solicitor, who d. 16 April 1849_). _b._ Redruth 11 Dec. 1799; ed.
at Tiverton and Univ. of Edin.; M.P. for West Cornwall 1857–68.
_d._ Bochym near Helston 24 June 1884. _I.L.N. xxxiii_, 92, 94
(1858), _portrait_.
DAVIDS, REV. THOMAS WILLIAM (_only child of William Saunders Davids
of Swansea, Congregational minister, who d. Dec. 1816_). _b._
Swansea 11 Sep. 1816; minister of Congregational church, Lion
walk, Colchester 3 Feb. 1841 to 1874; secretary of Essex
congregational union 20 years; author of _Annals of Evangelical
Nonconformity in the county of Essex from the time of Wycliffe to
the restoration_ 1863, and of a number of historical articles and
reviews. (_m._ 1841 Louisa eld. dau. of Robert Winter of Clapham
Common, London, solicitor, she was widely known by her _Essay on
Sunday schools_ 1847 and _Sunday school hymn book_, she _d._
Colchester 18 Nov. 1853 aged 37), he _d._ Forest Gate, Essex 11
April 1884. _Congregational year book_ (1885) 187–8.
DAVIDSON, REV. ALEXANDER DYCE. _b._ Aberdeen 8 May 1807; ed. at
Aberdeen Univ.; minister of the South ch. Aberdeen 3 Aug. 1832, of
the West ch. 5 May 1836, of Free ch. Belmont st. 28 Jany. 1844, of
a new Free ch. in Union st. 14 Feb. 1869 to death; author of
_Lectures on the book of Esther_ 1859; _Lectures and sermons
edited by F. Edmond_ 1872. _d._ Aberdeen 27 April 1872. _Wylies’
Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 211–14.
DAVIDSON, ARCHIBALD (_son of Rev. T. Davidson of the Tolbooth
church, Edinburgh_). _b._ 1805; ed. at high sch. Edin. and Univs.
of Glasgow and St. Andrews; called to Scotch bar 1827; senior
advocate depute 1846; sheriff of Kincardine 1847, of Aberdeen 10
Jany. 1848, of Edinburgh 10 Oct. 1865, of the Lothians and Peebles
to Feb. 1886; arranged for publication Lord Cockburn’s _Memorials
of his time_ 1856. _d._ Edinburgh 27 March 1886.
DAVIDSON, CUTHBERT. Entered Bengal army 1827; lieut. col. 49 Bengal
N.I. 31 May 1857 to 1860; lieut. col. 51 Bengal N.I. 1860 to
death; C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ 2 Aug. 1862.
DAVIDSON, DUNCAN. _b._ 1800; M.P. for co. Cromarty 30 June 1826 to
24 July 1830 and 20 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; lord lieutenant of
co. Ross 18 Feb. 1879 to death; married five times. _d._ Edinburgh
18 Sep. 1881.
DAVIDSON, ELLIS A. Author of _Linear Drawing_ 1868; _Drawing and
design without instruments_ 1869; _Elements of practical
perspective_ 1870; _Model drawing from solid forms_ 1871; _Boy
joiner and model maker_ 1874; _House painting and graining_ 1875,
_3 ed._ 1880; _Amateur house carpenter_ 1875 and many other books.
_d._ 29 Clarendon gardens, Maida hill, London 9 March 1878.
DAVIDSON, GEORGE HENRY. Music publisher at 19 Peters hill, Doctors
Commons, London; published _Universal Melodist 2 vols._ 1847–9;
_Instrumental Gems 4 vols._ 1851; _Davidson’s Recitations and
Comic songs_ 1854; sold his business to the Music publishing
company limited for £20,000, 1860; author of _The Thames and
Thanet Guide_ 1838, _6 ed._ 1850. _d._ 26 Clifton road, Peckham 4
July 1875 in 75 year.
DAVIDSON, HARRIET (_2 child of Hugh Miller the geologist 1802–56_).
_b._ Cromarty, Scotland 25 Nov. 1839; ed. at Edin. and London;
author of _Isabel Jardine’s History_ 1867; _Christian Osborne’s
Friends_ 1869; contributed poems and stories to the Adelaide
newspapers and to _Chambers’s Journal_. (_m._ 1863 Rev. John
Davidson, minister of Chalmer’s church, Adelaide, who _d._ 1881).
_d._ Adelaide 23 Dec. 1883.
DAVIDSON, JAMES (_eld. son of James Davidson of Tower Hill, London,
stationer_). _b._ Tower Hill 15 Aug. 1793; lived at Secktor near
Axminster, Devon 1822 to death; author of _The British and Roman
remains in the vicinity of Axminster_ 1833; _History of Axminster
church_ 1835; _History of Newenham Abbey, Devon_ 1843; _Axminster
during the civil war_ 1851; _A glossary to the obsolete and unused
words and phrases of the Holy Scriptures in the authorised English
version_ 1850; _Bibliotheca Devoniensis, a catalogue of printed
books relating to the county of Devon_ 1852 _and Supplement_ 1862;
_Notes on the antiquities of Devonshire_ 1861. _d._ Secktor house,
Axminster 29 Feb. 1864. _G. P. R. Pulman’s book of the Axe_ (1875)
12, 47, 677.
DAVIDSON, JOHN. _b._ Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire 29 March 1804; ed.
at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; transcriber for the Spalding Club 20
years; arranged the Burgh records of Dundee 1865; wrote a number
of pamphlets on various political subjects; a small vol.
containing many poems and prose pieces by him was published at
Aberdeen 1872. _d._ 28 Sep. 1871.
