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

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

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

879DILKE, Sir Charles Wentworth (only son of the preceding). b. London 18 Feb. 1810; ed. at Westminster and Trin. hall, Cam., LLB. 1834, LLM. 1860; founded with John Lindley the Gardener’s Chronicle 1841; chairman of council of Society of Arts several years; commissioner of Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862; unpaid comr. to New York exhibition 1853 and Paris Exposition 1855; created a baronet for services as comr. 22 Jany. 1862; M.P. for Wallingford 13 July 1865 to 11 Nov. 1868; F.S.A.; F.R.G.S. d. Hotel de France, St. Petersburgh 10 May 1869. The Queen, vol. 1 (1862), portrait; I.L.N. xix, 487, 509 (1851), xl, 215, 225 (1862), portrait.

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

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

880DILLON, Mr. b. about 1830; clerk in general post office, London; went to France about 1850; on the staff of Paris paper Le Sport; killed by Duc de Gramont-Caderousse in a duel with swords in Forest of St. Germain near Paris 21 Oct. 1862; his widow obtained an order in the Court of Versailles, Nov. 1862 obliging the Duke to pay her an annuity of 3600 francs. Larouse’s Grand Dictionaire (1870) vi, 855–56.

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

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

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

DINNEFORD, William. b. London; first appeared in America at Chestnut st. theatre, Philadelphia 1823, leading actor there; made his début in New York at Lafayette theatre 1826; became manager of the Bowery theatre and of the Franklin theatre, New York; travelled with strolling companies all over the United States from Maine to California; an actor, author, manager, auctioneer, broker 881and merchant; opened a lodging and eating house at 157 Broadway, New York called the Byron 1845. d. Panama 8 Dec. 1852. Ireland’s Records of the New York stage i, 405 (1866).

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

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

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

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

882DISBROWE, Sir Edward Cromwell (son of Col. Edward Disbrowe of Walton, Derbyshire, who d. 30 Nov. 1818). Educ. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 21 Oct. 1808 aged 18; M.P. for Windsor 11 Feb. 1823 to 2 June 1826; entered diplomatic service 1826; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at the Hague 28 Oct. 1835 to death; G.C.H. 1831. d. The Hague 29 Oct. 1851. The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 406–8.

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

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

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

DITCHER, Rev. Joseph. Educ. at Queen’s coll. Cam.; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Bitton, Gloucs. 1821–35; M.A. by Abp. of Canterbury 3 Feb. 1837; judge of consistorial episcopal court of Bath and Wells 1836–41; V. of South Brent, Somerset 1841 to death; prosecuted Archdeacon G. A. Denison for his 883sermons on the doctrine of the Real Presence 1856; author of A statement of the proceedings in the case of Ditcher v. Denison 1858. d. South Brent 28 Nov. 1875. S. Ditcher’s Memorials of Rev. J. Ditcher 1876.

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

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

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

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

DIXON, His Grace the Most Rev. Joseph. b. Cole Island near Dungannon, co. Tyrone 2 Feb. 1806; entered Royal college of St. Patrick, Maynooth 1822, dean there 5 years, professor of Sacred Scripture and Hebrew 1828; R.C. archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland 28 Sep. 1852 to death, consecrated 88421 Nov.; author of A general introduction to the Sacred Scriptures in a series of dissertations 2 vols. 1852; The blessed Cornelius, or some tidings of an archbishop of Armagh who went to Rome in the twelfth century 1855. d. Armagh 29 April 1866. Catholic Directory, Dublin 1867 pp. 421–28.

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

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

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

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

DIXON, William Hepworth (son of Abner Dixon of Holmfirth, Yorkshire). b. Newton st. Ancoats, Manchester 30 June 1821; wrote a series of articles on the literature of the lower classes and on London prisons in the Daily News 1846; barrister I.T. 1 May 1854; contributed to the Athenæum 1846, editor Jany. 1853 to Aug. 1869; F.S.A. 15 Jany. 1852; helped to found Palestine exploration fund 1865, chairman of executive committee; knight commander of German order of the Crown 4 Oct. 1872; member for Marylebone 885of London school board 29 Nov. 1870 to Nov. 1873; author of William Penn, an historical biography 1851; The Holy Land 2 vols. 1865; New America 2 vols. 1867 of which there were 8 editions in England, 3 in America and several in France, Russia, Holland, Italy and Germany, and about 20 other books. d. 6 St. James’s terrace, Regent’s park, London 27 Dec. 1879. In Memoriam Hepworth Dixon 1880; Illustrated Review vi, 225–28 (1873), portrait; Cartoon Portraits (1873) 227–38, portrait; Graphic xxi, 69 (1880), portrait.

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

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

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

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

886DOBELL, Sydney Thompson (eld. son of John Dobell of Cranbrook, Kent, hide merchant). b. Cranbrook 5 April 1824; a wine merchant at Cheltenham 1848 to death; author of The Roman, a dramatic poem by Sydney Yendys 1850; Balder, part the first, By the author of the Roman 1854; England in time of war 1856; a complete edition of his works was published in 3 vols. 1875–6. d. Barton end house, Nailsworth near Stroud 22 Aug. 1874. The life of Sydney Dobell edited by E. J. [Miss E. Jolly] 2 vols. 1878; The golden decade of a favored town, by Contem Ignotus (1884) 154–93; T. H. Ward’s English poets, 2 ed. iv, 615–20 (1883); Temple Bar lvi, 80–91 (1879); Graphic x, 264 (1874), portrait.

