1826; V. of Yardley, Herts. 22 Sep. 1827; R. of Wonston, Hants. 14 Sep. 1828 to death; chaplain to bishop of Winchester 1828 to death; founded Society for Irish church missions to the Roman Catholics 1848, hon. sec. 1848 to death; author of Cottager’s guide to the New Testament 6 vols. 1837–43; A Guide to the Acts of the Apostles by A. D. 1847; Revelation readings 3 vols. 1848 and upwards of 50 other books. d. in house of Mr. Annesley, Blackheath, Kent 12 Dec. 1869. bur. Wonston churchyard 17 Dec. Incidents in the life and ministry of Rev. A. R. C. Dallas by his widow (1871), portrait.

DALLAS, Charles. Ensign 32 foot 23 March 1815; governor of St. Helena 14 Feb. 1828 to 1836. d. Trefusis house, Exmouth 26 April 1855 in 88 year.

DALLAS, Elmslie William (2 son of Wm. Dallas of ‘Lloyds,’ London). b. London 27 June 1809; studied at the R.A. London 1831–34; painted a series of views of Scotland for garden pavilion at Buckingham palace; exhibited at Royal Scottish Academy; F.R.S. Edin. 1851; author of The Elements of plane practical geometry 1855. d. 26 Jany. 1879. Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. x, 340 (1880).

DALLAS, Eneas Sweetland (elder son of John Dallas of Jamaica, physician). b. Jamaica 1828; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; a journalist on the Times many years, special correspondent at Paris 1867 and 1870; contributed to Daily News, Saturday Review, Pall Mall Gazette and The World; edited Once a Week 1868; author of Poetics, an essay on poetry 1852; The gay science 2 vols. 1866; edited an abridgment of Richardson’s Clarissa Harlowe 1868; published Kettner’s Book of the table, a manual of cookery 1877 anon. (m. in Scotland, Dec. 1853 and in London 12 July 1855 the well-known actress Isabella Glyn (widow of Edward Wills), marriage was dissolved in the divorce court, London on her petition 10 May 1874). d. 88 Newman st. Oxford st. London 17 Jany. 1879. I.L.N. 8 Feb. 1879 pp. 78, 129, 131, portrait; Law Journal Reports xlvi, pt. 1, pp. 51–3 (1876).

DALLIN, Thomas Francis (eld. son of Thomas James Dallin of Plumstead, Kent). Matric. from Merton coll. Ox. 10 June 1858 aged 17, B.A. 1863, M.A. 1865; student at L.I. 23 Nov. 1861; fellow of Queen’s coll. Ox. 1864–71, tutor 1866; professor of rhetoric at Gresham college, London, Aug. 1875; public orator Univ. of Ox. 8 May 1877 to death; one of secs. of Oxford Univ. commission 1880 to death; author with J. Y. Sargent of Materials and models for Greek and Latin prose composition 1870, 2 ed. 1875; Materials for Greek prose composition 1878. d. Brighton 11 Nov. 1880. bur. in Holywell cemetery, Oxford 16 Nov. Times 13 Nov. 1880 p. 5, col. 6, 15 Nov. p. 9, col. 4, 17 Nov. p. 9, col. 6.

DALLING and BULWER, William Henry Lytton Eakle Bulwer, Baron (2 son of Wm. Earle Bulwer 1757–1807, col. 106 foot). b. 31 Baker st. Portman sq. London 13 Feb. 1801; ed. at Sunbury and Harrow; entered Trin. coll. Cam. 1819, migrated to Downing coll.; went to the Morea as agent of the Greek committee in London 1824; attaché at Berlin 1827, at Vienna 1829, at the Hague 1830; M.P. for Wilton, Wilts. 1830–31, for Coventry 1831–34, for Marylebone 1835; chargé d’affaires at Brussels 1835–36; sec. of embassy at Constantinople 1837–39, at Paris 1839–43; ambassador at Madrid 14 Nov. 1843, arbitrator between Spain and Morocco 1844; P.C. 30 June 1845; K.C.B. 27 April 1848, G.C.B. 1 March 1851; ambassador at Washington 27 April 1849; minister plenipotentiary at Florence 19 Jany. 1852 to 26 Jany. 1855; granted a pension 25 April 1855; ambassador at Constantinople 10 May 1858 to Aug. 1865; M.P. for Tamworth 17 Nov. 1868 to 21 March 1871 when created baron Dalling and Bulwer of Dalling in the county of Norfolk; said to be the original of George Sand’s ‘Mauprat’ 1836; author of An autumn in Greece 1826; France, social, literary and political 2 vols. 1834, being the first half of a work called The monarchy of the middle classes 1836; Historical characters 3 vols. 1867–73; Life of Viscount Palmerston 3 vols. 1870–74. d. Naples 23 May 1872. A. Hayward’s Biographical essays ii, 320–40 (1870); Madden’s Life of Countess of Blessington iii, 63–74 (1855); Illust. Review iv, 97–103 (1872), portrait; I.L.N. ix, 245 (1846), portrait, lxi, 168 (1872).

DALLMEYER, Johann Heinrick (2 son of Wm. Dallmeyer of Loxten near Versmold, Westphalia). b. Loxten 6 Sep. 1830; apprenticed to an optician at Osnabruck 3 years; came to England 1851; a manufacturer of telescopes in London 1859; naturalised 17 Sep. 1859; F.R.A.S. 1861; supplied photographic lenses to photographers in all parts of the world; patented a single wide-angle lens 1864 largely used for photographing landscapes; received highest awards at Dublin, Berlin, Paris and Philadelphia exhibitions; author of On the choice and use of photographic lenses, 6 editions. d. on board ship off coast of New Zealand 30 Dec. 1883. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xlv, 190–91 (1885).

DALMER, Thomas. Second lieut. 23 foot 22 May 1797, major 10 Dec. 1807 to 24 July 1817 when placed on h.p.; col. 47 foot 16 April 1847 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815. d. Hawkhurst, Kent 26 Aug. 1854.

DALRYMPLE, Sir Adolphus John, 2 Baronet (elder son of Sir Hew Whiteford Dalrymple, 1 baronet, who d. 9 April 1830 in 80 year). b. parish of Marylebone, London, Feb. 1784; ed. at Harrow; ensign 37 foot 25 Oct. 1799; major 19 light dragoons 17 Nov. 1808 to Dec. 1814 when placed on h.p.; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign 1830–41; general 11 April 1860; M.P. for Weymouth 1817–18, for Appleby 1819–26, for Haddington district of burghs 1826–31, for Brighton 1837–41. d. Delrowe house near Watford, Herts. 3 March 1866.

DALRYMPLE, Donald (4 son of Wm. Dalrymple of Norwich, surgeon 1772–1847). b. Norwich 1814; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. and Guy’s hospital; F.R.C.S. 1854; M.R.C.P. 1859; a surgeon at Norwich 1835–62; sheriff of Norwich 1860–61; M.P. for Bath 17 Nov. 1868 to death; author of Meteorological observations on the climate of Egypt 1861. d. Coldecot near Southampton 19 Sep. 1873.

DALRYMPLE, John (brother of the preceding). b. Norwich 1803; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; a surgeon at 8 New Broad st. City of London 1827–39 when he moved to 6 Holles st. Cavendish sq.; assistant surgeon to Royal London Ophthalmic hospital 1832, surgeon 1843, consulting surgeon 1849; a founder of Royal college of Chemistry 1845; F.R.S. 7 June 1849; author of The anatomy of the human eye 1834; The pathology of the human eye 1852. d. 60 Grosvenor st. London 2 May 1852 in 49 year. Proc. of Royal Soc. vi, 250 (1852).

DALTON, Charles James (youngest son of Rev. James Dalton, R. of Croft, Yorkshire). b. 13 May 1812; Second lieut. R.A. 18 Dec. 1829, col. 25 Sep. 1859 to 23 April 1868, col. commandant 20 April 1877 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. Percy house, Twickenham park, Twickenham 7 Nov. 1880.

DALTON, John (son of Wm. Dalton of Bessville, co. Westmeath). b. Bessville 29 June 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1813; comr. of Irish loan fund board 1835; granted a civil list pension of £50, 4 March 1856; gained prize of £80 and Cunningham gold medal of Royal Irish Academy for best essay on social and political state of Irish people 1827; author of History of the county of Dublin 2 vols. 1838; The history of Drogheda 2 vols. 1844; History of Ireland to the year 1245, 2 vols. 1845 and other books. d. 48 Summer hill, Dublin 20 Jany. 1867.

DALTON, Rev. John. Educ. at Oscott college; engaged in R.C. missions at Northampton, Norwich and Lynn; elected a member of the chapter of see of Northampton; published Christianity in Europe by Novalis translated from the German 1844; The art of dying well, translated from the Latin of Bellarmine 1846 and many other translations from German, Latin and Spanish. d. St. John’s, Maddermarket, Norwich 15 Feb. 1874 in 60 year.

DALTON, John Stuart. Librarian of free public library, William Brown st. Liverpool 1852 to death; author of many poems. d. Low hill, Liverpool 2 Aug. 1868 aged 72.

DALTON, William Henry. Bookseller in Cockspur st. London about 1833–63; founded Booksellers Protection Association about 1851; member of Metropolitan Board of Works for parish of St. Martin in the Fields 1855 to death, being the last survivor of the original members. d. 30 Coleherne road, South Kensington, London 23 June 1884.

DALY, Cuthbert Featherstone. Entered navy 17 Feb. 1794; captain 18 Aug. 1808; R.A. on h.p. 9 Nov. 1846; C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Hayes place, Lisson grove, London 6 Dec. 1851.

DALY, Sir Dominic (3 son of Dominic Daly of Benmore, co. Galway, who d. 1841). b. Ardfry, co. Galway 11 Aug. 1798; went to Canada as private sec. to Sir Francis Burton 1822; assistant sec. to province of Lower Canada 1825–27, sec. 1827–40, sec. of province of Canada on union of the two provinces 1840–48; lieut. governor of Tobago 16 Sep. 1851, of Prince Edward’s Island 8 May 1854 to 1859; knighted by patent 2 July 1856; governor and commander in chief of South Australia 28 Oct. 1861 to death, assumed office March 1862. (m. 20 May 1826 Caroline Maria 2 dau. of Ralph Gore of Barrowmount, co. Kilkenny, she was granted a civil list pension of £100, 17 Nov. 1868 and d. 1872), he d. Government house, Adelaide 19 Feb. 1868. J. P. Stow’s South Australia (1883) 37–42.

DALY, Ellen. b. Kidderminster 1806; acted in melodrama at Adelphi theatre, London 1820–21; acted at Covent Garden and Haymarket, at Surrey theatre 14 years, at Standard theatre 1848–49; at Princess’s theatre under Charles Kean 1850–59. d. Notting hill, London 18 Jany. 1883. Actors by daylight i, 89 (1838), portrait; Dramatic Mirror (1847) p. 37, portrait; Theatrical Times iv, 1–2 (1849), portrait.

DALY, Right Rev. Robert (younger son of Denis Daly of Dunsandle, co. Galway 1747–91, P.C.) b. Dunsandle 8 June 1783; fellow commoner at Trin. coll. Dublin 1799, gold medallist 1803, B.A. 1803, M.A. 1832, B.D. and D.D. 1843; preb. of Holy Trinity, Cork 1809–43; preb. of Stagonill, Dublin 1809–43; R. of Powerscourt 1809–43; dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, elected 8 Dec. 1840, declared dean 1842 by court of delegates appointed to try validity of the election; bishop of united dioceses of Cashel, Emly, Waterford and Lismore 12 Jany. 1843 to death; an eminent leader of the Evangelical party; edited O’Brien’s Focaloir Gaoidhilge-Sags-Bhéarla, or an Irish-English dictionary 1832; Letters and papers of Viscountess Powerscourt 1838, 9 ed. 1874. d. See house, Waterford 16 Feb. 1872. Personal recollections of Right Rev. Robert Daly by An old parishioner i.e. Mrs. H. Madden 1872.

DALYELL, Sir John Graham, 6 Baronet (2 son of Sir Robert Dalyell, 4 baronet, who d. 1791). b. Binns, Linlithgowshire, Aug. 1775; lamed for life when an infant; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Edin.; advocate at Scottish bar 1796; knighted by patent 22 Aug. 1836; pres. of Society of Arts for Scotland 1839–40; succeeded his elder brother as 6 baronet 1 Feb. 1841; author of Fragments of Scottish history 1798; Scottish poems of the sixteenth century 1801; Journal of Richard Bannatyne 1806; Darker superstitions of Scotland 1834; Musical memoirs of Scotland 1849. d. 14 Great King st. Edinburgh 7 June 1851. Sir J. G. Dalyell’s The powers of the creator displayed in the creation to which is prefixed a memoir of the author, vol. iii, 1858.

DALYELL, Sir Robert Alexander Osborne, 8 Baronet (eld. son of the succeeding). b. 1821; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1847; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1849; employed in the consulate at Bucharest 1855–57; consul at Erzeroum 1859–65; consul for the Vilayet of the Danube 17 Oct. 1865 to 1 July 1874 when he retired on a pension. d. The Binns, Linlithgow 21 Jany. 1886.

DALYELL, Sir William Cunningham Cavendish, 7 Baronet. b. 27 April 1784; entered navy 1793; a prisoner in France 1805–14; commander of Greenwich hospital 27 Aug. 1840 to death; retired captain 1 July 1864; succeeded 7 June 1851. d. Royal hospital, Greenwich 16 Feb. 1865.

DALZELL, Nicol Alexander. b. Edinburgh 21 April 1817; ed. at high sch. and Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1837; assistant comr. of customs, Bombay 1841; forest ranger of Scinde; conservator of forests Bombay, retired on a pension 1870; F.R.S. Edin.; author of A review of Plowden’s Report on salt revenue of Bombay 1855; The Bombay Flora 1861. d. Edinburgh, Jany. 1878.

DAMES, William Longworth. Ensign 66 foot 26 July 1826, major 12 Oct. 1841 to 6 Nov. 1846 when placed on h.p.; col. 5 foot 12 Jany. 1865 to death; L.G. 4 Feb. 1867. d. 23 East Cliff, Dover 20 Feb. 1868 aged 61.

DAMPIER, John Lucius (2 son of Sir Henry Dampier 1758–1816, justice of Court of King’s Bench). b. 19 Bloomsbury sq. London 23 Dec. 1792; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fellow of his coll.; barrister L.I. 22 May 1819; recorder of Portsmouth 1837–38; a comr. to enquire into rights and claims connected with New Forest and Waltham forest 1849; a comr. for investigating state of Univ. of Ox. 1850; vice warden of Stannaries in county of Devon 16 Dec. 1850 to death. d. 33 Pulteney st. Bath 24 May 1853. G.M. xl, 94–5 (1853).

DANBY, Francis (3 son of James Danby of Common near Wexford, farmer). b. Common 16 Nov. 1793; landscape painter especially of sunsets; exhibited 48 pictures at R.A., 17 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1820–60; A.R.A. 7 Nov. 1825; lived in Paris and on the lake of Geneva 1829–41, at Lewisham, Kent 1841–47, and at Exmouth 1847 to death; his picture ‘The Deluge’ exhibited in London 1840 was chief artistic feature of Dublin Exhibition 1853. d. Shell house, Exmouth 17 Feb. 1861. Sandby’s History of the royal academy ii, 68–71 (1862); Redgrave’s Century of painters ii, 437–49 (1866); W. Stokes’s Life of George Petrie (1869) 7–10.

DANBY, James Francis (eld. son of the preceding). b. Bristol 1816; member of Soc. of British Artists; exhibited 35 landscapes at R.A., 42 at B.I. and 46 at Suffolk st. gallery 1842–76. d. 54 Park road, Haverstock hill, London 22 Oct. 1875. Graphic xii, 518 (1875), portrait.

DANBY, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. about 1817; copied pictures at the Louvre, Paris for his living 1830–41; exhibited 30 pictures at R.A. and 42 at B.I. 1842–76; associate of Soc. of Painters in Water-colours 1867, member 1870, his landscapes were among the chief ornaments of the Society’s exhibitions. d. 11 Park road, Haverstock hill, London 25 March 1886.

DANCE, Charles (son of George Dance of London, architect 1740–1825). b. about 1794; clerk in Court for relief of Insolvent Debtors, London, registrar and auditor 1851, taxing officer 1853, chief clerk May 1858 to Oct. 1861 when he retired on pension of £800 a year; wrote many extravaganzas alone and with J. R. Planché; called the founder of modern burlesque; of his 30 dramatic pieces the Bengal Tiger, Delicate Ground, A morning call, Who speaks first, and Naval Engagements are still sometimes played. d. Lowestoft 5 Jany. 1863. Planche’s Extravaganzas ii, (1879), portrait.

DANCER, John Benjamin. b. London 1812; optician at Manchester 1835 to death; suggested application of photography in connexion with the magic lantern; constructed the optical chromatic fountain since further developed at South Kensington exhibitions; constructed the first perfectly accurate thermometer in England; produced the first cheap good microscopes; member of Manchester literary and philosophical society; F.R.A.S. d. Manchester about 6 Dec. 1887.

DANELL, Right Rev. James (son of Mr. Danell of London). b. Fitzroy st. Fitzroy sq. London 14 July 1821; ed. at St. Edmund’s college near Ware and St. Sulpice, Paris; ordained priest 6 June 1846; served mission at St. George’s, Southwark 1846–70; canon of Southwark 27 Jany. 1857, vicar general 16 May 1862, vicar capitular 2 June 1870; bishop of Southwark 10 Jany. 1871 to death, consecrated by Abp. Manning at St. George’s cathedral 25 March 1871. d. The Bishop’s house, St. George’s cathedral, Southwark 14 June 1881. The Tablet 18 and 25 June 1881.

DANIEL, George. b. City of London 16 Sep. 1789; clerk to a stockbroker in Tokenhouse yard; contributed many poems to Ackerman’s Poetical Magazine 1808–11; author of The Times, a prophecy 1811 anon.; Miscellaneous poems 1812; Dick Distich 3 vols. 1812 anon.; published several squibs on royal scandals under pseud. of P—— P——, poet laureate; author of The modern Dunciad a satire with notes, biographical and critical 1814, 2 ed. 1816; edited Chef d’Œuvres from French authors 2 vols. 1821; his interlude Doctor Bolus was acted at English opera house 21 July 1818, and his musical farce The disagreeable surprise at Drury lane 1 Dec. 1819; edited Cumberland’s British Theatre with remarks, biographical and critical 39 vols. 1823–31, for each of the plays (nearly 300) he wrote a preface under the initials D—— G——; edited Cumberland’s Minor Theatre 14 vols. 1831–32; author of Remarks on Miss Mitford’s tragedy of Rienzi 1828; Ophelia Kean, a dramatic legendary tale 1829 anon., a scurrilous attack on Edmund Kean; Garrick in the green room 1829; Merrie England in the olden time 2 vols. 1842, reprinted 1874; The Missionary 1847 a religious poem; Democritus in London, to which are added Notes festivous and the Stranger Guest 1852; Love’s last labour not lost 1863. d. at his son’s house, The Grove, Stoke Newington, London 30 March 1864. Memoir of D—— G—— prefixed to Colman’s Blue Devils in Cumberland’s British theatre vol. xxxix (1838), pp. 3–8, portrait; G.M. 1864 pt. 2, pp. 450–5.

DANIEL, William Shand. Educated at Univ. of Glasgow; contributed poetical pieces to Glasgow college Albums; wrote part of a drama which appeared in Collections of miscellaneous poetical pieces Edin. 1843–44; sheriff clerk depute of Dumbarton 1844 to death; edited History of the abbey and palace of Holyrood by Duncan Anderson 1852. d. 2 Dec. 1858. R. Inglis’s Dramatic writers of Scotland 1868 p. 130.

DANIELL, Edmund Robert (son of George Daniell of London, barrister, who d. 1833). Barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1816; joint comr. with John Balguy of Birmingham court of bankruptcy 21 Oct. 1842 to death; F.R.S. 5 June 1828 to 1850; author of Reports of cases argued on the equity side of the Court of Exchequer 1824; The practice of the high Court of Chancery 3 vols. 1837–41, 6 ed., 3 vols. 1882–84; Practical observations on the new Chancery orders 1841, 2 ed. 1842. d. Meriden hall near Coventry 21 March 1854.

DANIELL, William Freeman. b. Liverpool 1818; M.R.C.S. 1841; assistant surgeon in the army 26 Nov. 1847; served on coast of West Africa; staff surgeon 11 March 1853; wrote a paper on the frankincense tree of West Africa which led to establishment of genus Daniellia, Benn. called after him; author of Medical topography and native diseases of the Gulf of Guinea 1849; On the Cascarilla plants of the West Indies 1862. d. Southampton 26 June 1865. bur. Kensal Green cemetery, London 3 July.

DANSEY, Charles Cornwallis. Second lieut. R.A. 19 July 1803, col. 9 Nov. 1846 to death; C.B. 19 July 1838. d. London 21 July 1853.

DANSEY, Rev. William (son of John Dansey of Blandford, Dorset). b. Blandford 1792; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., Stapledon scholar 1811–12; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817, M.B. 1818; R. of Donhead, St. Andrew, Wilts. 1820 to death; preb. of Salisbury 10 Aug. 1841 to death; translated Arrian on Coursing 1831; edited A brief account of the office of Dean Rural by J. Priaulx 1832; author of Horæ Decanicæ Rurales being an attempt to illustrate the name, title and functions of rural deans with remarks on the rise and fall of rural bishops 2 vols. 1835, 2 ed. 1844. d. Weymouth 7 June 1856.

DANSON, George. b. Lancaster 4 June 1799; scene painter at theatres in London many years; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1823–48; the following pictures by him were shown at Surrey Zoological gardens, Mount Vesuvius 1837–8 reproduced 1846, Iceland and its volcanoes 1839, the City of Rome occupying 5 acres 1841 reproduced 1848, Temple of Ellora 1843, London and the great fire of 1666, 1844, Edinburgh 1845, storming of Badajoz 1849, Napoleon’s passage of the Alps 1850. d. 711 Wandsworth road, London 23 Jany. 1881. Daily Telegraph 1 Feb. 1881 p. 5, col. 3.

DARBY, George (4 son of John Darby of Markly, Sussex, who d. 1834). b. 1798; ed. at Westminster and St. Cath. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1821; M.P. for East Sussex 1 Aug. 1837 to Jany. 1846; an inclosure comr. for England and Wales 21 Aug. 1846 to 1852; a copyhold inclosure and tithe comr. 1852 to death. d. Down st. Piccadilly, London 16 Nov. 1877. bur. Markley 21 Nov.

DARBY, Rev. John Nelson (brother of the preceding). b. London 18 Nov. 1800; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Dublin, gold medallist 1819, B.A. 1819; called to Irish bar about 1825; C. in Wicklow 1826–27; joined the ‘Brethren’ at Dublin 1827; worked in Switzerland 1838–40, many congregations of Darbyites were founded in cantons Vaud, Geneva and Bern; started a separate assembly at Plymouth 28 Dec. 1845, this division spread to Bristol, London and other places and Darbyism became established in England; travelled in America, New Zealand and West Indies; a most voluminous writer under his own name, his initials J. N. D., and anonymously. d. Bournemouth 29 April 1882. Collected writings of J. N. Darby ed. by W. Kelly 32 vols. 1867–83; Herzog’s Religious Encyclopædia iii, 1856–9, 2592–3 (1884); Estéoule’s Le Plymouthisme d’autrefois et le Darbyisme d’aujoud’hui 1858; A. N. Grove’s Darbyism, its rise and development 1866; The close of 28 years association with J. N. D. by W. H. D. 1866.

DARBY, Jonathan George Norton (eld. son of George Darby 1798–1877). b. 1829; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; barrister L.I. 9 June 1854; author with F. A. Bosanquet of A practical treatise on the statutes of limitations in England and Ireland 1867. d. 29 Westbourne park road, London 17 March 1870 in 41 year.

DARBY, Joseph. Second lieut. R.A. 1 July 1802, lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837 to 1 April 1844 when placed on retired full pay; general 1 Jany. 1868. d. Clifton 21 May 1869 aged 83.

DARBY-GRIFFITH, Christopher. b. 1805; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1826; M.P. for Devizes 1857–68. d. Padworth house near Reading 19 March 1885.

D’ARCY, George Abbas Kooli. Ensign 94 foot 21 April 1837, adjutant 3 Aug. 1838 to 5 Jany. 1841, captain 9 Nov. 1846 to 6 July 1852; major 3 West India regiment 6 July 1852, lieut. col. 7 July 1854 to 7 May 1858 when he sold out; aide-de-camp to 5 successive governors of Bombay; governor and commander in chief of the Gambia, June 1859 to Jany. 1867 when presented with a sword of honour value £120; governor of the Falkland Islands 24 Feb. 1870 to 1876. d. 9 Leigham villas, Plymouth 22 Oct. 1885 aged 67.

DARELL, Sir Harry Francis Colville, 3 Baronet. b. Lucknow 17 Nov. 1814; succeeded 13 April 1828; ensign 18 foot 1 June 1832; major 7 dragoon guards 3 Sep. 1847 to 27 June 1851 when placed on h.p. d. Cagliari, Sardinia 6 Jany. 1853.

DARGAN, William (son of Mr. Dargan of co. Carlow, farmer). b. co. Carlow 28 Feb. 1799; employed by Thomas Telford in constructing Holyhead road 1820; contractor of the first railway in Ireland, from Dublin to Kingstown 1831, of the Ulster canal, of the Dublin and Drogheda railway, of the Great southern and western, and the Midland Great western; found the capital nearly £100,000 for the Irish exhibition 1853 and bore the deficit of £20,000; declined a baronetcy offered him at close of exhibition; the Irish national gallery on Leinster Lawn was erected as a monument to Dargan with a fine bronze statue of him. d. 2 Fitzwilliam sq. east, Dublin 7 Feb. 1867. The Irish industrial exhibition of 1853 by J. Sproule (1854) ix-xiv, portrait; Irish tourist’s illustrated handbook (1853) pp. 12, 41, 148, portrait.

DARK, James Henry. b. Edgware road, London 24 May 1795; professional at Lord’s cricket ground, Marylebone 1809–36; umpire in many great matches; purchased remainder of lease of the ground from Wm. Ward 1836, proprietor and manager of the ground 1836 to 1864 when he sold the 29½ years remainder of the lease to Marylebone club for £12,500; built a house 31 St. John’s Wood road, overlooking the ground, and d. there 17 Oct. 1871. bur. Kensal Green 21 Oct. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i, 350–51 (1862), v, pp. xiii, xxii, (1876).

DARLEY, Edward. Ensign 49 foot 29 Nov. 1791; major 58 foot 18 Sep. 1817 to 5 July 1831 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 61 foot 24 Aug. 1832 to 28 June 1838; granted distinguished service reward 1 Jany. 1843; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. 24 North bank, Regent’s park, London 24 March 1854 aged 78.

DARLEY, Right Rev. John Richard (2 son of Richard Darley of Fairfield, co. Monaghan). b. Fairfield, Nov. 1799; ed. at Dungannon and Trin. coll. Dublin, foundation scholar 1819, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1827, B.D. and D.D. 1875; master of Dundalk gr. sch. 1826, of royal school of Dungannon 1831; R. of Drumgoon 1850; R. of Templemichael 1866; archdeacon of Ardagh 7 Nov. 1866; bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh 23 Sep. 1874 to death; consecrated in Armagh cathedral 25 Oct. 1874; author of The Grecian drama, a treatise on the dramatic literature of the Greeks 1840; A treatise on Homer with questions 1848. d. The Palace, Kilmore 20 Jany. 1884.

DARLEY, William Wallace. Second lieut. R.A. 16 Dec. 1816, lieut. col. 4 April 1851 to 22 April 1853 when retired on full pay; L.G. 7 Feb. 1870. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 23 Nov. 1874.

DARLING, Sir Charles Henry (eld. son of Henry Charles Darling, governor of Barbados, who d. 1845). b. Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia 1809; ensign 57 foot 27 April 1827, lieut. 29 Sep. 1830 to 30 Oct. 1838 when placed on h.p., retired 1841; lieut. governor of island of St. Lucia 21 Dec. 1847, of Cape of Good Hope 1851, of Newfoundland, May 1855; captain general and governor in chief of Jamaica, Feb. 1857; governor of Victoria 11 Sep. 1863 to April 1866; K.C.B. 23 July 1862. d. 7 Lansdowne terrace, Cheltenham 25 Jany. 1870.

DARLING, George. b. Stow near Galashiels; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.D. Aberdeen 1 April 1815; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1819; practised at Russell square, London 1820 to death; much employed by artists; author of An essay on medical economy 1814 anon.; Instructions for making unfermented bread 1846 anon. 17 ed. 1851. d. Russell sq. London 30 April 1862 in 80 year.

DARLING, James. b. Edinburgh 1797; apprenticed to Adam Black the publisher 1809–18; bookseller at 22 Little Queen st. Holborn, London 1825 to death, and at 81 Great Queen st. 1854 to death; commenced a library for use of theological students Jany. 1840 named at first the Clerical library, afterwards the Metropolitan library; compiled and published Bibliotheca Clericalis 1843; Cyclopædia Bibliographica or library of theological and general literature 2 vols. 1854–59. d. Fortess terrace west, Kentish Town, London 2 March 1862.

DARLING, John (younger son of George Darling, M.D. of Russell sq. London). b. 16 Aug. 1821; ed. at Univ. coll. London, Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Ox.; barrister I.T. 1 May 1846; author of An examination of the scriptural grounds on which the prohibition against marriage with a deceased wife’s sister is based 1849; A treatise on the administration of trust funds under the Trustee Relief Act 1855. d. Thornbury house, Ryde, Isle of Wight 27 Sep. 1858.

DARLING, Sir Ralph (son of Christopher Darling, adjutant 45 foot). b. 1775; ensign 45 foot 15 May 1793; lieut.-col. 69 foot 17 July 1801 to 8 May 1806; lieut.-col. 51 foot 8 May 1806 to 4 June 1813; deputy adjutant general at the Horse Guards 1814–18; commanded troops in Mauritius 1818–23; col. 90 foot 9 Oct. 1823 to 26 Sep. 1837; governor in chief of New South Wales 19 Dec. 1825 to 21 Oct. 1831; col. 41 foot 26 Sep. 1837 to 5 Feb. 1848; general 23 Nov. 1841; col. 69 foot 5 Feb. 1848 to death; G.C.H. 2 Sep. 1835. d. Brunswick sq. Brighton 2 April 1858. Braim’s History of New South Wales i, 53–74 (1876).

DARLING, William. b. Belford 7 Feb. 1786; lighthouse keeper at the Longstone or Outer Farn or Faroe island 1815 to Dec. 1860 when he retired on full pay; went out to the wreck of the steamboat Forfarshire (with his daughter Grace Darling 1815–43) and rescued the 9 survivors of the crew 7 Sep. 1838, the boat in which they went out was on view during the summer of 1883 at the Fisheries Exhibition, South Kensington, and on 9 Nov. it was carried through the streets of London in the Lord Mayor’s show. d. The Wynding house, Bamburgh 28 May 1865. Journal of W. Darling 1795–1860, (1886); I.L.N. xlvi, 553 (1865).

DARLING, William. b. Demse, Scotland; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; studied and taught anatomy in New York 1830–42; M.D. New York 1842; M.R.C.S. 1856, F.R.C.S. 1866; studied in London and Paris 1856–66; professor of anatomy in Univ. of New York 1867; censor of New York college of Veterinary surgeons 1868; professor of anatomy in Univ. of Vermont 1873; author of Anatomography or graphic anatomy 1879; author with A. L. Renney of Essentials of anatomy 1880. d. Univ. of New York 25 Dec. 1884 aged 82.

DARLING, William Lindsay. Ensign 99 foot 13 Dec. 1801; captain 51 foot 18 April 1811 to 1814; col. 98 foot 17 April 1854 to death; general 15 Dec. 1861. d. Strote house near Chepstow 8 Oct. 1863.

DARNELL, George. Established and conducted a large day school at Islington, London; started Darnell’s Copybooks about 1840 when he introduced plan of giving a line of copy in pale ink to be first written over by the pupil then to be imitated by him in the next line, the copy being thus always under his eye; author of Short and certain road to reading 1845; Grammar made intelligible to children 1846; Reading lessons 6 numbers 1855; Arithmetic made intelligible to children 1855, all of which had a great sale. d. 70 Gibson sq. Islington 26 Feb. 1857 aged 58.

DARNELL, Rev. William Nicholas (son of Wm. Darnell of Newcastle, wine merchant). b. Newcastle 14 March 1776; ed. at Newcastle gr. sch. and C.C. coll. Ox., Durham scholar, fellow, tutor; B.A. 1796, M.A. 1800, B.D. 1808; R. of St. Mary-le-bow, Durham 1809–15; V. of Stockton 1815–20; V. of Lastingham, Yorkshire 1815–28; preb. of ninth stall in Durham cath. 12 Jany. 1816, of sixth stall 12 Oct. 1820 to 1831; Inc. of St. Margaret’s, Durham 1820–27; V. of Norham, co. Durham 1827–31; R. of Stanhope, co. Durham 1831 to death, a living worth £6000 a year; author of Sermons 1816; The correspondence of Isaac Basire with a memoir 1831; An arrangement and classification of the Psalms, with a view to render them more useful for private devotion 1839, and of sermons, charges and other works. d. Stanhope rectory 19 June 1865. bur. Durham cathedral churchyard 24 June.

DART, Joseph. Deputy sec. H.E.I. Co. 1814, sec. 1818–29. d. Budleigh Salterton, Devon 29 Nov. 1866 aged 93.

DART, Joseph Henry (eld. son of the preceding). b. India house, Leadenhall st. London 1817; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., Newdigate prizeman for his poem The Exile of St. Helena 1838; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; barrister L.I. 28 Jany. 1841, bencher Feb. 1885; one of the six conveyancing counsel to Court of Chancery 1860; senior conveyancing counsel to high court of justice 1875–86; a verderer of New Forest 1877; author of A compendium of the law and practice of vendors and purchasers of real estate 1851, 6 ed. 2 vols. 1888; The Iliad of Homer in English hexameter verse 1862. d. Beech house, Ringwood, Hants. 27 June 1887. Law Journal xxii, 373, 381 (1887).

DARTMOUTH, William Legge, 4 Earl of (eld. son of 3 Earl of Dartmouth 1755–1810). b. in parish of St. George, Hanover sq. London 29 Nov. 1784; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1805, D.C.L. 1834; succeeded his father 1 Nov. 1810; colonel of Staffordshire militia 15 April 1812 to death; F.R.S. 7 Nov. 1822. d. Patshull near Wolverhampton 22 Nov. 1853.