DAVIDSON, JOHN. L.R.C.S. Edin. 1838; surgeon in the navy 29 July
1839; M.D. St. Andrews 1845; M.R.C.P. 1860; inspector general of
hospitals 4 July 1866 to 26 Oct. 1874 when he retired; C.B. 13
March 1867. _d._ Bosworth lodge, Willesden lane, London 31 Jany.
1881 aged 63.
DAVIDSON, THOMAS (_son of Jonah Davidson of Oxnam Row farm near
Jedburgh, shepherd_). _b._ Oxnam Row 7 July 1838; entered Univ. of
Edin. 1855; schoolmaster at Forres 1860–61, in Edinburgh 1861;
licensed as a preacher in united presbyterian church 2 Feb. 1864;
obtained second prize in rhetoric class for a poem on ‘Ariadne at
Naxos’ 1859, one of his friends sent this poem to Thackeray who
inserted it in _Cornhill Mag._ Dec. 1860; sent songs and short
poems to the ‘_Scotsman_.’ _d._ Bankend, Jedburgh 29 April 1870.
_The life of a Scottish probationer, being a memoir of Thomas
Davidson by James Brown_ (1878), _portrait_.
DAVIDSON, THOMAS. _b._ Nottingham 28 Aug. 1828; went to Philadelphia
1832, ship builder there 1850–61; quartermaster in Philadelphia
navy yard 1861, assistant naval constructor 1863, naval
constructor 1866 to death; his greatest feat was the building in
70 days of the “Juanita” (1240 tons 7 guns) from the frame of a
Florida frigate; executed the models and drawings for first large
torpedo boats built in New York. _d._ Philadelphia 18 Feb. 1874.
DAVIDSON, THOMAS. _b._ Edinburgh 17 May 1817; ed. in France, Italy
and Switzerland; pupil of P. Delaroche and H. Vernet; matric. at
Univ. of Edin. 1835; hon. sec. of Geol. Soc. 1858, Wollaston gold
medallist 1865, Silurian medallist 1868; F.R.S. 11 June 1857,
royal medallist 1870; author of _British Fossil Brachiopoda 6
vols._ and of the article ‘Brachiopoda’ in 9th ed. of Encyclopædia
Britannica. _d._ 16 Oct. 1885. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxix_, 8–11
(1886).
DAVIE, JAMES. Violinist and composer at Aberdeen; published _The
music of the church of Scotland_ 1841; _Caledonian Repository 6
vols._; established the Aberdeen Choral Society which held a
Musical Festival 1834; choir master in St. Andrew’s ch. Aberdeen
about 1835. _d._ Aberdeen 19 Nov. 1857 aged 74. _W. Anderson’s
Precentors and musical professors_ (1876) 85–94.
DAVIES, REV. BENJAMIN. _b._ Werne near St. Clears, Carmarthenshire
26 Feb. 1814; ed. at Baptist college, Bristol, Univ. of Glasgow,
Trin. coll. Dublin and Leipzig; Ph.D. Leipzig 1838; pres. of
Baptist coll. Stepney 1844–7; a professor in Mac Gill coll.
Montreal 1847–57; professor of oriental and classical languages in
Baptist coll. Regents park, London 1857; one of the revisers of
the Old Testament; published translations of Gesenius’s Hebrew
Grammar and Lexicon; the Paragraph Bible issued by Religious Tract
Society was chiefly his work. _d._ Frome, Somerset 19 July 1875.
DAVIES, DAVID. Ensign 62 foot 4 June 1812, lieut. 13 Feb. 1814 to 25
June 1816 when placed on h.p.; fired a pistol loaded with ball at
Lord Palmerston (the sec. of state for war) at the War Office,
London 8 April 1818, tried at the Old Bailey 1 May 1818 when
acquitted on ground of insanity; confined in Bethlehem hospital,
May 1818 to death. _d._ of apoplexy in Bethlehem hospital 30 Dec.
1861 aged 67.
DAVIES, SIR DAVID (_only son of Robert Davies of Llwyn,
Cardiganshire_). _b._ 1793; physician at Hampton; domestic phys.
to William iv, 1830 to 1837, and to Queen Adelaide 1837 to 1849;
K.C.H. June 1837; knighted by Queen Victoria at St. James’s palace
19 July 1837. _d._ Lucca 1 May 1865.
DAVIES, DAVID ARTHUR SAUNDERS. _b._ 9 June 1792; M.P. for
Carmarthenshire 27 Dec. 1842 to death; chairman of Cardiganshire
quarter sessions. _d._ United University club, 4 Pall Mall, East
London 22 May 1857.
DAVIES, DAVID CHRISTOPHER. _b._ Oswestry 1827; a mining engineer
1852; visited Norway on business 9 times; F.G.S. 1872; contributed
numerous papers to _Geological Mag._; author of _Christ for all
the ages and other lay sermons_ 1871; _Treatise on slate and slate
quarrying_ 1878, _2 ed._ 1880; _Metalliferous minerals and
mining_, _2 ed._ 1880; _Treatise on earthy and other minerals and
mining_ 1884. _d._ suddenly on board the steamer Angelo while
returning from Norway to Hull 19 Sep. 1885. _Quarterly Journal of
Geol. Soc. xlii_, 43 (1886).
DAVIES, REV. EVAN. _b._ Hengwm, Lledrod, county of Cardiganshire
1805; ordained at Wycliffe Congregational chapel, London as a
missionary to the Chinese 1835; sent to Penang by London
Missionary Soc. 1835, returned home 1839; superintendent of Boys’
Mission school at Walthamstow 1842–44; pastor at Richmond, Surrey
1844–57; author of _China and her spiritual claims_ 1845; _Memoirs
of the Rev. Samuel Dyer_ 1846; _Revivals in Wales_ 1859. _d._
Llanstephan near Carmarthen 18 June 1864.