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

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

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

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

887DOBSON, William (son of Lawrence Dobson of Preston, stationer). b. Preston 1820; stationer at Preston; edited the Preston Chronicle to March 1868; member of Preston town council 1862–72 and 1874–83; member of Chetham Society; author of History of the parliamentary representation of Preston during the last hundred years 1856, 2 ed. 1868; Rambles by the Ribble 3 series 1864–83 and other books. d. Churton road, Chester 8 Aug. 1884.

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

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

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

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

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

888DODD, George. b. 1808; miscellaneous writer of books chiefly for the publishers Charles Knight and Messrs. Chambers; edited and wrote in Cyclopædia of the industry of all nations 1851; some of his papers were collected and published under titles of Days at the factories 1843 and Curiosities of industry 1852; author of The textile manufactures of Great Britain 6 vols. 1844–6; The food of London 1856 and many other books; contributed papers to the Companion to the British Almanac 30 years; found dead at Torriano avenue, Kentish Town, London 21 Jany. 1881.

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

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

DODDS, Isaac (2 son of Thomas Dodds, viewer of the Felling colliery, killed 21 Oct. 1805). b. Felling hall, Heworth, Durham 9 July 1801; apprenticed to George Stephenson at Newcastle; invented double action air pump 1830 and machine for weighing coals in carts 1832; engineer to the Horseley iron works, Staffordshire 1832–36; built the Star locomotive for the Liverpool and Manchester railway 1833; first maker of a locomotive to ascend an incline; inventor of plan of prevention of boiler explosions by using a plug of fusible metal, now in general use; locomotive superintendent North Midland railway 1835; invented the turn table, self-acting switches and spring buffers; took his son T. W. Dodds into partnership and recommenced the Holmes 889engine and railway works, Rotherham 1850, works closed 1866; introducer of steel rails. d. 13 Townend st. Nether Hallam near Sheffield 1 Nov. 1882. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxv, 308–14 (1884).

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

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

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

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

DODSON, Sir John (eld. son of Rev. John Dodson, R. of Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, who d. July 1807). b. Hurstpierpoint 19 Jany. 1780; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804, D.C.L. 1808; advocate of college of Doctors of law 3 Nov. 1808; commissary to dean and chapter of Westminster; M.P. for Rye, July 1819 to March 1823; advocate to Admiralty Court 11 890March 1829; advocate general 18 Oct. 1834; knighted at St. James’s palace 29 Oct. 1834; barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1834, bencher 1835; master of the Faculties, Nov. 1841; Vicar-general to the lord primate 1849; judge of Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Feb. 1852 to 9 Dec. 1857 when court was abolished; dean of the Arches court, Feb. 1852 to 9 Dec. 1857; P.C. 5 April 1852; published Reports of cases in the high court of admiralty 1811–22, 2 vols. 1815–28. d. 6 Seamore place, Mayfair, London 27 April 1858.

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

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

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

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

DOLBY, Anastasia Marice. Embroideress to the Queen; author of Church embroidery, 891ancient and modern 1867; Church vestments, their origin, use and ornament 1868. (m. Edwin Thomas Dolby of London, artist). d. 12 Southwood terrace, Highgate 18 Feb. 1873 aged 49.

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

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

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

DOMBRAIN, Sir James (son of Abraham Dombrain of Canterbury). b. Canterbury 1793; entered navy 1808; deputy comptroller general of coast guard in England 1816; comptroller general of coast guard in Ireland 1819–49, introduced and organised that force; 892knighted by Earl De Grey, lord lieut. of Ireland at Kingstown, Dublin 1844 after an inspection of the Irish squadron of revenue cruisers. d. Woodstock, Sandford near Dublin 24 Sep. 1871.

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

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

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

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

893DON, Emily Eliza (eld. dau. of John Saunders of Adelphi theatre, London, actor). Acted in comedy and farce at Adelphi, Haymarket, Surrey and other theatres. (m. at Marylebone 17 Oct. 1857 Sir Wm. Henry Don 1825–62). acted in Australia 1861–2, in England 1862–7, in New York 1867; lessee of T.R. Nottingham short time; sang at music halls latterly. d. Edinburgh 20 Sep. 1875.

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

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

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

DONALDSON, Rev. John William (2 son of Stuart Donaldson of London, merchant). b. London 7 June 1811; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837, B.D. 1844, D.D. 1849; fellow of his college 1835–40; head master of Bury St. Edmunds school 1841–55; a tutor at Cambridge 1855 to death; author of The New Cratylus, or contributions towards a more accurate knowledge of the Greek language 1839, 3 ed. 1859; Complete Greek grammar 1848; Complete Latin grammar 1852; Jashar, fragmenta archetypa carminum Hebraicorum 1854, 2 ed. 1860; 894Christian orthodoxy reconciled with the conclusions of modern Biblical learning 1857 and about 20 other books. d. 21 Craven hill, Hyde park, London 10 Feb. 1861.