DARUSMONT, Frances, known as Fanny Wright (dau. of Mr. Wright of Dundee, merchant, who d. 1798). b. Miln’s buildings, Nethergate, Dundee 6 Sep. 1795; brought up in England by her aunt; spent two years in the U.S. 1818–20; produced a tragedy ‘Altorf’ in New York 19 Feb. 1819; lived in Paris 1821–24; purchased 2000 acres of land on the river Nashoba in Tennessee and settled negro slaves upon it 1824, this experiment failed and the slaves were liberated and sent to Hayti; joined Robert D. Owen in his socialistic scheme at New Harmony, Indiana and edited the New Harmony Gazette; lectured in chief cities of U.S. on social questions 1829–30 and 1833–36, these lectures led to the formation of Fanny Wright Societies; one of the first advocates of female suffrage; author of Views of society and manners in America 1821; A few days in Athens 1822. (m. 1838 Phiquepal-Darusmont a French reformer, from whom she separated). d. Cincinnati, Ohio 14 Dec. 1852. R. D. Owen’s Threading my way (1873) 264–72; Mrs. Trollope’s Domestic manners of the Americans (1831) i, 96–100, ii, 76–77; S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record, 2 ed. (1855) p. 842.

DARVALL, Edward. Ensign 57 Bengal N.I. 1 May 1823; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 12 Sep. 1866 to 1 Oct. 1877 when placed on retired list; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Acton place, Suffolk 20 Oct. 1885 in 80 year.

DARVALL, Sir John Bayley (son of Edward Darvall, captain 9 dragoons). Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1838, admitted to bar of N.S.W. 16 Sep. 1839; practised at Sydney, N.S.W. 1839–67; Q.C. 1853, member of senate of Univ. of Sydney 1850–67; solicitor general N.S.W. 1856–7, attorney general 1857–67; C.M.G. 23 June 1869, K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877. d. 23 Upper Wimpole st. Cavendish sq. London 28 Dec. 1883.

DARVILL, Sir Henry (eld. son of John Darvill). b. 1812; solicitor at Windsor 1834 to death; mayor of Windsor 1853, town clerk 1854 to death; registrar of Windsor county court; knighted at Osborne 20 April 1883. d. Chirbury, Shropshire 30 Sep. 1883. bur. Windsor cemetery 5 Oct.

DARWIN, Charles Robert (5 child of Robert Waring Darwin of Shrewsbury, physician 1766–1848). b. The Mount, Shrewsbury 12 Feb. 1809; ed. at Shrewsbury, Univ. of Edin. and Christ’s coll. Cam.; B.A. Cam. 1832, M.A. 1837, hon. LLD. 1877; naturalist to the Beagle on her surveying voyage round the world Dec. 1831 to Oct. 1836; F.G.S., sec. 1838–41; lived at 12 Gower st. London 1839–42, at Down near Beckenham, Kent 1842 to death; F.R.S. 24 Jany. 1839, royal medallist 1853, Copley medallist 1864; author of Narrative of the surveying voyages of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle, vol. 3, entitled Journal and Remarks; Geology of the voyage of the Beagle 3 parts 1842–46; On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life 1859; The descent of man and selection in relation to sex 1871, and other books. d. Down 19 April 1882. bur. Westminster Abbey 26 April, statue of him by J. Boehm, R.A. placed in Natural history museum, South Kensington 1885. Life and letters of C. Darwin edited by his son F. Darwin 3 vols. 1887, portrait; Charles Darwin, Nature series 1882; Illust. Review ii, 289–91 (1871), portrait; Nature x, 79 (1874), portrait; The Examiner 11 Oct. and 12 Nov. 1879, 2 portraits.

DARWIN, Sir Francis Sacheverell (2 son of Erasmus Darwin of Derby, M.D., F.R.S. 1731–1802). b. parish of All Saints, Derby 17 June 1786; ed. at Repton and Emm. coll. Cam.; M.D. Edin.; physician at Lichfield; knighted by George iv at Carlton house 10 May 1820 on presenting an address from city of Lichfield. d. Breadsall priory near Derby 6 Nov. 1859. Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iii, 195 (1861).

DASENT, John Bury (eld. son of John Roche Dasent, attorney general of St. Vincent). b. 22 Dec. 1806; ed. at Westminster school and Trin. hall, Cam., LL.B. 1830; barrister M.T. 19 April 1833; judge of Bow and Shoreditch county courts (circuit No. 40) 2 Oct. 1858 to Jany. 1884 when he retired on a pension. d. 15 Warwick road, Maida hill, London 7 April 1888.

DASHWOOD, Rev. George Henry (son of Rev. James Dashwood, R. of Doddington, Isle of Ely). b. Downham Market, Norfolk 21 Oct. 1801; ed. at Linc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1825; C. of Stow Bardolph, Norfolk 1840, Vicar 1852 to death; F.S.A. 6 June 1844; printed at his private press Vice-Comites Norfolciæ, or sheriffs of Norfolk from the first year of Henry the Second to the fourth of Queen Victoria 1844; author of Sigilla Antiqua 1847, and of many papers in the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society’s Norfolk Archæology vols. 1–5. d. Quebec house, East Dereham, Norfolk 9 Feb. 1869. Register and mag. of biog. i, 310–12 (1869).

DASHWOOD, William Bateman. b. 1 Sep. 1790; entered navy 3 Aug. 1799; lost his right arm in action 29 Nov. 1811; granted pension for wounds 4 April 1816; captain 21 Oct. 1818, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 22 April 1862. d. suddenly at Geneva 9 May 1869.

DAUBENY, Charles Giles Bridle (3 son of Rev. James Daubeny, R. of Stratton, Gloucs. who d. 9 Feb. 1817). b. Stratton 11 Feb. 1795; ed. at Winchester and Magd. coll. Ox., demy 1810, lay fellow 1815 to death, bursar 1828, vice pres. 1830; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817, B.M. 1818, M.D. 1821; M.D. Dublin 1835; Aldrichian professor of chemistry at Oxford, Oct. 1822–1855, professor of botany there 1834 to death, professor of rural economy 1840 to death; physician to Radcliffe infirmary 1826–30; pres. of British Association at Cheltenham 1856; F.R.S. 19 Dec. 1822; author of A description of active and extinct volcanoes 1826, 2 ed. 1848; An introduction to the atomic theory 1831, 2 ed. 1850; Lectures on Roman husbandry 1857; Lectures on Climate 1863; Miscellanies on scientific and literary subjects 2 vols. 1867. d. Botanic gardens, Oxford at 12.5 a.m. 13 Dec. 1867. Proc. of Royal Society xvii, 74–80 (1869); Quarterly Journal of Geological society xxiv, 33–36 (1868).

DAUBENY, Henry. Ensign 84 foot 8 July 1795, lieut. col. 11 Dec. 1813 to 21 Nov. 1822 when placed on h.p.; col. 80 foot 31 Jany. 1850 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; K.H. 1832; edited C. Daubeny’s Guide to the Church 1830. d. Rome 10 April 1853.

DAUBENY, Henry. b. 1820; M.R.C.S. 1843; M.D. St. Andrews 1845; L.S.A. 1846; surgeon in London 1843–61, at San Remo, Italy 1861 to death; author of The climate of San Remo as adapted to invalids 1865. d. Hôtel des Iles Britanniques, San Remo 26 Jany. 1887.

DAUGARS, John William Gustavus Leo (only son of Rev. Guillaume Gustavus Daugars, pastor of French protestant church, St. Martin’s le Grand, London). b. Thurlow sq. Brompton, London 1849; ed. at Harrow and Brasenose coll. Ox., migrated to St. Alban hall, B.A. 1873; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1875; contributed to Temple Bar, The Graphic and other publications under nom de plume of Claude Templar. d. Hastings 20 Feb. 1885 in 36 year.

DAUGLISH, John (son of Wm. Dauglish of Bethnal Green, London, clerk in a large East India house). b. Bethnal Green 10 Feb. 1824; ed. at Hackney; studied medicine at Univ. of Edin. 1852–55, bracketed gold medallist for his M.D. degree 1855; took out a patent for “An improved method of making bread” 1 Oct. 1856 and 4 other patents on same subject 1857–65, this unfermented bread which he called aerated was first made in factory of Messrs. Carr of Carlisle 1856; erected a model bakery at Islington 1859; silver medallist of Society of Arts 1860; bread sold in special shops in London and the provinces. d. Furze bank, Great Malvern 14 Jany. 1866. On the healthy manufacture of bread by B. W. Richardson 1884, portrait; I.L.N. xxxvi, 259–60 (1860).

DAUNT, Very Rev. Achilles (eld. son of Achilles Daunt of Tracton abbey, co. Cork, who d. 28 Aug. 1871). b. Rincurran near Kinsale 23 Aug. 1832; ed. at Kinsale and Univ. of Dublin, scholar 1852, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1866; V. of Rincurran 26 March 1856 to 11 Jany. 1867; R. of Ballymoney, co. Cork 1867; R. of Stackallen, co. Meath 1867; V. of St. Matthias, Dublin, Aug. 1867; dean of Cork and R. of St. Finbar, Cork 1875 to death; author of The Church a lesson book for angels 1872; The person and offices of the Holy Ghost 1879; The morning of life and other gleanings from the manuscripts of the late A. Daunt 1881. d. St. Anne’s, Blarney near Cork 17 June 1878. Spent in the service, a memoir of the Very Rev. Achilles Daunt by Rev. F. R. Wynne 1879, portrait; Some account of the family of Daunt by John Daunt (1881) 25–28, portrait.

DAVENPORT, Edward Gershom. b. 1838; M.P. for St. Ives, Cornwall 5 Feb. 1874 to death. d. 28 Lancaster gate, Hyde park, London 4 Dec. 1874.

DAVENPORT, John Marriott. b. Shirburn, Oxon, Sep. 1809; solicitor at Oxford 1831 to death; clerk of the peace for co. Oxon 1831–81, undersheriff 1853–75; F.S.A. 9 March 1854; privilegiatus Univ. of Ox. 3 Nov. 1866; author of Lords lieutenant and high sheriffs of Oxfordshire 1086–1868, 1868; Oxfordshire Annals 1869; Lord lieutenant and high sheriff, correspondence upon the question of precedence 1871; Notes upon the jurisdiction of the county justices within the city of Oxford 1872; Notes as to Oxford Castle 1877. d. 62 St. Giles’s, Oxford 31 Jany. 1882.

DAVENPORT, Richard Alfred. b. about 1777; author of New elegant extracts, 2nd series 12 vols. 1823–7; wrote some of the biographical notices and critical prefaces to Whittingham’s British poets 100 vols. 1822; edited more than 100 vols. of miscellaneous works including the Poetical Register 8 vols. 1802–11. d. from inadvertently taking an overdose of opium at Brunswick cottage, Park st. Camberwell, London 25 Jany. 1852.

DAVENPORT, Samuel (son of Mr. Davenport of Bedford, architect). b. Bedford 10 Dec. 1783; articled to Charles Warren of London, line engraver; engraved in outline a large number of portraits for biographical works; engraved The works of W. Hogarth 1821; his best plates are in the Forget-me-not 1828–42; one of the earliest engravers on steel. d. 15 July 1867.

DAVEY, Richard (youngest son of Wm. Davey of Redruth, Cornwall, solicitor, who d. 16 April 1849). b. Redruth 11 Dec. 1799; ed. at Tiverton and Univ. of Edin.; M.P. for West Cornwall 1857–68. d. Bochym near Helston 24 June 1884. I.L.N. xxxiii, 92, 94 (1858), portrait.

DAVIDS, Rev. Thomas William (only child of William Saunders Davids of Swansea, Congregational minister, who d. Dec. 1816). b. Swansea 11 Sep. 1816; minister of Congregational church, Lion walk, Colchester 3 Feb. 1841 to 1874; secretary of Essex congregational union 20 years; author of Annals of Evangelical Nonconformity in the county of Essex from the time of Wycliffe to the restoration 1863, and of a number of historical articles and reviews. (m. 1841 Louisa eld. dau. of Robert Winter of Clapham Common, London, solicitor, she was widely known by her Essay on Sunday schools 1847 and Sunday school hymn book, she d. Colchester 18 Nov. 1853 aged 37), he d. Forest Gate, Essex 11 April 1884. Congregational year book (1885) 187–8.

DAVIDSON, Rev. Alexander Dyce. b. Aberdeen 8 May 1807; ed. at Aberdeen Univ.; minister of the South ch. Aberdeen 3 Aug. 1832, of the West ch. 5 May 1836, of Free ch. Belmont st. 28 Jany. 1844, of a new Free ch. in Union st. 14 Feb. 1869 to death; author of Lectures on the book of Esther 1859; Lectures and sermons edited by F. Edmond 1872. d. Aberdeen 27 April 1872. Wylies’ Disruption Worthies (1881) 211–14.

DAVIDSON, Archibald (son of Rev. T. Davidson of the Tolbooth church, Edinburgh). b. 1805; ed. at high sch. Edin. and Univs. of Glasgow and St. Andrews; called to Scotch bar 1827; senior advocate depute 1846; sheriff of Kincardine 1847, of Aberdeen 10 Jany. 1848, of Edinburgh 10 Oct. 1865, of the Lothians and Peebles to Feb. 1886; arranged for publication Lord Cockburn’s Memorials of his time 1856. d. Edinburgh 27 March 1886.

DAVIDSON, Cuthbert. Entered Bengal army 1827; lieut. col. 49 Bengal N.I. 31 May 1857 to 1860; lieut. col. 51 Bengal N.I. 1860 to death; C.B. 18 May 1860. d. 2 Aug. 1862.

DAVIDSON, Duncan. b. 1800; M.P. for co. Cromarty 30 June 1826 to 24 July 1830 and 20 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; lord lieutenant of co. Ross 18 Feb. 1879 to death; married five times. d. Edinburgh 18 Sep. 1881.

DAVIDSON, Ellis A. Author of Linear Drawing 1868; Drawing and design without instruments 1869; Elements of practical perspective 1870; Model drawing from solid forms 1871; Boy joiner and model maker 1874; House painting and graining 1875, 3 ed. 1880; Amateur house carpenter 1875 and many other books. d. 29 Clarendon gardens, Maida hill, London 9 March 1878.

DAVIDSON, George Henry. Music publisher at 19 Peters hill, Doctors Commons, London; published Universal Melodist 2 vols. 1847–9; Instrumental Gems 4 vols. 1851; Davidson’s Recitations and Comic songs 1854; sold his business to the Music publishing company limited for £20,000, 1860; author of The Thames and Thanet Guide 1838, 6 ed. 1850. d. 26 Clifton road, Peckham 4 July 1875 in 75 year.

DAVIDSON, Harriet (2 child of Hugh Miller the geologist 1802–56). b. Cromarty, Scotland 25 Nov. 1839; ed. at Edin. and London; author of Isabel Jardine’s History 1867; Christian Osborne’s Friends 1869; contributed poems and stories to the Adelaide newspapers and to Chambers’s Journal. (m. 1863 Rev. John Davidson, minister of Chalmer’s church, Adelaide, who d. 1881). d. Adelaide 23 Dec. 1883.

DAVIDSON, James (eld. son of James Davidson of Tower Hill, London, stationer). b. Tower Hill 15 Aug. 1793; lived at Secktor near Axminster, Devon 1822 to death; author of The British and Roman remains in the vicinity of Axminster 1833; History of Axminster church 1835; History of Newenham Abbey, Devon 1843; Axminster during the civil war 1851; A glossary to the obsolete and unused words and phrases of the Holy Scriptures in the authorised English version 1850; Bibliotheca Devoniensis, a catalogue of printed books relating to the county of Devon 1852 and Supplement 1862; Notes on the antiquities of Devonshire 1861. d. Secktor house, Axminster 29 Feb. 1864. G. P. R. Pulman’s book of the Axe (1875) 12, 47, 677.

DAVIDSON, John. b. Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire 29 March 1804; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; transcriber for the Spalding Club 20 years; arranged the Burgh records of Dundee 1865; wrote a number of pamphlets on various political subjects; a small vol. containing many poems and prose pieces by him was published at Aberdeen 1872. d. 28 Sep. 1871.

DAVIDSON, John. L.R.C.S. Edin. 1838; surgeon in the navy 29 July 1839; M.D. St. Andrews 1845; M.R.C.P. 1860; inspector general of hospitals 4 July 1866 to 26 Oct. 1874 when he retired; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Bosworth lodge, Willesden lane, London 31 Jany. 1881 aged 63.

DAVIDSON, Thomas (son of Jonah Davidson of Oxnam Row farm near Jedburgh, shepherd). b. Oxnam Row 7 July 1838; entered Univ. of Edin. 1855; schoolmaster at Forres 1860–61, in Edinburgh 1861; licensed as a preacher in united presbyterian church 2 Feb. 1864; obtained second prize in rhetoric class for a poem on ‘Ariadne at Naxos’ 1859, one of his friends sent this poem to Thackeray who inserted it in Cornhill Mag. Dec. 1860; sent songs and short poems to the ‘Scotsman.’ d. Bankend, Jedburgh 29 April 1870. The life of a Scottish probationer, being a memoir of Thomas Davidson by James Brown (1878), portrait.

DAVIDSON, Thomas. b. Nottingham 28 Aug. 1828; went to Philadelphia 1832, ship builder there 1850–61; quartermaster in Philadelphia navy yard 1861, assistant naval constructor 1863, naval constructor 1866 to death; his greatest feat was the building in 70 days of the “Juanita” (1240 tons 7 guns) from the frame of a Florida frigate; executed the models and drawings for first large torpedo boats built in New York. d. Philadelphia 18 Feb. 1874.

DAVIDSON, Thomas. b. Edinburgh 17 May 1817; ed. in France, Italy and Switzerland; pupil of P. Delaroche and H. Vernet; matric. at Univ. of Edin. 1835; hon. sec. of Geol. Soc. 1858, Wollaston gold medallist 1865, Silurian medallist 1868; F.R.S. 11 June 1857, royal medallist 1870; author of British Fossil Brachiopoda 6 vols. and of the article ‘Brachiopoda’ in 9th ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica. d. 16 Oct. 1885. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxix, 8–11 (1886).

DAVIE, James. Violinist and composer at Aberdeen; published The music of the church of Scotland 1841; Caledonian Repository 6 vols.; established the Aberdeen Choral Society which held a Musical Festival 1834; choir master in St. Andrew’s ch. Aberdeen about 1835. d. Aberdeen 19 Nov. 1857 aged 74. W. Anderson’s Precentors and musical professors (1876) 85–94.

DAVIES, Rev. Benjamin. b. Werne near St. Clears, Carmarthenshire 26 Feb. 1814; ed. at Baptist college, Bristol, Univ. of Glasgow, Trin. coll. Dublin and Leipzig; Ph.D. Leipzig 1838; pres. of Baptist coll. Stepney 1844–7; a professor in Mac Gill coll. Montreal 1847–57; professor of oriental and classical languages in Baptist coll. Regents park, London 1857; one of the revisers of the Old Testament; published translations of Gesenius’s Hebrew Grammar and Lexicon; the Paragraph Bible issued by Religious Tract Society was chiefly his work. d. Frome, Somerset 19 July 1875.

DAVIES, David. Ensign 62 foot 4 June 1812, lieut. 13 Feb. 1814 to 25 June 1816 when placed on h.p.; fired a pistol loaded with ball at Lord Palmerston (the sec. of state for war) at the War Office, London 8 April 1818, tried at the Old Bailey 1 May 1818 when acquitted on ground of insanity; confined in Bethlehem hospital, May 1818 to death. d. of apoplexy in Bethlehem hospital 30 Dec. 1861 aged 67.

DAVIES, Sir David (only son of Robert Davies of Llwyn, Cardiganshire). b. 1793; physician at Hampton; domestic phys. to William iv, 1830 to 1837, and to Queen Adelaide 1837 to 1849; K.C.H. June 1837; knighted by Queen Victoria at St. James’s palace 19 July 1837. d. Lucca 1 May 1865.

DAVIES, David Arthur Saunders. b. 9 June 1792; M.P. for Carmarthenshire 27 Dec. 1842 to death; chairman of Cardiganshire quarter sessions. d. United University club, 4 Pall Mall, East London 22 May 1857.

DAVIES, David Christopher. b. Oswestry 1827; a mining engineer 1852; visited Norway on business 9 times; F.G.S. 1872; contributed numerous papers to Geological Mag.; author of Christ for all the ages and other lay sermons 1871; Treatise on slate and slate quarrying 1878, 2 ed. 1880; Metalliferous minerals and mining, 2 ed. 1880; Treatise on earthy and other minerals and mining 1884. d. suddenly on board the steamer Angelo while returning from Norway to Hull 19 Sep. 1885. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xlii, 43 (1886).

DAVIES, Rev. Evan. b. Hengwm, Lledrod, county of Cardiganshire 1805; ordained at Wycliffe Congregational chapel, London as a missionary to the Chinese 1835; sent to Penang by London Missionary Soc. 1835, returned home 1839; superintendent of Boys’ Mission school at Walthamstow 1842–44; pastor at Richmond, Surrey 1844–57; author of China and her spiritual claims 1845; Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel Dyer 1846; Revivals in Wales 1859. d. Llanstephan near Carmarthen 18 June 1864.

DAVIES, Evan. Watchmaker at Pontypridd; known as Myfyr Morganwg, Arch-Druid of Wales, recognized head of the Druids who meet periodically around famous rocking stone at Pontypridd; published several works on Druidism which he argued was the true religion, and several others on Celtic mythology. d. Pontypridd 23 Feb. 1888 in 89 year.

DAVIES, Francis John (youngest son of Thomas Davies of New house, co. Hereford 1751–92, advocate general Calcutta). b. 1 May 1791; ensign 52 foot 3 Feb. 1808; captain Grenadier guards 30 April 1827 to 18 May 1841 when placed on h.p.; col. of 67 foot 15 Jany. 1858 to death; general 14 Jany. 1866. d. 8 Eaton place, London 4 Dec. 1874.

DAVIES, George. b. Wells 15 Dec. 1800; entered navy 23 June 1813; inspecting commander in coast guard of Banff district, July 1843, of Penzance district 3 July 1848 to 1 Jany. 1851; captain 1 Jany. 1851; saved the lives of more than 200 persons at shipwrecks; retired V.A. 29 May 1873; chief constable of Cambridgeshire, Nov. 1851 to death, and of Hunts. April 1857 to death. d. 10 Scrope terrace, Cambridge 24 Nov. 1876. O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict. (1861) 281–2; I.L.N. xviii, 61–2 (1851).

DAVIES, Griffith (son of Owen Davies, farmer, who d. 21 March 1854 aged 93). b. parish of Llandwrog, Carnarvon 28 Dec. 1788; kept a school in London 1811; actuary to Guardian Assurance Co. 1823 to death; constructed many tables for the Reversionary Interest Soc. 1823; F.R.S. 16 June 1831; wrote 20 reports on the various Indian funds for the H.E.I.Co.; author of Key to Bonnycastle’s Trigonometry 1814; Tables of life contingencies containing the rates of mortality among the members of the Equitable Society 1825. d. 25 Duncan terrace, Islington, London 21 March 1855. Assurance Mag. July 1855 pp. 337–48; C. Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia ii, 172–4; Pink’s Clerkenwell (1881) 705–8.

DAVIES, Henry. b. London 1782; M.R.C.S. 1803; served in army medical service; M.D. Aberdeen 26 Sep. 1823; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1823; phys. to British Lying-in hospital; lecturer on midwifery at St. George’s hospital; edited M. Underwood’s Treatise on the diseases of children 1846; author of The young wife’s guide 1852. d. London 9 Jany. 1862.

DAVIES, Henry Thomas. Entered navy 3 March 1794; captain 19 Feb. 1814; retired captain 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861. d. Bath 21 Feb. 1869 aged 91.

DAVIES, Herbert (son of Thomas Davies of London, physician 1792–1839). b. London 30 Sep. 1818; scholar of Gonville and Caius coll. Cam. 1838, migrated to Queen’s coll.; 31 wrangler 1842; B.A. 1842, M.B. 1843, M.D. 1848; fellow of Queen’s coll. 1844; assistant phys. to London hospital 5 Aug. 1845, phys. 1854–74; F.R.C.P. 1850; phys. to Bank of England; author of Lectures on the physical diagnosis of the diseases of the lungs and heart 1851, 2 ed. 1854, translated into German and Dutch; On the treatment of rheumatic fever in its acute stage exclusively by free blistering 1864. d. Hampstead 4 Jany. 1885. Medical Circular iii, 439 (1853), portrait.

DAVIES, Rev. James (2 son of Richard Banks of Kington, Herefordshire). b. Kington 20 May 1820; ed. at Repton and Lincoln coll. Ox., scholar; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1846; Inc. of Ch. Ch. Forest of Dean 1847–52; head master of Ludlow gr. sch. 1852–57; took name of Davies in lieu of Banks 1858; wrote majority of classical articles in Saturday Review many years; author of a remarkable essay on ‘Epigrams’ in Quarterly Review Jany. 1865; translated Hesiod, Theognis and Callimachus into prose for Bohn’s Classical library; wrote vols. on Hesiod and Theognis and on Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius for Collins’s Ancient Classics for English readers; revised several of Murray’s Guides for the press; author of a vol. of original verse entitled Nugæ 1854. d. Moor Court, Kington 11 March 1883.

DAVIES, Rev. John. Educ. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1831, D.D. 1844; R. of Gateshead 1840 to death; hon. canon of Durham, Feb. 1853 to death; author of An estimate of the human mind, a philosophical inquiry into the legitimate application and extent of its leading faculties 1828; The ordinances of religion practically illustrated and applied 1832, and about 20 other works. d. Ilkley Wells, Yorkshire 21 Oct. 1861.

DAVIES, Lucy Clementina (youngest child of Leon Maurice called by courtesy Lord Leon Maurice Drummond de Melfort 1761–1826). b. Château of St. Germain near Paris 21 Nov. 1795; granted precedency of an Earl’s daughter by r.l. 30 Sep. 1853; author of Recollections of society in France and England 2 vols. 1872, a work which contains much of her family history. (m. 8 Sep. 1823 Francis Henry Davies a registrar of Court of Chancery, who d. 22 Oct. 1863 aged 72). d. 22 Palace gardens terrace, Kensington, London 27 April 1879.

DAVIES, Venerable Richard. V. of St. John’s, Brecknock 1804 to death; archdeacon of Brecknock 15 Feb. 1805 to death; canon of St. Davids 1805 to death. d. Residentiary house, St. David’s cathedral, Brecon 14 May 1859 aged 82.

DAVIES, Robert (eld. son of Peter Davies of York). b. York 19 Aug. 1793; solicitor at York 1814, town clerk 1827–48; F.S.A. 22 Dec. 1842; author or editor of The freeman’s roll of the city of York 1835; The Fawkes’s of York in the sixteenth century 1850; Notices of the mints and coinages at York 1854; The life of M. Rawdon, Camden Soc. 1863; A memoir of the York press 1868; Walks through the city of York 1880. d. The Mount, York 23 Aug. 1875.

DAVIES, Venerable Roland Robert. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827; archdeacon of Hobart Town, Tasmania 1855 to death. d. Ferndean, Hobart Town 13 Nov. 1880 aged 75.

DAVIES, Scrope Berdmore. Educ. at Eton 1796–99 and King’s coll. Cam., fellow 1805, senior fellow 1822 to death; B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; remarkable for his dexterity at all athletic games especially cricket and tennis, competed with Lord Byron in swimming; intimate friend of Tom Moore and Lord Byron who when on his death bed sent him a ring; Lord Byron’s Parisina is dedicated to him; lived at Ostend 1836; a well known talker and diner out. d. 2 Rue Miromenil, Paris 24 May 1852. T. C. Grattan’s Beaten Paths (1862) ii, 146–70.

DAVIES, Venerable Thomas Hart Francis Penrose. Educ. at Trin. hall, Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1841; C. of Holbrooke, Suffolk 1837–39; C. of Knaresborough 1839–41; P.C. of Trinity, Nottingham 1841–51; archdeacon of Melbourne, Australia 1851–53; V. of Ch. Ch. Ramsgate 1853 to death. d. Ramsgate 5 Jany. 1873 aged 76. Kent Coast Times 9 Jany. 1873 pp. 2, 3.

DAVIES, Thomas Stephens. b. 1794; F.R.S. Edin. 1831; F.S.A. 19 March 1840; professor of mathematics at R.M.A. Woolwich 1834 to death; edited many mathematical works. d. Broomhall cottage, Shooter’s hill, Kent 6 Jany. 1851. Westminster Review lv, 70–83 (1851); Mechanics’ Mag. 11 Jany. 1851 pp. 33–5; The Expositor i, 284 (1851), portrait.

DAVIES, William Edmund. b. King’s Cross, London 1819; employed by Cubitt and Co. as a carpenter; originated the betting list system 1846, hung up first of his betting lists at Salisbury Arms, Durham st. Strand, betting lists were declared illegal by act of parliament 20 Aug. 1853; lost £100,000 over the Derby 1852 when Daniel O’Rourke won, and £48,000 over the Derby 1853 when West Australian won; became known as the Leviathan; retired at end of racing season 1857. d. at 18 Gloucester place, Brighton 4 Oct. 1879. Rice’s History of the Turf ii, 271–80 (1879); Sporting Review, Jany. 1859 pp. 39–42; Sporting Times 30 May 1885 p. 2.

Note.—By his will he left property in railway shares valued at £60,000 to the Brighton corporation subject to the payment of certain annuities. His widow gave notice to dispute the will, but on 21 Jany. 1880 an arrangement was made by which the greater part of the property came to the corporation on her death. Preston park, Brighton which cost £50,000 was purchased with this money and opened 8 Nov. 1884.

DAVIS, Charles. b. near Hertford 15 Jany. 1788; whipper-in to his father who hunted the King’s harriers 1800 and Pistol boy to George iii; whipper-in to Mr. Sharpe’s staghounds 1812; huntsman to the Queen 1821–66; presented with a testimonial in London 5 Feb. 1859, which testimonial he left to the Queen. d. Royal Kennels, Ascot 26 Oct. 1866. bur. Sunninghill churchyard 2 Nov. His horse Comus, a gift from the Prince of Wales, was shot by his last wish and one ear of the horse in a small box was placed in his grave. Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known, second series ii, 284–305; J. N. Fitt’s Covert side sketches (1878) 274–78; Sporting Review lx, 418–20 (1866), lvi, 402–8 (1866); Baily’s Mag. xii, 254, 326–36 (1867); The Sportsman n.s. ii, 277 (1837), portrait; I.L.N. xxxiv, 164, 165 (1859), portrait.

DAVIS, Right Rev. Charles Henry. b. Usk, co. Monmouth 18 May 1815; professed at St. Gregory’s, Downside near Bath 1834; a member of Benedictine order 1833; ordained priest Nov. 1840; pastor of Downside 1844–48; the first R.C. bishop of Maitland, Australia 1848 to death, consecrated 25 Feb. 1848; coadjutor of the archbishop of the diocese. d. Sydney 17 May 1854.

DAVIS, Right Rev. Daniel Gateward (son of Rev. Wm. Davis). b. Island of St. Christopher, West Indies 1788; ed. at Reading and Pemb. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1823, D.D. 1842; went to the West Indies; R. of St. Paul’s, Charleston, Nevis; R. of St. George’s, Basseterre, St. Christophers; rural dean; archdeacon of Antigua 1837; visited England 1842; bishop of Antigua 21 Aug. 1842 to death, consecrated in Westminster Abbey 24 Aug. d. 3 Bryanston st. Portman sq. London 25 Oct. 1857.

DAVIS, Edward Dean. b. near Bath 1806; manager of Taunton theatre 1835; travelled the Devonshire circuit with a company 1843–46; lessee of T.R. Newcastle 1846–70; lessee of Lyceum theatre, Sunderland 1854, theatre was entirely destroyed by fire 23 Dec. 1855, theatre was reopened 29 Sep. 1856 when Henry Irving made his first appearance on the stage, lessee of the theatre again 1870–76. d. Eldon square, Newcastle 19 Feb. 1887.

DAVIS, George Lenox. Ensign 9 foot 15 Sep. 1808, lieut. col. 19 Dec. 1845 to 2 April 1852; inspecting field officer of Liverpool recruiting district 2 April 1852 to death; C.B. 27 June 1846. d. Galway 14 April 1852.

DAVIS, Hart. Commissioner of Excise 11 Aug. 1824, deputy chairman Sep. 1837 to 6 Jany. 1849; F.R.S. 20 May 1841. d. Bere hill house, Whitchurch 17 June 1854.

DAVIS, Henry George (son of Mr. Davis, master of St. Paul’s parochial schools, Knightsbridge, London). b. 4 Mills Buildings, Knightsbridge 14 Aug. 1830; clerk in a circulating library; contributed a series of articles on ‘Our local associations’ to West Middlesex Advertiser; prepared for the press Memorials of the hamlet of Knightsbridge with notices of its immediate neighbourhood, ed. by his brother C. Davis 1859; left in manuscript two unfinished works ‘Pimlico’ and ‘Recollections of Piccadilly’; wrote many antiquarian papers in Notes and Queries. d. St. Paul’s parochial school, Wilton place, Belgravia 30 Dec. 1857.

DAVIS, James Edward (son of Aaron Wall Davis, M.D. of Presteign, Radnorshire). b. 1817; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1842; revising barrister 1854; reporter for Law Journal Reports in Court of Exchequer 1855–64; stipendiary magistrate for Stoke-upon-Trent 1864–70, for Sheffield 1870–74; legal adviser to comrs. of Metropolitan Police 1874 to death; author of Prize essay on the laws for the protection of women 1854; Practice and evidence in the county courts 1855, 6 ed. 1887; The Criminal law consolidation statutes 1861; A manual of the law of registration and election 1868, 2 ed. 1879. d. suddenly at 4 Whitehall place, London 12 July 1887 in 70 year. Law Journal xxii, 397, 406, 426 (1887).

DAVIS, John Edward (son of Henry Davis, commander R.N.) b. 9 Aug. 1815; entered navy 5 July 1828; Second master in the Terror in Antarctic expedition 1839–43; surveyor to North Atlantic telegraph expedition in the Fox 1862; retired captain 9 Aug. 1870; naval assistant to the Hydrographer; author with his son of the Azimuth Tables; invented an improved sextant; drew the charts for Antarctic expedition 1839–43; the illustrations in Narrative of Sir James Clark Ross 1847 are from his drawings; F.R.G.S. d. Douglas house, Maze hill, Greenwich 30 Jany. 1877.

DAVIS, John Ford. b. Bath 1773; ed. in London and Edin.; M.D. Edin. 24 June 1797; L.R.C.P. 30 Sep. 1808; phys. to general hospital, Bath 1817–34; author of An inquiry into the symptoms and treatment of Carditis, or inflammation of the heart 1808. d. Bath 1 Jany. 1864.