DAVIES, EVAN. Watchmaker at Pontypridd; known as Myfyr Morganwg,
Arch-Druid of Wales, recognized head of the Druids who meet
periodically around famous rocking stone at Pontypridd; published
several works on Druidism which he argued was the true religion,
and several others on Celtic mythology. _d._ Pontypridd 23 Feb.
1888 in 89 year.
DAVIES, FRANCIS JOHN (_youngest son of Thomas Davies of New house,
co. Hereford 1751–92, advocate general Calcutta_). _b._ 1 May
1791; ensign 52 foot 3 Feb. 1808; captain Grenadier guards 30
April 1827 to 18 May 1841 when placed on h.p.; col. of 67 foot 15
Jany. 1858 to death; general 14 Jany. 1866. _d._ 8 Eaton place,
London 4 Dec. 1874.
DAVIES, GEORGE. _b._ Wells 15 Dec. 1800; entered navy 23 June 1813;
inspecting commander in coast guard of Banff district, July 1843,
of Penzance district 3 July 1848 to 1 Jany. 1851; captain 1 Jany.
1851; saved the lives of more than 200 persons at shipwrecks;
retired V.A. 29 May 1873; chief constable of Cambridgeshire, Nov.
1851 to death, and of Hunts. April 1857 to death. _d._ 10 Scrope
terrace, Cambridge 24 Nov. 1876. _O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict._
(1861) 281–2; _I.L.N. xviii_, 61–2 (1851).
DAVIES, GRIFFITH (_son of Owen Davies, farmer, who d. 21 March 1854
aged 93_). _b._ parish of Llandwrog, Carnarvon 28 Dec. 1788; kept
a school in London 1811; actuary to Guardian Assurance Co. 1823 to
death; constructed many tables for the Reversionary Interest Soc.
1823; F.R.S. 16 June 1831; wrote 20 reports on the various Indian
funds for the H.E.I.Co.; author of _Key to Bonnycastle’s
Trigonometry_ 1814; _Tables of life contingencies containing the
rates of mortality among the members of the Equitable Society_
1825. _d._ 25 Duncan terrace, Islington, London 21 March 1855.
_Assurance Mag. July 1855 pp._ 337–48; _C. Walford’s Insurance
Cyclopædia ii_, 172–4; _Pink’s Clerkenwell_ (1881) 705–8.
DAVIES, HENRY. _b._ London 1782; M.R.C.S. 1803; served in army
medical service; M.D. Aberdeen 26 Sep. 1823; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec.
1823; phys. to British Lying-in hospital; lecturer on midwifery at
St. George’s hospital; edited M. Underwood’s _Treatise on the
diseases of children_ 1846; author of _The young wife’s guide_
1852. _d._ London 9 Jany. 1862.
DAVIES, HENRY THOMAS. Entered navy 3 March 1794; captain 19 Feb.
1814; retired captain 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861.
_d._ Bath 21 Feb. 1869 aged 91.
DAVIES, HERBERT (_son of Thomas Davies of London, physician
1792–1839_). _b._ London 30 Sep. 1818; scholar of Gonville and
Caius coll. Cam. 1838, migrated to Queen’s coll.; 31 wrangler
1842; B.A. 1842, M.B. 1843, M.D. 1848; fellow of Queen’s coll.
1844; assistant phys. to London hospital 5 Aug. 1845, phys.
1854–74; F.R.C.P. 1850; phys. to Bank of England; author of
_Lectures on the physical diagnosis of the diseases of the lungs
and heart_ 1851, _2 ed._ 1854, translated into German and Dutch;
_On the treatment of rheumatic fever in its acute stage
exclusively by free blistering_ 1864. _d._ Hampstead 4 Jany. 1885.
_Medical Circular iii_, 439 (1853), _portrait_.
DAVIES, REV. JAMES (_2 son of Richard Banks of Kington,
Herefordshire_). _b._ Kington 20 May 1820; ed. at Repton and
Lincoln coll. Ox., scholar; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1846; Inc. of Ch. Ch.
Forest of Dean 1847–52; head master of Ludlow gr. sch. 1852–57;
took name of Davies in lieu of Banks 1858; wrote majority of
classical articles in _Saturday Review_ many years; author of a
remarkable essay on ‘Epigrams’ in _Quarterly Review_ Jany. 1865;
translated Hesiod, Theognis and Callimachus into prose for Bohn’s
Classical library; wrote vols. on Hesiod and Theognis and on
Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius for Collins’s Ancient Classics
for English readers; revised several of Murray’s Guides for the
press; author of a vol. of original verse entitled _Nugæ_ 1854.
_d._ Moor Court, Kington 11 March 1883.
DAVIES, REV. JOHN. Educ. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1831, D.D.
1844; R. of Gateshead 1840 to death; hon. canon of Durham, Feb.
1853 to death; author of _An estimate of the human mind, a
philosophical inquiry into the legitimate application and extent
of its leading faculties_ 1828; _The ordinances of religion
practically illustrated and applied_ 1832, and about 20 other
works. _d._ Ilkley Wells, Yorkshire 21 Oct. 1861.
DAVIES, LUCY CLEMENTINA (_youngest child of Leon Maurice called by
courtesy Lord Leon Maurice Drummond de Melfort 1761–1826_). _b._
Château of St. Germain near Paris 21 Nov. 1795; granted precedency
of an Earl’s daughter by r.l. 30 Sep. 1853; author of
_Recollections of society in France and England 2 vols._ 1872, a
work which contains much of her family history. (_m._ 8 Sep. 1823
Francis Henry Davies a registrar of Court of Chancery, who _d._ 22
Oct. 1863 aged 72). _d._ 22 Palace gardens terrace, Kensington,
London 27 April 1879.