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

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

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

DONEGALL, George Hamilton Chichester, 3 Marquis of (eld. child of 2 Marquis of Donegall 1769–1844). b. Great Cumberland place, London 10 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; lieut. 7 hussars 4 Oct. 1821 to 16 April 1823 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Carrickfergus 1818–20, for Belfast 1820–30, for Antrim 1830–37, for Belfast again 1837–38; vice chamberlain of the household 1830–34; P.C. 19 July 1830; G.C.H. 1831; lord lieut. of co. Antrim 24 April 1841 to death; 895col. of Antrim militia 3 April 1841 to 17 Aug. 1881; created a peer of the U.K. by titles of baron Ennishowen of Ennishowen, co. Donegal and Carrickfergus of Carrickfergus, co. Antrim 18 Aug. 1841; succeeded 5 Oct. 1844; militia aide de camp to the Queen 15 April 1847 to death; captain of yeomen of the guard 16 Feb. 1848 to 1852; K.P. 1857; lieut. col. commandant of London Irish volunteers 15 May 1860 to death; col. of 4 battalion Royal Irish rifles 17 Aug. 1881 to death. d. Brighton 20 Oct. 1883.

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

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

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

DONKIN, William Frederick (eld. son of the preceding). Educ. at Eton; matric. from Magd. coll. Ox. 17 Oct. 1864 aged 18, demy 1864; B.A. 1868, M.A. 1872; lecturer on natural science at Keble coll. 1875–77, tutor 1877–80; professor of practical chemistry at St. George’s hospital, London 1880 to death; sec. of the Alpine Club, London to death; sec. of Photographic Soc. of Great Britain to death; his photographs of the higher Alps 896were quite unique in their character; went to the Caucasus on an exploring expedition, July 1888, started from Balkar in the vale of the Terch with Mr. Harry Fox and two Swiss guides 30 Aug.; all the party probably lost their lives by an accident on the mountain known as Shkara about 1 Sep. 1888.

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

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

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

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

DONOUGHMORE, John Hely-Hutchinson, 3 Earl of (eld. son of Francis Hely-Hutchinson 1759–1824, collector of customs, Dublin). b. 1787; ensign Grenadier guards 25 Sep. 1807, lieut. 19 Nov. 1812 to 27 May 1819 when placed on h.p.; assisted in the escape of 897Comte Antoine de Lavalette (who had been sentenced to death as an accomplice of Napoleon Bonaparte) by secreting him in his rooms in Paris during the night of 20 Dec. 1815; tried 22 April 1816 and sentenced to 3 months imprisonment, struck off British army list but afterwards restored; M.P. for co. Tipperary 1826–30 and 1831–32; succeeded his uncle as 3 Earl 29 June 1832; lord lieut. of Tipperary 14 Aug. 1832 to death; K.P. 8 April 1834; P.C. Ireland 17 Nov. 1834; a comr. of charitable donations and bequests in Ireland 18 Dec. 1844 to 17 Feb. 1851; known by the sobriquet of Lavalette Hutchinson. d. Palmerston house near Dublin 12 Sep. 1851. P. Burke’s Celebrated naval and military trials (1866) 376–99; G.M. xxxvi, 539–40 (1851); The trial of Sir R. T. Wilson and captain J. H. Hutchinson for aiding the escape of general Lavalette 1816.

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

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

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

DOO, George Thomas. b. 6 Jany. 1800; produced his first published engraving “The Duke of York” 1824; opened an academy for study of the antique, and of the life in the Savoy, London 1826; historical engraver in ordinary to William iv 1836–37, to Queen 898Victoria 1842; a member of many foreign academies; A.R.A. 1855, R.A. 1856; published many plates; pres. of Artists’ Annuity fund 1861; chairman of committee of class 40 (engravings and etchings) at International Exhibition 1862; F.R.S. 5 June 1851 to 1860; granted civil list pension of £70, 19 June 1868. d. Sutton, Surrey 13 Nov. 1886. Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 324 (1862).

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

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

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

DORNFORD, Rev. Joseph (only son of Josiah Dornford of Deptford, Kent). b. Deptford 9 Jany. 1794; ed. at Wadham coll. Ox., commoner 4 Dec. 1813, scholar; B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820; Michel fellow of Queen’s coll. 1817–19; fellow of Oriel 1819–36, tutor 1823, dean 1828, classical examiner in the schools 1826–28; proctor 1830 when nicknamed the University Corporal; ascended Mont Blanc with 899Dr. Joseph Von Hamel 18–20 Aug. 1820 when three of the guides were lost in a crevasse and he narrowly escaped same fate; R. of Plymtree, Devon 1832 to death; hon. canon in Exeter cath. 1844 to death. d. Plymtree 18 Jany. 1868. Mozley’s Reminiscences ii, 55–77 (1882); G.M. Sep. 1820 p. 365.