DAVIS, John Philip, called Pope Davis. Exhibited 33 pictures at the R.A., 17 at B.I. and 59 at Suffolk st. gallery 1811–57; painted at Rome 1824 a large picture of the ‘Talbot family receiving the benediction of the Pope’ (hence his cognomen ‘Pope Davis’); awarded a premium of £50 by directors of British Institution 1825; author of Facts of vital importance relative to the embellishment of the Houses of Parliament 1843; The Royal Academy and the National Gallery, What is the state of these institutions? 1858; Thoughts on great painters 1866. d. 67 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 28 Sep. 1862 in 79 year.

DAVIS, Joseph Barnard. b. York 13 June 1801; went as a surgeon in a whaling ship to the Arctic seas 1820; L.S.A. 1823, M.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon at Shelton Hanley, Staffs. to death; M.D. St. Andrews 1862; collected a museum of skulls and skeletons of various races, larger than all the collections in British public museums, which he sold to Royal college of Surgeons 1880; F.S.A. 21 Dec. 1854; F.R.S. 4 June 1868; author of Popular manual of the art of preserving health 1836; Thesaurus Craniorum 2 vols. 1867–75; published with John Thurnam, M.D., Crania Britannica, or delineations of the skulls of the early inhabitants of the British Islands 1856–65. d. Hanley 19 May 1881. Nature 26 May 1881.

DAVIS, Nathan. Lived in an old Moorish palace 10 miles from Tunis many years; edited the Hebrew Christian Magazine 1852; became a Nonconformist minister; engaged excavating at Carthage and Utica for the British Museum 1856–58, chief antiquities he discovered were Roman mosaic pavements; author of Tunis, or selections from a journal during a residence in that Regency 1841; Evenings in my tent 2 vols. 1854; Carthage and her remains 1861; Ruined cities within Numidian and Carthaginian territories 1862. d. Florence 6 Jany. 1882. Antiquarian Mag. i, 152 (1882); Edwards’s Lives of the founders of the British Museum (1870) 666–8.

DAVIS, Richard Barrett (son of Mr. Davis, huntsman to the royal harriers). b. Watford, Herts. 1782; animal painter; exhibited 70 pictures at R.A., 57 at B.I. and 141 at Suffolk st. gallery 1802–53; animal painter to William iv, 1831. d. 9 Bedford place, Kensington, London 13 March 1854.

DAVIS, William. Founded a free school at Gower’s walk, Whitechapel, London 1807; one of founders of National Society 1811 and of Society for promoting enlargement, building and repairing of churches and chapels 1818. d. 19 Nov. 1854 aged 88.

DAVIS, William. b. Dublin 1812; portrait painter at Liverpool; professor of painting at Liverpool academy; exhibited 16 landscapes at the R.A. 1851–72. d. London 22 April 1873.

DAVISON, Rev. Edward (son of Rev. Edward Davison 1760–1839, Inc. of St. Nicholas, Durham). Matric. from C.C. coll. Ox. 25 Nov. 1803 aged 15, B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810; fellow of Univ. coll. 1807–16; R. of Harlington, Middlesex 1822–56; P.C. of St. Nicholas, Durham 1825–56; author of Tentamen Theologicum, or an attempt to assist the young clergyman of the Church of England in the choice of a subject for his sermon on any Sunday throughout the year by E. D. 1850, and of several sets of lectures and sermons. d. Durham 22 May 1863.

DAVISON, Sir Henry (4 son of Thomas Davison of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London). Matric. from Trin. coll. Ox. 23 Oct. 1823 aged 18, scholar 1824, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1834; barrister I.T. 6 May 1834; puisne judge of supreme court of Madras 16 March 1857, chief justice 11 March 1859 to death; knighted by the Queen at Windsor castle 28 Nov. 1856; published with H. Merivale Reports in the Queen’s Bench and upon Writs of Error 1844. d. Ootacamund on the Neilgherry hills, Madras 3 Nov. 1860.

DAVISON, James William. b. London 5 Oct. 1813; ed. at Univ. coll. sch. and Royal Acad. of Music; wrote pianoforte music for Bohn’s Harmonist; edited the Musical World to death; musical critic of the Times 1850–78; wrote for the Saturday Review and Graphic; contributed to Grove’s Dictionary of music and musicians; author of An essay on the works of Frederic Chopin 1849. (m. 1860 Arabella Goddard the pianist). d. York hotel, Margate 24 March 1885. bur. Brompton cemetery, London 28 March. Theatre v, 230–4, 247–9 (1885); Musical Standard 4 April 1885 pp. 212–3; London Figaro 4 April 1885 p. 11, portrait.

DAVISON, John Robert (2 son of Rev. Edward Davison, R. of Harlington, Middlesex, who d. 1863). b. Church st. Durham 15 April 1826; ed. at Houghton and Durham gr. schs. and C.C. coll. Ox., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1847; barrister M.T. 2 Nov. 1849; Q.C. 9 Jany. 1866; chairman of Durham quarter sessions 1868; M.P. for city of Durham, Nov. 1868 to death; advocate general 28 Dec. 1870 to death; P.C. 8 Feb. 1871. d. The Auberies near Sudbury 15 April 1871. Law Journal vi, 282–3, 287–8 (1871); I.L.N. lviii, 427, 444 (1871), portrait, lix, 98 (1871).

DAVISON, Joseph (son of Thomas Davison of Sedgefield, Durham). Solicitor at Durham 1831; deputy registrar in Episcopal registry for wills Durham 1835–57; district registrar of Court of Probate 1857 to death; clerk and deputy steward of the Halmote Court at Durham (through which all transfers of copyhold property in co. Durham pass) 25 Nov. 1850 to death; held the office of Cursitor in the Palatinate Chancery Court 25 Jany. 1836 to death when office was abolished and documents were transferred to Record Office, London; principal proprietor of Bedlington colliery on the Tyne. d. Greencroft hall, Durham 20 Dec. 1868.

DAVISON, Maria Rebecca (dau. of Mr. Duncan of Liverpool, actor). b. Liverpool 1783; acted in England, Scotland and Ireland; first appeared in London at Drury Lane 8 Oct. 1804 as Lady Teazle; created the rôle of Juliana in The Honeymoon 31 Jany. 1805; acted at Drury Lane 1804–19 and 1825–29 and at Covent Garden 1819–21; her best parts were Maria in The Citizen and Miss Hardcastle in She stoops to conquer. (m. 31 Oct. 1812 James Davison, who d. March 1858). d. Brompton, London 30 May 1858. Mrs. C. Baron Wilson’s Our actresses i, 167–88 (1844); Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography i, 51–7 (1825), portrait; J. H. Leigh Hunt’s Critical essays on the performers of the London theatres (1807) 170–79; The London Stage vol. 3, portrait.

DAVISON, Robert. b. Belford, Northumberland 10 May 1804; resident engineer to Truman and Co. brewers, London 1831–45; patented a process for drying wood and other substances by currents of hot air which was worked by Patent Desiccating Co. 1845 and received gold medal of Soc. of Arts; erected Findlater’s brewery, Dublin 1852; designed Allsopp’s new brewery at Burton; invented machinery for raising and conveying malt; patented machinery for cleansing casks by a double rotatory motion; A.I.C.E. 1834, M.I.C.E. 1840; prime warden of Blacksmiths’ Co. 1857–58. d. Finchley 14 March 1886. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. ii, 192 (1842), iii, 57 (1843), lxxxiv, 442–44 (1886).

DAVISON, Sir William (son of Alexander Davison of St. James’s sq. London, government contractor 1750–1829). b. 1788; ed. at Eton; captain Northumberland militia 7 July 1807; equerry to 1 Duke of Cambridge 1813–50; equerry to 2 Duke of Cambridge 1850 to death; captain on half pay of 2 Foot 25 Dec. 1813; lieut. col. in the army 10 Jany. 1837; K.H. 1824; knighted at the King’s lodge, Windsor 3 Sep. 1824. d. London 14 Jany. 1873.

DAVY, David Elisha (son of Mr. Davy of Rumburgh, Suffolk, farmer, who d. 1799 aged 90). b. 1769; F.L.S. 17 Dec. 1793; receiver general for Suffolk 1795; collected for nearly 50 years, materials for history of Suffolk which were bought by British Museum 1852; communicated a series of notices of sepulchral monuments existing in parish churches of Suffolk to the Topographer and Genealogist; wrote many articles on genealogical matters to Gent. Mag. under initials D. A. Y.; author of A short account of Leiston Abbey by D. E. D. edited by J. Bird 1823. d. Ufford near Woodbridge, Suffolk 15 Aug. 1851.

DAVY, Edmund (2 son of William Davy of Penzance). b. Penzance 1785; assistant in laboratory of Royal Institution, London 1804–13; professor of chemistry in Royal Cork Institution 1813–26 and in Royal Dublin Society 1826–1854 when he retired on full salary; gave upwards of 30 courses of lectures on chemical subjects; F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1826; author of An essay on the use of peat or turf as a means of promoting the public health and the agriculture of the United Kingdom 1850, and of 33 papers 1812–57. d. Kimmage lodge, co. Dublin 5 Nov. 1857. H. B. Jones’s Royal Institution (1871) pp. 280, 360, 366.

DAVY, Edward (eld. son of Thomas Davy of Ottery St. Mary, Devon, surgeon). b. Ottery St. Mary 16 June 1806; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; L.S.A. 1828, M.R.C.S. 1829; operative chemist at 390 Strand, under title of Davy and Co. 1830; invented and patented Davy’s Diamond Cement 1835; laid down a mile of copper wire around inner circle of Regent’s Park 1837 where he made many experiments in electricity; opened an exhibition of his telegraphic apparatus at Exeter hall 29 Dec. 1837; patented his electro-chemical recording telegraph 4 July 1838 which was bought by the Electric Telegraph Company for £600; sailed for Australia as medical superintendent of an emigrant ship 15 April 1839; edited the Adelaide Examiner 1843–5; manager of copper smelting works at Yatala 1848–51; head of Government Assay office at Adelaide 1852–3 and at Melbourne, July 1853 to Dec. 1854; surgeon at Malmesbury, Victoria 1855 to death; author of An experimental guide to chemistry 1836; Outline of a new plan of telegraphic communication 1836. d. Malmesbury 27 Jany. 1885. Memoir of E. Davy by his nephew H. Davy 1883; J. J. Fahie’s Edward Davy and the electric telegraph 1836 to 1839 (1883).

DAVY, John (2 son of Robert Davy of Penzance, wood-carver, who d. 1794). b. Penzance 24 May 1790; studied medicine at Edin., M.D. 1814; F.R.S. 17 Feb. 1814; hospital assistant in the army 19 May 1815; inspector general of army hospitals 22 Dec. 1848 to 3 Feb. 1849 when placed on h.p.; author of An account of the interior of Ceylon 1821; Researches, physiological and anatomical 1839; Notes and observations on the Ionian islands 2 vols. 1842; Lectures on chemistry 1849; Discourses on agriculture 1849; On some of the more important diseases of the army 1862; The angler and his friends or piscatory colloquies and fishing excursions 1855. d. Lesketh-how near Ambleside 24 Jany. 1868. Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi, 79–81 (1868); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 111 (1874), iii, 1152 (1882).

DAVY, Sir William Gabriel (eld. son of Major Davy, Persian secretary to Warren Hastings). b. King’s Holme near Gloucester 1779; ensign 61 foot March 1797; major 60 foot 5 Feb. 1807; lieut.-col. 7 garrison battalion 28 Dec. 1809 to 1810 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.H. 1836; knighted at St. James’s palace 23 March 1836; col. commandant 60 foot 2 Nov. 1842 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Tracy park near Bath 25 Jany. 1856 aged 77.

DAVYS, Right Rev. George (son of John Davys of Rempstone, Notts.) b. Loughborough, Leics. 1 Oct. 1780; a sizar at Ch. coll. Cam. 1799, fellow 14 Jany. 1806–1814; tenth wrangler 1803; B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; V. of Willoughby in the Wolds, Lincs. 1811–29; educated the Princess Victoria at Kensington Palace 1827–37; R. of Allhallows on the Wall, city of London 1829–39; dean of Chester 10 Jany. 1831 to May 1839, instituted 21 Feb. 1831; bishop of Peterborough, May 1839 to death, consecrated 16 June; author of Village conversations on the Liturgy of the Church of England 1820, 8 ed. 1829; Village conversations on the principal offices of the Church 1824, 2 ed. 1849; Letters between a father and his son on Roman history and other subjects 1848, and of various educational works which appeared anonymously in The cottagers’ monthly visitor and National School Mag. d. The palace, Peterborough 18 April 1864.

DAVYS, Venerable Owen. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; V. of Cranwell, Lincs. 1834–46; archdeacon of Northampton 15 Sep. 1842 to death; canon of Peterborough 15 Sep. 1842 to death; R. of Fiskerton, Lincs. 1846 to death. d. 8 Feb. 1875.

DAWES, George (youngest son of Thomas Dawes, who d. 3 Jany. 1871). b. Angel court, Throgmorton st. London 23 Nov. 1810; solicitor at Angel court 1835 to death; solicitor to Associated fire offices and Fire office committee; settled form of fire policy generally used by insurance offices; conducted most of the leading insurance cases. d. Barlow, Florida, U.S. 9 Dec. 1887.

DAWES, Very Rev. Richard (son of James Dawes of Hawes in Wensleydale, Yorkshire). Baptised at Hawes 13 April 1793; entered Trin. coll. Cam. Oct. 1813; 4 wrangler 1817; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; fellow and tutor of Downing college 1818; V. of Tadlow, Cambs. 1819–36; R. of Kings Somborne, Hants. 1836, founded a school there opened Oct. 1842; dean of Hereford 15 May 1850 to death, installed 13 June 1850; restored the cathedral and re-opened it 1863; master of St. Catherine’s hospital, Ledbury 1861; vice pres. of British association at Bath 1864; author of Suggestive hints towards improved secular instruction making it bear upon practical life 1849 and ten other small books. d. The deanery, Hereford 10 March 1867. A biographical notice of the late Very Rev. R. Dawes by W. C. Henry, privately printed 1867; G.M. May 1867 pp. 674–75.

DAWES, Thomas. Attorney in City of London 1795 to death. d. Tunbridge Wells. 3 Jany. 1871 aged 98 being oldest attorney on the rolls.

DAWES, William Rutter (son of Mr. Dawes, mathematical master at Christ’s hospital, London). b. Christ’s hospital 19 March 1799; ed. at Charterhouse sch.; surgeon at Haddenham, Bucks., at Liverpool 1826; took charge of a small independent congregation at Ormskirk, Lancs. to 1839; had charge of the observatory at South villa, Regent’s park, London belonging to George Bishop 1839–1844; fitted up an observatory at Camden lodge near Cranbrook, Kent 1844; invented several valuable improvements in practical astronomy; F.R.A.S. 14 May 1830, gold medallist 1855; F.R.S. 1865. d. Hopefield, Haddenham 15 Feb. 1868. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxix, 116.

DAWKINS, Henry. b. 1765; comr. of woods and forests 31 July 1810 to 1832 when he retired on pension of £800; M.P. for Aldborough, Yorkshire 12 Oct. 1812 to Aug. 1814. d. Encombe house near Sandgate, Kent 2 Nov. 1852 in 88 year.

DAWKINS, Henry. b. 28 Nov. 1788; ed. at Harrow and Marlow; ensign Coldstream guards 10 March 1804, captain 25 July 1814 to 31 Aug. 1826 when placed on h.p.; served through Peninsular war and at Waterloo; retired from army 1846; M.P. for Boroughbridge, Yorkshire 10 March 1820 to 24 July 1830. d. Over Norton, Oxfordshire 13 Nov. 1864.

DAWSON, George (son of Jonathan Dawson of London, schoolmaster). b. 36 Hunter st. Brunswick sq. London 24 Feb. 1821; ed. at Glasgow Univ., B.A., M.A.; minister of baptist chapel at Rickmansworth, Herts. 1843; min. of Mount Zion chapel, Birmingham, 6 Oct. 1844 to Dec. 1845; min. of “The Church of the Saviour,” Birmingham 8 Aug. 1847; lectured in all chief towns of the Kingdom 30 years; lectured in the U.S. 1874; edited Birmingham Morning News from 2 Jany. 1871; mem. of Birmingham sch. board 28 Nov. 1871; took an active part in English and foreign politics; friend of Mazzini and Kossuth; author of Prayers with a discourse on prayer 1877, 9 ed. 1884; Sermons on daily life and duty 1878; Three books of God, Nature, history and scripture 1882; Shakespeare and other lectures 1878. (m. 27 Aug. 1846 Susan Frances youngest dau. of J. W. Crompton of Edgbaston, merchant, she was b. Edgbaston 23 June 1820 and d. Malvern 9 Nov. 1878). d. Kingsnorton near Birmingham 30 Nov. 1876. Crosskey’s Memoir of G. Dawson 1876; Ireland’s Recollections of G. Dawson 1882; Manchester Quarterly i, 181–204 (1882); Gilfillan’s Second gallery of literary portraits (1850) 196–213; The lamps of the temple, 3 ed. (1856) 449–65; Edgbastonia i, 94–7, 114 (1881) portrait of Mrs. Dawson, ii, 140–43 (1882), portrait of G. Dawson; Nineteenth Century ii, 44–61 (1877); Illust. news of the world, ix (1862), portrait.

DAWSON, George. b. Falkirk, Stirlingshire 14 March 1813; taken to America 1818; foreman in office of Evening Journal at Albany, New York 1830–36; edited Rochester Daily Democrat 1836–39 and 1842–46; edited Detroit Advertiser 1839–42; associate editor of Albany Evening Journal 1846, editor 1862–77; postmaster of Albany 1861–67; author of The pleasures of angling 1876. d. Albany, New York 17 Feb. 1883.

DAWSON, George Robert (elder son of Arthur Dawson of Castledawson 1745–1822). b. Rutland sq. Dublin 24 Dec. 1790; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1811; M.P. for co. Londonderry 1815–30, for Harwich 1830–32; under sec. of state for home department 17 Jany. 1822 to 30 April 1827; sec. of the Treasury 28 Jany. 1828 to 26 Nov. 1830; P.C. 22 Nov. 1830; sec. of the Admiralty 24 Dec. 1834 to 27 April 1835; comr. of the Customs 29 Dec. 1841, deputy chairman 1846 to death. d. Upper Grosvenor st. London 3 April 1856.

DAWSON, Henry. b. Water st. Hull 3 April 1811; employed in a lace factory at Nottingham to 1835; landscape painter at Nottingham 1835, at Liverpool 1844–50, at Croydon 1850; competed for decoration of Houses of Parliament 1847; one of his best pictures ‘The wooden walls of old England’ which sold for £75 in 1853, brought £1400 at Christie’s 1876; 57 of his pictures were at Nottingham exhibition 1878 and several of his large pictures at Jubilee exhibition, Manchester 1887. d. The Cedars, Chiswick 13 Dec. 1878. C. Brown’s Lives of Nottinghamshire Worthies (1882) 360–66, portrait.

DAWSON, Pudsey (son of Pudsey Dawson of Langcliff hall, Yorkshire 1752–1816). b. 2 Oct. 1778; sheriff of West Riding, Yorkshire 1845; assoc. of Archæol. assoc. 1851; Hornby castle devised to him by Admiral Tatham who d. 24 Jany. 1840, was visited by British Archæological Soc. 2 Aug. 1850. d. Hornby Castle, Lancaster 12 April 1859. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xvi, 170–71 (1860).

DAWSON, Robert. Assistant draughtsman on the ordnance survey of Great Britain 1794; a first-class draughtsman in corps of royal military surveyors and draughtsmen 1802; contributed much to bring sketching and shading of ordnance plans to degree of perfection afterwards attained; instructor in topographical drawing at Royal military college, also at H.E.I. Co.’s military seminary, Addiscombe 1810; pensioned by Board of Ordnance. d. Woodleigh rectory, South Devon 22 June 1860.

DAWSON, Robert Kearsley (eld. son of the preceding). b. 1798; second lieut. R.E. 1 March 1816, captain 18 Aug. 1837 to 1 Dec. 1853 when he retired on full pay as lieut.-col.; employed on the Scotch and Irish surveys; assistant comr. under the Tithe Act 1836; member of the first Metropolitan sewers commission 1849; A.I.C.E. 28 March 1838; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; compiled Plans of the cities and boroughs of England and Wales 1832. d. Blackheath, Kent 28 March 1861. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi, 582–4 (1862).

DAWSON, Robert Peel (eld. son of George Robert Dawson 1790–1856). b. London 2 June 1818; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; ensign Grenadier guards 8 Aug. 1837; captain 11 Hussars 9 June 1846 to 13 July 1847 when he sold out; sheriff of Londonderry 1850; M.P. for Londonderry 1859–74; lord lieut. of Londonderry 23 June 1870 to death; col. of Londonderry militia 12 April 1871 to death. d. Dover 2 Sep. 1877.

DAWSON, Thomas Vesey (2 son of 2 Baron Cremorne 1788–1877). Ensign Coldstream guards 11 Aug. 1837, captain 22 Aug. 1851 to death; M.P. for co. Louth 1841–1847, for co. Monaghan 1847–1852; killed at battle of Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854.

DAWSON-DAMER, George Lionel (3 son of 1 Earl of Portarlington 1744–98). b. Queen’s county 28 Oct. 1788; cornet 1 dragoon guards 4 Dec. 1806, captain 31 Dec. 1812; captain 22 light dragoons 22 Jany. 1818 to 17 Aug. 1820 when placed on h.p.; captain 65 foot 8 June 1826; major 89 foot 13 Dec. to 24 Dec. 1833 when he sold out; assumed additional surname of Damer by r.l. 14 March 1829; M.P. for Portarlington 9 Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847, for Dorchester 28 July 1847 to 1 July 1852; comptroller of H.M.’s household, Sep. 1841 to July 1846; C.B. 26 Nov. 1816; P.C. 14 Sep. 1841. d. 23 Wilton crescent, Belgravia, London 14 April 1856.

DAY, Alfred (son of John B. Day, horse trainer, who d. 21 March 1860). b. Danebury 3 Nov. 1830; rode in the Cesarewitch race 1843; won the One thousand guineas on Flea 1849 and on Kate 1852; won the Two thousand guineas on Pitsford 1850, Hermit 1854 and The Promised Land 1859; won the Derby on Andover 1854. d. Chilbolton near Stockbridge 4 Jany. 1868. Sporting Review xliv, 198–203 (1860), portrait, lix, 78 (1868); Baily’s Mag., May 1860, portrait.

DAY, Edward Derry. b. Kerry 1801; served in 46 foot 1820–34; police magistrate of Maitland, N.S.W. 1836–50 and at Maitland, Muswell-brook and Port Macquarie 1853–69; captured the ‘Jew Boy’s gang of bushrangers’ at Doughboy Hollow near Murrurundi, N.S.W. 20 Dec. 1840. d. Maitland 5 May 1876.

DAY, George Edward (son of George Day of Manorabon house, Swansea). b. Tenby 4 Aug. 1815; entered Trin. coll. Cam. 1833; scholar of Pemb. coll. 1833 or 1834, 29 wrangler 1837; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; physician in London 1843; M.R.C.P. 1844, F.R.C.P. 1847; phys. to Western general dispensary; lecturer on materia medica at Middlesex hospital; Chandos professor of anatomy and medicine at St. Andrews 1849–63; M.D. Giessen 1849; F.R.S. 6 June 1850; translated J. F. Simon’s Animal chemistry 2 vols. 1845; J. Vogel’s Pathological anatomy of the human body 1847; author of A practical treatise on the domestic management and most important diseases of advanced life 1849; Chemistry in its relations to physiology and medicine 1860, and of many articles in medical papers and Chambers’s Encyclopædia. d. Andersey, Torquay 31 Jany. 1872. Medical Circular iii, 241 (1853), portrait; Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. vii, 45–7 (1875).

DAY, George Fiott. b. June 1820; entered navy Aug. 1833; captain 20 Aug. 1861; retired captain 14 Feb. 1867; C.B. 29 May 1875; V.C. 24 Feb. 1857. d. Weston-super-Mare 18 Dec. 1876. O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict. (1861) 289–90; I.L.N. lxx, 21 (1877), portrait.

DAY, Rev. Henry Thomas. Ed. at Clare coll. Cam., LL.B. 1836, LLD. 1841; V. of Mendlesham, Suffolk 1835 to death; author of Sermons at Mendlesham 1838; Algarsife and other poems 1848; An ode on the liberation of Abd-el-Kader, and letters and pamphlets in favour of the revision of the authorised version of the Scriptures. d. 27 Sep. 1861 aged 62.

DAY, John (son of the succeeding). Trainer of horses at Danebury; entered an action for libel against Admiral Rous which did not come into court; trained horses for Duke of Beaufort, Lord Hastings and many others. d. Danebury 3 Dec. 1882 aged 68. Baily’s Mag. xl, 64–72, 121–2 (1883); Illust. sp. and dr. news xviii, 345 (1882).

DAY, John Barham. b. Houghton Down 1794; won the Oaks on Turquoise 1828, Oxygen 1831, Pussy 1834, Deception 1839 and Crucifix 1840; trainer for Lord George Bentinck many years; trained many celebrated horses for Henry Padwick and John Gully, among them were Hermit winner of the Two thousand guineas, Andover winner of the Derby, and Virago who won 12 races out of 13 as a 3 year old; earned sobriquet of the “Lyndhurst of the Turf” by his habit of talking sound sense. d. Woodyates 21 March 1860. Rice’s British turf i, 274–8 (1879); Corbet’s Tales of sporting life (1864) 55–67; Baily’s Mag. i, 228–34 (1860).

DAY, Samuel (brother of the preceding). b. 1801; won the Derby on Gustavus 1821, on Priam 1830, on Mendicant 1846; won the Oaks on Pyrrhus the First 1846; kept livery stables in London. d. London 17 Feb. 1866. Bell’s Life in London 24 Feb. 1866 p. 4.

DAYMAN, Rev. John (eld. son of John Dayman of Padstow, Cornwall 1778–1859). b. St. Columb, Cornwall 1802; ed. at Tiverton and C.C. coll. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; scholar of his coll. 1819, fellow 1825–31; R. of Skelton, Cumberland 1831 to death; author of An essay concerning the nature of man 1837; The Inferno of Dante Alighieri translated in the terza rima of the original 1843; The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri translated in terza rima 1865. d. London 8 July 1871.

DEACON, Henry Colins. Entered navy 3 Nov. 1800; captain 2 April 1817, retired 1 Oct. 1846, retired admiral 10 Nov. 1862. d. 12 Leonard place, Kensington 9 Nov. 1869.

DEAKIN, James Henry. b. near Manchester, Feb. 1851; M.P. for Launceston 1874–77; barrister M.T. 1875. d. Werrington park near Launceston 8 Nov. 1881.

DEALTRY, Right Rev. Thomas (son of James Dealtry of Knottingley near Pontefract). b. Knottingley 1795; usher in a school at Doncaster; ed. at Cath. hall, Cam., LL.B. 1829; C. of St. Peter’s, Cam. 1828; chaplain in Bengal army 1829; hon. sec. to Church Missionary Soc. Calcutta; archdeacon of Calcutta 1835–48; Inc. of St. John’s, Bedford row, London 1848–49; bishop of Madras 9 Nov. 1849 to death, installed 2 Feb. 1850; author of The divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ proved from his own discourse 1830. d. Madras 4 March 1861. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known, 2 ed. (1874) 106–7; I.L.N. xv, 376 (1849), portrait.

DEALTRY, Venerable Thomas (only son of the preceding). b. 1825; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; assistant chaplain Madras army 1850–71; archdeacon of Madras 1861–71; R. of Swillington, Yorkshire 1872–78; V. of Maidstone 1878 to death. d. Maidstone 29 Nov. 1882.

DEANE, Bonar Millett. b. 30 Sep. 1834; ensign 96 foot 12 March 1853; lieut.-col. 19 foot 14 April 1875 to 15 Jany. 1879 when placed on h.p.; D.A.G. and Q.M.G. Cape of Good Hope 2 Aug. 1880 to death; killed by the Boers at Laing’s Neck, Natal 28 Jany. 1881. I.L.N. lxxviii, 149 (1881), portrait.

DEANE, Charles (elder son of Charles Meredith Deane, captain 24 light dragoons). b. Southampton 6 June 1791; cornet 24 light dragoons 5 Sep. 1805, captain 5 Dec. 1818 to 25 July 1819 when regiment was disbanded; captain 1 foot 14 Nov. 1822, major 19 June 1835 to death; K.H. 1836. d. Newport, co. Monmouth 18 March 1853.

DEANE, Rev. John Bathurst (brother of the preceding). b. Cape of Good Hope 27 Aug. 1797; ed. at Merchant Taylors; Parkin’s exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Cam. 1816, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; second classical and head mathematical master at Merchant Taylors 1836–55; V. of St. Helen, Bishopsgate 1855 to death; R. of St. Martin, Outwich 1855 to death; author of The worship of the Serpent traced throughout the world and its traditions referred to the events in Paradise 1830; The life of Richard Deane general at sea in the service of the Commonwealth 1870. d. Sion hill, Bath 12 July 1887.

DEANE, John Connellan (eld. son of the succeeding). b. 1816; called to Irish bar; poor law inspector 1846; associated with Wm. Dargan, Sir Joseph Paxton and others in the Great Exhibitions at Cork 1852, Dublin 1853, and the Crystal palace and Alexandra palace, London; originator of Great Exhibition at Manchester; closely associated with early promoters of submarine telegraphy. d. Naples 24 Feb. 1887.

DEANE, Sir Thomas (eld. son of Alexander Dean of Cork, builder). b. Cork 1792; a builder at Cork to 1830, an architect there 1830 to death; designed Commercial buildings, old and new Savings’ banks, Bank of Ireland and Queen’s college, Cork; joint designer of The University Museum at Oxford 1855; mayor of Cork 1830; knighted by Duke of Northumberland at Cork 1830; pres. of Institute of Irish architects many years. d. 26 Longford terrace, Monkstown, Dublin 2 Oct. 1871. I.L.N. lix, 338 (1871).

DEANE, William Wood (3 son of John Wood Deane, cashier in Bank of England, who. d. 5 Dec. 1854 aged 68). b. Liverpool road, Islington, London 22 March 1825; assoc. R.I.B.A. 1848; acted at Miss Kelly’s theatre, London which he subsequently decorated; architect in London 1853; made designs and perspectives for architects; assoc. of Instit. of painters in water colours 1862, member 1867; assoc. of Society of painters in water colours 1870; exhibited 23 pictures at R.A., 4 at B.I. and 13 at Suffolk st. gallery 1844–72. d. of cancer of the liver at 64 King Henry’s road, Hampstead 18 Jany. 1873.

DEARDEN, Thomas Ferrand. Solicitor at Rochdale 1823 to death; coroner for co. of Lancaster, March 1835 to death. d. The Elms, Rochdale 1 Jany. 1870 aged 68.

DEAS, Sir David (son of Francis Deas, provost of Falkland, who d. 1857). b. Falkland, Sep. 1807; assistant surgeon R.N. 7 June 1828; chief medical officer of naval forces engaged during Russian war, and Chinese war up to peace of Tientsin 1859; inspector general of hospitals and fleets 1 March 1855 to March 1872 when placed on retired list; granted good service pension 11 April 1869; C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. 32 Heriot row, Edinburgh 15 Jany. 1876.

DEAS, Sir George (brother of the preceding). b. 7 Jany. 1804; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1826; called to Scotch bar 1828; advocate depute 1840–41 and 1846–50; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty 1850–51; solicitor general 1851–52; lord ordinary of court of session with courtesy title of Lord Deas and a judge of Exchequer 25 May 1853; a lord comr. of justiciary April 1854 to Feb. 1885; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 Feb. 1858; edited The Scottish Jurist 1829; edited with James Anderson, Cases in the Court of Session, Jury Court, and the High Court of Justiciary 1829–33, 4 vols. d. 32 Heriot row, Edinburgh 7 Feb. 1887.

DEASE, Matthew O’Reilly (son of Richard Dease, M.D. of Dublin, who d. 1819). b. 1819; ed. at Univ. of Paris; sheriff of Louth 1857 and of Cavan 1861; contested co. Cavan 1867; M.P. for co. Louth 1868–74; gave by his will remainder of his real and personal property (equal to £40,000) to be applied towards extinguishing National Debt. d. 17 Aug. 1887.

DEASY, Rickard (2 son of Richard Deasy of Clonakilty, Cork). b. Clonakilty 1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1849; bencher of King’s Inns 1858; third serjeant at law 1858–59; M.P. for co. Cork 1855–61; solicitor general for Ireland, June 1859 to Feb. 1860; attorney general Feb. 1860 to Jany. 1861; P.C. 1860; baron of court of Exchequer, Jany. 1861; a judge of Court of Appeal 1 Jany. 1878 to death. d. 41 Merrion sq. east, Dublin 6 May 1883. O’Flanagan’s Munster circuit (1880) 254, 376–80.

DE BAR, Benedict. b. London 5 Nov. 1812; made his début at T.R. Margate 1832; went to United States 1834; opened old National theatre, New York 1837; played in London 1840; proprietor of Chatham theatre, N.Y. 1849–52, of St. Charles’ theatre, New Orleans 1853, of St. Louis theatre 1855; the best Falstaff in America 1872 to death. d. St. Louis 14 Aug. 1877. Era 14 Oct. 1877 p. 4.

DE-BEAUVOIR, Sir John Edmond, 2 Baronet (eld. son of Sir John Edmond Browne, 1 baronet 1748–1835). b. 10 Dec. 1794; ed. at Westminster; assumed name of De-Beauvoir in lieu of Browne 1825; claimed as eldest son of a baronet, honour of knighthood which was conferred on him 1827; contested Windsor, Dec. 1832, July 1837 and June 1841; M.P. for Windsor 7 Jany. 1835 to 6 April 1835 when unseated on petition; presented coat of arms over doorway of Westminster school to replace the former escutcheon which he helped to destroy when at school; author of Miscellaneous poetry and scraps written for ladies’ albums 1837. d. Upper Gloucester st. Dorset sq. London 29 April 1869.

DE BEAUVOISIN, Auguste Mariot. Professor of French in King William st. city of London 1844 to death; also taught French at St. George’s and St. James’s halls, London; chevalier de la Toison d’Or; author of How to read and translate French 1847; French acquired in four months 1852; Confabulateur Français 1855; French reading for self instruction 1861; Anecdotes in French 1866; French verbs at a glance 1873. d. 53 Carlton hill, St. John’s Wood, London 30 Oct. 1879.