DAVIES, VENERABLE RICHARD. V. of St. John’s, Brecknock 1804 to
death; archdeacon of Brecknock 15 Feb. 1805 to death; canon of St.
Davids 1805 to death. _d._ Residentiary house, St. David’s
cathedral, Brecon 14 May 1859 aged 82.
DAVIES, ROBERT (_eld. son of Peter Davies of York_). _b._ York 19
Aug. 1793; solicitor at York 1814, town clerk 1827–48; F.S.A. 22
Dec. 1842; author or editor of _The freeman’s roll of the city of
York_ 1835; _The Fawkes’s of York in the sixteenth century_ 1850;
_Notices of the mints and coinages at York_ 1854; _The life of M.
Rawdon, Camden Soc._ 1863; _A memoir of the York press_ 1868;
_Walks through the city of York_ 1880. _d._ The Mount, York 23
Aug. 1875.
DAVIES, VENERABLE ROLAND ROBERT. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1827; archdeacon of Hobart Town, Tasmania 1855 to death. _d._
Ferndean, Hobart Town 13 Nov. 1880 aged 75.
DAVIES, SCROPE BERDMORE. Educ. at Eton 1796–99 and King’s coll.
Cam., fellow 1805, senior fellow 1822 to death; B.A. 1806, M.A.
1809; remarkable for his dexterity at all athletic games
especially cricket and tennis, competed with Lord Byron in
swimming; intimate friend of Tom Moore and Lord Byron who when on
his death bed sent him a ring; Lord Byron’s _Parisina_ is
dedicated to him; lived at Ostend 1836; a well known talker and
diner out. _d._ 2 Rue Miromenil, Paris 24 May 1852. _T. C.
Grattan’s Beaten Paths_ (1862) _ii_, 146–70.
DAVIES, VENERABLE THOMAS HART FRANCIS PENROSE. Educ. at Trin. hall,
Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1841; C. of Holbrooke, Suffolk 1837–39; C.
of Knaresborough 1839–41; P.C. of Trinity, Nottingham 1841–51;
archdeacon of Melbourne, Australia 1851–53; V. of Ch. Ch. Ramsgate
1853 to death. _d._ Ramsgate 5 Jany. 1873 aged 76. _Kent Coast
Times 9 Jany. 1873 pp._ 2, 3.
DAVIES, THOMAS STEPHENS. _b._ 1794; F.R.S. Edin. 1831; F.S.A. 19
March 1840; professor of mathematics at R.M.A. Woolwich 1834 to
death; edited many mathematical works. _d._ Broomhall cottage,
Shooter’s hill, Kent 6 Jany. 1851. _Westminster Review lv_, 70–83
(1851); _Mechanics’ Mag. 11 Jany. 1851 pp._ 33–5; _The Expositor
i_, 284 (1851), _portrait_.
DAVIES, WILLIAM EDMUND. _b._ King’s Cross, London 1819; employed by
Cubitt and Co. as a carpenter; originated the betting list system
1846, hung up first of his betting lists at Salisbury Arms, Durham
st. Strand, betting lists were declared illegal by act of
parliament 20 Aug. 1853; lost £100,000 over the Derby 1852 when
Daniel O’Rourke won, and £48,000 over the Derby 1853 when West
Australian won; became known as the Leviathan; retired at end of
racing season 1857. _d._ at 18 Gloucester place, Brighton 4 Oct.
1879. _Rice’s History of the Turf ii_, 271–80 (1879); _Sporting
Review, Jany. 1859 pp._ 39–42; _Sporting Times 30 May 1885 p._ 2.
NOTE.—By his will he left property in railway shares valued at
£60,000 to the Brighton corporation subject to the payment of
certain annuities. His widow gave notice to dispute the will,
but on 21 Jany. 1880 an arrangement was made by which the
greater part of the property came to the corporation on her
death. Preston park, Brighton which cost £50,000 was purchased
with this money and opened 8 Nov. 1884.
DAVIS, CHARLES. _b._ near Hertford 15 Jany. 1788; whipper-in to his
father who hunted the King’s harriers 1800 and Pistol boy to
George iii; whipper-in to Mr. Sharpe’s staghounds 1812; huntsman
to the Queen 1821–66; presented with a testimonial in London 5
Feb. 1859, which testimonial he left to the Queen. _d._ Royal
Kennels, Ascot 26 Oct. 1866. _bur._ Sunninghill churchyard 2 Nov.
His horse Comus, a gift from the Prince of Wales, was shot by his
last wish and one ear of the horse in a small box was placed in
his grave. _Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known, second
series ii_, 284–305; _J. N. Fitt’s Covert side sketches_ (1878)
274–78; _Sporting Review lx_, 418–20 (1866), _lvi_, 402–8 (1866);
_Baily’s Mag. xii_, 254, 326–36 (1867); _The Sportsman n.s. ii_,
277 (1837), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxiv_, 164, 165 (1859),
_portrait_.
DAVIS, RIGHT REV. CHARLES HENRY. _b._ Usk, co. Monmouth 18 May 1815;
professed at St. Gregory’s, Downside near Bath 1834; a member of
Benedictine order 1833; ordained priest Nov. 1840; pastor of
Downside 1844–48; the first R.C. bishop of Maitland, Australia
1848 to death, consecrated 25 Feb. 1848; coadjutor of the
archbishop of the diocese. _d._ Sydney 17 May 1854.