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

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

D’ORSAY, Gillion Gaspard Alfred de Grimaud, Comte (younger son of Albert D’Orsay, Comte D’Orsay, general in French army). b. Paris 4 Sep. 1798; in the Garde du corps of Charles x, 1815–23; became acquainted with the Earl and Countess of Blessington 1822, travelled with them in South of Europe. m. at Naples 1 Dec. 1827 Harriett Anne Frances dau. of 1 Earl of Blessington, they separated 1829, she was b. 5 Aug. 1812, m. (2) 1 Sep. 1852 hon. Charles Spencer Cowper and d. 17 Dec. 1869; the leader of fashion in London 1830–49; lived at 22 Curzon st. Mayfair 1833–36, at 4 Upper Gore, Kensington 1836–45; most intimately associated with Lady Blessington, they fled to Paris to escape imprisonment for debt April 1849, where she d. 4 June 1849 aged 60; 120 profile sketches by him of celebrities of the day were lithographed by R. J. Lane and published by Mitchell of Bond st; the handsomest man of his time. d. at house of his sister Duchesse de Gramont in Paris 4 Aug. 1852. bur. at Chambourcy near Paris 7 Aug. next to Lady Blessington. R. R. Madden’s Literary life of the Countess of Blessington i, 318–72 (1855), portrait, ii, 406–72; J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters ii, 191–204 (1841); Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known, second series ii, 198–224; W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 284–90, portrait; Gore House, Bentley’s New Monthly 900Mag. June 1849 pp. 135–51; H. Melton’s Hints on hats (1875) 33–8, portrait; Baily’s Mag. xli, 153–55 (1883); Colburn’s New Monthly Mag. xcvi, 112–26 (1852); Grantley Berkeley’s My Life (1866) iii, 201–31; S. Sidney’s Book of the horse 1886 p. 257, portrait.

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

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

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

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

901DOUDNEY, Rev. George David. b. 1811; a tailor at 97 Fleet st. London, retired 13 Nov. 1847; preached his first sermon at Clapham Asylum 21 Jany. 1848; matric. Corpus coll. Camb. 3 Feb. 1848; went to Ireland as a missionary and studied the Irish language; ordained by Bp. of Derry 23 Dec. 1848; Incumbent of Dunlewey, Donegal where he preached his first sermon in Irish 25 April 1849; Incumbent of Charles church, Plymouth 26 Jany. 1852 to death; preached 245 sermons 1852; author of Sermons preached in Charles’ Chapel, Plymouth 1866–67, 2 vols. d. Mannamead, Plymouth 19 May 1865. Recollections of Rev. G. D. Doudney 1866, portrait.

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

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

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

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

DOUGLAS, Francis William Bouverie (2 son of 7 Marquis of Queensberry 1818–58). b. Harleyford near Marlow 8 Feb. 1847; ed. at Eton; came out first in examination for direct commissions in the army 1865; killed by a 902fall whilst descending the Matterhorn, Switzerland 14 July 1865. E. Whymper’s Ascent of the Matterhorn (1880) 273–95.

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

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

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

DOUGLAS, James. b. Brechin 20 May 1800; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1820; M.R.C.S. London; went to New York 1824; practised in Quebec 1826–51; one of founders of lunatic asylum at Beauport near Quebec 9031845, also manager; an enthusiastic traveller and antiquarian. d. New York 14 April 1886.

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

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

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

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

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

904DOUGLAS, Sir Joseph Abraham (son of Joseph Douglas of Whitehaven, Cumberland). b. Chepstow 17 Jany. 1799; master in the navy 30 May 1823, retired 1851; knighted at St. James’s palace 24 March 1841 for having armed his ship the Cambridge and assisted the British in Hong Kong bay in June 1839 losing £10,000 for which the government would not compensate him. d. of epilepsy at 2 Apsley cottage, Moor terrace, Lower park road, Peckham, London 3 April 1866. A case of individual sacrifice and of national gratitude 1847.

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

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

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

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

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

905DOVASTON, John Freeman Milward (only son of John Dovaston of Westfelton near Oswestry 1740–1808). b. 30 Dec. 1782; ed. at Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; barrister M.T. 12 June 1807; author of Fitz Gwarine with other rhymes 1812, 3 ed. called Poems, legendary, incidental and humorous 1825; A selection of British melodies 1817; The Dove 1822 a selection of old poems; Lectures on natural history and national melody 1839. d. Nursery villa, Westfelton 8 Aug. 1854. G.M. xlii, 395–6 (1854).

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

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

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

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

DOVETON, Sir John (son of Sir Wm. Webber Doveton, knt., of the H.E.I.Co.’s civil service, who d. 13 Oct. 1843 in 90 year). b. St. Helena 9061783; cavalry cadet in H.E.I.Co.’s army, 31 Oct. 1798; aide-de-camp to Marquis Wellesley; commanded a division of the Nizam’s army; commanded centre division of Madras army; lieut. col. 4 Madras Native Cavalry 19 Aug. 1813, col. 9 Nov. 1821; col. 5 Madras light cavalry 1847 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Vichy, France 23 Sep. 1857.