DE BERG, Alexander. Russian attaché chamberlain and consul general in London 16 April 1862 to death. d. London 14 March 1884.

DE BERGUE, Charles Louis Aimé. b. Kensington, London 24 Sep. 1807; went to Paris 1819, returned to England 1834; civil engineer at Manchester 1850, at Cardiff 1861; invented several valuable machine tools; invented a new iron permanent way for the Barcelona and Tarragona line which he constructed; invented a new construction of lattice bridge uniting lightness with great strength; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1849. d. 17 Kensington palace gardens, London 10 April 1873.

DE BLAQUIÈRE, William De Blaquière, 3 Baron (2 son of 1 Baron De Blaquière 1735–1822). b. 27 Jany. 1778; ensign 56 foot 31 Aug. 1791; major 25 light dragoons 1 Feb. 1798 to 22 Jany. 1801; lieut.-col. 22 light dragoons 22 Jany. 1801 to 22 Aug. 1805; lieut.-col. 2 dragoon guards 22 Aug. 1805 to 30 July 1807; lieut.-col. 71 foot 30 July 1807 to 1808; general 23 Nov. 1841; succeeded his brother as 3 Baron 7 April 1844; great alnager of Ireland; F.R.S. 21 Feb. 1805; shot himself at Beulah hill, Norwood 12 Nov. 1851.

DE BLAQUIÈRE, Peter Boyle (brother of the preceding). b. Dublin 27 April 1784; served as a midshipman at battle of Camperdown; emigrated to Canada 1837; a member of Canadian legislative council 1838 to death; chancellor of Toronto University; a member of the Anglican synod. d. Yorkville (now part of Toronto) 23 Oct. 1860.

DE BURGH, Ulick Canning (elder son of 1 Marquis of Clanricarde 1802–74). b. St. James’s sq. London 12 July 1827; ed. at Eton; ensign Coldstream guards 27 March 1846, captain 3 Nov. 1854 to 1860; aide-de-camp to lord lieut. of Ireland 1846–52, state steward of his household Jany. 1853; served in Crimean war, taken prisoner by the Russians 22 Oct. 1854; military sec. to Lord Canning governor general of India 1856–57; M.P. for Galway 1857–65, for co. Galway 1865 to death. d. 17 Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 16 Aug. 1867.

DE BURGH, Rev. William (3 son of Thomas Burgh of Oldtown, co. Kildare, who d. 1832). Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1847, B.D. 1851, D.D. 1857; Incumbent of St. John’s, Sandymount, Dublin 1852–65; R. of Ardboe, Armagh 1865 to death; author of Lectures on the Second Advent, 3 ed. 1841; Discourses on the life of Christ 1849; The Christian Sabbath 1856; An exposition of the Book of Revelations, 5 ed. 1857; Commentary on Book of Psalms, 2 vols. 1860. d. Ardboe 15 Oct. 1866.

DE BUTTS, Sir Augustus (son of Elias De Butts of Wicklow). b. 1770; second lieut. R.E. 22 Aug. 1787, col. 30 Dec. 1814, col. commandant 20 March 1827 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; K.C.H. 1837; knighted by Wm. iv at St. James’s palace 1 March 1837. d. 14 Cambridge sq. London 27 Nov. 1853.

DE CETTO, Baron. Bavarian minister in London to 1872. d. 6 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 7 Aug. 1879 aged 84.

DE CHABOT, Sir Louis William De Rohan Chabot, Viscount (eld. son of Comte de Jarnac). b. 1780; cornet 18 light dragoons 30 April 1793; major 9 light dragoons 16 March 1809; deputy adjutant general in Canada 1807–8; served in expedition to Walcheren and in Portugal 1809–10; M.G. 19 July 1821; K.C.H. 1822. d. 10 July 1875.

DE CHAUMONT, Francis Stephen Bennett François. b. Edinburgh 1833; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1853; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1853, F.R.C.S. Edin. 1804; assistant surgeon in the army 28 April 1854; served with Rifle brigade in Crimean war; surgeon 20 June 1865; surgeon major on h.p. 11 Oct. 1876; assistant professor of hygiene at army medical school Netley hospital 1863–76, professor 1876 to death; F.R.S. 12 June 1879; author of Different families of the human race 1865; Hygiene in civil and military life, 5 ed. 1878. d. Woolston Lawn, Southampton 18 April 1888.

DE CLIFFORD, Edward Southwell Russell, 23 Baron. b. Upton Warws. 30 April 1824; M.P. for Tavistock 2 Aug. 1847 to 1 July 1852; succeeded 3 Jany. 1874. d. Kirkby Mallory, Leics. 1877.

DE COLQUHOUN, James (only son of Patrick Colquhoun, lord provost of Glasgow). b. Kelvin grove, Lanarkshire 7 June 1780; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; consul general in London for Saxony 1827 to death; chargé d’affaires in London for grand duke of Oldenburg 1848 to death; assumed designation of Chevalier; fellow of univ. of Glasgow. d. Stratford place, London 23 July 1855.

DE COURCY, Michael (eld. child of Nevinson De Courcy, captain R.N. 1789–1844). b. 8 May 1811; entered navy 1 Feb. 1824; captain 6 Sep. 1852; R.A. 18 Oct. 1867; retired admiral 15 June 1879; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Milburn, Newton Abbot, Devon 22 Oct. 1881.

DE COURCY, Nevinson Willoughby (brother of the preceding). b. 27 Sep. 1823; 2 lieut. R.M. 17 Aug. 1841; captain 24 Feb. 1854; lieut. col. 30 Oct. 1872 to 8 Oct. 1877 when he retired on full-pay; C.B. 2 June 1877. d. Clapham near London 30 March 1885.

DEEDES, John (5 son of Wm. Deedes of Sandling park, Kent, M.P. for Hythe). b. 1803; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1826; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1829, bencher 1863, treasurer 1877; a revising barrister many years; recorder of Queenborough 1834, of Deal, Sandwich, and Canterbury 1845–72; assessor to the liberty of Romney, March 1858. d. 26 Chapel st. Belgrave sq. London 11 Jany. 1885.

DEEDES, William (brother of the preceding). b. Sandling park, Kent 17 Oct. 1796; ed. at Winchester and C.C. coll. Ox., B.A. 1818; Fellow of All Souls coll. 1818–33; M.P. for East Kent 1845–57 and Dec. 1857 to death; a comr. of church estates 30 April 1858 to death; chairman of Kent general sessions; major commandant of East Kent yeomanry cavalry. d. Eaton terrace, London 30 Nov. 1862.

DEEDES, William (eld. son of the preceding). b. 11 Oct. 1834; ed. at Harrow; second lieut. Rifle brigade 1852; served in Crimean war and Indian mutiny; lieut.-col. commandant of East Kent militia 1865–69; M.P. for East Kent 1876–80. d. Saltwood Castle, Hythe, Kent 27 May 1887.

DE FOULON, James Foulon, Marquis. b. England 1795; ed. under his godfather John Nash the architect; lived some time at Hastings where he taught the Princess Victoria perspective drawing; architect to sir Henry Meux of Oxford st. London, brewer 1831–41; his only son was killed at Lucknow during the Indian mutiny. d. Fulham road, London 22 Jany. 1887. London Figaro 5 Feb. 1887, portrait.

DE FREYNE, Arthur French, 1 Baron (eld. son of Arthur French, M.P. for co. Roscommon, who d. 24 Nov. 1820). b. 1795; called to Irish bar 1825; M.P. for co. Roscommon 1821–32; created baron de Freyne of Artagh 16 May 1839, and baron De Freyne of Coolavin 5 April 1851. d. 71 Connaught terrace, Hyde park, London 29 Sep. 1856.

DE GEX, Sir John Peter (eld. son of John De Gex of Leicester place, Leicester sq. London). b. 1809; ed. at Jesus coll. Cam., fellow, hon. fellow; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. 30 Jany. 1835; published with Basil Montagu and Edward Deacon Cases in bankruptcy argued in the Court of Review and on appeal before the lord chancellor 3 vols. 1842–5, with John Smale Reports of cases decided in Chancery by Knight-Bruce, V.C. and Parker, V.C. 5 vols. 1849–53, with Macnaghten and Gordon Cases in the Court of appeal in Chancery 8 vols. 1851–7; Q.C. 28 March 1865; bencher of his inn 19 April 1865, treasurer 1882; knighted at Windsor Castle 7 Dec. 1882 on occasion of opening new law courts in the Strand; author with R. H. Smith of Arrangements between debtors and creditors under the bankruptcy act 1861, and 2 supplements 3 vols. 1867–69. d. 20 Hyde park sq. London 14 May 1887. I.L.N. lxxxi, 656 (1882), portrait.

DE GREY, Thomas Philip De Grey, 2 Earl (eld. son of Thomas Robinson, 2 baron Grantham 1738–86). b. Whitehall, London 8 Dec. 1781; succeeded as 3 baron Grantham 20 July 1786; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1801; assumed surname of Weddell 7 May 1803; lord lieut. of Bedford 13 Feb. 1818; succeeded as 2 Earl De Grey 4 May 1833; assumed surname of De Grey in lieu of Weddell 24 June 1833; first lord of the admiralty 22 Dec. 1834 to 25 April 1835; P.C. 29 Dec. 1834; lord lieut. of Ireland 3 Sep. 1841 to 2 July 1844; grand master of order of St. Patrick 1841–44; K.G. 12 Dec. 1844; pres. of Instit. of British Architects 1834 to death; F.R.S. 29 April 1841; author of Memoir of the life of Sir C. Lucas 1845; Characteristics of the Duke of Wellington apart from his military talents 1853. d. 4 St. James’s sq. London 14 Nov. 1859. I.L.N. 25 Feb. 1842 p. 146, portrait, 13 Jany. 1844, 22, 24, portrait.

DE HAMEL, Felix John (son of Comte Jean Baptiste Augustin Bruno de Hamel). b. Tamworth 1808; ed. at Repton; admitted solicitor 1835; assistant solicitor for the Customs 1845, chief solicitor for the Customs and Board of Trade 1848–78; consolidated the Acts relating to the Customs 1854 and 1876; facilitated Customs business by introducing a simpler form of bond. d. 70 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 31 July 1885 in 78 year.

DE HAVILLAND, Thomas Fioth (eld. son of Sir Peter De Havilland of Havilland hall, Guernsey, who d. 1821). b. Havilland 10 April 1775; entered Madras army 1791; superintending engineer and architect of Madras presidency 1814; constructed Madras bulwark and pier 1822; retired lieut. col. 20 April 1825; lived in Guernsey 1823 to death. d. De Beauvoir, Guernsey 23 Feb. 1866. Vibart’s Madras Engineers ii, 1–35 (1883).

DE JARNAC, Philippe Ferdinand Auguste de Rohan Chabot, Comte (eld. son of Viscount De Chabot 1780–1875). b. 2 June 1821; chief sec. of French embassy in London; lived in Kilkenny 20 years; French ambassador in London 28 Nov. 1874 to death; author of Rockingham or the younger brother 1849, anon.; Love and ambition 3 vols. 1851, anon.; Cécile or the pervert By Sir Charles Rockingham 1851; Electra, a story of modern times 3 vols. 1853, anon. d. French embassy, Albert Gate house, London 22 March 1875. I.L.N. lxvi, 321, 331 (1875), portrait.

DE JERSEY, Henry. b. 1804; solicitor in City of London 1826 to death; vestry clerk of parishes of St. Anne, St. Agnes and St. Mary Staining; common councilman for Aldersgate ward 1840–71; chairman of Commission of Sewers 1862–71; master of the Loriners’ Company 1871; secondary of City of London 1871 to Nov. 1884; under sheriff of London and Middlesex twice. d. 32 St. James’s road, Brixton, London 1 Dec. 1884 in 81 year.

DE LA BECHE, Sir Henry Thomas (son of Thomas De La Beche of Halse hall, Clarendon, Jamaica, a colonel in the army). b. London 10 Feb. 1796; ed. at Ottery St. Mary, Devon and Great Marlow; F.G.S. 1817; studied geology in Dorset, Devon, Pembroke, Switzerland and France; conducted the Geological Survey under the Ordnance in Cornwall and Devon 1832, director general of Ordnance Survey 1840 to death; sec. to Geological Society 1831, foreign Sec. 1835–46, Pres. 1847 and 1848, Wollaston medallist 1855; F.R.S. 23 Dec. 1819; F.L.S. 1821; Geological museum in Jermyn st. London founded on his recommendation 1851; received order of Leopold of Belgium; created a Knight of Danish order of Dannebrog; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 April 1842; C.B. 27 April 1848; author of Researches in theoretical geology 1834; How to observe geology 1835; Report on the geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset 1839 and other books. d. London 13 April 1855. Quarterly Journal of geological society xii, pp. xxxiv-viii (1856); Proceedings of royal society vii, 582–86 (1855); I.L.N. xviii, 422 (1851), portrait.

DELACOMB, Henry Isatt. Second lieut. R.M. 21 Oct. 1805; col. commandant 22 June 1855 to 1 April 1870; general 23 Aug. 1866; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. 19 Albion st. Hyde park, London 15 Nov. 1878 aged 89.

DELAGARDE, Philip Chilwell (son of a clergyman at Jersey). b. 1797; ed. at Exeter gr. sch.; apprenticed to Peppin and Barnes, surgeons, Exeter; house surgeon St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 25 Sep. 1818; M.R.C.S. Aug. 1819, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon Eye infirmary, Exeter 1836; surgeon Devon and Exeter hospital, Exeter 1841, afterwards senior surgeon; ophthalmic surgeon and after the retirement of Barnes, the most popular operator in the West of England; mayor of Exeter, Nov. 1834 to 1 Jany. 1836; sheriff of Exeter 1832–33; author of A treatise on Cataract 1821; A supplement to the account of the church of St. Andrew, Cullompton and its mural paintings in Spreate’s Sketches of churches in Devon 1842; A brief commentary on the construction of hospitals 1870, and Nursing Sisterhoods, a pamphlet. d. 23 Southernhay, Exeter 17 Nov. 1871 in 74 year. Medical Times and Gazette 2 Dec. 1871 p. 694; Lancet 16 Dec. 1871 p. 868.

DELAMAINE, Charles Henry. Entered Bombay army 1820; retired colonel 24 April 1854; C.B. 4 July 1843. d. Dinan, France 19 June 1870.

DELAMERE, Thomas Cholmondeley, 1 Baron (eld. son of Thomas Cholmondeley of Vale Royal, Northwich, Cheshire 1726–79, M.P. for Cheshire). b. Beckenham, Kent 9 Aug. 1767; high sheriff of Cheshire 1792; M.P. for Cheshire 11 June 1796 to 29 Sep. 1812; created Baron Delamere on coronation of King George 4th, by patent dated 17 July 1821. d. 12 Hereford st. London 30 Sep. 1855.

DELAMERE, Hugh Cholmondeley, 2 Baron (eld. son of the preceding). b. Vale Royal 3 Oct. 1812; ed. at Eton; M.P. for Denbighshire 1840–41 and for Montgomery 1841–47; col. 1 Royal Cheshire militia 28 Aug. 1840 to death. d. Vale Royal 1 Aug. 1887.

DE LA MOTTE, Freeman Gage (son of Wm. De La Motte 1775–1863). Author of Examples of modern alphabets 1859; Embroiderer’s book of design 1860; Primer of the art of illumination 1860; Mediæval alphabets and initials for illuminators 1861; Book of ornamental alphabets 9th to 19th century 1858, 5 ed. 1863. d. of apoplexy 15 Beaufort buildings, Strand, London 16 July 1862 aged 48.

DE LA MOTTE, Peter. Entered Bombay army 1797; col. 3 Bombay light cavalry 27 April 1826 to death; general 16 June 1860; C.B. 28 July 1838. d. 15 Craven hill gardens, London 5 Feb. 1861 aged 79.

DE LA MOTTE, William Alfred (eld. son of Peter De La Motte of Weymouth, postal agent). b. Weymouth 2 Aug. 1775; pupil of Benjamin West, R.A.; drawing master at royal military colleges, Great Marlow and Sandhurst 1803–43; published Thirty etchings of rural subjects 1816; exhibited 53 pictures at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. gallery 1793–1850; author of Smoking and Smokers 1845, anon.; Historical sketch of priory and hospital of St. Bartholomew 1846. d. The lawn, St. Giles’s fields, Oxford 13 Feb. 1863.

DELANE, John Thadeus (2 son of the succeeding). b. South Molton st. London 11 Oct. 1817; ed. at King’s college, London and Magd. hall, Ox., B.A. 1839; barrister M.T. 28 May 1847; engaged upon the Times 1839, editor May 1841 to Nov. 1877; organised with aid of Lieut. Thomas Waghorn a special Times express from Alexandria to London 1845; exposed and stopped the railway mania 1845, at an immense cost by loss of advertisements. d. Ascot Heath house near Ascot 22 Nov. 1879. Macmillan’s Mag., Jany. 1880 pp. 267–72; Kinglake’s Crimean war, 6 ed. vol. vii, chapter ix, pp. 214–72; Hatton’s Journalistic London 1882 p. 81, portrait; Times 25 Nov. 1879 p. 7, cols. 3–5; I.L.N. lxxv, 548 (1879), portrait.

DELANE, William Frederick Augustus. Financial manager of Times newspaper; barrister G.I. 26 Jany. 1831; manager of Morning Chronicle to 1847; treasurer of county courts of Kent and part of Surrey (circuits 47, 48, 49 and 50), March 1847 to death; author of A collection of decisions in the courts for revising the lists of electors for the counties of Berks [and other counties, cities and boroughs] 1834, 2 ed. 1836; The present laws for regulating highways 1835. d. Hellesdon, Norwich 29 July 1857 aged 64.

DELANY, Most Rev. William. b. Bandon 25 Dec. 1803; ed. at Dunboyne; parish priest of Bandon 1845; R.C. bishop of Cork 1847 to death, during which period there was a great revival of church architecture and multiplication of religious institutions. d. Blackrock near Cork 14 Nov. 1886.

DE LA RUE, Thomas. b. Guernsey 24 March 1793; printer there 1815; manufacturer of straw hats in London; invented bonnets of embossed paper; founded house of De La Rue and Sons, card and ornamental paper makers; introduced several new printing inks; invented embossing of bookbinder’s cloths; patented fixing of iridescent films on paper; Chevalier of Legion of Honour 1855. d. 84 Westbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 7 June 1866.

DE LA SAUSSAYE, Sir Richard (son of Richard Sausse of Carrick-on-Suir, co. Tipperary). b. 1807; ed. at Stonyhurst and Trin. coll. Dublin; ensign in Spanish royal foot guards 1827; served with distinction during civil war 1833–40 attaining rank of brigadier general; sent on a special mission to Great Britain 1854; commanded a division in campaign to Africa against the Moors 1859–60 where he was made major general; chamberlain to Queen of Spain; military governor of fortress of Carthagena and of province of Murcia; knighted at Windsor Castle 21 Aug. 1841 for services performed while in command of British auxiliary brigade in north of Spain; received Grand Cross of order of Isabel the Catholic. d. Paris 27 Oct. 1872.

DE LASAUX, Thomas Thorpe. b. Canterbury 1797; solicitor there 1820 to death; coroner for East Kent 1820 to death being the oldest coroner in England; coroner for Canterbury many years; said to have held 4000 inquests. d. Canterbury 21 May 1884 in 87 year.

DELAWARR, George John Sackville West, 5 Earl (only son of 4 Earl Delawarr 1758–95). b. Savile row, London 26 Oct. 1791; succeeded 28 July 1795; ed. at Harrow and Brasenose coll. Ox.; chief friend of Lord Byron at Harrow; B.A. 1812, M.A. 1819; hon. D.C.L. Cam. 1828, hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1834; lord chamberlain 8 Sep. 1841 to 8 July 1846, and 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859; P.C. 14 Sep. 1841; took name of Sackville before West 6 Nov. 1843. d. Buckhurst park, Tunbridge Wells 23 Feb. 1869. Portraits of eminent conservatives, second series (1846), portrait.

DELAWARR, Charles Richard Sackville-West, 6 Earl (2 son of the preceding). b. Upper Grosvenor st. London 13 Nov. 1815; ensign 43 foot 26 July 1833; lieut.-col. 21 foot 9 March 1855 to 15 Aug. 1856 when placed on h.p.; commanded a brigade in expedition to Kinburn 1855 and a brigade at Shorncliffe 1856; M.G. 29 Oct. 1864; C.B. 5 July 1855; knight of the Medjidie 2 March 1858; K.C.B. 20 May 1871; a comr. for abolition of army purchase 30 Sep. 1871; drowned himself in the river Cam at Cambridge 22 April 1873. United Service Mag. 1873 part 3, 39–49; I.L.N. lx, 157, 158 (1872), portrait.

DELEPIERRE, Joseph Octave (son of Joseph Delepierre, receveur-général of province of West Flanders). b. Bruges, Belgium 12 March 1802; ed. at Univ. of Ghent; an avocat; archiviste de la Flandre Occidentale, Bruges; came to London 1843; sec. of Belgian legation, Aug. 1849 to 1874; Belgian consul in London 1 Oct. 1849 to 14 April 1875; hon. sec. of the Philobiblon Society 1853, contributed 22 papers to its privately printed Miscellanies; hon. F.S.A. 1 May 1845; author of Heures de loisir, essais poétiques 1829; Old Flanders, traditions and legends of Belgium 2 vols. 1845, and of 53 other books. d. 29 Upper Hamilton terrace, London 18 Aug. 1879. J. O. Delepierre In memoriam, by N. Trubner 1880, portrait; Le Livre, Paris, Jany. 1880 pp. 22–28, 291–92; R. Blakey’s Memoirs (1879) 208–12, 230, 239.

DELEVANTI, George, assumed name of George Crippin. b. London 29 July 1848; pupil of John Delevanti the clown 1854; entered the profession as an acrobat; champion somersault rider of the world at one time; performed in nearly every part of the globe; leading equestrian at Renz’s circus, Berlin. d. 34 Headland park, Plymouth 3 May 1887.

DELF, Thomas. b. London; a bookseller in Bow lane, afterwards at 168 New Bond st. 1853 to death; partner with Nicholas Trubner 1851–2; projected The Artist, The Children’s Journal 1863, The photographic art Journal 1862, The royal cook 1858; author under pseudonym of Charles Martel of The principles of colouring in painting 1855; The principles of form in ornamental art 1856; Love letters of eminent persons 1859; On the materials used in painting with remarks on varnishing and cleaning pictures 1859; The principles of harmony and contrast of colours by M. E. Chevreul, translated by C. Martel 1854, 3 ed. 1859. d. 23 July 1865 aged 55.

DE LIEFDE, Jacob. b. Holland; Daily News war correspondent outside Paris 1870–71; author of Six months among the charities of Europe 2 vols. 1865, new ed. 1872; Romance of charity 1867; Truth in Tales 1870; The great Dutch admirals 1873, new ed. 1880. d. Twickenham 6 Feb. 1878 aged 31.

DE L’ISLE and DUDLEY, Philip Charles Sidney, 1 Baron (only son of Sir John Shelley Sidney, 1 baronet 1771–1849). b. 11 March 1800; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; member of Sidney Sussex coll. Cam., D.C.L. Cam. 1835; M.P. for Eye, Suffolk 19 Oct. 1829 to Feb. 1831; K.C.H. 1830, G.C.H. 1831; surveyor general of Duchy of Cornwall, March 1832 to March 1849; created Baron De L’Isle and Dudley by patent dated 13 Jany. 1835; succeeded as 2 baronet 14 March 1849. (m. 13 Aug. 1825 Sophia eld. child of King Wm. iv, by Mrs. Jordan the actress, she d. 10 April 1837). d. Penshurst, Kent 4 March 1851.

DE LISLE, Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps (eld. son of Charles March Phillipps of Garendon park, Leics. 1779–1862). b. Garendon 17 March 1809; received into R.C. church 1824; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam. 1826–28; gave 230 acres of land in Charnwood Forest for re-establishment of Cistercian order 1835, exactly 3 centuries after its suppression; received the habit of third order of St. Dominic at Rome 1837; built R.C. church at Sheepshed 1842; a principal founder of Association for the promotion of the unity of Christendon 1857; assumed name of De Lisle 1862; sheriff of Leics. 1868; translated from the Italian The lamentations of England by Father Dominic, Passionist 1831; A vindication of Catholic morality by Count Alexander Manzoni 1836 and other books. d. Garendon 5 March 1878. Two sermons preached on the death of A. L. M. P. De Lisle, March 1878, preceded by a short sketch of his life, privately printed 1878; Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 38–47 (1885).

DE LISLE, Rudolph Edward Lisle March Phillipps (son of the preceding). b. Gracedieu manor 23 Nov. 1853; midshipman R.N. 28 July 1868; lieut. 24 May 1877; lieut. Alexandra 12 guns 9 Jany. 1883; served in naval brigade attached to the Upper Nile expedition, Aug. 1884 to death; killed at battle of Abu Klea 17 Jany. 1885. Memoir of Lieut. Rudolph De Lisle by Rev. H. N. Oxenham (1886), portrait.

DELLAGANA, Bartolomeo. b. Annigino canton Ticino, Switzerland; stereotyper at 61 Red Lion st. Clerkenwell, London 1855, moved to Shoe Lane 1857; effected great improvements in stereotyping by using papier mâché; stereotyped the Illustrated London News, Times, Daily Telegraph and other papers; naturalised in England 7 Jany. 1867. d. The Terrace, Kennington park, London 26 May 1882 in 50 year.

DEMAINBRAY, Rev. Stephen George Francis Triboudet (only son of Stephen Charles Triboudet Demainbray 1710–82, astronomer to royal observatory at Kew). b. Ealing, Middlesex 7 Aug. 1759; ed. at Harrow and Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1781, M.A. 1782, B.D. 1793; fell. of his coll. 30 June 1778 to 4 Feb. 1799; astronomer at Kew observatory 1782–1840 when it was given up; Whitehall preacher 1794; V. of Long Wittenham, Berks 9 Aug. 1794 to 4 Feb. 1799; R. of Broad Somerford, Wilts. 4 Feb. 1799 to death; one of His Majesty’s chaplains at Kew 1801; chaplain in ord. at St. James’s palace 1802; author of The poor man’s best friend 1831. d. Broad Somerford rectory 6 July 1854. G.M. xlii, 193–94 (1854).

DE MAULEY, William Francis Spencer Ponsonby, 1 Baron (3 son of 3 Earl of Bessborough 1758–1844). b. Cavendish sq. London 31 July 1787; M.P. for Poole 1826–31, for Knaresborough 1831–32 and for Dorset 1832–37; created baron De Mauley of Canford, Dorset 10 July 1838; chairman of Submarine electric telegraph company. d. 21 St. James’s place, London 16 May 1855.

DEMAUS, Rev. Robert. Educ. at Univ. of Edin., signet medallist, M.A. 1851; chaplain to bishop of Aberdeen 1860–65; C. of St. Luke, Chelsea 1865–72; principal of Whiteland’s training college, Chelsea 1872 to death; author of Class book of scripture history 1863; English literature and composition 1866; William Tyndale, a contribution to history of English Bible 1871; The Jesuits, a historical sketch 1873. d. of apoplexy 11 St. Leonard’s terrace, Chelsea 15 March 1874 aged 45.

DE MORGAN, Augustus (5 child of John De Morgan, col. in Madras army, who d. 1816). b. Madura, Madras 27 June 1806; lost his right eye soon afterwards; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; scholar 1825, fourth wrangler 1827, B.A. 1827; student at Lincoln’s Inn 1827; professor of mathematics in London University 23 Feb. 1828 to 24 July 1831; fellow of Astronomical Soc. May 1828, member of council 1830–61, hon. sec. 1831–38 and 1848–54; professor of mathematics in University college, London, Oct. 1836 to 10 Nov. 1866; pres. of Mathematical Soc. 7 Nov. 1864; granted civil list pension of £100, 21 Jany. 1870; author of Elements of arithmetic 1830, 6 ed. 1876; Formal Logic 1847; Trigonometry and double algebra 1849; Book of almanacs 1851, 2 ed. 1871; Budget of Paradoxes 1872, and nearly one sixth of articles in Penny Cyclopædia 1833–58. (m. 1837 Sophia Elizabeth dau. of Wm. Frend of London, she was granted civil list pension of £50, 25 July 1871). d. Merton road, Regent’s park, London 18 March 1871. Memoir of A. De Morgan by S. E. De Morgan 1882, portrait, with list of his writings at pp. 401–17; Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxx, 11, 112–18 (1872).

DE MORGAN, Campbell Greig (brother of the preceding). b. Clovelly, Devon 1811; ed. at Univ. coll. London; M.R.C.S. 1835, F.R.C.S. 1843; assistant surgeon Middlesex hospital 1842, surgeon 1848 to death; lectured on forensic medicine there 1841, afterwards on physiology and surgery to death; professor of anatomy 1845; F.R.S. 6 June 1861; author of The origin of Cancer 1872, and of the article Erysipelas in Holmes’s System of surgery 1860. d. 29 Seymour st. Portman sq. London 12 April 1876. Medical Circular iv, 67 (1854); Medical Times and Gazette i, 483–5 (1876).

DEMPSTER, William Richardson. b. Keith, Scotland 1809; went to the United States when young, and became naturalised; a successful composer and public singer; set Tennyson’s May Queen to music; composed music for most of the songs found in Tennyson’s longer poems. d. London 7 March 1871.

DENBIGH, William Basil Percy Fielding, 7 Earl of. b. Berwick house, Salop 25 March 1796; succeeded his grandfather as 7 Earl 14 July 1800; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; lord chamberlain to Queen Adelaide, Jany. 1833; P.C. 4 Feb. 1833; G.C.H. 1833; master of the Horse to Queen Adelaide 15 Dec. 1834 to 2 Dec. 1849 when she died. d. Hampstead 25 June 1865.

DENDY, Walter Cooper. b. at or near Horsham, Sussex 1794; M.R.C.S. 1814; practised in City of London; fellow of Medical Soc. of London, president; senior surgeon to Royal infirmary for children, Waterloo Road; author of Practical remarks on the diseases of the skin 1837, 2 ed. 1854; The philosophy of mystery 1841; Psyche, a discourse on the birth and pilgrimage of thought 1853; The beautiful islets of Britaine 1857, 2 ed. 1860, and other books. d. 25 Suffolk st. Haymarket, London 10 Dec. 1871. J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections (1874) 441–9; Medical Circular iv, 155–6 (1854).

DE NEMOURS, Victoire Auguste Antoinette, Duchesse (only dau. of Ferdinand George Augustus, Duke of Saxe Coburg 1785–1851). b. Vienna 16 Feb. 1822; lived at Claremont, Surrey 1848 to death. (m. 27 April 1840 Duc de Nemours 2 son of Louis Phillippe King of the French, he was b. 25 Oct. 1814). d. Claremont 10 Nov. 1857. bur. in the Taylor vault under R.C. church of St. Charles Borromeo, Weybridge, Nov.; body removed to a mortuary chapel adjoining above church 5 Oct. 1883.

DENHAM, Sir Henry Mangles (son of Henry Denham of Sherborne, Dorset). b. 28 Aug. 1800; entered navy April 1809; captain 17 Aug. 1846; F.R.S. 28 Feb. 1839; a younger brother of Trinity House 1841 to death; employed in the construction of charts 1822–52; inspector of steam-boat accidents; invented a valuable contrivance for steering a ship when disabled called Denham’s Jury Tiller, also Denham’s Rowlocks for rowing boats; knighted at Windsor Castle 26 March 1867; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877; A.I.C.E. 4 March 1851; author of Sailing directions for the British Channel 1839 and other works. d. 21 Carlton road, Maida vale, London 3 July 1887. Min. Proc. I.C.E. xci, 460–62 (1888).

DENHAM, Rev. Joshua Frederick. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; lecturer of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London 1828; R. of St. Mary-le Strand, London 1839 to death; F.R.S. 20 May 1841; author of Natural theology 1828; History of the old St. Dunstan’s church 1832; Letters on education 1832 and other books. d. 8 New Inn, Strand, London 26 Jany. 1861 aged 60.

DENHAM, Michael Aislabie. b. near Bowes, Yorkshire; in business at Hull; general merchant at Piercebridge, Durham; printed Folk Lore or a collection of local rhymes, proverbs, sayings, prophecies, slogans, &c. relating to Northumberland, Newcastle-on-Tyne and Berwick-upon-Tweed 1858, and other books on folk lore. d. Piercebridge 10 Sep. 1859.

DENIEHY, Daniel Henry. b. Kent st. Sydney 1828; attorney in Sydney and Goulburn; mem. for Argyle in Representative Assembly 1856–58, for East Macquarie 1858–59; published a series of obituary notices in the Southern Cross 1859–60; edited The Victorian Melbourne weekly paper 1862–64. d. in the hospital, Bathurst 22 Oct. 1865 in 37 year. G. B. Barton’s Poets and prose writers of New South Wales (1866) 94–148.

DENING, Emma Geraldine Henrietta Hamilton (dau. of Thomas Clarence Hooper). b. Paris 30 March 1841, ed. at Bath; converted by Rev. Wm. Haslam; commenced a prayer meeting at Avon st. Bath 1861; preached in Temperance hall, Widcombe, Bath to large congregations 1862; popular preacher in country districts and in tent services; preached about 4500 sermons. (m. 2 Oct. 1868 T. Henry Dening of Ottery St. Mary, Devon, farmer). Mr. and Mrs. Dening by their efforts built St. James’s hall, Bath 1871 where they preached, hall burnt down 1878. d. Green park, Bath 12 Aug. 1872. bur. Locksbrook cemetery 16 Aug. when 6000 people were present. Mrs. G. Guinness’ She spake of Him (1873), portrait; S. D. Major’s Notabilia of Bath (1879) 90, 194.

DENISON, Christopher Beckett (2 son of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4 baronet 1787–1874). b. 9 May 1825; in Bengal C.S. 1845–65; M.P. eastern division of West Riding of Yorkshire 25 Nov. 1868 to 24 March 1880; deputy chairman Great Northern railway, Jany. 1880 to death. d. Ireland 30 Oct. 1884. Catalogue of collection of pictures, &c. of C. B. Denison (1885).

DENISON, Right Rev. Edward (2 son of John Wilkinson, who took name of Denison, of Ossington, co. Nottingham, M.P. for Chichester, who d. 6 May 1820). b. 34 Harley st. London 13 March 1801; ed. at Esher, Eton and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1837; fell. of Merton coll. 1826; V. of St. Peters in the East, Oxford to 1837; select preacher before Univ. of Ox. 1834; bishop of Salisbury 13 March 1837 to death, consecrated at Lambeth 16 April 1837; author of Sermons and charges. d. The Close, Salisbury 6 March 1854. The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 157–62; G.M. April 1854 pp. 418–20.