DAVIS, RIGHT REV. DANIEL GATEWARD (_son of Rev. Wm. Davis_). _b._
Island of St. Christopher, West Indies 1788; ed. at Reading and
Pemb. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1823, D.D. 1842; went to the West
Indies; R. of St. Paul’s, Charleston, Nevis; R. of St. George’s,
Basseterre, St. Christophers; rural dean; archdeacon of Antigua
1837; visited England 1842; bishop of Antigua 21 Aug. 1842 to
death, consecrated in Westminster Abbey 24 Aug. _d._ 3 Bryanston
st. Portman sq. London 25 Oct. 1857.
DAVIS, EDWARD DEAN. _b._ near Bath 1806; manager of Taunton theatre
1835; travelled the Devonshire circuit with a company 1843–46;
lessee of T.R. Newcastle 1846–70; lessee of Lyceum theatre,
Sunderland 1854, theatre was entirely destroyed by fire 23 Dec.
1855, theatre was reopened 29 Sep. 1856 when Henry Irving made his
first appearance on the stage, lessee of the theatre again
1870–76. _d._ Eldon square, Newcastle 19 Feb. 1887.
DAVIS, GEORGE LENOX. Ensign 9 foot 15 Sep. 1808, lieut. col. 19 Dec.
1845 to 2 April 1852; inspecting field officer of Liverpool
recruiting district 2 April 1852 to death; C.B. 27 June 1846. _d._
Galway 14 April 1852.
DAVIS, HART. Commissioner of Excise 11 Aug. 1824, deputy chairman
Sep. 1837 to 6 Jany. 1849; F.R.S. 20 May 1841. _d._ Bere hill
house, Whitchurch 17 June 1854.
DAVIS, HENRY GEORGE (_son of Mr. Davis, master of St. Paul’s
parochial schools, Knightsbridge, London_). _b._ 4 Mills
Buildings, Knightsbridge 14 Aug. 1830; clerk in a circulating
library; contributed a series of articles on ‘Our local
associations’ to _West Middlesex Advertiser_; prepared for the
press _Memorials of the hamlet of Knightsbridge with notices of
its immediate neighbourhood_, _ed. by his brother C. Davis_ 1859;
left in manuscript two unfinished works ‘Pimlico’ and
‘Recollections of Piccadilly’; wrote many antiquarian papers in
_Notes and Queries_. _d._ St. Paul’s parochial school, Wilton
place, Belgravia 30 Dec. 1857.
DAVIS, JAMES EDWARD (_son of Aaron Wall Davis, M.D. of Presteign,
Radnorshire_). _b._ 1817; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1842; revising
barrister 1854; reporter for Law Journal Reports in Court of
Exchequer 1855–64; stipendiary magistrate for Stoke-upon-Trent
1864–70, for Sheffield 1870–74; legal adviser to comrs. of
Metropolitan Police 1874 to death; author of _Prize essay on the
laws for the protection of women_ 1854; _Practice and evidence in
the county courts_ 1855, _6 ed._ 1887; _The Criminal law
consolidation statutes_ 1861; _A manual of the law of registration
and election_ 1868, _2 ed._ 1879. _d._ suddenly at 4 Whitehall
place, London 12 July 1887 in 70 year. _Law Journal xxii_, 397,
406, 426 (1887).
DAVIS, JOHN EDWARD (_son of Henry Davis, commander R.N._) _b._ 9
Aug. 1815; entered navy 5 July 1828; Second master in the Terror
in Antarctic expedition 1839–43; surveyor to North Atlantic
telegraph expedition in the Fox 1862; retired captain 9 Aug. 1870;
naval assistant to the Hydrographer; author with his son of the
_Azimuth Tables_; invented an improved sextant; drew the charts
for Antarctic expedition 1839–43; the illustrations in _Narrative
of Sir James Clark Ross_ 1847 are from his drawings; F.R.G.S. _d._
Douglas house, Maze hill, Greenwich 30 Jany. 1877.
DAVIS, JOHN FORD. _b._ Bath 1773; ed. in London and Edin.; M.D.
Edin. 24 June 1797; L.R.C.P. 30 Sep. 1808; phys. to general
hospital, Bath 1817–34; author of _An inquiry into the symptoms
and treatment of Carditis, or inflammation of the heart_ 1808.
_d._ Bath 1 Jany. 1864.
DAVIS, JOHN PHILIP, called Pope Davis. Exhibited 33 pictures at the
R.A., 17 at B.I. and 59 at Suffolk st. gallery 1811–57; painted at
Rome 1824 a large picture of the ‘Talbot family receiving the
benediction of the Pope’ (hence his cognomen ‘Pope Davis’);
awarded a premium of £50 by directors of British Institution 1825;
author of _Facts of vital importance relative to the embellishment
of the Houses of Parliament_ 1843; _The Royal Academy and the
National Gallery, What is the state of these institutions?_ 1858;
_Thoughts on great painters_ 1866. _d._ 67 Great Russell st.
Bloomsbury, London 28 Sep. 1862 in 79 year.
DAVIS, JOSEPH BARNARD. _b._ York 13 June 1801; went as a surgeon in
a whaling ship to the Arctic seas 1820; L.S.A. 1823, M.R.C.S.
1843; surgeon at Shelton Hanley, Staffs. to death; M.D. St.
Andrews 1862; collected a museum of skulls and skeletons of
various races, larger than all the collections in British public
museums, which he sold to Royal college of Surgeons 1880; F.S.A.