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

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

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

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

907DOWDESWELL, John Edmund (youngest child of Wm. Dowdeswell, M.P. for Worcs. who d. 1775). b. 3 March 1772; ed. at Westminster 1779–89 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1795; pupil of Sir Samuel Romilly; barrister I.T. 6 May 1796, bencher 1834, reader 1841, treasurer 1842; recorder for Tewkesbury 1798–1833; M.P. for Tewkesbury 1812–1832; comr. of bankrupts 1806–1820; master in Chancery 8 Feb. 1820 to 1851. d. Pull court near Tewkesbury 11 Nov. 1851.

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

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

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

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

DOWLING, Rev. John. b. Pevensey, Sussex 12 May 1807; kept a boarding school near Oxford 1829–32; ordained Baptist minister in Catskill, New York 1832; minister at Newport, Rhode Island 1834–36, in New 908York 1836; preached in Providence, Philadelphia, Newark and other places; D.D. Transylvania University; author of Exposition of the prophecies 1840; Defence of the Protestant Scriptures 1843; The History of Romanism 1845 and other books. d. Middletown, New York 4 July 1878. M. H. Smith’s Sunshine and shadow in New York (1868) 589–92.

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

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

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

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

DOWNES, Ulysses De Burgh, 2 Baron (only son of Thomas Burgh of Bert house, Athy, co. Kildare, who d. 1810). b. Dublin 15 Aug. 1788; ensign 54 foot 31 March 1804; captain 92 foot 25 Nov. 1808; captain Grenadier guards 25 July 1814 to 5 July 1827 when placed on h.p.; surveyor general of the ordnance 18 March 1820 to 14 May 1827, clerk of the ordnance 1828–30; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign 27 May 1825 to 10 Jany. 1837; col. of 54 foot 4 April 1845, of 29 foot 15 Aug. 1850 to death; general 20 June 1854; succeeded his cousin 2 March 1826; Irish 909representative peer 4 April 1833 to death; reassumed ancient name of De Burgh 1848; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Bert house, Athy 26 July 1863.

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

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

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

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

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

DOWNMAN, Sir Thomas Charles Francis (eld. son of Col. Francis Downman, Royal artillery). b. St. Neots, Hunts. 1776; 2 lieut. R.A. 24 April 1793; lieut. col. R.H.A. 20 Dec. 1814, col. commandant 28 Sep. 1843 to death; commanded Woolwich district and garrison 1848 to death; aide-de-camp to the 910Sovereign 27 May 1825 to 10 Jany. 1837; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; K.C.B. 6 April 1852; K.C.H. 1831; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep. 1831. d. Royal arsenal, Woolwich 11 Aug. 1852.

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

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

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

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

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

911DOYLE, Andrew (3 son of Andrew Doyle of Dublin, merchant). b. 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister L.I. 10 June 1842; inspector of poor law board, Feb. 1848 to 1871, of local government board 1871–76, his district included nearly all Wales; prepared elaborate reports on vagrancy 1849 and 1865, on pauper education 1850 and 1862, and a detailed report on sanitary state of his district on passing of first Public Health act 1872; assistant comr. on agricultural depression in England for Western district 1879–80. d. Pendarren, Crickhowell, Breconshire 14 Dec. 1888.

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

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

DOYLE, John. b. Dublin 1797; portrait painter in London 1821; published 6 plates entitled The life of a racehorse 1822; issued under initials of H. B. a series of lithographed caricatures entitled Political sketches of H. B., Nos. 1–917 a series of coloured lithographic prints 9 vols. 1829–51, there was a key to them entitled A Key to the political sketches Nos. 1–600 of H. B. 11 vols. 1831–43; paid £300 by the War Office for an improved Tent 1856. d. 54 912Clifton gardens, Maida Vale, London 2 Jany. 1868. Everitt’s English caricaturists (1886) 238–86; J. Paget’s Paradoxes and puzzles (1874) 461–3; The Month viii, 392–411 (1868).

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

DOYLE, Percy William (brother of Sir Charles Hastings Doyle 1803–83). b. 1806; attached to British mission at Washington 2 June 1825; sec. of legation to Mexican republic 6 Dec. 1842, minister plenipotentiary 24 Dec. 1851 to 19 Feb. 1858 when he retired on pension; C.B. 4 March 1858. d. 5 Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 21 Feb. 1888.

DOYLE, Richard (2 son of John Doyle 1797–1868). b. London, Sep. 1824; published The Eglinton Tournament or the days of chivalry revived 1839; kept a manuscript ‘Journal’ 1840, issued in facsimile 1885; contributed sketches and cartoons to Punch 1843–50; designed the cover for Punch now used; his Manners and customs of ye Englyshe appeared in Punch 1849; published The foreign tour of Brown, Jones and Robinson 1854; illustrated The Newcomes by Thackeray 1854 and other books; contributed Birds’-eye views of society to Cornhill Mag. 1861–63; many water-colours by him were exhibited at Grosvenor gallery, London 1885; drawn by Leech in his cartoon entitled “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch vol. xii, p. 14, Jany. 1847, as the clarionet player in the orchestra. d. 7 Finborough road, South Kensington, London 11 Dec. 1883. Everitt’s English caricaturists (1886) 381–94; Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 101–3 (1885); W. M. Rossetti’s Fine Art (1867) 289–91; Blackwood’s Mag. April 1885 pp. 485–91; Graphic xxviii, 608 (1883), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 13 (1884), portrait.