DENISON, Edward (eld. child of the preceding). b. The Palace, Salisbury 8 Sep. 1840; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; read law 1862–66; lived in Philpot st. Mile end road, London where he built and endowed a school 1867–68; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1868; M.P. for Newark 18 Nov. 1868 to death; left England for Australia, Oct. 1869. d. Melbourne 26 Jany. 1870. Letters and other writings of the late Edward Denison, edited by Sir Baldwyn Leighton 1872; Stray studies by J. R. Green (1876) 3–28.

DENISON, Sir William Thomas (brother of Right Rev. Edward Denison 1801–54). b. Portland place, London 3 May 1804; ed. at Eton and R.M.A. Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 15 March 1826; lieut. governor of Tasmania 26 Jany. 1847 to 8 Jany. 1855; governor of New South Wales with title of governor general of Australia 20 Jany. 1855 to 22 Jany. 1861; col. R.E. 20 Sep. 1860 to 7 Nov. 1868; governor of Madras, March 1861 to March 1866; acted as governor general of India 20 Nov. 1863 to Jany. 1864; chairman of commission to inquire into best means of preventing pollution of rivers 6 April 1868 to death; L.G. 23 Nov. 1870; knighted at Buckingham palace 1 Aug. 1846; K.C.B. 19 July 1856; F.R.A.S. 1834; A.I.C.E. 14 March 1837, Telford medallist; F.R.S. 22 Feb. 1838; author of Varieties of viceregal life 2 vols. 1870, and many other works. d. The Observatory, East Sheen 19 Jany. 1871. Papers on subjects connected with duties of Corps of Royal Engineers n.s. xx, pp. ix-xlii, (1872); Therry’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1863) 449–69; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii, 251–59 (1872); Dunkin’s Obituary notices of Astronomers (1879) 32–34.

DENMAN, Thomas Denman, 1 Baron (only son of Thomas Denman of London, physician 1733–1815). b. Queen st. Golden sq. London 23 Feb. 1779; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1800, M.A. 1803; a special pleader 1803; barrister L.I. 9 May 1806, bencher 1820; M.P. for Wareham, Dorset 1818; M.P. for Nottingham 1820–26 and 1830–32; solicitor general to Queen Caroline 8 Feb. 1820 to her death 7 Aug. 1821; received freedom of city of London 7 June 1821; common serjeant of city of London 26 April 1822 to Nov. 1830; K.C. Nov. 1828; attorney general 19 Nov. 1830 to 4 Nov. 1832; knighted by Wm. 4 at St. James’s palace 24 Nov. 1830; lord chief justice of King’s Bench 4 Nov. 1832 to 28 Feb. 1850; P.C. 9 Nov. 1832; created Baron Denman of Dovedale, Derbyshire 22 March 1834; the first chief justice of England who sat in House of Lords without his judicial robes. d. Stoke Albany near Rockingham, Northamptonshire 22 Sep. 1854. Arnould’s Memoir of Lord Denman 2 vols. 1873, portrait; The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 436–45; J. Whiteside’s Early sketches of eminent persons (1870) 21–45; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 238–46.

DENMAN, Joseph (3 son of the preceding). b. 23 June 1810; entered navy 7 April 1823; captain 23 Aug. 1841; captain of H.M.’s yacht Victoria and Albert 19 Oct. 1853 to 15 Jany. 1862; naval aide-de-camp to the Queen 20 March 1858; R.A. 15 Jany. 1862; commander in chief in the Pacific 10 May 1864 to 21 Nov. 1866; V.A. 20 Nov. 1866; granted Greenwich hospital pension 9 Jany. 1869; contested Manchester 2 May 1859; author of The African squadron and Mr. Hutt’s committee 1850. d. 17 Eaton terrace, London 26 Nov. 1874.

DENNETT, John. b. 1790; invented Dennett’s life-saving rocket apparatus for conveying a rope from the shore to a shipwrecked crew 1832, these rockets were sent to all parts of the world, they were superseded by Boxer’s rocket 1865; custodian of Carisbrook Castle, Newport, Isle of Wight to death; contributed to Journal of British Archeol. Assoc. vols. 1–5 accounts of various antiquities in England. d. Carisbrook Castle 10 July 1852.

DENNIS, Sir James (son of John Dennis, an attorney). b. 1778; midshipman in navy; ensign 49 foot 2 Sep. 1796, major 25 April 1828 to 4 June 1833; lieut. col. 3 foot 4 June 1833 to 11 Nov. 1851; commanded a division of infantry at battle of Maharajpore 29 Dec. 1843; K.C.B. 30 Oct. 1844; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Pall Mall, London 14 Jany. 1855.

DENNIS, Rev. James Blatch Piggot (son of Philip Piggot Dennis). Matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 28 May 1835 aged 19, B.A. 1839; C. of Maxey, Northants. 1842–54; C. of St. James, Bury St. Edmunds; F.G.S., an authority on fossil bones; his collection of hawks and owls is in Bury St. Edmunds’ museum; author of An answer to the parishioners of Lawshall, telling them why he became a Catholic 1859. d. Garland st. Bury St. Edmunds 12 Jany. 1861. Bury and Norwich Post 15 Jany. 1861 p. 2.

DENNIS, James Samuel Aked. b. 1809; entered navy 24 Oct. 1822; captain 18 July 1857; retired V.A. 2 Aug. 1879. d. rectory cottage, Hanwell 9 Feb. 1881.

DENNISTOUN, Alexander. b. Glasgow 1790; a merchant at Glasgow; M.P. for co. Dunbarton 1835 to 1837. d. Lagarie row, Dennistoun, Glasgow 15 July 1874.

DENNISTOUN, James (eld. son of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, co. Dumbarton, who d. 1 June 1834). b. Dumbartonshire 17 March 1803; ed. at Univs. of Edin. and Glasgow; mem. of faculty of advocates 1824; edited several publications for the Bannatyne and Maitland clubs; contributed many articles chiefly on Art to Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews; published Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino 3 vols. 1851, and Memoirs of Sir Robert Strange, knt., engraver, and of his brother in law Andrew Lumisden, private secretary to the Stuart Princes 2 vols. 1855. d. 119 George st. Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1855. G.M. xliii, 647–8 (1855); Fraser’s Mag. li, 643–4 (1855).

DENNISTOUN, John. b. 1803; M.P. for Glasgow 1837 to 1847. d. Armadale Row, Dumbartonshire 9 Sep. 1870.

DENNY, Henry. Curator of museum of Literary and Philosophical Society, Leeds 1826 to death; author of Monographia Pselaphidarum et Scydmænidarum Britanniæ, or an essay on the British species of the genera Pselaphus of Herbst and Scydmænus of Latreille 1825, er; Monographia Anoplurorum Britanniæ, or an essay on the British species of parasite insects belonging to the order Anoplura of Leach 1842. d. Leeds 7 March 1871 aged 68.

DENNY, William. b. Dumbarton 25 May 1847; educ. Edinburgh high school; Apprentice to his father a shipbuilder at Dumbarton 1864 and partner 1868; partner in engineering firm of Denny & Co., Leven shipyard on the Clyde, increased size of works from 19 to 42 acres in 1881; made great improvements in the construction and building of steam ships 1869–82; founded an Award scheme for inventions and improvements made by his workmen 1880; read papers on ships, etc. before Lit. and Philos. Soc. of Dumbarton, Instit. of Civil engineers, Instit. of Naval Architects and other Societies 1869–82; served on the Load Line Committee 1884–5; M.I.C.E. 7 March 1876; his-residence Bellfield with a valuable library burnt down 1882. d. Buenos Ayres 17 March 1887. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix, 457–66 (1887).

DENT, Charles Calmady. b. 26 Sep. 1793; entered navy 9 Aug. 1810; captain 16 Feb. 1852; retired R.A. 1 April 1870. d. 37 Nelson road, Great Yarmouth 3 Jany. 1872.

DENT, Edward John. b. London 19 Aug. 1790; employed by Vulliamy and son, and Barrauds and son, chronometer makers 1815–29; partner with John Roger Arnold at 84 Strand 1830–40; kept a shop at 82 Strand 1840; opened branch depôts at 33 Cockspur st. and 34 Royal Exchange; began manufacture of turret clocks 1843; A.I.C.E. 1833; received order for great clock at Westminster 1852, lived only to see commencement of it; author of On the construction and management of chronometers, watches and clocks 1846, and other works. d. The Mall, Kensington Gravel Pits, London 8 March 1853. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiii, 156–61 (1854); Sir E. Beckett’s Clocks, watches and bells (1883) pp. 181, 238, 266–68, 300, 310, 313.

DENT, John (eld. son of John Dent of Worcester, glover 1751–1811). b. 1777; glove manufacturer at Worcester with his brother Wm. Dent, who d. 11 Oct. 1854 aged 70; they purchased from Duke of Buckingham the ruined site of Sudeley castle and chapel, Gloucestershire which they restored; sheriff of Worcs. 1849. d. Sudeley Castle 8 Oct. 1855.

DENTON, Rev. William (eld. son of James Denton of Newport, Isle of Wight). Matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 28 May 1841 aged 26, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1848; C. of Shoreditch, London 1847–50; V. of St. Bartholomew, Cripplegate, London 1850 to death; author of A commentary on Gospels for the Sundays and other Holy Days 3 vols. 1861–63, 3 ed. 1875; A commentary on the Epistles 1869; Servia and the Servians 1862; Records of St. Giles’ Cripplegate 1882 and many other books. d. 22 Westbourne sq. Paddington, London 2 Jany. 1888.

DENYS, Sir George William, 1 Baronet (only son of Peter Denys of Hans place, Chelsea, who d. 27 June 1816). b. Easton Neston, Northamptonshire 20 May 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1814; equerry to Duke of Sussex; M.P. for Hull 6 Oct. 1812 to 10 June 1818; created Bart. 23 Nov. 1813. d. 42 Onslow sq. Brompton, London 26 April 1857.

DE PORQUET, Louis Philippe R. Fenwick (son of Capt. Fenwick). b. Paris 1796; taught English in France; adopted his mother’s name; came to England about 1823; author of educational works in the English, French, Italian and Spanish languages, upwards of 40 in number 1823 to death. d. 17 Camden st. Camden Town, London 26 Aug. 1873.

DE QUINCEY, Thomas (4 child of Thomas Quincey of Manchester, merchant, who d. 18 July 1793 aged 38). b. Manchester 15 Aug. 1785; ed. at Bath and Manchester gr. schs.; matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 17 Dec. 1803 where his name remained on the books till Dec. 1810; student of Middle Temple about 1808; edited Westmoreland Gazette 1819–20; wrote in the London Mag. 1821–24, Blackwood’s Mag. 1826–49 and Tait’s Mag. 1834–51; published Klosterheim, or the masque by the English opium eater 1832 which was dramatised for two of the London theatres; eat opium 1804–16, 1817–18, 1824–25 and 1841–44, in 1813 his dose had risen to 340 grains of opium or 8000 drops of laudanum per diem, about half what Coleridge was taking at that time; he is described in J. H. Burton’s The Book Hunter as Papaverius; author of Confessions of an English opium eater 1822 first published in the London Mag. 1821; The logic of political economy 1844; the first English edition of his collected works was published in 1853–60 as Selections grave and gay 14 vols., 4 ed. 16 vols. 1875–80, the most complete edition of his works is the American in 20 vols. 1852–55. d. 42 Lothian st. Edinburgh 8 Dec. 1859. T. De Quincey by H. A. Page 2 vols. (1877), portrait; D. Masson’s De Quincey (1881); S. Hodgson’s Outcast Essays (1881) 1–98; F. Espinasse’s Lancashire Worthies, second series (1877) 378–461; C. Mackay’s Forty years recollections (1877) i, 314–26; H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 409–17; John Bull Mag. July 1824 pp. 21–24.

DE RAMSEY, Edward Fellowes, 1 Baron (2 son of Wm. Henry Fellowes of Ramsey abbey, Hunts. 1769–1837). b. 14 April 1809; ed. at the Charterhouse; M.P. for Hunts. 10 Aug. 1837 to 24 March 1880; chairman of the Middle Level commission; created Baron De Ramsey 5 July 1887. d. 3 Belgrave sq. London 9 Aug. 1887.

DERBY, Edward Smith Stanley, 13 Earl of (only son of 12 Earl of Derby 1752–1834). b. 21 April 1775; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1795; M.P. for Preston 1796–1812 and for Lancashire 1812–32; colonel 2 Lancashire militia 1 March 1797; created Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe, co. palatine of Lancaster 22 Dec. 1832; succeeded his father 21 Oct. 1834; K.G. 2 April 1839; F.L.S. 1807, pres. 1828–34; pres. of Zoological Soc. 1831 to death; formed at Knowsley hall collections of living animals and birds, which far surpassed any menagerie or aviary previously attempted by a private person in this country, these collections were sold 6–11 Oct. 1851 for £7000; privately printed Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley hall 2 parts with 76 plates 1846–50. d. Knowsley hall 30 June 1851. P. Draper’s House of Stanley (1864) 275–82; Law Review xvi, 1–32 (1852); I.L.N. xix, 14, 405, 449 (1851).

DERBY, Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14 Earl of (eld. son of the preceding). b. Knowsley 29 March 1799; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Stockbridge 1822–26, for Preston 1826–30, for Windsor 1830–32, for North Lancashire 1832–44; under sec. of state for Colonies, April 1827 to Jany. 1828; chief sec. to lord lieut. of Ireland 26 Nov. 1830 to March 1833; P.C. 22 Nov. 1830, P.C. Ireland 10 Jany. 1831; sec. of state for Colonies 28 March 1833 to 5 June 1834; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow 1834–36; sec. of state for Colonies 3 Sep. 1841 to Dec. 1845; created Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe 4 Nov. 1844; succeeded 30 June 1851; first lord of the Treasury 27 Feb. to 28 Dec. 1852, 1 March 1858 to 18 June 1859 and 13 June 1866 to 25 Feb. 1868; chancellor of Univ. of Oxford 12 Oct. 1852; K.G. 28 June 1859; won the One thousand guineas with Canezou 1848, Goodwood Cup with Canezou 1849 and 1850, the Oaks with Iris 1851, and the Two thousand guineas with Fazzolette 1856; sold greater part of his racing stud 1858 for over £5000; privately printed Translations of poems ancient and modern 1862; published The Iliad of Homer rendered into English blank verse 2 vols. 1864, 10 ed. 1876. d. Knowsley 23 Oct. 1869, personalty sworn under £250,000, 9 April 1870. P. Draper’s House of Stanley (1864) 282–97; The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 291–99; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery iv, 51 (1848), portrait; G. H. Francis’s Orators of the age (1847) 101–23; Baily’s Mag. i, 1–6 (1861), portrait, xvii, 227–37 (1870).

DERBY, Alfred Thomas (eld. son of William Derby, water-colour painter 1786–1847). b. London 21 Jany. 1821; painted portraits and scenes from Sir Walter Scott’s novels; produced many drawings from paintings of well-known masters; exhibited 22 pictures at R.A. 8 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1839–72. d. of jaundice 11 Hammersmith terrace, Hammersmith 19 April 1873.

DERINZY, Bartholomew Vigors. Ensign 81 foot 26 May 1806; lieut. col. 86 foot 7 Jany. 1842 to 30 April 1852; inspecting field officer 30 April 1852 to 7 Sep. 1855 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 7 Sep. 1855; K.H. 1834. d. 4 Beaufort villas, Cheltenham 22 Nov. 1861 aged 73.

DE ROBECK, John Michael Henry Fock, Swedish Baron. b. 14 July 1790; cornet 7 Hussars, July 1808, retired 1814; sheriff of co. Kildare 1834, of co. Dublin 1838, of co. Wicklow 1839; well known for his scientific attainments; found drowned in the fall of the salmon leap in the Liffey near Dublin 11 Oct. 1856. Annual Register 1856 p. 165.

DE ROS, William Lennox Lascelles Fitzgerald-de-ros, 23 Baron (3 son of hon. Henry Fitzgerald 1761–1829). b. Thames Ditton, Surrey 1 Sep. 1797 or 7 Sep. 1795, according to his memorial tablet in chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula in Tower of London; cornet 1 Life guards 1819, captain 1825–27 when placed on h.p.; succeeded his brother 29 March 1839; deputy lieut. of Tower of London 13 Feb. 1852 to death when the office was abolished; captain of Yeomen of the Guard 17 March 1852 to Dec. 1852 and March 1858 to June 1859; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; Q.M.G. to army in Turkey 1854–55; col. 4 Hussars 6 Feb. 1865 to death; general 10 Nov. 1868; author of Field movements for a division of cavalry 1844; Memorials of the Tower of London 1866; edited The young officer’s companion 1857. d. Old Court, Strangford, co. Down 6 Jany. 1874.

DE ROS, John Frederick Fitzgerald. b. Boyle farm, co. Surrey 6 March 1804; entered navy 20 March 1818; captain 7 Feb. 1834; R.A. on half pay 14 Feb. 1857; F.R.S. 9 June 1831; author of Narrative of travels in the United States and Canada 1827. d. 122 Piccadilly, London 19 June 1861.

DE ROSAS, Juan Manuel. b. Buenos Ayres 30 March 1793; captain general of Buenos Ayres 1831; united all the Plate River States into the Argentine Confederation 1835; his government was overthrown Feb. 1852 when he came to England; lived in Rockstone place, Carlton crescent, Southampton several years, then at Burgess street farm, Swathling near Southampton to death; corresponded with Lord Palmerston many years. d. Burgess st. farm, Swathling 14 March 1877.

DE ROSAZ, Le Chevalier François. b. Savoy; a great supporter of the Orleans dynasty; settled in England after the revolution 1848; F.R.A.S. 8 May 1874; bequeathed his astronomical instruments to the Museum at Brighton. d. Upper Bedford place, Russell sq. London 21 Sep. 1876 in 76 year.

DERRY, Right Rev. John. Roman Catholic bishop of Clonfert, Ireland 9 July 1847 to death; consecrated 21 Sep. 1847. d. Cams, Fuerty, co. Roscommon 28 June 1870 aged 59.

DERVILLE, Adolphus. Entered Madras army 1816; col. 34 Madras light infantry 20 Aug. 1853 to 1860; col. 42 light infantry 1860 to 12 Dec. 1862; col. 31 light infantry 12 Dec. 1862 to death; general 25 June 1870. d. 8 The Terrace, Kensington gardens sq. Bayswater 27 March 1874 aged 72.

DERWENTWATER, Amelia Matilda Mary Tudor Radcliffe, calling herself Countess of (dau. of John James Radcliffe 1764–1833 by Amelia Anna Charlotte, Princess Sobieski). Came over to England and commenced to agitate for her rights 1865; resided at Blaydon, Northumberland 1865; took possession of the old ruined castle of Dilston 29 Sep. 1868 and suspended portraits of her family on walls of the principal hall; ejected by the agent of the Lords of the Admiralty 1 Oct. 1868 who recovered £500 damages against her; adjudicated bankrupt 24 March 1871; confined in Newcastle gaol 25 Nov. 1872 to July 1873 for contempt of court. d. of bronchitis at 53, Cutler’s hall road, Benfieldside, Lanchester near Durham 26 Feb. 1880 aged 49. The heirs of Dilston and Derwentwater by S. S. Jones 1869; Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 49–50 (1885); Monthly chronicle of north country lore and legend, April 1888 pp. 165–70, May 1888 pp. 205–212, portrait; Saturday Review 17 Oct. 1868 pp. 520–21; Celebrated Claimants (1873) 246–55.

DE SALIS, Rodolph. b. May 1811; cornet 8 Dragoons 17 Dec. 1830, lieut.-col. 2 Oct. 1856 to 21 Feb. 1865; C.B. 1 March 1861; col. 8 Hussars 22 Sep. 1875 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. 27 Ashley place, Westminster 13 March 1880.

DESANGES, Sir Francis (son of Wm. Desanges). Sheriff of London 1817–18; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 17 April 1818; sheriff of Oxon 1825. d. in the Queen’s Bench prison, London where he had been confined 4 years 20 Sep. 1860.

DESART, Otway O’Connor Cuffe, 3 Earl of (only son of 2 Earl of Desart 1788–1820). b. Desart house, Kilkenny 12 Oct. 1818; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; elected M.P. for Ipswich 3 June 1842 but unseated on petition Aug. 1842; a representative peer of Ireland 19 Jany. 1847 to death; under sec. of state for the Colonies March to Dec. 1852. d. Eaton sq. London 1 April 1865. I.L.N. xx, 321 (1852), portrait.

DESBOROUGH, Laurence. Solicitor in City of London 1818 to 1884; member of the Law Association 1823, president 1881 to death. d. 46 Gloucester gardens, Hyde park, London 10 Sep. 1888 aged 92.

DE SLANE, William Macguckin, French Baron. b. Belfast 12 Aug. 1801; went to Paris 1830; on missions at Constantinople and in Algeria for French government 1843–45; interpreter to the army of Africa; professor of modern Arabic at Ecole de langues Orientales, Paris to death; member of French institute 1862. d. Passy, Paris 4 Aug. 1878.

DE SOLA, Rev. Abraham (son of the succeeding). b. London 18 Sep. 1825; minister of Portuguese synagogue in Montreal 1847 to death; professor of Hebrew and Oriental literature at McGill Univ. 1848; LLD. 1858; pres. of Natural history soc. of Montreal; author of Scripture Zoology; The sanitary institutions of the Hebrews; Mosaic Cosmogony, and other books. d. New York 5 June 1882. H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 103–4.

DE SOLA, Rev. David Aaron. b. Amsterdam 26 Dec. 1796; student in the Medrash 1807–16; arrived in London and became Second Hazan or minister of the Sephardi congregation London 1817; preacher in English in the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, Bevis Marks, March 1831 and senior minister; instrumental in organising an Association for the promotion of Jewish Literature 1842; author with M. J. Raphall of A new edition of the sacred scriptures 1844, only vol. 1 completed; author of Eighteen treatises from the Mishna 1845; Ancient melodies of the liturgy of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews and other works; Revised the Jewish library a work issued at the expense of Mrs. Charlotte Montifiore. d. London 29 Oct. 1860. Biography of Rev. D. A. De Sola by Rev. A. De Sola (1865); J. Picciotto’s Sketches of Anglo Jewish history (1875) 327, 359–61.

DESPARD, Henry. Ensign 17 foot 25 Oct. 1799, lieut. col. 13 Aug. 1829 to 23 June 1838; lieut. col. 99 foot 27 Sep. 1842 to 20 June 1854; C.B. 2 July 1846; M.G. 20 June 1854. d. Baring Crescent, Heavitree, Exeter 30 April 1859 aged 74.

DE STERN, Herman Stern, Baron. b. Frankfort 1815; established with his brother Viscount de Stern a foreign banking business in London about 1848; launched many foreign loans; created a Baron by King of Portugal 1864 having been much connected with Portuguese finance. d. 4 Hyde park gate, London 20 Oct. 1887, personalty in England sworn over £3,540,000, Jany. 1888.

DE TABLEY, George Warren, 2 Baron (son of 1 Baron De Tabley 1762–1827). b. Tabley house, Knutsford, Cheshire 28 Oct. 1811; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; lieut.-col. commandant Cheshire yeomanry cavalry 1847–69; a lord in waiting to the Queen, Jany. 1853 to Feb. 1858 and June 1859 to July 1866; treasurer of the Queen’s household, Dec. 1868 to March 1872. d. Tabley house 19 Feb. 1887.

DE TRAFFORD, Sir Thomas Joseph, 1 Baronet (son of John Trafford of Croston and Trafford, who d. 29 Oct. 1815). b. 22 March 1778; sheriff of Lancashire 1834; created Baronet by patent dated 7 Sep. 1841; received royal license to alter his name to De Trafford 2 Oct. 1841. d. Trafford park, Manchester 10 Nov. 1852.

DEUTSCH, Emanuel Oscar Menahem. b. Neisse, Prussian Silesia 28 Oct. 1829; assistant librarian British Museum 1855 to death; author of an essay on the Talmud in Quarterly Review Oct. 1867, pp. 417–64 and of many articles in Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible, Chambers’s Cyclopædia and other books. d. of cancer of the kidneys and bladder, Prussian Deaconesses hospital, Alexandria 12 May 1873. Literary remains of the late Emanuel Deutsch with memoir [by Lady Strangford] 1874; Contemporary Review xxiii, 779–98 (1874); Macmillan’s Mag. xxviii, 382–84 (1873).

DE VESCI, John Vesey, 2 Viscount (eld. child of 1 Viscount de Vesci, who d. 13 Oct. 1804). b. 15 Feb. 1771; M.P. for Maryborough in Irish parliament 1796–97; succeeded 13 Oct. 1804; a representative peer for Ireland 19 Jany. 1839 to death; lord lieut. of Queen’s county 1831 to death. d. Portaferry, co. Down 19 Oct. 1855.

DE VESCI, Thomas Vesey, 3 Viscount (son of the preceding). b. Merrion sq. Dublin 21 Sep. 1803; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1825; sheriff of Queen’s county 1827; M.P. for Queen’s county 1835–37 and 1841–52; a representative peer for Ireland 10 Jany. 1857 to death; an ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland 1868. d. 4 Carlton house terrace, London 23 Dec. 1875. I.L.N. lxviii, 43, 431 (1876).

DEVEY, George. b. London 1820; architect in London; exhibited 6 designs at the R.A. 1841–48; F.R.I.B.A. 1856; produced large number of sketches; added to and altered many fine old English mansions, including those of the Duke of Argyll, Lord Granville, Lord Rosebery, Lord Wolverton and others. d. Hastings 5 Nov. 1886.

DE VINNE, Rev. Daniel. b. Londonderry 1 Feb. 1793; a minister of Methodist Episcopal church 1819; minister in Louisiana and Mississippi 1819–25, in state of New York 1825 to death; author of The Methodist Episcopal church and slavery 1844; Recollections of fifty years in the Ministry 1869; History of the Irish primitive church 1870. d. Morrisania, New York 10 Feb. 1883.

DEVLIN, Anne (niece of Michael Dwyer, Irish insurgent leader 1771–1815). b. about 1780; servant of Robert Emmett at his residence in Butterfield lane, Rathfarnham; messenger between him and his friends in Dublin when he was hiding in the Dublin mountains 1803; suffered more than two years imprisonment in Kilmainham gaol; a washerwoman in Dublin. d. Dublin 18 Sep. 1851 aged 70. bur. Glasnevin cemetery where there is a monument.

DEVON, William Courtenay, 10 Earl of (eld. son of Right Rev. Henry Reginald Courtenay 1741–1803, bishop of Exeter). b. Lower Grosvenor st. London 19 June 1777; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1798, M.A. 1801, D.C.L. 1837; barrister L.I. 11 June 1799; patentee of the Subpœna office 1800–52 when office was abolished; M.P. for Exeter 1812–26; a master in Chancery 30 July 1817 to 23 March 1826; clerk assistant of the Parliaments 6 Feb. 1826 to 26 May 1835 when he succeeded his cousin as 10 Earl; high steward of Univ. of Ox. Feb. 1838 to death; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 21 Jany. 1842 to Aug. 1850. d. Shrivenham, Berkshire 19 March 1859. Doyle’s Official baronage i, 583 (1886), portrait; Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen, second series (1846), portrait.

DEVONSHIRE, William George Spencer Cavendish, 6 Duke of (only son of 5 Duke of Devonshire 1748–1811). b. Paris 21 May 1790; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, LLD. 1811; succeeded 29 July 1811; lord lieut. of Derbyshire 19 Aug. 1811 to death; bought library of Thomas Dampier, bishop of Ely for £10,000, 1812, and John Kemble’s collection of plays for £2000, 1821; ambassador extraordinary to Russia for coronation of Emperor Nicholas 25 April 1826; received Russian orders of St. Andrew and St. Alexander Newski and St. Anne 18 Aug. 1828 for magnificence of his embassy which cost him £50,000 beyond allowance for it made by Government; P.C. 30 April 1827; K.G. 10 May 1827; lord chamberlain of the household 5 May 1827 to 18 Feb. 1828 and 22 Nov. 1830 to 15 Dec. 1834; entertained Emperor of Russia, King of Saxony and Prince Albert at Chiswick 8 June 1844. d. Hardwick hall, Derbyshire 18 Jany. 1858. G.M. iv, 209–10 (1858); I.L.N. 15 June 1844 pp. 384–5, 23 Jany. 1858 p. 75; Waagen’s Treasures of art in Great Britain ii, 88–96 (1854), iii, 344–70 (1854); Catalogue of the library at Chatsworth 4 vols. 1879.

DE WALDEN, Thomas Blaides. b. London 1811; made his début on the stage at Haymarket theatre 1841; first appeared in America at Park theatre, New York 1844 as Belmour in Is he jealous?; engaged in mercantile pursuits 1857; a chaplain in volunteer army of United States during the civil war; author of The upper ten and the lower twenty played at Burton’s theatre, New York; The Seven Sisters; The Jesuit played at Bowery theatre, New York 1854; The Hypochondriac; wrote more than 100 plays. d. New York 26 Sep. 1873.

DEWAR, Frederick Charles (son of James Dewar 1793–1846, musical director of theatre royal, Edinburgh). Made his first appearance in London at St. James’s theatre 29 Oct. 1860 as Tunstall in Up at the hills; made his first success at same house as Dr. Bland in Friends or Foes the English version of Sardou’s Nos Intimes 8 March 1862; played Tom Stylus in Robertson’s comedy Society, at Prince of Wales’s theatre 11 Nov. 1865 to Sep. 1866; played Captain Crosstree in Burnand’s burlesque The latest edition of Black-eyed Susan, or the little Bill that was taken up, at New Royalty theatre 400 times from 29 Nov. 1866 to 20 March 1868; played Bishopriggs in Wilkie Collins’s drama Man and Wife, at Prince of Wales’s 22 Feb. 1873; played Angus McAlister in Gilbert’s comedy Engaged, at Haymarket 3 Oct. 1877 to 4 Jany. 1878. d. Chelsea workhouse, London 8 Jany. 1878 aged 46. bur. Brompton cemetery. The Universal Review 15 Oct. 1888 pp. 162, 169, 177, portrait; The Entr’ Acte 19 Jany. 1878 pp. 6, 9, portrait; The Era 13 Jany. 1878 pp. 6, 12.

DE WILDE, George James (son of Samuel De Wilde, portrait painter 1748–1832). b. London 1804 or 1805; contributed many articles to various periodicals; edited the Northampton Mercury 1830 to death; author of Rambles round about, and Poems, edited by E. Dicey 1872; his portrait by J. E. Williams was presented by his friends to the Northampton Museum 1871. d. The Parade, Northampton 16 Sep. 1871 in 67 year. bur. Highgate cemetery 22 Sep. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii, 311 (1872); The Northampton Mercury 23 Sep. 1871 pp. 3, 5, 8.

DIAMOND, Hugh Welch (eld. son of Wm. Batchelor Diamond, surgeon H.E.I.Co.’s service). b. 1809; ed. at Norwich gr. sch.; studied at St. Bartholomew’s and Bethlehem hospitals; L.S.A. 1829; M.R.C.S. 1834; practised in Soho, London; resident superintendent of female patients at Surrey county lunatic asylum 1848–58; kept a private asylum for female patients at Twickenham 1858 to death; invented the paper or cardboard photographic portrait; sec. of London Photographic Soc. 1883, edited its Journal vols. 5–8 (1859–64); contributed papers to first series of Notes and Queries on photography; F.S.A. 15 May 1834. d. Twickenham house, Twickenham 21 June 1886.

DIAVOLO, Joel Il, otherwise known as Joel Benedict. Wire walker, pantomimist and ballet master; one of the original troupe of Bedouin Arabs at Surrey theatre 1839; created a great sensation under name of Joel il Diavolo at Vauxhall Gardens 1845 by descending a single wire stretched across the gardens from a platform 120 feet high to the ground at opposite end of the gardens; adopted stage name of Joel Benedict about 1850; acting manager to Charles Dillon several years from 1852 sustaining part of clown in his pantomimes; travelled with Charles Harrison’s company in the provinces 1862. d. 3 Feb. 1887. I.L.N. vi, 396 (1845), with view.

Note.—There were about half a dozen performers who successively bore the name of Joel il Diavolo at Vauxhall Gardens; the last one in 1849 was John Delany who had been a miner in the Dudley coal mines.

DIBB, John Edward. b. Beeston near Leeds 24 May 1812; deputy registrar of deeds and wills in West Riding of Yorkshire 1840 to death; barrister G.I. 1869; author of A practical guide to registration of deeds and wills in the West Riding of Yorkshire 1846; Registries of deeds, suggestions for the improvement of the Yorkshire offices 1851. d. Wakefield 17 Sep. 1872.

DIBDIN, Henry Edward (youngest son of Charles Isaac Mungo Pitt known as Charles Dibdin, dramatist 1768–1833). b. Sadler’s Wells, London 8 Sep. 1813; pupil of Bochsa the harpist; made his first appearance 3 Aug. 1832 at Covent Garden theatre when he played the harp at Paganini’s last concert; organist of Trinity chapel, Edinburgh 1833 to death; published The Standard Psalm tune book 1851, and about 40 songs, piano and harp pieces and hymn tunes. d. Edinburgh 6 May 1866.

DICEY, Thomas Edward (only son of Thomas Dicey of Claybrook hall, Leicestershire 1742–1807). b. Claybrook hall, Leics. 11 Oct. 1789; matric. at Oriel coll. Ox. 17 Oct. 1806; migrated to Trin. coll. Cam.; senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1811; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814; chairman of Midland counties railway; a director of North Staffordshire railway from its foundation 1846 to his death; proprietor of Northampton Mercury. d. Princes terrace, Hyde park, London 20 Feb. 1858.

DICK, Alexander. Entered Bengal army 1803; col. 71 Bengal N.I. 8 Feb. 1843 to 1869; general 3 May 1866. d. Deyrah, North West provinces of India 25 Nov. 1875 aged 86.

DICK, Hope. Ensign 23 Bengal N.I. 28 Sep. 1808; major 56 Bengal N.I. 1839–45; colonel Bengal infantry 16 Jany. 1855; general 28 April 1875. d. Cheltenham 24 May 1885 aged 93.

DICK, John (son of James Dick of Rochester). b. Rochester; entered navy Sep. 1785; captain 28 April 1802; admiral 19 Jany. 1852; a knight of the Crescent (Turkish order) 8 Oct. 1801. d. Southampton 10 Sep. 1854.