21 Dec. 1854; F.R.S. 4 June 1868; author of _Popular manual of the
art of preserving health_ 1836; _Thesaurus Craniorum 2 vols._
1867–75; published with John Thurnam, M.D., _Crania Britannica, or
delineations of the skulls of the early inhabitants of the British
Islands_ 1856–65. _d._ Hanley 19 May 1881. _Nature 26 May 1881._
DAVIS, NATHAN. Lived in an old Moorish palace 10 miles from Tunis
many years; edited the _Hebrew Christian Magazine_ 1852; became a
Nonconformist minister; engaged excavating at Carthage and Utica
for the British Museum 1856–58, chief antiquities he discovered
were Roman mosaic pavements; author of _Tunis, or selections from
a journal during a residence in that Regency_ 1841; _Evenings in
my tent 2 vols._ 1854; _Carthage and her remains_ 1861; _Ruined
cities within Numidian and Carthaginian territories_ 1862. _d._
Florence 6 Jany. 1882. _Antiquarian Mag. i_, 152 (1882);
_Edwards’s Lives of the founders of the British Museum_ (1870)
666–8.
DAVIS, RICHARD BARRETT (_son of Mr. Davis, huntsman to the royal
harriers_). _b._ Watford, Herts. 1782; animal painter; exhibited
70 pictures at R.A., 57 at B.I. and 141 at Suffolk st. gallery
1802–53; animal painter to William iv, 1831. _d._ 9 Bedford place,
Kensington, London 13 March 1854.
DAVIS, WILLIAM. Founded a free school at Gower’s walk, Whitechapel,
London 1807; one of founders of National Society 1811 and of
Society for promoting enlargement, building and repairing of
churches and chapels 1818. _d._ 19 Nov. 1854 aged 88.
DAVIS, WILLIAM. _b._ Dublin 1812; portrait painter at Liverpool;
professor of painting at Liverpool academy; exhibited 16
landscapes at the R.A. 1851–72. _d._ London 22 April 1873.
DAVISON, REV. EDWARD (_son of Rev. Edward Davison 1760–1839, Inc. of
St. Nicholas, Durham_). Matric. from C.C. coll. Ox. 25 Nov. 1803
aged 15, B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810; fellow of Univ. coll. 1807–16; R.
of Harlington, Middlesex 1822–56; P.C. of St. Nicholas, Durham
1825–56; author of _Tentamen Theologicum, or an attempt to assist
the young clergyman of the Church of England in the choice of a
subject for his sermon on any Sunday throughout the year by E. D._
1850, and of several sets of lectures and sermons. _d._ Durham 22
May 1863.
DAVISON, SIR HENRY (_4 son of Thomas Davison of St. Bride’s, Fleet
st. London_). Matric. from Trin. coll. Ox. 23 Oct. 1823 aged 18,
scholar 1824, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1834; barrister I.T. 6 May 1834;
puisne judge of supreme court of Madras 16 March 1857, chief
justice 11 March 1859 to death; knighted by the Queen at Windsor
castle 28 Nov. 1856; published with H. Merivale _Reports in the
Queen’s Bench and upon Writs of Error_ 1844. _d._ Ootacamund on
the Neilgherry hills, Madras 3 Nov. 1860.
DAVISON, JAMES WILLIAM. _b._ London 5 Oct. 1813; ed. at Univ. coll.
sch. and Royal Acad. of Music; wrote pianoforte music for _Bohn’s
Harmonist_; edited the _Musical World_ to death; musical critic of
the _Times_ 1850–78; wrote for the _Saturday Review_ and
_Graphic_; contributed to _Grove’s Dictionary of music and
musicians_; author of _An essay on the works of Frederic Chopin_
1849. (_m._ 1860 Arabella Goddard the pianist). _d._ York hotel,
Margate 24 March 1885. _bur._ Brompton cemetery, London 28 March.
_Theatre v_, 230–4, 247–9 (1885); _Musical Standard 4 April 1885
pp._ 212–3; _London Figaro 4 April 1885 p. 11_, _portrait_.
DAVISON, JOHN ROBERT (_2 son of Rev. Edward Davison, R. of
Harlington, Middlesex, who d. 1863_). _b._ Church st. Durham 15
April 1826; ed. at Houghton and Durham gr. schs. and C.C. coll.
Ox., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1847; barrister M.T. 2 Nov. 1849; Q.C. 9
Jany. 1866; chairman of Durham quarter sessions 1868; M.P. for
city of Durham, Nov. 1868 to death; advocate general 28 Dec. 1870
to death; P.C. 8 Feb. 1871. _d._ The Auberies near Sudbury 15
April 1871. _Law Journal vi_, 282–3, 287–8 (1871); _I.L.N. lviii_,
427, 444 (1871), _portrait_, _lix_, 98 (1871).
DAVISON, JOSEPH (_son of Thomas Davison of Sedgefield, Durham_).
Solicitor at Durham 1831; deputy registrar in Episcopal registry
for wills Durham 1835–57; district registrar of Court of Probate
1857 to death; clerk and deputy steward of the Halmote Court at
Durham (through which all transfers of copyhold property in co.
Durham pass) 25 Nov. 1850 to death; held the office of Cursitor in
the Palatinate Chancery Court 25 Jany. 1836 to death when office
was abolished and documents were transferred to Record Office,
London; principal proprietor of Bedlington colliery on the Tyne.
_d._ Greencroft hall, Durham 20 Dec. 1868.
DAVISON, MARIA REBECCA (_dau. of Mr. Duncan of Liverpool, actor_).
_b._ Liverpool 1783; acted in England, Scotland and Ireland; first
appeared in London at Drury Lane 8 Oct. 1804 as Lady Teazle;
created the rôle of Juliana in _The Honeymoon_ 31 Jany. 1805;
acted at Drury Lane 1804–19 and 1825–29 and at Covent Garden
1819–21; her best parts were Maria in _The Citizen_ and Miss
Hardcastle in _She stoops to conquer_. (_m._ 31 Oct. 1812 James
Davison, who _d._ March 1858). _d._ Brompton, London 30 May 1858.
