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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).

839DAWSON, 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. 8401830; 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. 841Danebury 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. 842Higginbotham’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 843University 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 844remainder 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.

845DE 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.

846DE 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; 847lieut. 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 848in 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).

849DE 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, 850surgeons, 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). 851b. 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.

852DE 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 853Oct. 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.

854DE 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).

855DE 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. 856d. 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 857admiral 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).

858DENISON, 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, 859bencher 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. 860James, 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 861by 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. 862coll. 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.

863DERBY, 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. 864London 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, 865Carlton 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.

866DESANGES, 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.

867DESPARD, 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. 8681803; 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., 869B.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 870Entr’ 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.

871DIBDIN, 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.

872DICK, 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. 873James’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.

874DICKIE, 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; 875physician 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 876her 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. 877Medical 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 878Law 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).