DICK, Robert (elder son of Thomas Dick, Excise officer, who d. May 1846). b. Tullibody, Clackmannanshire, Jany. 1810 or 1811; apprenticed to Aikman of Tullibody, baker 1824–28; journeyman baker at Leith, Glasgow and Greenock 1828–30; baker at Thurso 1830 to death; accumulated an almost perfect collection of the British flora and of fossil fishes; assisted Hugh Miller in his Old red sandstone 1841 and Footprints of the Creator 1849; helped Sir Roderick Murchison and other scientific men in their researches. d. Thurso 24 Dec. 1866. Robert Dick, baker of Thurso, geologist and botanist by Samuel Smiles 1878, portrait; H. A. Page’s Leaders of men (1830) 94–139; J. Copner’s Sketches of celibate worthies, 2 ed. (1886), 351–72.

DICK, Rev. Thomas (son of Mungo Dick of Dundee, linen manufacturer). b. the Hilltown, Dundee 24 Nov. 1774; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; licensed to preach in the Secession church 1801; teacher of Secession school at Methven 1807–17, taught at Perth 1817–27; lived at Broughty Ferry, Dundee 1827 to death; LLD. Union college, Schenectady, State of New York 1832; F.R.A.S. 14 Jany. 1853; granted civil list pension of £50, 21 July 1855; author of The Christian philosopher or the connexion of science and philosophy with religion 1823, 8 ed. 1842; Philosophy of a future state 1828; The mental illumination and moral improvement of mankind 1836; Celestial scenery or the wonders of the heavens displayed 1837. d. Broughty Ferry 29 July 1857, monument in churchyard of Chapel of Ease, Broughty Ferry, erected Jany. 1860. W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 167–72; The sidereal heavens by Rev. Thomas Dick, New York (1844), portrait.

DICK, William (2 child of John Dick of Edinburgh, blacksmith, who d. 1844). b. White Horse Close, Canongate, Edin. May 1793; ed. at Univ. of Edinburgh and Veterinary coll. London, obtained his diploma 27 Jany. 1818; practised as Vet. surgeon in Edin. 1818 to death; founded Edinburgh Veterinary College 1818; professor of veterinary surgery to Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland; vet. surgeon to the Queen for Scotland; Head inspector of cattle for co. of Edin. 1865; published Manual of veterinary science 1862. d. Veterinary College, Clyde st. Edinburgh 4 April 1866. Occasional papers on veterinary subjects by W. Dick with a memoir by R. O. Pringle (1869).

DICKENS, Charles John Huffam (2 child of the succeeding). b. 387 Mile End terrace, Commercial road, Landport, Portsea 7 Feb. 1812; a reporter in Doctors Commons 1829–31, in the House of Commons 1831–36; lived at No. 13 Furnival’s Inn 1835, at No. 15, 1836 to 1837, at 48 Doughty st. 1837–39, at 1 Devonshire terrace, Regent’s park 1839–51, at 1 Tavistock villas, Tavistock sq. 1851–60 and at Gad’s hill place near Rochester 1860 to death; edited Bentley’s Miscellany, Jany. 1837 to Jany. 1839; student at Middle Temple 1839; received freedom of Edinburgh 1841; visited U.S. of America 1842 and 1867–8; edited Daily News 21 Jany. to 9 Feb. 1846; started Household Words 30 March 1850, edited it to 28 May 1859 when he merged it into All the year round which he edited 30 April 1859 to his death; gave 4 series of public readings of his own works 1858–9, 1861–3, 1866–7 and 1868–70 gave his last reading 5 March 1870 in St. James’s Hall, London; author of Sketches by Boz 2 vols. 1835, 2nd series 1 vol. 1836; The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 1837, and 32 other works. (m. at St. Luke’s, Chelsea 2 April 1836 Catherine Thomson eld. dau. of George Hogarth, musical and dramatic critic of the Morning Chronicle, from whom he separated April or May 1858, she d. 70 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 22 Nov. 1879 aged 64). d. Gad’s Hill Place 9 June 1870. bur. in Westminster abbey 14 June. J. Forster’s Life of C. Dickens 3 vols. 1872–74, portrait; Letters of C. Dickens 3 vols. 1880–82; Charles Dickens as I knew him by G. Dolby 1885; J. T. Fields’s In and out of doors with Charles Dickens 1876; Charles Dickens by G. A. Sala 1870; P. Fitzgerald’s Recreations of a literary man, i, 48–171 (1882); C. Dickens as a reader by C. Kent 1872; E. Yates’s Recollections ii, 91–128 (1884); J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters (1870) 1–48; J. C. Jeaffreson’s Novels and novelists ii, 303–34 (1858), portrait; R. H. Horne’s A new spirit of the age i, 1–76 (1844), portrait; Bookseller, July 1870 pp. 573–78, and Christmas number 1879 pp. 15–21; Illust. News of the world vol. ii (1858), portrait; Graphic xx, 556 (1879), portrait of Mrs. Dickens.

Note.—He is drawn by Anthony Trollope in his novel The Warden under the name of Mr. Popular Sentiment. The portrait of him painted by Ary Scheffer 1855 exhibited at the R.A. 1856 was purchased by trustees of National portrait gallery, July 1870.

DICKENS, John. Clerk in the navy pay office at Portsmouth and Chatham dockyards to 1822, at Somerset House 1822 to 9 March 1825 when he left the service; compounded with his creditors 1823; confined in King’s Bench or Marshalsea prison 1824; became insolvent, applied to be discharged 15 Dec. 1831; reporter to the Morning Chronicle to 1839; lived at Exeter; is drawn by Charles Dickens in David Copperfield as Micawber. d. Malvern 31 March 1851 aged 66. bur. in Highgate cemetery 5 April, where also lie the remains of his wife Elizabeth Dickens who d. 12 Sep. 1863 aged 73.

DICKENSON, Henry. Writer Madras civil service 1806; member of council and chief judge of the Sudder Dewannee and Sudder Foujdarry Adawlut 1846 to 16 Feb. 1850 when he resigned the service. d. Schweizenhof, Lucerne, Switzerland 29 Nov. 1859.

DICKEY, Edward John. Entered Bengal army 1822; superintendent of Stud department 9 May 1853; lieut.-col. 57 N.I. 15 April 1854; M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. Parklands, Guildford 19 Sep. 1883 aged 79.

DICKIE, George. b. Aberdeen 23 Nov. 1813; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen and Univs. of Aberdeen and Edinburgh; A.M. Aberdeen 1830, M.D. 1842; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1834; lecturer on botany at King’s college, Aberdeen 1839–49; professor of natural history at Belfast 1849–60 and of botany in Univ. of Aberdeen 1860–77; F.L.S. 1863; F.R.S. 1881; author of Flora Abredonensis 1838; The Botanists guide to Aberdeen, Banff and Kincardine 1860; A Flora of Ulster 1864; author with James Mc Cosh of Typical forms and special ends in creation 1856. d. 16 Albyn terrace, Aberdeen 16 July 1882. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv, pp. xii-xiii (1883).

DICKINSON, Sir Drury Jones (2 son of Edgar Dickinson of Dublin). b. Dawson st. Dublin 1804; a wine merchant in Dublin; high sheriff of city of Dublin 1833–34; knighted by Marquess Wellesley the lord lieut. of Ireland 1833. d. 10 Mountjoy place, Dublin 8 May 1869.

DICKINSON, John (eld. son of Thomas Dickinson, superintendent of shipping to Board of Ordnance 44 years, who d. 24 May 1828 aged 74). b. 29 March 1782; paper manufacturer at Apsley hill, Hemel Hempstead to 1857; F.R.S. 6 March 1845; master of the Stationers’ Company 1857 and 1858. d. 39 Upper Brook st. London 11 Jany. 1869.

DICKINSON, John (son of the preceding). b. 28 Dec. 1815; chief founder of the India Reform Society 12 March 1853, hon. sec. 1853–61, chairman 1861; author of Letters on the cotton and roads of Western India 1851; India, its government under a Bureaucracy 1853; Dhar not restored 1864 and other books chiefly pamphlets on subject of India; found dead in his study at 1 Upper Grosvenor st. London 23 Nov. 1876. J. Dickinson’s Last counsels of an unknown counsellor, edited by Evans Bell (1883), portrait.

DICKINSON, Sir John Nodes (son of Nodes Dickinson, F.R.C.S., staff surgeon to H.M.’s forces). b. Island of Grenada 1806; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840; judge in supreme court of New South Wales 23 April 1844, chief justice there 1860 to 18 Feb. 1861 when he retired on pension of £1050 per annum; knighted by patent 19 June 1860; author of A letter to the lord chancellor on law consolidation 1861. d. Rome 16 March 1882 in 76 year. Heads of the people ii, 41 (1848), portrait.

DICKINSON, Joseph. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.B. 1837, M.A. and M.D. 1843; physician to Royal infirmary, Liverpool about 1839 and subsequently to the Fever hospital, workhouse and South Dispensary, Liverpool; lectured on medicine and botany at Liverpool school of medicine; pres. of Liverpool Lit. and Phil. Soc.; L.R.C.P. 1844, F.R.C.P. 1859; F.L.S.; M.R.I.A.; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; author of The Flora of Liverpool 1851 and Supplement 1855. d. 92 Bedford st. south, Liverpool 21 July 1865.

DICKINSON, Sebastian Stewart. b. Bombay 25 March 1815; ed. at Eton; barrister I.T. 7 June 1839; M.P. for Stroud 19 Nov. 1868 to 26 Jany. 1874, re-elected 5 Feb. 1874 but election declared void April 1874. d. Brown’s hill, Stroud 23 Aug. 1878.

DICKINSON, Thomas. b. Hampshire; entered navy Feb. 1796; captain 29 Nov. 1832; received gold Vulcan medal of Society of Arts 1825 for his mode of applying percussion powder to the discharge of ships guns; author of A narrative of the operation for the recovery of the public stores and treasure sunk in H.M.S. Thetis 1836. d. Greenwich hospital 30 July 1854 aged 68.

DICKINSON, Thomas. Entered Bengal army 1805; col. 10 Bengal N.I. 10 May 1853 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Teignmouth 24 Oct. 1859.

DICKSON, Alexander. b. Edinburgh 21 Feb. 1836; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1860; professor of botany in Univ. of Dublin 1866, in Univ. of Glasgow 1868–79; professor of botany in Univ. of Edin. and regius keeper of Royal botanic garden 1 April 1879 to death; pres. of Botanical Soc. of Edin. twice; F.R.S. Edin.; author of numerous papers on botany. d. suddenly of heart disease at Thriepland pond near Hartree, Peebleshire 30 Dec. 1887.

DICKSON, Elizabeth (dau. of Archibald Dalzel, governor of Cape Coast Castle). b. probably at Cape Coast Castle 1793; wrote to the English press about 1809 to entreat that immediate steps might be taken to relieve the British captives in Barbary, the matter roused public feeling and resulted in the despatch of an expedition under Lord Exmouth 1816; received a gold medal from the Anti-Piratical Society of Knights and Noble Ladies; resided in Africa, chiefly at Tripoli. (m. John Dickson, surgeon to Lord Nelson at battle of Copenhagen). d. Tripoli 30 April 1862 aged about 70.

DICKSON, Ellen (3 dau. of general Sir Alexander Dickson). b. Woolwich 1819; an invalid from her youth; resided chiefly at Lyndhurst, New Forest; composed under pseudonym of Dolores upwards of 50 drawing-room songs which were very popular and some of which are still sung, the best known of them are As I lay a thynkinge 1857; The Brook 1857; The Fairies; Clear and cool; The land of long ago; O my lost love; The racing river; Tell her not when I am gone. d. Lyndhurst 4 July 1878.

DICKSON, James A. b. London 1774; made his first appearance on the stage in Boston, United States 1794 as Saville in The Belle’s Stratagem; became eminent as an actor of comic old men; manager of Boston theatre for some years from 1806; retired from the stage 14 April 1817. d. Boston 1 April 1853.

DICKSON, John Bourmaster. b. 29 April 1815; entered navy 1834; captain 17 May 1854; retired R.A. 1 April 1870; C.B. 20 May 1871. d. Thornborough, Ryde 11 Feb. 1876.

DICKSON, John Robinson. b. Dungannon, co. Tyrone 15 Nov. 1819; went to Canada 1838; graduated at Univ. of New York 1842; visiting physician to general hospital at Kingston, Canada 1846–54, visiting surgeon 1854–56, clinical lecturer 1856–60; dean of the medical faculty and professor of surgery in Univ. of Queen’s college, Kingston 1854, the name was altered in 1866 to Royal College of physicians and surgeons, of which he was pres. 1866 to death. d. Wolfe island, St. Lawrence river, Canada 23 Nov. 1882.

DICKSON, Sir Joseph Ritchie Lyon (2 son of Elizabeth Dickson 1793–1862). b. 1820; physician to British legation at Teheran, Persia 11 Sep. 1847 to death; attended the Shah for typhus fever 1849 for which he received the Commander’s Star of the Lion and Sun; accompanied the Shah to England 1873; knighted at Windsor Castle 30 June 1873. d. St. Juliens, Malta on his way home from Persia 7 Aug. 1887.

DICKSON, Robert. b. Dumfries 1804; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin., M.D. 1826; a physician in London to 1866; L.R.C.P. 1831, F.R.C.P. 1855; lectured on botany at medical school in Webb st. London and afterwards at St. George’s hospital; author of A lecture on the dry rot 1837; wrote all the articles on Materia Medica in the Penny Cyclopædia 1833–58 and several articles on popular science in Church of England Mag. d. Cambridge lodge, Harmondsworth near Slough 13 Oct. 1875. Medical times and gazette ii, 509–10, 669 (1875); Proc. of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. viii, 73 (1875).

DICKSON, Samuel. Educ. at Univ. of Edin. and in Paris; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1825; M.D. Glasgow 1833; assistant surgeon in army in India 1828–33; practised at Cheltenham 1833, then in London to his death; started The Chrono-thermalist, or People’s Medical Inquirer 1850 all of which he wrote himself, it ceased 1852; the Penn Medical College of Philadelphia was founded to teach his doctrines; he is drawn from life by Charles Reade in his novel Hard Cash 1863 as Dr. Sampson; author of The fallacy of the art of physic as taught in the schools 1836; Fallacies of the faculty being the spirit of the Chrono-thermal system 1839; What killed Mr. Drummond, the lead or the lancet? 1843, and 6 other books. d. 12 Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 12 Oct. 1869 aged 67. S. Dickson’s Memorable events in the life of a London physician (1863).

DICKSON, Thomas, b. Lauder, Berwickshire 26 March 1822; went to Canada 1835; established the Dickson Manufacturing Co. for building steam engines 1856 which became one of most important locomotive works in United States; general superintendent of Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. 1864, pres. 1869 to death; organised a company for purchase of a large tract of iron land on shores of Lake Champlain 1873; a director in 20 other companies, d. Morristown, New Jersey 31 July 1884.

DICKSON, William Gillespie (2 son of Henry Gordon Dickson of Edinburgh, writer to the signet). b. Edinburgh 9 April 1823; ed. at academy and univ. of Edin.; member of Faculty of Advocates 9 March 1847; procureur and advocate general of Mauritius, July 1856 to March 1868; senior sheriff substitute at Glasgow, March 1868; sheriff of Lanarkshire 21 Jany. 1874 to death; LLD. Edin. 22 April 1874; published A treatise on the law of evidence in Scotland 2 vols. 1855, 2 ed. 1864. d. Glasgow 19 Oct. 1876.

DIGBY, George Stephen, b. 7 July 1821; second lieut. R.M.A. 16 Aug. 1842, col. 23 March 1865, col. commandant 3 May 1876 to death; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. London 19 March 1877.

DIGBY, Jane Elizabeth (only dau. of Admiral Sir Henry Digby, G.C.B. 1770–1842). b. 3 April 1807. m. (1) 15 Sep. 1824 Edward Law 1 Earl of Ellenborough, they separated 22 May 1829, he obtained a divorce in Consistory Court of Bishop of London 20 Feb. 1830 for her adultery with Felix, Prince Swartzenburgh, marriage was dissolved by private act of parliament 11 Geo. iv, cap. 51, 8 April 1830; m. (2) 10 Nov. 1832 Charles Theodore Herbert, Baron Venningen of Bavaria; m. (3) Hadji-Petros a general in the Greek army; m. (4) a Bedouin Arab called Midjouel. She is sketched by About under the name of Ianthe, in his Grèce Contemporaine (1854) pp. 99–111. d. Damascus 11 Aug. 1881.

DIGBY, Joseph. b. 15 July 1786; entered navy 12 June 1800; captain 8 Sep. 1815; retired V.A. 9 July 1857. d. 5 March 1860.

DIGBY, Kenelm Henry (younger son of Very Rev. Wm. Digby 1730–1812, dean of Clonfert). b. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1823; joined Church of Rome 1823; author of The broad stone of honour, or rules for the gentlemen of England 1822 anon., which he rewrote and published in 4 vols. 1826–27 omitting the second title, an edition de luxe 5 vols. 1876–7; Mores Catholici or ages of faith 11 vols. 1831–40, and 16 other books. d. 7 The Terrace Kensington 22 March 1880. Gillow’s English Catholics, ii, 81–3 (1885).

DIGGLE, Charles. Ensign 52 foot 31 Aug. 1804; captain of companies of gentlemen cadets at Royal military college 10 Aug. 1820 to 23 June 1843 when placed on h.p. with rank of major; M.G. 31 Aug. 1855; K.H. 1831. d. Cheltenham 18 Sep. 1862 aged 74.

DILKE, Ashton Wentworth (younger son of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke 1810–69). b. London 11 Aug. 1850; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam., scholar; bought Weekly Dispatch for £14,000 Jany. 1875, edited it to his death; M.P. for Newcastle, April 1880 to Feb. 1883; author of I. S. Turgenev’s Virgin Soil translated by A. W. Dilke 1878. d. Algiers 12 March 1883. Graphic xxvii, 469 (1883), portrait.

DILKE, Charles Wentworth (eld. son of Charles Wentworth Dilke 1742–1826, clerk in the Civil Service). b. 8 Dec. 1789; in the Navy Pay Office to 1836 when office was abolished and he retired on a pension; edited the London Mag.; edited the Athenæum 5 June 1830 to 23 May 1846; managed the Daily News, April 1846 to April 1849. d. Alice Holt near Farnham, Hants. 10 Aug. 1864. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 16 Aug. The Papers of a Critic edited by Sir C. W. Dilke (1875) i, 1–91.

DILKE, Sir Charles Wentworth (only son of the preceding). b. London 18 Feb. 1810; ed. at Westminster and Trin. hall, Cam., LLB. 1834, LLM. 1860; founded with John Lindley the Gardener’s Chronicle 1841; chairman of council of Society of Arts several years; commissioner of Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862; unpaid comr. to New York exhibition 1853 and Paris Exposition 1855; created a baronet for services as comr. 22 Jany. 1862; M.P. for Wallingford 13 July 1865 to 11 Nov. 1868; F.S.A.; F.R.G.S. d. Hotel de France, St. Petersburgh 10 May 1869. The Queen, vol. 1 (1862), portrait; I.L.N. xix, 487, 509 (1851), xl, 215, 225 (1862), portrait.

DILLON, Charles. b. Diss, Norfolk 24 May 1819; wrote magazine articles and melodramas 1836–38; acted Hamlet at City of London theatre 1840; stage manager, leading actor and dramatic author at Marylebone theatre 1842; starred in every city and important town in Great Britain and Ireland 1845–56; played at Sadlers Wells, April to Sep. 1856; lessee and manager of Lyceum, Sep. 1856 to 2 April 1857 and 20 Jany. to 22 March 1858; played at Drury Lane 1860, in the United States 1861–63 and 1866–68, in Australia 1863–66, at Sadler’s Wells 1868 and Drury Lane 1869; last appeared in London at Drury Lane, when he played Belphegor for his benefit 7 Dec. 1878; last appeared on the stage at Hawick town hall as Othello 23 June 1881; dropped dead in High st. Hawick 24 June 1881. bur. Brompton cemetery, London 29 June. Time, Feb. 1883 pp. 213–17; C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 119–26; The Players i, 161 (1860), portrait; Touchstone 28 Sep. 1878, portrait; The Era 25 June 1881 p. 5 col. 4, 2 July p. 9 col. 4, and 9 July p. 14 col. 1.

DILLON, John Blake (3 son of Luke Dillon). b. Ballyhadenan, co. Mayo 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1841; agitated for the repeal of the Union; one of founders and proprietors of the Nation newspaper 1842; attached himself to political fortunes of Smith O’Brien 1848; escaped to France 1848; went to the United States where he practised in the New York courts 1848; returned to Ireland 1855; a leader of the National party; M.P. for co. Tipperary 24 July 1865 to death; alderman of city of Dublin; one of founders of National Association 1865 and secretary; author of The history of Indiana 1 vol. 1843, no more published. d. Druid lodge, Killiney 15 Sep. 1866. O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit (1885) 323–5; Sullivan’s New Ireland (1877) i, 148–53; Nation 6 Oct. 1866, portrait.

DILLON, Mr. b. about 1830; clerk in general post office, London; went to France about 1850; on the staff of Paris paper Le Sport; killed by Duc de Gramont-Caderousse in a duel with swords in Forest of St. Germain near Paris 21 Oct. 1862; his widow obtained an order in the Court of Versailles, Nov. 1862 obliging the Duke to pay her an annuity of 3600 francs. Larouse’s Grand Dictionaire (1870) vi, 855–56.

DILLON, Sir William Henry (son of Sir John Talbot Dillon, a baron of the Holy Roman empire). b. Birmingham 8 Aug. 1779; entered navy May 1790; a prisoner in France 1803–6; captain 21 March 1808; naval equerry to Duke of Sussex; K.C.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted at St. James’s palace 24 June 1835; V.A. 5 March 1853. d. Monaco 9 Sep. 1857. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xiv, 191 (1858).

DILLWYN, Lewis Weston (son of Wm. Dillwyn of Higham Lodge, Walthamstow, minister of Society of Friends, who d. Sep. 1824 aged 81). b. Ipswich 21 Aug. 1778; head of the Cambrian pottery, Swansea 1802; published Natural history of British Confervæ in parts 1802–1809, and other works on natural history; wrote with Dawson Turner The Botanists Guide 2 vols. 1805; pres. of Royal Institution of South Wales from its foundation 1835 to his death; sheriff of Glamorganshire 1818; alderman of Swansea 1835–40, mayor 1839; M.P. for Glamorganshire 17 Dec. 1832 to July 1837; F.L.S. 1800, F.R.S. 1804. d. Sketty hall near Swansea 31 Aug. 1855. Proc. of Linnæan society (1856) 36–39.

DIMOCK, Rev. James Francis. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., Bell’s scholar 1830; 29 wrangler 1833; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; minor canon of Southwell 1846–63; R. of Barnborough, Yorkshire 1863 to death; preb. of Lincoln 1869 to death; author of Explanation of the Thirty-nine articles 2 vols. 1845; Southwell church, views with architectural description 1854; edited A metrical life of St. Hugh of Lincoln 1860; Magna vita S. Hugonis 1864; Giraldi Cambrensis Opera, vols. 5 and 6, 1867–69. d. Barnborough 21 April 1876 aged 65.

DINNEFORD, William. b. London; first appeared in America at Chestnut st. theatre, Philadelphia 1823, leading actor there; made his début in New York at Lafayette theatre 1826; became manager of the Bowery theatre and of the Franklin theatre, New York; travelled with strolling companies all over the United States from Maine to California; an actor, author, manager, auctioneer, broker and merchant; opened a lodging and eating house at 157 Broadway, New York called the Byron 1845. d. Panama 8 Dec. 1852. Ireland’s Records of the New York stage i, 405 (1866).

DINORBEN, William Lewis Hughes, 1 Baron (eld. son of Rev. Edward Hughes of Kinmel park near St. Asaph, who d. 1815). b. 10 Nov. 1767; M.P. for Wallingford 5 July 1802 to 10 Sep. 1831 when created Baron Dinorben of Kinmel park, co. Denbigh; militia aide-de-camp to the Queen 7 Feb. 1840 to death. d. Kinmel park 10 Feb. 1852.

DINSDALE, Frederick. Educ. at Chr. coll. Cam., LLB. 1829, LLD. 1835; barrister M.T. 23 May 1834; judge of Court of Requests at Oldham 1843 to March 1847; judge of county courts, circuit No. 22 (Warwickshire), March 1847 to death; changed his name from Trotter to Dinsdale 1847; author of A glossary of provincial words used in Teesdale 1849, anon. d. Tachbrooke house, Leamington 8 July 1872.

DIPROSE, John (eld. son of John Diprose of London, bookbinder). b. Bell Alley, Temple Bar, London 1814; bookseller at Newington Butts 1837, at 312 Strand 1841, at 16 Portugal st. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, at 9 Sheffield st. 1876 to death; began his career as a publisher by issuing The royal song book 1840; wrote or edited upwards of 30 minor works which he styled books for the non-reading public; author of Some account of the parish of St. Clement Danes past and present 2 vols. 1868–76, vol. 2 has the date 1876 on the title page but was not published till 1880. d. 131 Kennington park road, London 20 June 1879. Diprose’s St. Clements ii, v-xxiii (1876).

DIRCKS, Henry. b. Liverpool 26 Aug. 1806; a practical engineer conducting railway canal and mining works to 1842, a consulting engineer 1842–58; patented several inventions 1840–57; invented optical delusion exhibited at Polytechnic, London under name of Pepper’s Ghost, July 1863; author of Jordantype, otherwise called Electrotype 1852; Perpetuum mobile or search for self-motive power 1861, second series 1870; Joseph Anstey or the patron and protégé 1863, a novel published under pseud. of D. S. Henry; The life of the Second Marquis of Worcester 1865 and other books. d. Brighton 17 Sep. 1873. H. Dircks’s Inventors and Inventions 1867, portrait; H. Dircks’s Nature-Study 1869, portrait; H. Dircks’s Naturalistic poetry 1872, portrait; Notes and Queries 6 S. xii, 309, 477 (1885).

DISBROWE, Sir Edward Cromwell (son of Col. Edward Disbrowe of Walton, Derbyshire, who d. 30 Nov. 1818). Educ. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 21 Oct. 1808 aged 18; M.P. for Windsor 11 Feb. 1823 to 2 June 1826; entered diplomatic service 1826; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at the Hague 28 Oct. 1835 to death; G.C.H. 1831. d. The Hague 29 Oct. 1851. The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 406–8.

DISNEY, John (eld. son of Rev. John Disney, Unitarian clergyman 1746–1816). b. Flintham hall, Notts. 29 May 1779; inherited from his father the collection of antiquities formed by Hollis and Brand in Italy 1748–53 to which he made additions; barrister I.T. 13 May 1803; recorder of Bridport 14 Sep. 1807 to Oct. 1823; contested Harwich, Dec. 1832 and North Essex, May 1835; F.R.S. 7 June 1832; F.S.A.; presented to Univ. of Cam. a collection of 83 ancient marbles 16 April 1850; founded Disney professorship of archæology in Univ. of Cam. 1851, endowed it with sum of £1000 which he increased to £3250 by a bequest in his will 1857; published A collection of acts of parliament relative to elections 1811; Outlines of a penal code 1826; Museum Disneianum 3 parts 1846–9. d. The Hyde, Ingatestone, Essex 6 May 1857.

DISSTON, Henry. b. Tewkesbury 21 May 1819; went to United States 1833; manufacturer of saws in Philadelphia about 1840 to death, employed 400 workmen; invented more than 20 improvements in saw manufacture, among them the movable or inserted teeth; inventor and manufacturer of the Disston saw. d. Philadelphia 16 March 1878.

DISTIN, John. b. 1793; trumpet player in Her Majesty’s theatre, London; bandmaster to Marquis of Breadalbane; formed a Quintet band of wind instruments, composed of himself and his sons 1833, travelled with it in England 1833–36 and abroad 1836–44; made an improvement in the sax horn 1844; first played at Jullien’s concerts, Covent Garden 3 Nov. 1844. d. Great Newport st. St. Martin’s lane, London 8 July 1863. I.L.N. v, 384 (1844), portraits of John Distin and his 4 sons.

DITCHER, Rev. Joseph. Educ. at Queen’s coll. Cam.; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Bitton, Gloucs. 1821–35; M.A. by Abp. of Canterbury 3 Feb. 1837; judge of consistorial episcopal court of Bath and Wells 1836–41; V. of South Brent, Somerset 1841 to death; prosecuted Archdeacon G. A. Denison for his sermons on the doctrine of the Real Presence 1856; author of A statement of the proceedings in the case of Ditcher v. Denison 1858. d. South Brent 28 Nov. 1875. S. Ditcher’s Memorials of Rev. J. Ditcher 1876.

DIVETT, Edward. b. 1797; ed. at Eton; M.P. for Exeter 12 Dec. 1832 to death. d. Bystock near Exmouth 25 July 1864.

DIXON, George (3 son of John Dixon of Gledhow hall, Yorkshire 1753–1825). b. 5 Aug. 1801; ensign 3 Foot guards 20 Jany. 1820, major 25 March 1853 to 20 June 1854; col. 104 Foot 2 Feb. 1867 to death; general 1 April 1870. d. 97 Mount st. London 15 May 1874.

DIXON, Henry Hall (2 son of Peter Dixon of Warwick bridge, Carlisle, cotton manufacturer). b. Carlisle 16 May 1822; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1846; articled to a solicitor at Doncaster; contributed to the Sporting Review about 1850–60; barrister M.T. 7 May 1852; wrote The herds of Great Britain in the Mark Lane Express 1859–60; wrote the article entitled The Farm in the Illustrated London News some years; author of The law of the farm 1858, 4 ed. 1879; Field and Fern 2 vols. 1865; published under pseudonym of The Druid Post and Paddock 1856; Silk and Scarlet 1859; Scott and Sebright 1862; Saddle and Sirloin 1870. d. Warwick gardens, Kensington, London 16 March 1870. Sporting Review lxiii, 294–97 (1870); Illust. sporting and dramatic news i, 65–6 (1874), portrait; Sporting Times 6 Feb. 1886 pp. 2–3.

DIXON, Rev. James. b. King’s Mills near Castle Donington, Leics. 29 Oct. 1788; joined Methodist Society 1808, licensed at quarter sessions to preach 14 Jany. 1812; appointed to Cardiff circuit 1816; pres. of the Conference 1841; D.D. of Univ. of Pennsylvania, July 1843; appointed to South London circuit 1844; pres. of Conference of Upper Canada 1848; retired from full ministry 1862; a great preacher and orator; author of Methodism in its origin, economy and present position 1841; Methodism in America 1849 and other books. d. Bradford 28 Dec. 1871. R. W. Dixon’s Life of James Dixon, D.D. 1874; Methodist Quarterly ix, 9, (1849), portrait.

DIXON, His Grace the Most Rev. Joseph. b. Cole Island near Dungannon, co. Tyrone 2 Feb. 1806; entered Royal college of St. Patrick, Maynooth 1822, dean there 5 years, professor of Sacred Scripture and Hebrew 1828; R.C. archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland 28 Sep. 1852 to death, consecrated 21 Nov.; author of A general introduction to the Sacred Scriptures in a series of dissertations 2 vols. 1852; The blessed Cornelius, or some tidings of an archbishop of Armagh who went to Rome in the twelfth century 1855. d. Armagh 29 April 1866. Catholic Directory, Dublin 1867 pp. 421–28.

DIXON, Manley Hall. b. Stoke Damarel, Devon 8 June 1786; entered navy June 1794; captain 28 June 1811; R.A. 27 Dec. 1847; V.A. 7 Feb. 1855; pensioned 28 Dec. 1855; admiral on half pay 1 Nov. 1860. d. Stoke, Devonport 3 March 1864.

DIXON, Rev. Richard (son of Joshua Dixon of Whitehaven). Matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 3 May 1796 aged 16; B.A. 1799, M.A. 1803; fellow of his college to 1829, tutor 1822; F.R.S. 21 March 1811; R. of Niton, Isle of Wight 1828 to death. d. Niton rectory 13 May 1858.

DIXON, Venerable Robert Vickers. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1840, B.D. and D.D. 1862, fellow 1839; R. of Clogherney, co. Tyrone 1853 to death; archdeacon of Armagh 1883 to death. d. Clogherney rectory 14 May 1885.

DIXON, Rev. William Henry (son of Rev. Henry Dixon, V. of Wadworth near Doncaster). b. Wadworth 2 Nov. 1783; ed. at Pemb. coll. Cam., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1809; V. of Bishopthorpe near York 1824 to death; chaplain to Abp. of York to death; preb. of York 1825–31, canon residentiary 1831 to death; canon of Ripon 1836; R. of Etton near Beverley, Yorkshire 1837 to death; F.S.A. 31 May 1821; author of Synodus Eboracensis, or a short account of the convocation of the province of York 1848. d. Minster yard, York 17 Feb. 1854. Memoir of Rev. W. H. Dixon by Rev. C. B. Norcliffe, privately printed 1860; Rev. W. H. Dixon’s Fasti Eboracenses, edited by Rev. James Raine vol. 1, 1863, preface.

DIXON, William Hepworth (son of Abner Dixon of Holmfirth, Yorkshire). b. Newton st. Ancoats, Manchester 30 June 1821; wrote a series of articles on the literature of the lower classes and on London prisons in the Daily News 1846; barrister I.T. 1 May 1854; contributed to the Athenæum 1846, editor Jany. 1853 to Aug. 1869; F.S.A. 15 Jany. 1852; helped to found Palestine exploration fund 1865, chairman of executive committee; knight commander of German order of the Crown 4 Oct. 1872; member for Marylebone of London school board 29 Nov. 1870 to Nov. 1873; author of William Penn, an historical biography 1851; The Holy Land 2 vols. 1865; New America 2 vols. 1867 of which there were 8 editions in England, 3 in America and several in France, Russia, Holland, Italy and Germany, and about 20 other books. d. 6 St. James’s terrace, Regent’s park, London 27 Dec. 1879. In Memoriam Hepworth Dixon 1880; Illustrated Review vi, 225–28 (1873), portrait; Cartoon Portraits (1873) 227–38, portrait; Graphic xxi, 69 (1880), portrait.

DIXON, William Jerrold (elder son of the preceding). b. 1848; ed. at Westminster and Trin. hall, Cam., B.A. 1871; in saving lives in the skating accident in Regent’s Park 15 Jany. 1867 caught a cold which rendered him an invalid and cripple for life; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1870; hon. sec. of the Savage club, London; sec. to Dublin sanitary commission 1879; author of articles in periodicals; adapted Molière’s Le Médecin malgré lui under title of The Doctor in spite of himself, comedy in 3 acts produced at Globe theatre 23 June 1877; wrote Married another, a comedietta; wrote in The Theatre and London Society, in Belgravia under name of Gerald Dixon. d. Dublin 20 Oct. 1879 in 31 year. Belgravia xl, 193–97 (1880); Theatre iii, 277–79 (1879).