913DOYLE, Rev. Thomas. b. 21 Dec. 1793; ed. at St. Edmund’s college, Ware, ordained priest 1819; priest at Royal Belgian chapel, London road, Southwark 1820, senior priest there 1829; St. George’s R.C. cathedral in St. George’s Fields was built owing to his exertions, consecrated 4 July 1848; Provost of cathedral chapter of Southwark 1850 to death; wrote letters in The Tablet and other periodicals under signature of ‘Father Thomas.’ d. St. George’s Cathedral, London 6 June 1879. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 103–5 (1885).

DOYLE, Sir William Henry (son of Edward Doyle). b. Nassau, Bahamas 1823; barrister M.T. 8 May 1846; registrar of court of bankruptcy for Bahamas 1847–58; assistant justice of general court of Bahamas 1858, chief justice and pres. of legislative council 14 Sep. 1865 to 31 March 1875; knighted at Windsor Castle 12 Dec. 1873; chief justice of Leeward Islands 31 March 1875; chief justice of Gibraltar, judge of vice admiralty court and court of requests 14 May 1877 to death. d. 8 Montpellier villas, Cheltenham 27 April 1879.

DOYLEY, Henry (youngest son of Ven. Matthias Doyley, archdeacon of Lewes, who d. 13 Nov. 1815 aged 71). b. 21 April 1780; ensign Grenadier guards 2 Aug. 1797, lieut. col. 10 Jany. 1837 to 28 June 1838; col. 33 foot 28 Sep. 1847 to death; general 30 Jany. 1855. d. Nevill park, Tunbridge Wells 26 Sep. 1855.

DOYLEY, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. London 16 Nov. 1774; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1795, B.C.L. 1800, D.C.L. 1804; fellow of All Souls’ college 1800–20; barrister M.T. 9 Nov. 1798; serjeant at law 9 Feb. 1819, received patent of precedence 1834; chairman of quarter sessions, West Sussex; edited with E. V. Williams Burn’s Justice of the Peace 5 vols. 1836. d. Rottingdean near Brighton 14 Jany. 1855.

DOYNE, William Thomas (2 son of Rev. J. Doyne, P.C. of Old Leighlin, co. Carlow). b. April 1823; articled to Edward Dixon, C.E. 1840; resident engineer of Rugby and Leamington railway 1847–50; in charge of the Army works corps consisting of about 2400 navvies and artificers, at Balaclava 1855–56; practised at Melbourne 1866 to death; consulting engineer to government of Western Australia 1869; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1849, M.I.C.E. 9 Nov. 1852; author of The causes which have retarded the construction of railways in India 1860; Report upon the plains and rivers of Canterbury, New Zealand 1864. d. Melbourne 29 Sep. 1877. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. li, 270–73 (1878).

914DRAKARD, John. Printer and bookseller at Stamford; started a weekly paper called The Stamford News 15 Sep. 1809; sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment in Lincoln Castle and fined £200 at Lincoln 13 March 1811 for a seditious libel, an article in his paper of 24 Aug. 1810 entitled ‘One thousand lashes’; started a weekly paper called The Champion of the East 5 Jany. 1830, the name was changed to the Stamford Champion; both his papers ceased 1834; published Drakard’s Edition of the public and private life of Colonel Wardle, Stamford n.d.; author of The history of Stamford 1822. d. Ripon 25 Jany. 1854 aged 79. Howell’s State Trials xxxi, 495–544 (1823).

DRAKE, Charles Frederick Tyrwhitt (younger son of Col. Wm. Tyrwhitt Drake of the Royal horse guards, who d. 21 Dec. 1848). b. Amersham, Bucks. 2 Jany. 1846; ed. at Rugby, Wellington coll. and Trin. coll. Cam. but took no degree; spent winters of 1866 and 1867 in Morocco; visited Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Greece and Turkey 1868–70; engaged on survey of Palestine for Palestine exploration fund society 1870 to death; F.R.G.S.; author of Modern Jerusalem 1875; author with Sir R. F. Burton of Unexplored Syria 2 vols. 1872. d. Jerusalem 23 June 1874. Literary remains of C. F. T. Drake by W. Besant 1877; Modern Jerusalem by the late C. F. T. Drake with a memoir 1875; Palestine Fund Reports (1874) pp. 131–4.

DRAKE, John Poad (son of Thomas Drake of Stoke Damerel, Devon, who d. 20 May 1835). Baptised at Stoke Damerel 20 July 1794; painted a picture of Napoleon on board the Bellerophon at Plymouth 1815 which he exhibited in New York; occupied with schemes for breechloading guns 1829–37; laid proposals before government for ironcased floating batteries and steam rams 1832–40; patented his diagonal system of shipbuilding and a screw trenail fastening 1837; failed to obtain adoption of any of his inventions. d. Fowey, Cornwall 26 Feb. 1883. Dict. of Nat. Biog. xv, 447 (1888).