_Mrs. C. Baron Wilson’s Our actresses i_, 167–88 (1844);
_Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography i_, 51–7 (1825), _portrait_; _J. H.
Leigh Hunt’s Critical essays on the performers of the London
theatres_ (1807) 170–79; _The London Stage vol. 3_, _portrait_.
DAVISON, ROBERT. _b._ Belford, Northumberland 10 May 1804; resident
engineer to Truman and Co. brewers, London 1831–45; patented a
process for drying wood and other substances by currents of hot
air which was worked by Patent Desiccating Co. 1845 and received
gold medal of Soc. of Arts; erected Findlater’s brewery, Dublin
1852; designed Allsopp’s new brewery at Burton; invented machinery
for raising and conveying malt; patented machinery for cleansing
casks by a double rotatory motion; A.I.C.E. 1834, M.I.C.E. 1840;
prime warden of Blacksmiths’ Co. 1857–58. _d._ Finchley 14 March
1886. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. ii_, 192 (1842), _iii_, 57
(1843), _lxxxiv_, 442–44 (1886).
DAVISON, SIR WILLIAM (_son of Alexander Davison of St. James’s sq.
London, government contractor 1750–1829_). _b._ 1788; ed. at Eton;
captain Northumberland militia 7 July 1807; equerry to 1 Duke of
Cambridge 1813–50; equerry to 2 Duke of Cambridge 1850 to death;
captain on half pay of 2 Foot 25 Dec. 1813; lieut. col. in the
army 10 Jany. 1837; K.H. 1824; knighted at the King’s lodge,
Windsor 3 Sep. 1824. _d._ London 14 Jany. 1873.
DAVY, DAVID ELISHA (_son of Mr. Davy of Rumburgh, Suffolk, farmer,
who d. 1799 aged 90_). _b._ 1769; F.L.S. 17 Dec. 1793; receiver
general for Suffolk 1795; collected for nearly 50 years, materials
for history of Suffolk which were bought by British Museum 1852;
communicated a series of notices of sepulchral monuments existing
in parish churches of Suffolk to the _Topographer and
Genealogist_; wrote many articles on genealogical matters to
_Gent. Mag._ under initials D. A. Y.; author of _A short account
of Leiston Abbey by D. E. D. edited by J. Bird_ 1823. _d._ Ufford
near Woodbridge, Suffolk 15 Aug. 1851.
DAVY, EDMUND (_2 son of William Davy of Penzance_). _b._ Penzance
1785; assistant in laboratory of Royal Institution, London
1804–13; professor of chemistry in Royal Cork Institution 1813–26
and in Royal Dublin Society 1826–1854 when he retired on full
salary; gave upwards of 30 courses of lectures on chemical
subjects; F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1826; author of _An essay on the use of
peat or turf as a means of promoting the public health and the
agriculture of the United Kingdom_ 1850, and of 33 papers 1812–57.
_d._ Kimmage lodge, co. Dublin 5 Nov. 1857. _H. B. Jones’s Royal
Institution_ (1871) _pp._ 280, 360, 366.
DAVY, EDWARD (_eld. son of Thomas Davy of Ottery St. Mary, Devon,
surgeon_). _b._ Ottery St. Mary 16 June 1806; ed. at St.
Bartholomew’s hospital; L.S.A. 1828, M.R.C.S. 1829; operative
chemist at 390 Strand, under title of Davy and Co. 1830; invented
and patented Davy’s Diamond Cement 1835; laid down a mile of
copper wire around inner circle of Regent’s Park 1837 where he
made many experiments in electricity; opened an exhibition of his
telegraphic apparatus at Exeter hall 29 Dec. 1837; patented his
electro-chemical recording telegraph 4 July 1838 which was bought
by the Electric Telegraph Company for £600; sailed for Australia
as medical superintendent of an emigrant ship 15 April 1839;
edited the _Adelaide Examiner_ 1843–5; manager of copper smelting
works at Yatala 1848–51; head of Government Assay office at
Adelaide 1852–3 and at Melbourne, July 1853 to Dec. 1854; surgeon
at Malmesbury, Victoria 1855 to death; author of _An experimental
guide to chemistry_ 1836; _Outline of a new plan of telegraphic
communication_ 1836. _d._ Malmesbury 27 Jany. 1885. _Memoir of E.
Davy by his nephew H. Davy_ 1883; _J. J. Fahie’s Edward Davy and
the electric telegraph 1836 to 1839_ (1883).
DAVY, JOHN (_2 son of Robert Davy of Penzance, wood-carver, who d.
1794_). _b._ Penzance 24 May 1790; studied medicine at Edin., M.D.
1814; F.R.S. 17 Feb. 1814; hospital assistant in the army 19 May
1815; inspector general of army hospitals 22 Dec. 1848 to 3 Feb.
1849 when placed on h.p.; author of _An account of the interior of
Ceylon_ 1821; _Researches, physiological and anatomical_ 1839;
_Notes and observations on the Ionian islands 2 vols._ 1842;
_Lectures on chemistry_ 1849; _Discourses on agriculture_ 1849;
_On some of the more important diseases of the army_ 1862; _The
angler and his friends or piscatory colloquies and fishing
excursions_ 1855. _d._ Lesketh-how near Ambleside 24 Jany. 1868.
_Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi_, 79–81 (1868); _Boase and Courtney’s
Bibl. Cornub. i_, 111 (1874), _iii_, 1152 (1882).