DIXON, William Manley Hall. b. 1817; second lieut. R.A. 18 June 1835, col. 27 Feb. 1866 to 23 Dec. 1871 when he retired on full pay; prepared plans for attack on Bomarsund and other places during Russian war; superintendent of Royal small arms factories at Enfield 1855 to 1871; C.B. 20 May 1871; M.G. 23 Dec. 1871. d. Tharp lodge, Hornchurch, Essex 19 March 1888.

DOBBS, Conway Richard. b. 1796; ed. at Eton; entered navy 4 Sep. 1810; fought at battle of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816; lieut. 16 Oct. 1821; placed on reserved list July 1851; retired commander 1 July 1864; M.P. for Carrickfergus 19 Dec. 1832 to March 1833 when unseated on petition; sheriff of Antrim 1841. d. 28 Feb. 1886.

DOBBS, William Cary (only son of Rev. Robert Conway Dobbs, who d. 9 Dec. 1809 aged 38). b. 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; called to bar in Ireland 1833; crown prosecutor on North East circuit 1851–59; Q.C. 26 May 1858; a judge of Landed Estates Court, April 1859 to death; M.P. for Carrickfergus 2 April 1857 to 23 April 1859. d. Wimpole st, London 17 April 1869.

DOBELL, Sydney Thompson (eld. son of John Dobell of Cranbrook, Kent, hide merchant). b. Cranbrook 5 April 1824; a wine merchant at Cheltenham 1848 to death; author of The Roman, a dramatic poem by Sydney Yendys 1850; Balder, part the first, By the author of the Roman 1854; England in time of war 1856; a complete edition of his works was published in 3 vols. 1875–6. d. Barton end house, Nailsworth near Stroud 22 Aug. 1874. The life of Sydney Dobell edited by E. J. [Miss E. Jolly] 2 vols. 1878; The golden decade of a favored town, by Contem Ignotus (1884) 154–93; T. H. Ward’s English poets, 2 ed. iv, 615–20 (1883); Temple Bar lvi, 80–91 (1879); Graphic x, 264 (1874), portrait.

DOBSON, George (son of John Dobson of Mortimer, Berkshire). b. 1795; entered navy 14 Dec. 1807; captain 5 Jany. 1844; admiral on h.p. 11 Dec. 1875. d. 52 Pulteney st. Bath 13 June 1877.

DOBSON, John. b. Chirton, North Shields 1788; executed designs for damasks 1800; pupil of David Stephenson, architect, Newcastle 1803–10; architect at Newcastle 1811 to death; became most noted architect in North of England; said to be real author of modern Gothic revival in actual practice; restored many churches; designed or erected greatest part of the public buildings and finest new streets in Newcastle; pres. of Northern Architectural Assoc. 1859. d. New Bridge st. Newcastle 8 Jany. 1865 in 77 year. Memoirs of John Dobson (1885), portrait.

DOBSON, Thomas. Assistant sec. of Excise, Somerset House, London 1856–60; joint sec. to Board of inland revenue 1860–63 when his services were acknowledged in a special treasury minute laid before Parliament; granted a pension of £1010 a year 1863; presented with a service of plate by 2489 officers of excise surveying department 1863; discovered with Mr. Phillips the method of testing gravities of beer, and substitution of duty free malt in distilleries in room of malt drawback; invented method of levying duties on spirits. d. Yarrow lodge, Sydenham 19 June 1885 in 88 year. I.L.N. 17 Oct. 1863 p. 401.

DOBSON, Rev. William. b. 1809; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; fellow of his coll. 1834–41; V. of Tuxford, Notts 1840–48; principal of Cheltenham college 1841–61. d. Cheltenham 31 Dec. 1867. Rev. T. Mozley’s Reminiscences i, 170–74 (1882).

DOBSON, William (son of Lawrence Dobson of Preston, stationer). b. Preston 1820; stationer at Preston; edited the Preston Chronicle to March 1868; member of Preston town council 1862–72 and 1874–83; member of Chetham Society; author of History of the parliamentary representation of Preston during the last hundred years 1856, 2 ed. 1868; Rambles by the Ribble 3 series 1864–83 and other books. d. Churton road, Chester 8 Aug. 1884.

DOBSON, William Burdett. Entered navy 11 Dec. 1806; inspecting commander in coast guard 5 May 1834 to July 1837; captain on half pay 23 Nov. 1841; V.A. on half pay 24 May 1867. d. Lyde house, Bath 22 March 1872 aged 79.

DOCHARTY, James b. Bonhill, Dumbartonshire 1829; a pattern designer in Glasgow to about 1862; a landscape painter about 1862 to death; A.R.S.A. 14 Nov. 1877; exhibited many pictures in Glasgow and Edinburgh; exhibited 13 landscapes at the R.A. 1865–77. d. Pollokshields, Glasgow 5 April 1878.

DOCKRAY, Robert Benson. b. 13 Nov. 1811; resident engineer at Birmingham of the London and Birmingham railway 7 March 1838, engineer for the entire line 12 June 1840 to 18 Sep. 1852; M.I.C.E. 13 June 1834, Telford medallist 1849. d. Dalton square, Lancaster 8 Sep. 1871. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii, 213–15 (1872).

DOD, Charles Roger Phipps (only son of Rev. Roger Dodd, V. of Drumlease, Leitrim). b. Drumlease 8 May 1793; entered King’s Inns, Dublin 30 July 1816; settled in London 1818; compiled summary of parliamentary debates for the Times and wrote nearly all the memoirs of deceased celebrities; changed spelling of his name from Dodd to Dod 1847; published Parliamentary pocket companion 1833–42; Parliamentary Companion 1843–55; Peerage, baronetage and knightage 1841–55; A manual of dignities, privileges and precedents 1842; The annual biography 1843; Electoral facts from 1832 to 1852 impartially stated, 1852, 2 ed. 1853. d. 5 Foxley road, North Brixton, London 21 Feb. 1855.

DOD, Robert Phipps (only son of the preceding). Educ. at King’s coll. London; captain in Shropshire militia 26 Jany. 1858 to death; privately printed Birth and worth, an enquiry into the practical use of a pedigree 1849; published Parliamentary Companion 1856 to death; Peerage, baronetage and knightage 1856 to death. d. Nant Issa hall near Oswestry 9 Jany. 1865.

DODD, George. b. 1808; miscellaneous writer of books chiefly for the publishers Charles Knight and Messrs. Chambers; edited and wrote in Cyclopædia of the industry of all nations 1851; some of his papers were collected and published under titles of Days at the factories 1843 and Curiosities of industry 1852; author of The textile manufactures of Great Britain 6 vols. 1844–6; The food of London 1856 and many other books; contributed papers to the Companion to the British Almanac 30 years; found dead at Torriano avenue, Kentish Town, London 21 Jany. 1881.

DODD, Rev. Philip Stanhope (son of Rev. Richard Dodd, R. of Cowley, Middlesex, who d. 17 June 1811 aged 73). Educ. at Tunbridge and Magd. coll. Cam., B.A. 1796, M.A. 1799; fellow of his college; minister of Lambeth chapel, London 1803–7; R. of St. Mary at Hill, London 1807–12; R. of Aldrington, Sussex 1812 to death; R. of Penshurst, Kent 1819 to death; author of Hints to Freshmen at the University of Cambridge 1798, 3 ed. 1807 both anon.; A view of the evidence afforded by the life and ministry of St. Peter to the truth of the Christian revelation 1837. d. Penshurst rectory 22 March 1852 aged 77. G.M. xxxvii, 626–27 (1852).

DODDS, Rev. George Theophilus (son of Rev. Mr. Dodds, minister of free church of Lochee, a suburb of Dundee). b. Lochee 2 June 1850; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews and New coll. Edin.; settled at Paris as a missionary of the McAll Protestant mission, Nov. 1877; went to the United States with Mr. Réveilland as a missionary 1880. d. Buisson Luzas, Salbrio near Orleans, France 9 Sep. 1882. bur. Passy cemetery near Paris 14 Sep. Life and work of Rev. G. T. Dodds, missionary, by H. Bonar, D.D. 1884, portrait.

DODDS, Isaac (2 son of Thomas Dodds, viewer of the Felling colliery, killed 21 Oct. 1805). b. Felling hall, Heworth, Durham 9 July 1801; apprenticed to George Stephenson at Newcastle; invented double action air pump 1830 and machine for weighing coals in carts 1832; engineer to the Horseley iron works, Staffordshire 1832–36; built the Star locomotive for the Liverpool and Manchester railway 1833; first maker of a locomotive to ascend an incline; inventor of plan of prevention of boiler explosions by using a plug of fusible metal, now in general use; locomotive superintendent North Midland railway 1835; invented the turn table, self-acting switches and spring buffers; took his son T. W. Dodds into partnership and recommenced the Holmes engine and railway works, Rotherham 1850, works closed 1866; introducer of steel rails. d. 13 Townend st. Nether Hallam near Sheffield 1 Nov. 1882. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxv, 308–14 (1884).

DODDS, James. b. Softlaw near Kelso 6 Feb. 1813; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; schoolmaster at Sandyknowe; articled to a lawyer at Melrose 1836–40; writer to the Signet; a solicitor in London 1846; lectured in London and Scotland; published The fifty years struggle of the Covenanters 1860; Thomas Chalmers, a biographical study 1870. d. Lochee, Dundee 12 Sep. 1874. Lays of the Covenanters by James Dodds, edited by Rev. James Dodds (1880) pp. 1–140.

DODDS, Rev. James. b. Annan, Dumfriesshire 1812; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; minister of the parish of Humbie, East Lothian 1841–43; minister of free church, Dunbar 1843 to death; author of A century of Scottish church history 1846; A memoir of Rev. Thomas Rosie 1862 and other books. d. Free church manse, Dunbar 3 Sep. 1885.

DODGSON, Venerable Charles (eld. son of Charles Dodgson of Hamilton, Lanarkshire). Matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 5 May 1818 aged 17, student 1818–28; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824; P.C. of Daresbury, Cheshire 1827–43; R. of Croft near Darlington 20 Jany. 1843 to death; canon res. of Ripon cathedral 1852 to death; archdeacon of Richmond 1854 to death; chaplain to Abp. of Canterbury 1862 to death; published 12 charges, sermons and letters 1837–68. d. Croft rectory 21 June 1868.

DODGSON, George Haydock. b. Liverpool 16 Aug. 1811; apprenticed to George Stephenson the engineer; prepared plans for Whitby and Pickering railway; settled in London 1835 where he made drawings for architects; assoc. of New Soc. of Painters in water-colours 1842, member 1844–47; assoc. of Soc. of Painters in water-colours 1848, member 1852; exhibited 1 landscape at B.I. and 9 at Suffolk st. gallery 1835–41. d. 28 Clifton hill, St. John’s Wood, London 4 June 1880. I.L.N. lxxvi, 612 (1880), portrait.

DODSON, Sir John (eld. son of Rev. John Dodson, R. of Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, who d. July 1807). b. Hurstpierpoint 19 Jany. 1780; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804, D.C.L. 1808; advocate of college of Doctors of law 3 Nov. 1808; commissary to dean and chapter of Westminster; M.P. for Rye, July 1819 to March 1823; advocate to Admiralty Court 11 March 1829; advocate general 18 Oct. 1834; knighted at St. James’s palace 29 Oct. 1834; barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1834, bencher 1835; master of the Faculties, Nov. 1841; Vicar-general to the lord primate 1849; judge of Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Feb. 1852 to 9 Dec. 1857 when court was abolished; dean of the Arches court, Feb. 1852 to 9 Dec. 1857; P.C. 5 April 1852; published Reports of cases in the high court of admiralty 1811–22, 2 vols. 1815–28. d. 6 Seamore place, Mayfair, London 27 April 1858.

DODSWORTH, Rev. William (3 son of John Dodsworth of Carlton hall, Yorkshire). b. 1798; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; minister of Margaret st. chapel, Cavendish sq. London to 1837; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Regent’s park, London 1837 to Jany. 1851 when he joined Church of Rome; author of Discourses on the Lord’s Supper 1835; The Priest’s Companion in the visitation of the Sick 1843; Sermons in Advent 1849; Clarendon, a tale 3 vols. 1850, and about 25 other books. d. York terrace, Regent’s park 10 Dec. 1861.

DODWORTH, Thomas. b. Sheffield 1790; went to New York 1826; organised the “City Band” which became the National brass band and was first independent military band in New York. d. Morrisania, New York 30 April 1876.

DOHERTY, Henry Edward. b. 20 April 1817; cornet 14 light dragoons 31 Dec. 1833, lieut.-col. 23 Nov. 1848 to 25 Aug. 1857 when placed on h.p.; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. Vernon house, Weston park, Bath 15 Sep. 1885.

DOHERTY, Sir Richard (son of Leonard O’Dogherty of Coolmoyne, co. Tipperary). b. Garculea house near Golden, co. Tipperary 1785; lieut. 90 foot 22 Nov. 1804; major 21 foot 16 Sep. 1824; lieut.-col. 1 West India regt. 6 Dec. 1827 to 4 Sep. 1835; lieut.-col. 89 foot 4 Sep. 1835 to 10 Aug. 1838; lieut.-col. royal African colonial corps 10 Aug. 1838 to Oct. 1840; lieut.-col. 3 West India regt. Oct. 1840 to 1 Aug. 1845 when placed on h.p.; knighted by patent 27 Nov. 1841; inspecting field officer 1 Jany. 1847 to 11 Nov. 1851; col. 11 foot 5 Sep. 1857 to death; L.G. 26 Oct. 1858; governor of Sierra Leone 27 March 1837 to 1840; commander in chief at Jamaica 1853–55. d. Charles st. St. James’s, London 2 Sep. 1862.

DOLBY, Anastasia Marice. Embroideress to the Queen; author of Church embroidery, ancient and modern 1867; Church vestments, their origin, use and ornament 1868. (m. Edwin Thomas Dolby of London, artist). d. 12 Southwood terrace, Highgate 18 Feb. 1873 aged 49.

DOLBY, Thomas (son of Thomas Dolby of Sawtry, Hunts., ploughman). b. Sawtry 6 July 1782; a woodcutter and thatcher; attendant on Brigadier General Charles William Este, April 1804 to 1808; bookseller at 34 Wardour st. London 1808, at 299 Strand 1819, and at 17 Catharine st. Strand 1824–25 when he became bankrupt; edited Dolby’s Parliamentary Register, 67 numbers Jany. to June 1819; imprisoned for selling Sherwin’s Register 1819; tried 21 Oct. 1822 for publishing Political Dictionary, required to enter into recognizances, Nov. 1823; published Dolby’s British Theatre 84 numbers, which became Cumberland’s British Theatre in 1823; author of A letter to the friends of liberty 1819; The Shaksperian Dictionary 1832; The literary cyclopædia 1834; The school of reform in church and state 1835; Floreston, or the new Lord of the manor, a tale of humanity 1839, anon. d. Edward st. Portman sq. London 24 June 1856. Memoirs of T. Dolby 5 parts 1827.

DOLLOND, George. b. London 25 Jany. 1774; apprenticed to his uncle Peter Dollond of St. Paul’s churchyard, optician 1788, partner with him Nov. 1804 to 1819, carried business on alone 1819 to death; assumed by royal permission surname of Dollond instead of Huggins 1804; F.R.S. 23 Dec. 1819; an active founder of Astronomical Soc. 1820; F.R.G.S. 1830; invented the Atmospheric recorder for which he received council medal of Great Exhibition 1851. d. Camberwell terrace north, London 13 May 1852.

DOLMAN, Charles (only son of Charles Dolman of Monmouth, who d. 1807). b. Monmouth 20 Sep. 1807; R.C. publisher at 61 New Bond st. London 1837–58 when he formed his business into the Catholic Bookselling and publishing company which failed; published the Catholic Mag. April 1838 to June 1844; Dolman’s Mag., March 1845 to 1849; Lingard’s History of England, 5 ed. 10 vols. 1849 and other books. d. 64 Rue du Faubourg, St. Honoré, Paris 31 Dec. 1863. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 87–90 (1885).

DOMBRAIN, Sir James (son of Abraham Dombrain of Canterbury). b. Canterbury 1793; entered navy 1808; deputy comptroller general of coast guard in England 1816; comptroller general of coast guard in Ireland 1819–49, introduced and organised that force; knighted by Earl De Grey, lord lieut. of Ireland at Kingstown, Dublin 1844 after an inspection of the Irish squadron of revenue cruisers. d. Woodstock, Sandford near Dublin 24 Sep. 1871.

DOMETT, Alfred (son of Nathaniel Domett of Camberwell Grove, Surrey). b. Camberwell Grove 20 May 1811; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; barrister M.T. 19 Nov. 1841; went to New Zealand 1842; colonial sec. for New Munster (the Middle island of New Zealand) 1848; sec. for New Zealand 1851; comr. of crown lands, and resident magistrate of Hawke’s Bay 1853–6; M.P. for Nelson 1855; prime minister 1862–3; registrar general of lands 1865; administrator of confiscated lands 1870–71; author of Venice 1839 a poem; Narrative of the Wairoan massacre 1843; Ordinances of New Zealand classified 1850; Ranolf and Amohia, a South Sea day dream 1872, 2 ed. 1883; Flotsam and Jetsam, rhymes old and new 1877. d. 32 St. Charles sq. North Kensington, London 2 Nov. 1887. W. Gisborne’s New Zealand Rulers (1886) 134, portrait.

DOMVILE, Sir John Compton, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Charles Pocklington, M.P. for co. Dublin, who assumed surname of Domvile and d. April 1810). Ensign 6 foot 23 May 1800; captain 5 garrison battalion 8 Oct. 1807; captain 68 foot 1 Dec. 1808 to 1809 or 1810; assumed name of Domvile by r.l. 25 March 1815; created baronet 22 May 1815; M.P. for Bossiney, Cornwall 18 June 1818 to 2 June 1826, for Oakhampton 10 June 1826 to 24 July 1830, for Plympton 23 Dec. 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832; custos rotulorum of co. Dublin 1823 to death. d. 5 Grosvenor sq. London 23 Feb. 1857.

DOMVILLE, Henry Jones (3 son of James Domville, M.D. of Greenwich, who d. 28 June 1846). Assistant surgeon R.N. 18 May 1839; surgeon 9 Nov. 1846; M.R.C.S. 1844; M.D. St. Andrews 1862; deputy inspector general of hospitals 1864, inspector general 13 Feb. 1875 to 17 Dec. 1878; C.B. 13 March 1867; granted good service pension 7 Oct. 1882. d. South Hill, Paignton, Devon 8 July 1888.

DOMVILLE, William Thomas (brother of the preceding). Assistant surgeon R.N. 3 May 1842; surgeon 7 Feb. 1852; served in Resolute in Arctic regions in search of Sir John Franklin 1852–54; inspector general of hospitals and fleets 18 Feb. 1875; in chief control of Haslar hospital 13 Nov. 1877 to death; C.B. 2 June 1877. d. royal naval hospital, Haslar 21 Oct. 1879.

DON, Emily Eliza (eld. dau. of John Saunders of Adelphi theatre, London, actor). Acted in comedy and farce at Adelphi, Haymarket, Surrey and other theatres. (m. at Marylebone 17 Oct. 1857 Sir Wm. Henry Don 1825–62). acted in Australia 1861–2, in England 1862–7, in New York 1867; lessee of T.R. Nottingham short time; sang at music halls latterly. d. Edinburgh 20 Sep. 1875.

DON, George (eld. son of George Don, curator of royal botanic garden, Edinburgh). b. Doo Hillock, Forfarshire 17 May 1798; assistant in Botanic garden, Chelsea 1818–21; travelled as collector of Horticultural Society in Brazil, West Indies and Sierra Leone, Dec. 1821 to Feb. 1823; F.L.S. 1831; published A general system of gardening and botany 4 vols. 1832–38. d. Bedford place, Kensington, London 25 Feb. 1856. Proc. of Linnæan Soc. (1856) 39–41.

DON, Sir William Henry, 7 Baronet (only son of Sir Alexander Don, 6 bart. of Newtondon, Berwickshire, who d. 11 April 1826 aged 47). b. 4 May 1825; ed. at Eton 1838–41; page to Lady Montgomerie at Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839; cornet 5 dragoon guards 3 June 1842, lieut. 14 March 1845 to 28 Nov. 1845 when he sold out; owner of steeple chase horses; sold Newtondon for £85,000; acted in America 1850–55, in Great Britain 1855–61, in Australia 1861 to death; played Queen Elizabeth in burlesque of Kenilworth at Hobart Town 15 March 1862. d. Webb’s hotel, Hobart Town 19 March 1862. N. P. Willis’s Hurry-graphs, 2 ed. (1851) 230–33.

DONALDSON, John. Called to Scottish bar 1826; a teacher of music in Edinburgh; Reid professor of music in Univ. of Edin. 1845 to death; contributed largely to means of carrying out concerts by erection of music room and organ 1860; got rights of the professor established by process at law 1855 after 5 years litigation; granted civil list pension of £75, 19 April 1861. d. Marchfield near Edin. 12 Aug. 1865. Sir A. Grant’s Story of the Univ. of Edinburgh ii, 232–3, 459–61 (1884).

DONALDSON, Rev. John William (2 son of Stuart Donaldson of London, merchant). b. London 7 June 1811; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837, B.D. 1844, D.D. 1849; fellow of his college 1835–40; head master of Bury St. Edmunds school 1841–55; a tutor at Cambridge 1855 to death; author of The New Cratylus, or contributions towards a more accurate knowledge of the Greek language 1839, 3 ed. 1859; Complete Greek grammar 1848; Complete Latin grammar 1852; Jashar, fragmenta archetypa carminum Hebraicorum 1854, 2 ed. 1860; Christian orthodoxy reconciled with the conclusions of modern Biblical learning 1857 and about 20 other books. d. 21 Craven hill, Hyde park, London 10 Feb. 1861.

DONALDSON, Sir Stuart Alexander (brother of the preceding). b. London 26 Dec. 1815; partner in mercantile firm of Donaldson and Co. of Sydney, N.S.W. 1836–56; a territorial magistrate 1838–59; member of council and assembly 1848–59; colonial sec. 6 June to 25 Aug. 1856; colonial treasurer 3 Oct. 1856 to 7 Sep. 1857; fought a duel with Sir Thomas Mitchell 27 Sep. 1851; returned to England 1859; contested Harwich 24 April 1860; knighted by patent 23 Aug. 1860. d. Carleton hall, Cumberland 11 Jany. 1867.

DONALDSON, Thomas Leverton (eld. son of James Donaldson of London, architect). b. 8 Bloomsbury sq. London 19 Oct. 1795; studied architecture in Italy and Greece; member of Academy of St. Luke at Rome 1822; architect in London; an active founder of Royal Institute of British Architects 1834, gold medallist 1851, pres. 1864; professor of architecture at Univ. coll. London 1841–65, emeritus professor July 1865 to death; district surveyor for South Kensington; exhibited 27 works at R.A. 1816–54; author of Pompeii 2 vols. 1827; A collection of the most approved examples of doorways from ancient buildings in Greece and Italy 1833 and 10 other books. d. 21 Upper Bedford place, Bloomsbury, London 1 Aug. 1885. Builder 24 July 1869 p. 586, portrait, 8 Aug. 1885 p. 179.

DONALDSON, Walter Alexander. Actor at Dublin; in Scotland; first appeared in London at Royal Coburg theatre 11 May 1818 as Second Smuggler in Trial by Battle; appeared at Bristol 1826; retired about 1852; author of Recollections of an actor 1865; reprinted under title of Fifty years of green-room gossip 1881, Theatrical portraits or the days of Shakespeare, Betterton, Garrick and Kemble 1870 with portrait of Donaldson. d. Putney near London 19 Dec. 1877 aged 84.

DONEGALL, George Hamilton Chichester, 3 Marquis of (eld. child of 2 Marquis of Donegall 1769–1844). b. Great Cumberland place, London 10 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; lieut. 7 hussars 4 Oct. 1821 to 16 April 1823 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Carrickfergus 1818–20, for Belfast 1820–30, for Antrim 1830–37, for Belfast again 1837–38; vice chamberlain of the household 1830–34; P.C. 19 July 1830; G.C.H. 1831; lord lieut. of co. Antrim 24 April 1841 to death; col. of Antrim militia 3 April 1841 to 17 Aug. 1881; created a peer of the U.K. by titles of baron Ennishowen of Ennishowen, co. Donegal and Carrickfergus of Carrickfergus, co. Antrim 18 Aug. 1841; succeeded 5 Oct. 1844; militia aide de camp to the Queen 15 April 1847 to death; captain of yeomen of the guard 16 Feb. 1848 to 1852; K.P. 1857; lieut. col. commandant of London Irish volunteers 15 May 1860 to death; col. of 4 battalion Royal Irish rifles 17 Aug. 1881 to death. d. Brighton 20 Oct. 1883.

DONERAILE, Hayes St. Leger, 3 Viscount (elder son of 2 Viscount Doneraile 1755–1819). b. Doneraile house, co. Cork 9 May 1786; succeeded 8 Nov. 1819; a representative peer of Ireland 15 March 1830 to death; colonel of South Cork militia to death. d. Doneraile, co. Cork 27 March 1854.

DONKIN, Bryan. b. Sandoe, Northumberland 22 March 1768; apprenticed to Mr. Hall of Dartford, Kent, paper maker; practically developed paper making machines of which he constructed 191, 1802–51; introduced improvements in printing machinery; invented and first used the composition printing roller 1816; a civil engineer in London 1815 to death; received 2 gold medals from Society of Arts; a founder of Institution of Civil Engineers 1818; F.R.S. 18 Jany. 1838. d. 6 The Paragon, New Kent road, London 27 Feb. 1855. W. Walker’s Memoirs of distinguished men of science of Great Britain (1862) 75–7, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. vii, 586–89 (1855).

DONKIN, William Fishburn. b. Bishop Burton, Yorkshire 15 Feb. 1814; ed. at St. Peter’s sch. York and St. Edmund hall, Ox.; classical scholar Univ. coll. 1834, fellow 1836; double first class 1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; Savilian professor of astronomy in Univ. of Ox. 1842 to death; F.R.S. 13 Jany. 1842; F.R.A.S.; author of A defence of voting against propositions to be submitted to convocation 1845; Acoustics 1866. d. from phthisis 34 Broad st. Oxford 15 Nov. 1869.

DONKIN, William Frederick (eld. son of the preceding). Educ. at Eton; matric. from Magd. coll. Ox. 17 Oct. 1864 aged 18, demy 1864; B.A. 1868, M.A. 1872; lecturer on natural science at Keble coll. 1875–77, tutor 1877–80; professor of practical chemistry at St. George’s hospital, London 1880 to death; sec. of the Alpine Club, London to death; sec. of Photographic Soc. of Great Britain to death; his photographs of the higher Alps were quite unique in their character; went to the Caucasus on an exploring expedition, July 1888, started from Balkar in the vale of the Terch with Mr. Harry Fox and two Swiss guides 30 Aug.; all the party probably lost their lives by an accident on the mountain known as Shkara about 1 Sep. 1888.

DONNADIEU, Alexander. b. France; served in Napoleon Bonaparte’s army; decorated with the legion of honour; came to England about 1829; gained his living as a talented musician and singer; collected autographs which he sold; lived for many years in chambers at 8 Duke st. Piccadilly where he d. 8 Jany. 1861 aged about 70.

DONNE, William Bodham (only son of Edward Charles Donne of Mattishall, East Dereham, Norfolk, who d. 1819). b. 29 July 1807; ed. at Bury St. Edmunds’ gr. sch. and Caius coll. Cam.; lived at Mattishall to 1846 and at Bury St. Edmunds 1846–52; declined editorship of Edinburgh Review 1852; librarian of the London library, London 1852–57; deputy examiner of stage plays, Aug. 1849, examiner 27 March 1857 to June or July 1874; author of Old roads and new roads 1852; Essays on the Drama 1858, 2 ed. 1863; edited The correspondence of George III with Lord North 1867; contributed the Euripides and Tacitus to Lucas Collins’s Classics for English readers. d. 25 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 20 June 1882.

DONNELLY, Thomas Lester. b. London 31 Dec. 1832; became an actor 1854; appeared at Wood’s theatre, Cincinnati 1855 under stage name of Thomas Lester; managed a company in the Western States; lessee of Brooklyn Olympic, New York 1867–75; joint lessee with John F. Poole of the Grand Opera house, New York 1876 to death; one of best actors of Irish characters in America. d. 224 West Twenty-fourth st. New York 5 July 1880.

DONNELLY, William. b. 1804; called to Irish bar 1833; registrar general of marriages in Ireland 1844, of births, deaths and marriages to 1876; superintendent of agricultural and emigration statistics 1851–1876; C.B. 13 June 1857. d. Auburn, Malahide, co. Dublin 25 Oct. 1879.

DONOUGHMORE, John Hely-Hutchinson, 3 Earl of (eld. son of Francis Hely-Hutchinson 1759–1824, collector of customs, Dublin). b. 1787; ensign Grenadier guards 25 Sep. 1807, lieut. 19 Nov. 1812 to 27 May 1819 when placed on h.p.; assisted in the escape of Comte Antoine de Lavalette (who had been sentenced to death as an accomplice of Napoleon Bonaparte) by secreting him in his rooms in Paris during the night of 20 Dec. 1815; tried 22 April 1816 and sentenced to 3 months imprisonment, struck off British army list but afterwards restored; M.P. for co. Tipperary 1826–30 and 1831–32; succeeded his uncle as 3 Earl 29 June 1832; lord lieut. of Tipperary 14 Aug. 1832 to death; K.P. 8 April 1834; P.C. Ireland 17 Nov. 1834; a comr. of charitable donations and bequests in Ireland 18 Dec. 1844 to 17 Feb. 1851; known by the sobriquet of Lavalette Hutchinson. d. Palmerston house near Dublin 12 Sep. 1851. P. Burke’s Celebrated naval and military trials (1866) 376–99; G.M. xxxvi, 539–40 (1851); The trial of Sir R. T. Wilson and captain J. H. Hutchinson for aiding the escape of general Lavalette 1816.

DONOUGHMORE, Richard John Hely-Hutchinson, 4 Earl of (only son of the preceding). b. Dublin 4 April 1823; ed. at Harrow; ensign 98 foot 18 June 1841, lieut. 1843–45; lieut. col. South Tipperary artillery 24 July 1849 to death; paymaster general and vice pres. of Board of Trade 6 April 1858, pres. 3 March 1859 to 18 June 1859; P.C. 6 April 1858. d. 52 South Audley st. London 22 Feb. 1856. bur. Knocklofty near Clonmel 2 March. I.L.N. xxi, 402 (1852), portrait, xxxii, 385 (1858), portrait.

DONOVAN, Sir Henry (son of John Donovan of Tralee, co. Kerry). b. 1822; sheriff of Kerry 1873–4; knighted by Earl Spencer lord lieutenant of Ireland, at Dublin Castle 25 Feb. 1874; chairman of Tralee town commission. d. Seafield, Tralee 16 July 1886.

DONOVAN, Michael. Chemist; invented Donovan’s Solution the liquor arsenici et hydrargyri hydriodalis of the Dublin pharmacopœia 1839; author of Observations and experiments concerning Mr. Davy’s hypothesis of Electrochemical affinity 1811; A treatise on chemistry 1832 (Cabinet cyclop. vol. 106); On the extemporaneous preparation of hydrocyanic acid from cyanide of potassium, in Pharmaceutical Journal, March 1843 pp. 573–83. d. April 1876. Pharmaceutical Journal 29 April 1876 p. 879.

DOO, George Thomas. b. 6 Jany. 1800; produced his first published engraving “The Duke of York” 1824; opened an academy for study of the antique, and of the life in the Savoy, London 1826; historical engraver in ordinary to William iv 1836–37, to Queen Victoria 1842; a member of many foreign academies; A.R.A. 1855, R.A. 1856; published many plates; pres. of Artists’ Annuity fund 1861; chairman of committee of class 40 (engravings and etchings) at International Exhibition 1862; F.R.S. 5 June 1851 to 1860; granted civil list pension of £70, 19 June 1868. d. Sutton, Surrey 13 Nov. 1886. Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 324 (1862).

DORAN, John (only son of John Doran of London, contractor, who d. 1824). b. London 11 March 1807; writer on the Literary Chronicle 1826–28; author of The Wandering Jew produced at Surrey theatre 2 Sep. 1832; Ph.D. Univ. of Marburg, Prussia; literary editor of The Church and State Gazette 1841–52; wrote for the Athenæum 1854 to death, edited it several times during Hepworth Dixon’s absence; edited Notes and Queries 1 Oct. 1872 to death; F.S.A. 19 May 1859; author of Lives of the Queens of England of the house of Hanover 2 vols. 1855, 4 ed. 1874; Monarchs retired from business 2 vols. 1857; “Their Majesties Servants,” Annals of the English stage from T. Betterton to E. Kean 2 vols. 1864, 2 ed. 1865, new ed. by R. W. Lowe 3 vols. 1888 and 15 other works. d. 33 Lansdowne road, Notting hill, London 25 Jany. 1878. J. Doran’s New pictures and old panels 1849, portrait; London Society xlii, 29–37 (1882), portrait; Temple Bar lii, 460–94 (1878); I.L.N. lxxii, 133 (1878), portrait.

DORATT, Sir John. b. about 1779; ed. at Westminster school and Univ. of Leyden, M.D. 1805; physician to British embassy at St. Petersburgh 1835–37; physician to Earl of Durham, governor general of British North America 1838–40; knighted at St. James’s palace 14 Feb. 1838. d. 9 North terrace, Alexander sq. Brompton, London 4 Sep. 1863.

DORIN, Joseph Alexander. b. Edmonton near London 15 Sep. 1802; assistant to accountant general at Calcutta 1821; secretary to Bank of Bengal; deputy accountant general; first financial sec. Jany. 1843; a member of supreme council of India 1853 to May 1858. d. St. Lawrence, Isle of Wight 22 Dec. 1862.

DORNFORD, Rev. Joseph (only son of Josiah Dornford of Deptford, Kent). b. Deptford 9 Jany. 1794; ed. at Wadham coll. Ox., commoner 4 Dec. 1813, scholar; B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820; Michel fellow of Queen’s coll. 1817–19; fellow of Oriel 1819–36, tutor 1823, dean 1828, classical examiner in the schools 1826–28; proctor 1830 when nicknamed the University Corporal; ascended Mont Blanc with Dr. Joseph Von Hamel 18–20 Aug. 1820 when three of the guides were lost in a crevasse and he narrowly escaped same fate; R. of Plymtree, Devon 1832 to death; hon. canon in Exeter cath. 1844 to death. d. Plymtree 18 Jany. 1868. Mozley’s Reminiscences ii, 55–77 (1882); G.M. Sep. 1820 p. 365.