DRAKE, Samuel, stage name of Samuel Bryant. b. England 15 Nov. 1768; apprenticed to a printer; ran away and became an actor; managed a theatre in West of England; acted at Boston theatre, U.S. 1809–13, and at Albany, New York 1813–15; managed theatres at Frankfort, Lexington and Louisville all in Kentucky 1815 to about 1827, afterwards managed theatres in Ohio, Tennessee, Missouri and Indiana; may properly be called the pioneer of the drama in the West. d. Oldham county, Kentucky 16 Oct. 1854.

915DRAKE, Sir Thomas Trayton Fuller-Eliott, 1 Baronet (3 son of John Trayton Fuller of Ashdown house, Sussex, who d. 1812). b. Heathfield park, Sussex 8 Feb. 1785; lieut. 52 foot 5 Oct. 1804, major 26 May 1814 to 25 May 1815 when placed on h.p.; assumed additional surnames of Eliott and Drake by r.l. 31 March 1813; created baronet 22 Aug. 1821; sheriff of Devon 1822; edited Life of Sir F. Drake 1828. d. Nutwell court near Exeter 6 June 1870.

DRAKE, Thomas Tyrwhitt (eld. son of Thomas Drake of Shardeloes, Bucks., who d. 1810). b. 16 March 1783; M.P. for Amersham, Bucks. 31 Jany. 1805 to 3 Dec. 1832; sheriff of Bucks. 1836; master of hounds in the Bicester country many years. d. Bucknell, Oxfordshire 23 March 1852.

DRAKE, Sir William Henry (son of John Drake, deputy commissary general, who d. 24 June 1867 aged 84). b. 1812; deputy assistant commissary general 16 April 1835, commissary general 21 June 1859; controller in Ireland 1867, in Great Britain 1869; director of supplies and transports 3 Sep. 1871 to 29 Sep. 1872; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 20 May 1871. d. 10 Clanricarde gardens, Bayswater, London 28 Jany. 1882.

DRAPER, Rev. Daniel James. b. parish of Wickham, Hants. 28 Aug. 1810; became a Wesleyan Methodist 1830; minister of Chatteris circuit 1834; minister at Sydney, N.S.W. 1836–37, 1842–46, at Melbourne 1846–47 and 1855 to 1865, at Adelaide 1847–55; president of the Conference 1859; drowned with 244 other passengers in the wreck of the “London” steamship in the Bay of Biscay 11 Jany. 1866. F. J. Jobson’s Memorial tribute to D. J. Draper 1866, portrait.

DRAPER, John William (son of John C. Draper, Wesleyan minister, who d. 1829). b. St. Helen’s near Liverpool 5 May 1811; ed. at Woodhouse grove school, London Univ. and Univ. of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1836; professor of chemistry and natural philosophy in Hampden Sidney college, Virginia 1836–39; professor of medical department in Univ. of New York 1839, of chemistry 1840–81; pres. of New York medical college 1850–73; made first photographic portrait from life 1839 and first photograph of moon’s surface 1840; LLD. Princeton 1860; first pres. of American Chemical Soc. 1876; author of Text book of chemistry 1846; Text book of human physiology 1856; History of the intellectual development of Europe 2 vols. 1864; History of the American civil war 3 vols. 1871; History of the conflict 916between religion and science 1874, translated into 9 languages. d. Hastings on river Hudson 20 miles north of New York 4 Jany. 1882. Barker’s Memoir of J. W. Draper 1882, portrait; Appleton’s American Biog. ii, 226–27 (1887), portrait; Graphic xxv, 68, (1882), portrait.

DRAPER, William Henry (son of Rev. Henry Draper, lecturer of St. George’s ch. Southwark). b. near London 11 March 1801; arrived in Cobourg, Canada 4 June 1820; called to bar in Canada 16 June 1828; reporter to the King’s Bench 18 Nov. 1829 to March 1837; solicitor general of Upper Canada 23 March 1837, member of executive council, Dec. 1837, the first attorney general for Upper Canada 13 Feb. 1841 to 28 May 1847; Q.C. 1842; a legislative councillor of Canada 10 April 1843 to Jany. 1845; member of legislative assembly Jany. 1845 to 28 May 1847; a puisne judge of Queen’s Bench 12 June 1847; chief justice of Common Pleas 5 Feb. 1856; chief justice of Upper Canada 22 July 1863 to 20 Oct. 1868; C.B. 23 June 1854; pres. of court of error and appeal Ontario 20 Oct. 1868; author of Upper Canada King’s Bench Reports 1729–31, 2 vols. 1861–62. d. Yorkville, Toronto 3 Nov. 1877. Law Magazine and law review xxvii, 362 (1869).