DORNIN, Thomas Aloysius. b. Ireland about 1800; midshipman United States navy 2 May 1815; sailed round the world 1829–30; commanded the “Portsmouth” 1851; prevented invasion of Nicaragua by Wm. Walker the filibuster 1851; captain 1855; commodore on the retired list 16 July 1862; in charge of the fifth light house district 1865 to death. d. Norfolk, Virginia 22 April 1874.

DORRIAN, Most Rev. Patrick. b. Downpatrick, co. Down 29 March 1814; ed. at Downpatrick; entered Maynooth college 23 Aug. 1833; ordained priest 23 Sep. 1837; C. at Belfast 1837–47; parish priest of Loughlin island 1847–60; coadjutor bishop of Down and Connor 4 June 1860, bishop 1865 to death; consecrated in St. Malachy’s ch. Belfast 19 Aug. 1860. d. Dublin 3 Nov. 1885.

D’ORSAY, Gillion Gaspard Alfred de Grimaud, Comte (younger son of Albert D’Orsay, Comte D’Orsay, general in French army). b. Paris 4 Sep. 1798; in the Garde du corps of Charles x, 1815–23; became acquainted with the Earl and Countess of Blessington 1822, travelled with them in South of Europe. m. at Naples 1 Dec. 1827 Harriett Anne Frances dau. of 1 Earl of Blessington, they separated 1829, she was b. 5 Aug. 1812, m. (2) 1 Sep. 1852 hon. Charles Spencer Cowper and d. 17 Dec. 1869; the leader of fashion in London 1830–49; lived at 22 Curzon st. Mayfair 1833–36, at 4 Upper Gore, Kensington 1836–45; most intimately associated with Lady Blessington, they fled to Paris to escape imprisonment for debt April 1849, where she d. 4 June 1849 aged 60; 120 profile sketches by him of celebrities of the day were lithographed by R. J. Lane and published by Mitchell of Bond st; the handsomest man of his time. d. at house of his sister Duchesse de Gramont in Paris 4 Aug. 1852. bur. at Chambourcy near Paris 7 Aug. next to Lady Blessington. R. R. Madden’s Literary life of the Countess of Blessington i, 318–72 (1855), portrait, ii, 406–72; J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters ii, 191–204 (1841); Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known, second series ii, 198–224; W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 284–90, portrait; Gore House, Bentley’s New Monthly Mag. June 1849 pp. 135–51; H. Melton’s Hints on hats (1875) 33–8, portrait; Baily’s Mag. xli, 153–55 (1883); Colburn’s New Monthly Mag. xcvi, 112–26 (1852); Grantley Berkeley’s My Life (1866) iii, 201–31; S. Sidney’s Book of the horse 1886 p. 257, portrait.

Note.—A satire on him with a portrait was published in 1844 entitled D’Horsay or the follies of the day, By A Man of Fashion. Disraeli dedicated to him Henrietta Temple 1837, which contains a flattering portrait of him as Count Mirabel. His character and peculiarities furnished Eugene Sue with the idea of the hero of his novel Le Marquis de Létorière ou L’Art de plaire 1845. He was much satirized by Gilbert A’Beckett in Figaro in London 1832–34.

DOTTIN, Abel Rouse (son of Abel Dottin of Granada hall, Barbados, who d. 1782). Matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 24 May 1786 aged 17; M.P. for Gatton, Surrey 17 June 1818 to 29 June 1820; M.P. for Southampton 9 June 1826 to 23 April 1831, and 9 Jany. 1835 to 23 June 1841. d. 31 Argyll st. Oxford st. London 7 June 1852. Portraits of eminent conservatives, first series (1836), portrait.

DOUBLEDAY, Henry (elder son of Benjamin Doubleday of Epping, Essex, tradesman, who d. 1848). b. Epping 1 July 1808; grocer at Epping 1848–70; introduced the now familiar plan of ‘sugaring’ for moths 1842; an original member of Entomological Soc. of London 1833; published A nomenclature of British birds 1838, 4 ed. 1845; The Zoologists’ Synonymic list of British butterflies and moths 1847, 2 ed. 1859, 2 supplements 1865 and 1873; in a lunatic asylum 1871; the chief lepidopterist England has produced, his collections of lepidoptera have been at Bethnal Green museum since Feb. 1876. d. Epping 29 June 1875. Entomologist x, 53–61 (1877), portrait.

DOUBLEDAY, Thomas (son of George Doubleday of Newcastle, soap manufacturer). b. Newcastle, Feb. 1790; helped forward reform agitation 1832; sec. to Northern political union; junior partner in firm of Doubleday and Easterby, soapmakers, Newcastle; became insolvent; registrar of births, marriages and deaths in St. Andrew’s parish, Newcastle; secretary to the Coal trade to death; author of The true law of population shewn to be connected with the food of the people 1842, 3 ed. 1853; The eve of St. Mark, a romance of Venice 2 vols. 1857; A Financial, monetary and statistical history of England 1847; On mundane moral government 1852, and 10 other books. d. Bulman village (now Gosforth) near Newcastle 18 Dec. 1870. Monthly Chronicle of north country lore, Nov. 1888 pp. 485–88, portrait.

DOUDNEY, Rev. George David. b. 1811; a tailor at 97 Fleet st. London, retired 13 Nov. 1847; preached his first sermon at Clapham Asylum 21 Jany. 1848; matric. Corpus coll. Camb. 3 Feb. 1848; went to Ireland as a missionary and studied the Irish language; ordained by Bp. of Derry 23 Dec. 1848; Incumbent of Dunlewey, Donegal where he preached his first sermon in Irish 25 April 1849; Incumbent of Charles church, Plymouth 26 Jany. 1852 to death; preached 245 sermons 1852; author of Sermons preached in Charles’ Chapel, Plymouth 1866–67, 2 vols. d. Mannamead, Plymouth 19 May 1865. Recollections of Rev. G. D. Doudney 1866, portrait.

DOUGAL, Neil. b. Greenock 9 Dec. 1776; a sailor 1792 to 14 June 1794 when he lost his eyesight by an accident; kept a tavern in Greenock 1824 and then a boarding house; teacher of singing in Greenock 1799; composed about 100 psalm and hymn tunes of which ‘Kilmarnock’ is one of the standard melodies in Presbyterian church service; author of Poems and Songs 1854. d. Greenock 1 Dec. 1862.

DOUGLAS, Andrew Snape. Secretary of legation at Court of Palermo 1809; sec. of embassy at the Hague 1 Oct. 1824, minister plenipotentiary 6 Nov. to 6 Dec. 1824 and 22 Jany. to 25 April 1825; retired from the service 5 Jany. 1829, granted a pension 15 Sep. 1829. d. 7 Onslow sq. Brompton 19 Nov. 1869.

DOUGLAS, Sir Charles Eurwicke (natural son of Right Hon. Charles Philip Yorke 1764–1834). b. 12 May 1806; ed. at Harrow and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, private sec. to Viscount Goderich at Colonial office, Nov. 1830 to March 1833; king-at-arms of order of St. Michael and St. George 1832–59; M.P. for Warwick 1837–1852, for Banbury 1859–1865; contested Durham city 1853; comr. of Greenwich hospital 8 Aug. 1845 to July 1846; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 Oct. 1832; K.C.M.G. 1859. d. 27 Wilton crescent, London 21 Feb. 1887.

DOUGLAS, Claude. Ensign 10 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1819; major 14 N.I. 10 June 1842; col. 56 N.I. 1 May 1858, col. 65 N.I. 1859–70; general on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. d. Bognor 11 April 1883 in 84 year.

DOUGLAS, Francis William Bouverie (2 son of 7 Marquis of Queensberry 1818–58). b. Harleyford near Marlow 8 Feb. 1847; ed. at Eton; came out first in examination for direct commissions in the army 1865; killed by a fall whilst descending the Matterhorn, Switzerland 14 July 1865. E. Whymper’s Ascent of the Matterhorn (1880) 273–95.

DOUGLAS, Right Rev. Henry Alexander (5 son of Henry Alexander Douglas of Dryfesdale, co. Dumfries 1781–1857). b. Lockaby house 22 Feb. 1821; ed. at Glasgow Univ. and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848, D.D. 1868; C. of Alverstoke, Hants. 1846–48; minister of Abp. Tenison’s chapel, Regent st. London 1848–49; V. of Abbotsley, Hunts. 1849–52; dean of Capetown 1852–68; bishop of Bombay, Sep. 1868 to death; consecrated in chapel royal, Whitehall 3 Jany. 1869; author of Sermons 1862; Missions in India 1877. d. Clifton lodge, Clifton gardens, Maida Vale, London 13 Dec. 1875.

DOUGLAS, Sir Howard, 3 Baronet (3 son of Sir Charles Douglas, 1 Baronet, who d. Feb. 1789). b. Gosport, Hants. 23 Jany. 1776; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Jany. 1794; commandant of Military college senior department at High Wycombe 1804–8 and 1809, inspector general of instructions to 1820; succeeded his brother 23 May 1809; patented the reflecting circle or semicircle known by his name 2 July 1811; governor of New Brunswick 5 Sep. 1823 to 1831 where he founded University of Frederickton; lord high comr. of Ionian islands 13 March 1835 to 2 Dec. 1840; col. of 99 foot 15 March 1841, of 15 foot 6 Oct. 1851 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; M.P. for Liverpool 1842–46; F.R.S. 25 Jany. 1816; C.B. 3 Feb. 1817, K.C.B. 18 July 1840, G.C.B. 27 Aug. 1841; G.C.M.G. 18 March 1835; author of An Essay on the principles and construction of military bridges 1816, 3 ed. 1853; A Treatise on naval gunnery 1820, 5 ed. 1860; On naval warfare with steam 1858, 2 ed. 1860 and 9 other books. d. Tunbridge Wells 9 Nov. 1861. Life of Sir Howard Douglas by S. W. Fullom (1863), portrait.

DOUGLAS, Sir James (eld. son of John Douglas of Glasgow). b. Demerara 14 Aug. 1803; chief factor of the Hudson Bay company, chief agent for region west of the Rocky Mountains 1833; governor of Vancouver’s island 9 May 1851 to 1863, of British Columbia 3 Sep. 1858 to 1863 when he retired on a pension of £500; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858, K.C.B. 11 Aug. 1863. d. Victoria, Vancouver’s island 2 Aug. 1877.

DOUGLAS, James. b. Brechin 20 May 1800; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1820; M.R.C.S. London; went to New York 1824; practised in Quebec 1826–51; one of founders of lunatic asylum at Beauport near Quebec 1845, also manager; an enthusiastic traveller and antiquarian. d. New York 14 April 1886.

DOUGLAS, Sir James Dawes (elder son of James Sholto Douglas 1757–1830, major in the army). b. 14 Jany. 1785; D.A.Q.G. in South America 1806 and in Portugal 1807; lieut. col. 8th Portuguese regiment 1809–11; commanded 7th Portuguese brigade 1813–14; lost his leg at battle of Toulouse 10 April 1814; commanded south west district of Ireland 1825–30; governor of Guernsey 1830–38; col. of 93 foot 15 June 1840, of 42 foot 10 April 1850 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.T.S.; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Clifton 6 March 1862.

DOUGLAS, John. b. 1811; ensign 79 foot 25 June 1829; lieut. col. 11 Hussars 13 Aug. 1854 to 8 March 1859 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 5 July 1855; M.G. 6 March 1868. d. Aldershot 10 May 1871.

DOUGLAS, John. One of a family of 24 children; b. Lambeth Walk, Lambeth, London 17 March 1814; played in pantomime at Covent Garden theatre 1825; manager of Gravesend and other theatres 1833–45; manager of Douglas troupe at Sans Souci theatre, Leicester sq. London; lessee of Westminster theatre; lessee of Marylebone theatre; manager of Standard theatre, Shoreditch 1845, proprietor 1852, theatre burnt down 21 Oct. 1866, reopened it 18 Dec. 1867; manager of Pavilion theatre, Whitechapel 1857–71. d. Castle villa, Dalston, London 31 Jany. 1874. Theatrical Times iii, 399, 424 (1848), portrait.

DOUGLAS, Sir John (son of Sir James Dawes Douglas 1785–1862). b. 5 Dec. 1836; ed. at Rugby, Cheltenham and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1864; clerk in audit office, Mauritius, Feb. 1859, sec. to council 1867; poor law comr. June 1868; auditor general Ceylon, Dec. 1869 to 1876; colonial sec. Straits Settlements 1876–78; lieut. governor and colonial sec. Ceylon, July 1878 to death; K.C.M.G. 24 May 1883. d. Lyndhurst, Watford 23 Aug. 1885.

DOUGLAS, Sir John (son of Sir Neil Douglas 1780–1853). b. 7 July 1817; ensign 79 foot 6 Sep. 1833, lieut. col. 13 Aug. 1854 to 16 March 1860 when placed on h.p.; A.A.G. in Scotland 1860–65; commanded the forces in Scotland 1 Oct. 1870 to 30 Sep. 1875; col. 79 foot 1 Jany. 1879 to death; general 30 Jany. 1880; placed on retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 14 May 1859, G.C.B. 2 June 1877. d. Glenfinart, Argyllshire 8 Sep. 1887.

DOUGLAS, Sir Joseph Abraham (son of Joseph Douglas of Whitehaven, Cumberland). b. Chepstow 17 Jany. 1799; master in the navy 30 May 1823, retired 1851; knighted at St. James’s palace 24 March 1841 for having armed his ship the Cambridge and assisted the British in Hong Kong bay in June 1839 losing £10,000 for which the government would not compensate him. d. of epilepsy at 2 Apsley cottage, Moor terrace, Lower park road, Peckham, London 3 April 1866. A case of individual sacrifice and of national gratitude 1847.

DOUGLAS, Sir Neil (5 son of John Douglas of Glasgow, merchant). b. Glasgow 1780; 2 lieut. 21 foot 28 Jany. 1801; captain 79 foot 19 April 1804, lieut. col. 3 Dec. 1812 to 16 Aug. 1833 when placed on h.p.; aide-de-camp to George iv and William iv 27 May 1825 to 10 Jany. 1837; governor of Edinburgh Castle 1 April 1842 to 1 Jany. 1847; col. of 81 foot 11 July 1845, of 72 foot 12 July 1847, of 78 foot 29 Dec. 1851 to death; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; C.B. 22 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep. 1831. d. Brussels 1 Sep. 1853 in 74 year. W. B. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882), portrait; My adventures by Col. Montgomery Maxwell i, pp. v-vi (1845), portrait.

DOUGLAS, Robert. Second lieut. R.A. 1 Nov. 1796, lieut. col. 31 Dec. 1827 to 6 May 1835 when placed on retired full pay; general 25 Sep. 1859; C.B. 4 June 1815. d. Claygate near Esher 10 Feb. 1871 aged 93.

DOUGLAS, William. Second lieut. R.E. 1 July 1801, lieut. col. 23 March 1825 to 27 Jany. 1829 when placed on half pay; lieut. col. on full pay 11 Nov. 1851 to death; general 3 April 1862. d. Hastings 10 Feb. 1864 aged 77.

DOUGLAS, William Scott. b. Hawick 10 Jany. 1815; ed. in Heriot’s hospital, Edinburgh; sec. of Edinburgh Burns club 1877 to death; edited The Complete poetical works of Robert Burns 1871, revised ed. 1876; Picture of the county of Ayr 1874; The works of Robert Burns 6 vols. 1877–79; supplied letterpress for Crombie’s Modern Athenians 1882; found drowned near end of the East pier, Leith 23 June 1883.

DOULTON, Frederick (3 son of John Doulton of Lambeth). b. Lambeth 1824; manufacturer of earthenware goods; member of Metropolitan board of works for Lambeth 1856 to death; contested Reigate 6 Feb. 1858; M.P. for Lambeth 5 May 1862 to 11 Nov. 1868. d. of apoplexy at Summerhill house, Tunbridge Wells 21 May 1872. Affaire Doulton Bruxelles 1868.

DOVASTON, John Freeman Milward (only son of John Dovaston of Westfelton near Oswestry 1740–1808). b. 30 Dec. 1782; ed. at Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; barrister M.T. 12 June 1807; author of Fitz Gwarine with other rhymes 1812, 3 ed. called Poems, legendary, incidental and humorous 1825; A selection of British melodies 1817; The Dove 1822 a selection of old poems; Lectures on natural history and national melody 1839. d. Nursery villa, Westfelton 8 Aug. 1854. G.M. xlii, 395–6 (1854).

DOVE, Patrick Edward (son of Henry Dove, lieutenant R.N.) b. Lasswade near Edinburgh 31 July 1815, lived at the Craig near Ballantrae, Ayrshire 1841–48 when he lost most of his fortune; captain of Midlothian rifle club April 1853; edited the Witness for 6 months in 1854; edited the Commonwealth newspaper at Glasgow 1858; edited first 20 numbers of Imperial dictionary of biography 1857; edited with M. Rankine Imperial Journal of the arts and sciences; invented a rifled cannon with ratchet grooves which had great range and accuracy; commanded 91st Lanarkshire rifle volunteers 1859; won several prizes at Wimbledon 1860; author of The theory of human progression and natural probability of a reign of justice 1850, anon.; The Elements of political science 1854; Romanism, Rationalism and Protestantism 1855; The logic of the Christian faith 1856; The Revolver, its description and use 1858. d. Edinburgh 28 April 1873.

DOVE, Thomas. A house painter; a marine artist of great ability; his best pictures were produced at Liverpool. d. in the Whitby workhouse 27 Dec. 1886.

DOVE, William (son of Mr. Dove of Leeds, leather manufacturer, who d. 24 Dec. 1854). A farmer at Bramham near Tadcaster to 1855; poisoned his wife Harriet by strychnia 1 March 1856, tried at the Assizes at York 16–18 July 1856, hanged at York 9 Aug. 1856 aged 30. G. L. Browne and C. G. Stewart’s Trials for poisoning (1883) 233–68; Sir J. F. Stephen’s History of the criminal law of England iii, 426–37 (1883); Observations on the trials of J. Hill and W. Dove 1856.

DOVETON, Frederick Larkins. Entered Madras army 1806; col. 8 Madras light cavalry 18 Feb. 1845 to death; L.G. 13 March 1859. d. Cheltenham 20 Dec. 1859 aged 68.

DOVETON, Sir John (son of Sir Wm. Webber Doveton, knt., of the H.E.I.Co.’s civil service, who d. 13 Oct. 1843 in 90 year). b. St. Helena 1783; cavalry cadet in H.E.I.Co.’s army, 31 Oct. 1798; aide-de-camp to Marquis Wellesley; commanded a division of the Nizam’s army; commanded centre division of Madras army; lieut. col. 4 Madras Native Cavalry 19 Aug. 1813, col. 9 Nov. 1821; col. 5 Madras light cavalry 1847 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Vichy, France 23 Sep. 1857.

DOW, Rev. William (youngest son of Rev. Anthony Dow, D.D., minister of Kirkpatrick, Irongray, Perthshire, who d. 17 July 1834). Educ. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 17 April 1839; licensed by Presbytery of Dumfries 6 Nov. 1821; presented by George iv to Tongland, Kirkcudbright 13 June and ordained 21 Sep. 1826; withdrew his adherence to the confession of faith, deposed by the General Assembly 23 May 1832; called to be an Apostle of the Catholic Apostolic church when at Kirkcudbright, June 1835; made a tour of the continent 1839 as the Apostle to Russia; a writer in the Morning Watch; author of A series of discourses on practical and doctrinal subjects 1847, second series 1850; Sermons and Homilies 1856; First principles of the doctrine of Christ 1856. d. Albury, Surrey 3 Nov. 1855 aged 56. Miller’s Irvingism i, 157, 166, 181, 271 (1878); Scott’s Fasti, vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 725.

Note.—His elder brother Rev. David Dow, assistant minister of Kirkpatrick, Irongray, was called to be an Apostle of the Catholic Apostolic church when at Irongray, June 1835 but declined to accept the call; he went to the Cape of Good Hope and became a farmer.

DOWBIGGIN, Montagu Hamilton (son of Wm. Henry Dowbiggin 1780–1849, lieut. 12 Lancers, by Georgina 5 dau. of 1 Baron Panmure). b. 15 Jany. 1832; ensign 71 foot 30 June 1848; major 99 foot 22 July 1859, lieut. col. 3 March 1863 to 10 Dec. 1863 when placed on h.p.; served in Crimean war 1854–55; the object of Lord Panmure’s celebrated telegram to Lord Raglan “Take care of Dowb”; retired from army June 1865; knight of the Legion of Honour 1856. d. Portland place, Brighton 3 Feb. 1866. bur. Haversham, Bucks.

DOWDESWELL, George (youngest son of George Dowdeswell, M.D. of Gloucester, who d. 1776). Writer Bengal civil service 7 Aug. 1783; sec. to Board of Revenue 25 Aug. 1794; sec. in judicial and revenue departments 16 March 1801; superintendent general of police 1805; chief sec. to Government 30 Oct. 1812; member of supreme council 28 Dec. 1814 to 1823 when he resigned. d. Down house, Redmarley, Worcs. 6 Feb. 1852 aged 86.

DOWDESWELL, John Edmund (youngest child of Wm. Dowdeswell, M.P. for Worcs. who d. 1775). b. 3 March 1772; ed. at Westminster 1779–89 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1795; pupil of Sir Samuel Romilly; barrister I.T. 6 May 1796, bencher 1834, reader 1841, treasurer 1842; recorder for Tewkesbury 1798–1833; M.P. for Tewkesbury 1812–1832; comr. of bankrupts 1806–1820; master in Chancery 8 Feb. 1820 to 1851. d. Pull court near Tewkesbury 11 Nov. 1851.

DOWDESWELL, William (elder son of the preceding). b. Oct. 1804; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; contested Tewkesbury 12 Dec. 1832; M.P. for Tewkesbury 1835 to 1847; sheriff of Worcs. 1855. d. Pull court 6 Feb. 1887.

DOWKER, Howard. Entered Madras army 1813; col. 40 Madras N.I. 3 March 1848 to 1853, col. 2 Madras N.I. 1853–1869; L.G. 21 April 1863. d. 5 Feb. 1870.

DOWLING, Alfred Septimus (son of Vincent Dowling of 30 Lincolns Inn Fields, London, bookseller). Barrister G.I. 18 June 1828; serjeant at law 12 Nov. 1842; judge of county courts circuit No. 15 Yorkshire 9 Nov. 1849 to death; a comr. for inquiring into state of county courts 20 Aug. 1853; author of A collection of statutes passed 1830–2, 2 vols. 1832; A collection of statutes passed 2 Wm. iv and 3 Wm. iv, 1833; Reports of cases in King’s Bench practice courts with the points of pleading and practice decided in the Courts of Common Pleas and Exchequer 1830–41, 7 vols. 1833–42, new series (with Vincent Dowling) 1841–43, 2 vols. 1843–44; Reports of cases in continuation of the above (with J. J. Lowndes) 1844–49, 7 vols. 1845–51; The practice of the superior courts 1848. d. 34 Acacia road, St. John’s Wood, London 3 March 1868 aged 63.

DOWLING, Frank Lewis (son of Vincent George Dowling 1785–1852). b. 18 Oct. 1823; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1848; edited Bell’s Life in London 1852 to death; edited and published annual issues of Fistiana, or the Oracle of the Ring 1853–64, prepared another ed. published 1868; managed the fight between Heenan and Sayers at Farnborough, Hants. 17 April 1860. d. Norfolk st. Strand, London 10 Oct. 1867. Illustrated Sporting News 19 Oct. 1867 p. 657, portrait.

DOWLING, Rev. John. b. Pevensey, Sussex 12 May 1807; kept a boarding school near Oxford 1829–32; ordained Baptist minister in Catskill, New York 1832; minister at Newport, Rhode Island 1834–36, in New York 1836; preached in Providence, Philadelphia, Newark and other places; D.D. Transylvania University; author of Exposition of the prophecies 1840; Defence of the Protestant Scriptures 1843; The History of Romanism 1845 and other books. d. Middletown, New York 4 July 1878. M. H. Smith’s Sunshine and shadow in New York (1868) 589–92.

DOWLING, Vincent George (brother of Alfred Septimus Dowling, who d. 1868). b. London 1785; contributed to the Observer from 1804; employed on the Day newspaper 1809; edited Bell’s Life in London, Aug. 1824 to death, a service of plate value 100 guineas voted him 18 July 1833; one of the first persons to seize Bellingham when he shot Spencer Perceval in lobby of House of Commons 11 May 1812; claimed to be the author of the plan on which new police system was organised; edited and published Fistiana or the Oracle of the Ring, 14 editions 1840–52. d. Stanmore lodge, Kilburn, London 25 Oct. 1852. I.L.N. 13 Nov. 1852 pp. 406, 408, portrait.

DOWN, James Somers. Entered Bombay army 1819; col. 1 Bombay N.I. 13 July 1858 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. d. Kilburn, London 25 Sep. 1871.

DOWNALL, Venerable John (only son of James Downall of Liverpool). Matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 3 July 1822 aged 19, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; P.C. of St. George’s, Kidderminster 1843–49; V. of Okehampton, Devon 1850 to death; preb. of Exeter cath. 1855 to death; archdeacon of Totnes, April 1859 to death; author of Laying on of hands or Letters on confirmation 1848; An address after confirmation 1848, 5 ed. 1858 and 7 charges and sermons. d. Bournemouth 7 April 1872.

DOWNE, William Henry Dawnay, 7 Viscount. b. 15 May 1812; M.P. for Rutland 12 July 1841 to Jany. 1846; succeeded 23 May 1846. d. Torquay 26 Jany. 1857.

DOWNES, Ulysses De Burgh, 2 Baron (only son of Thomas Burgh of Bert house, Athy, co. Kildare, who d. 1810). b. Dublin 15 Aug. 1788; ensign 54 foot 31 March 1804; captain 92 foot 25 Nov. 1808; captain Grenadier guards 25 July 1814 to 5 July 1827 when placed on h.p.; surveyor general of the ordnance 18 March 1820 to 14 May 1827, clerk of the ordnance 1828–30; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign 27 May 1825 to 10 Jany. 1837; col. of 54 foot 4 April 1845, of 29 foot 15 Aug. 1850 to death; general 20 June 1854; succeeded his cousin 2 March 1826; Irish representative peer 4 April 1833 to death; reassumed ancient name of De Burgh 1848; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Bert house, Athy 26 July 1863.

DOWNIE, Sir Alexander Mackenzie (youngest son of Rev. Alexander Downie, minister of Lochalsh, Rosshire). b. 1811; physician to Princess Elizabeth, landgravine of Hesse Homburg; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840 for his attention to the Princess; phys. to British legation at Frankfort 1834–49; phys. in ordinary to Duke of Cambridge 30 Nov. 1840; phys. extraordinary in household of Duchess of Kent 1846; author of A short description of Kissingen 1841; A practical treatise on mineral waters in the cure of chronic disease 1841. d. Frankfort 3 Feb. 1852.

DOWNING, David. Ensign 6 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1819; colonel Bengal infantry 7 May 1855; general 23 Aug. 1875. d. The Grange, Plaxtole, Kent 18 Dec. 1888 aged 88.

DOWNING, M’Carthy (2 son of Eugene Downing of Kenmare, co. Kerry). b. 11 May 1814; took an active part in formation of Irish parliamentary party of 1852; M.P. for county Cork 30 Nov. 1868 to death. d. Prospect house, Skibbereen, co. Cork 9 Jany. 1879.

DOWNING, Samuel (son of Rev. Samuel Downing, R. of Fenagh, Leighlin). b. Bagenalstown, Carlow 19 June 1811; ed. at Kilkenny coll. and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1834; educ. in engineering at Edin.; employed in construction of viaduct from Portland island to mainland, and on the Coed-re-Coed curved viaduct on Taff Vale railway; assistant professor of engineering Trinity coll. 1847, professor 1852 to death; Assoc. I.C.E. 2 March 1852; author of The elements of practical hydraulics for the use of students 1855, 3 ed. 1875; Elements of practical construction in engineering and architecture 1875; Selections and specifications of public works. d. 21 April 1882. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxii, 310–11 (1883).

DOWNMAN, Hugh. b. Plymouth 29 Oct. 1765; entered navy 10 Oct. 1776; captain 26 Dec. 1798; admiral 24 April 1847; awarded pension 1 July 1851. d. Hambledon, Hants. 4 Jany. 1858.

DOWNMAN, Sir Thomas Charles Francis (eld. son of Col. Francis Downman, Royal artillery). b. St. Neots, Hunts. 1776; 2 lieut. R.A. 24 April 1793; lieut. col. R.H.A. 20 Dec. 1814, col. commandant 28 Sep. 1843 to death; commanded Woolwich district and garrison 1848 to death; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign 27 May 1825 to 10 Jany. 1837; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; K.C.B. 6 April 1852; K.C.H. 1831; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep. 1831. d. Royal arsenal, Woolwich 11 Aug. 1852.

DOWNSHIRE, Arthur Wills Blundell Sandys Trumbull Windsor Hill, 4 Marquis of (eld. child of 3 Marquis of Downshire 1788–1845). b. Hillsborough castle, co. Down 6 Aug. 1812; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; ensign Royal South Down militia 4 June 1833, col. 30 July 1845 to death; M.P. for co. Down 30 Aug. 1836 to 12 April 1845 when he succeeded; K.P. 24 May 1859. d. Dolphin hotel, Herne Bay 6 Aug. 1868.

DOWTON, John. b. Uxbridge 1820; tutor at Haileybury; professor of Hindustani at University college, London and at Staff college, Sandhurst 1855–77; author of Grammar of the Urdu or Hindustani language 1862; Classical dictionary of Hindu mythology and religion, history and literature 1879; edited from the papers of Sir H. M. Elliott History of India as told by its own historians 8 vols. 1867–77. d. Sandhurst lodge, East Worthing 23 Aug. 1881.

DOWTON, William (son of Mr. Dowton of Exeter, Innkeeper). b. Exeter 25 April 1764; joined a company of strolling players at Ashburton 1781; acted with Mrs. Baker’s company in Kent 1791–96; made his first appearance in London at Drury Lane as Sheva in The Jew 11 Oct. 1796, continued at Drury Lane 36 years playing at the Haymarket in the summer; manager of theatres at Canterbury and Maidstone; acted in New York, June to Nov. 1836; one of the most versatile actors of his time. d. Brighton terrace, Brixton 19 April 1851. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iv, 253–62 (1826), portrait; Bentley’s Miscellany xli, 318–30 (1857); Cumberland’s British Theatre xxvii, 7–8, portrait; British Stage, Nov. 1819 pp. 25–6, portrait; Tallis’s Dramatic Mag. June 1851 pp. 235–6, portrait; Illust. sporting and dramatic news 30 Oct. 1880 pp. 160, 162, portrait.

DOWTON, William (eld. son of the preceding). b. 1793; manager of the Kent circuit 1815–35; made his first appearance in London at Drury Lane theatre 3 Dec. 1832 as Tangent; a brother of the Charterhouse 1846 to death. d. the Charterhouse, London 19 Sep. 1883.

DOXAT, Lewis. b. British West Indies 1773; employed on the Morning Chronicle in London 25 years; manager of the Observer 1804–57; manager of the Morning Chronicle 1821–34. d. 13 Queen’s crescent, Haverstock hill, London 4 March 1871 aged 98.

DOYLE, Andrew (3 son of Andrew Doyle of Dublin, merchant). b. 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister L.I. 10 June 1842; inspector of poor law board, Feb. 1848 to 1871, of local government board 1871–76, his district included nearly all Wales; prepared elaborate reports on vagrancy 1849 and 1865, on pauper education 1850 and 1862, and a detailed report on sanitary state of his district on passing of first Public Health act 1872; assistant comr. on agricultural depression in England for Western district 1879–80. d. Pendarren, Crickhowell, Breconshire 14 Dec. 1888.

DOYLE, Sir Charles Hastings (eld. son of Sir Charles Wm. Doyle, C.B. 1770–1842). b. 10 April 1803; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 87 foot 23 Dec. 1819; A.A.G. in Ireland 1847; inspector general of militia in Ireland 1856–61; commanded the troops in Nova Scotia 1861–68; lieut. governor of New Brunswick Oct. 1866 to Oct. 1867; lieut. governor of Nova Scotia, Oct. 1867 to May 1873; col. of 70 foot May 1868, of 87 foot 10 Oct. 1870 to death; commanded forces in British North America 1870–74, and Southern district of England 1874–77; general 15 March 1877, placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.M.G. 23 June 1869. d. at his lodgings 18 Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 19 March 1883.

DOYLE, Sir Francis Hastings Charles, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, 1 baronet 1783–1839). b. Nun Appleton, Yorkshire 22 Aug. 1810; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1832, B.C.L. 1843, hon. D.C.L. 1877; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1835–45 and 1872–77; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1837; assistant solicitor of the Excise 1845–46; receiver general of Customs 1846 to Nov. 1869; comr. of Customs, Nov. 1869 to 1883; professor of poetry at Oxford 20 June 1867 to June 1877; author of Miscellaneous Verses 1834; Two Destinies, a poem 1844; Return of the guards and other poems 1866; Lectures delivered before the University of Oxford 1868, second series 1877; Reminiscences and opinions 1886. d. 46 Davies st. Berkeley sq. London 8 Feb. 1888.

DOYLE, John. b. Dublin 1797; portrait painter in London 1821; published 6 plates entitled The life of a racehorse 1822; issued under initials of H. B. a series of lithographed caricatures entitled Political sketches of H. B., Nos. 1–917 a series of coloured lithographic prints 9 vols. 1829–51, there was a key to them entitled A Key to the political sketches Nos. 1–600 of H. B. 11 vols. 1831–43; paid £300 by the War Office for an improved Tent 1856. d. 54 Clifton gardens, Maida Vale, London 2 Jany. 1868. Everitt’s English caricaturists (1886) 238–86; J. Paget’s Paradoxes and puzzles (1874) 461–3; The Month viii, 392–411 (1868).

DOYLE, Sir John Milley (2 son of Rev. Nicholas Milley Doyle, R. of Newcastle, co. Tipperary). b. 1781; ensign 107 foot 31 May 1794; lieut. col. Portuguese army March 1809; commanded sixth Portuguese brigade 1813–14; lieut. col. on half pay 11 May 1820; retired from service as col. 27 May 1825; M.P. for co. Carlow 1831–32; served in Portuguese army 1832 to May 1834; military knight of Windsor, July 1853; serjeant at arms to the Queen, June 1854 to death; nominated K.T.S. 12 Oct. 1812, gazetted 20 March 1813; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 28 July 1814; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; published pamphlets and petitions 1829–46 by which he got the mixed commission appointed to liquidate claims of English officers who served in Portuguese army. d. Lower ward, Windsor castle 9 Aug. 1856.