DRAYTON, Henri. b. Philadelphia 1822; ed. at Paris Conservatoire; primo basso in Italian opera in France and Belgium 1848–50; sang in English opera in London 1850–59; gave parlor opera entertainments with his wife in the United States 1859–61 when he returned to England; sang with Riching’s English Opera company in America 1867–70; author of dramas and operas. d. 57 East ninth st. New York 11 Aug. 1872. I.L.N. xxx, 411 (1856), portrait.

DREW, Andrew. b. 27 Nov. 1792; entered navy 4 May 1806; commodore of provincial marine of Upper Canada 1838–39; captain on h.p. 10 June 1843; agent victualler at Cape of Good Hope 16 Dec. 1850 to 30 Jany. 1863; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1875; discovered a dangerous shoal between Trinidad and Tobago 1842, afterwards called Drew’s Rock. d. Glenwood house, Peckham Rye, Surrey 19 Dec. 1878. A narrative of the capture of the Caroline 1844.

Note.—He successfully defended Cape Coast castle in 1824 with 160 sailors against an attack by 50,000 Ashantees. During the Canadian rebellion in 1838 with only about 35 men he captured the rebel steamer Caroline and sent it burning over the falls of Niagara, one of the most daring exploits recorded in naval history.

DREW, Rev. George Smith (son of George Drew of 11 Tottenham court road, London, tea 917dealer). b. Louth, Lincs. 1819; sizar at St. John’s coll. Cam. 22 Jany. 1839; 27 wrangler 1843; Inc. of St. John the Evangelist, St. Pancras, London 1850–54; V. of Pulloxhill, Beds. 1854–58; V. of St. Barnabas, South Kensington, London 1858–70; select preacher to Univ. of Cam. 1869–70; R. of Avington, Hants. 1870–72; Hulsean lecturer at Cam. 1877; V. of Holy Trinity, Lambeth, London 18 Sep. 1872 to death; F.R.G.S.; author of Scripture studies or readings in the Old Testament 1855, 2 ed. 1869; Scripture lands in connection with their history 1860, 2 ed. 1862; Reasons of faith or the Christian argument developed 1862, 2 ed. 1869 and 11 other books. d. Holy Trinity vicarage, Lambeth 21 Jany. 1880.

DREW, John. b. Bower Chalk, Wiltshire 1809; kept a school at Southampton 1826–42; built a small observatory there 1847; supplied the correct time to ships leaving Southampton many years; Ph.D. Univ. of Basle; F.R.A.S. 9 Jany. 1846; a founder of Meteorological Soc. 1850; author of A manual of Astronomy 1845, 2 ed. 1853; Practical meteorology 1855, re-edited by his son 1860 and other books and many papers. d. Surbiton, Surrey 17 Dec. 1857.

DREW, John. b. Dublin 3 Sep. 1825; appeared at Bowery theatre, New York 1845 as Dr. O’Toole in The Irish Tutor; lessee with Wm. Wheatley of Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 20 Aug. 1853 to 1855; acted in England 1855, California 1858 and Australia 1859; returned to New York from England 9 Jany. 1862; best Irish comedian on American stage; played for last time 9 May 1862. d. Philadelphia 21 May 1862. T. A. Brown’s History of the American stage (1870) p. 105, portrait.

DREW, Rev. William Henry. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., 8 wrangler 1849; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1856; mathematical master at Blackheath proprietary school 1856–73; C. of Crockenhill near Dartford 1866–73; professor of mathematics at King’s college, London June 1869 to death; author of A geometrical treatise on conic sections 1857, 6 ed. 1880. d. Park house, Maida hill west, London 14 July 1882 aged 55.

DRISCOLL, Henry. b. Dublin 1792; ensign 67 foot 13 June 1811; lieut. 100 foot 3 March 1814; lieut. 99 foot 1815 to 1817 when removed from the army; studied for the bar at Montreal; edited the Herald newspaper; edited the Courant newspaper; called to Canadian bar May 1823; Q.C.; police magistrate 1840. d. Montreal 28 Oct. 1869.

918DROOP, Henry Richmond (son of John Abraham Droop of Stamford Hill, Middlesex). b. about 1831; ed. at Marlborough and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1853, 3 wrangler 1854; fellow of his coll. 1855, mathematical lecturer; B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1859; author of North side of the table, a criticism 1866; Proportional representation as applied to election of local governing bodies 1871; Relations between an invading army and the inhabitants 1871; The Edwardian vestments an investigation 1875. d. 11 Cleveland gardens, London 21 March 1884.

DROUGHT, Thomas Armstrong. b. 1798; Ensign 15 Foot 11 Nov. 1813, lieut. col. 21 March 1845 to 1 Oct. 1854; inspecting field officer 1 Oct. 1854 to 11 Jany. 1860; col. 45 Foot 25 June 1866 to 21 April 1868; col. 15 Foot 21 April 1868 to death; general 29 May 1875. d. Hill house, Winchester 22 Aug. 1877.

DRUCE, Charles Claridge (one of the 24 children of Charles Druce of city of London, solicitor 1791–1881). b. Billiter sq. London 1819; solicitor in Billiter sq. 1843 to death; vice pres. of Incorporated Law Society 1880–81, pres. 1881–82. d. Brighton 10 June 1885 in 66 year.