DAVY, SIR WILLIAM GABRIEL (_eld. son of Major Davy, Persian
secretary to Warren Hastings_). _b._ King’s Holme near Gloucester
1779; ensign 61 foot March 1797; major 60 foot 5 Feb. 1807;
lieut.-col. 7 garrison battalion 28 Dec. 1809 to 1810 when placed
on h.p.; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.H. 1836; knighted at St. James’s
palace 23 March 1836; col. commandant 60 foot 2 Nov. 1842 to
death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ Tracy park near Bath 25 Jany.
1856 aged 77.
DAVYS, RIGHT REV. GEORGE (_son of John Davys of Rempstone, Notts._)
_b._ Loughborough, Leics. 1 Oct. 1780; a sizar at Ch. coll. Cam.
1799, fellow 14 Jany. 1806–1814; tenth wrangler 1803; B.A. 1803,
M.A. 1806; V. of Willoughby in the Wolds, Lincs. 1811–29; educated
the Princess Victoria at Kensington Palace 1827–37; R. of
Allhallows on the Wall, city of London 1829–39; dean of Chester 10
Jany. 1831 to May 1839, instituted 21 Feb. 1831; bishop of
Peterborough, May 1839 to death, consecrated 16 June; author of
_Village conversations on the Liturgy of the Church of England_
1820, _8 ed._ 1829; _Village conversations on the principal
offices of the Church_ 1824, _2 ed._ 1849; _Letters between a
father and his son on Roman history and other subjects_ 1848, and
of various educational works which appeared anonymously in _The
cottagers’ monthly visitor and National School Mag._ _d._ The
palace, Peterborough 18 April 1864.
DAVYS, VENERABLE OWEN. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1817,
M.A. 1820; V. of Cranwell, Lincs. 1834–46; archdeacon of
Northampton 15 Sep. 1842 to death; canon of Peterborough 15 Sep.
1842 to death; R. of Fiskerton, Lincs. 1846 to death. _d._ 8 Feb.
1875.
DAWES, GEORGE (_youngest son of Thomas Dawes, who d. 3 Jany. 1871_).
_b._ Angel court, Throgmorton st. London 23 Nov. 1810; solicitor
at Angel court 1835 to death; solicitor to Associated fire offices
and Fire office committee; settled form of fire policy generally
used by insurance offices; conducted most of the leading insurance
cases. _d._ Barlow, Florida, U.S. 9 Dec. 1887.
DAWES, VERY REV. RICHARD (_son of James Dawes of Hawes in
Wensleydale, Yorkshire_). Baptised at Hawes 13 April 1793; entered
Trin. coll. Cam. Oct. 1813; 4 wrangler 1817; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820;
fellow and tutor of Downing college 1818; V. of Tadlow, Cambs.
1819–36; R. of Kings Somborne, Hants. 1836, founded a school there
opened Oct. 1842; dean of Hereford 15 May 1850 to death, installed
13 June 1850; restored the cathedral and re-opened it 1863; master
of St. Catherine’s hospital, Ledbury 1861; vice pres. of British
association at Bath 1864; author of _Suggestive hints towards
improved secular instruction making it bear upon practical life_
1849 and ten other small books. _d._ The deanery, Hereford 10
March 1867. _A biographical notice of the late Very Rev. R. Dawes
by W. C. Henry, privately printed_ 1867; _G.M. May 1867 pp._
674–75.
DAWES, THOMAS. Attorney in City of London 1795 to death. _d._
Tunbridge Wells. 3 Jany. 1871 aged 98 being oldest attorney on the
rolls.
DAWES, WILLIAM RUTTER (_son of Mr. Dawes, mathematical master at
Christ’s hospital, London_). _b._ Christ’s hospital 19 March 1799;
ed. at Charterhouse sch.; surgeon at Haddenham, Bucks., at
Liverpool 1826; took charge of a small independent congregation at
Ormskirk, Lancs. to 1839; had charge of the observatory at South
villa, Regent’s park, London belonging to George Bishop 1839–1844;
fitted up an observatory at Camden lodge near Cranbrook, Kent
1844; invented several valuable improvements in practical
astronomy; F.R.A.S. 14 May 1830, gold medallist 1855; F.R.S. 1865.
_d._ Hopefield, Haddenham 15 Feb. 1868. _Monthly notices of Royal
Astronom. Soc. xxix_, 116.
DAWKINS, HENRY. _b._ 1765; comr. of woods and forests 31 July 1810
to 1832 when he retired on pension of £800; M.P. for Aldborough,
Yorkshire 12 Oct. 1812 to Aug. 1814. _d._ Encombe house near
Sandgate, Kent 2 Nov. 1852 in 88 year.
DAWKINS, HENRY. _b._ 28 Nov. 1788; ed. at Harrow and Marlow; ensign
Coldstream guards 10 March 1804, captain 25 July 1814 to 31 Aug.
1826 when placed on h.p.; served through Peninsular war and at
Waterloo; retired from army 1846; M.P. for Boroughbridge,
Yorkshire 10 March 1820 to 24 July 1830. _d._ Over Norton,
Oxfordshire 13 Nov. 1864.
DAWSON, GEORGE (_son of Jonathan Dawson of London, schoolmaster_).
_b._ 36 Hunter st. Brunswick sq. London 24 Feb. 1821; ed. at
Glasgow Univ., B.A., M.A.; minister of baptist chapel at
Rickmansworth, Herts. 1843; min. of Mount Zion chapel, Birmingham,
6 Oct. 1844 to Dec. 1845; min. of “The Church of the Saviour,”
Birmingham 8 Aug. 1847; lectured in all chief towns of the Kingdom
30 years; lectured in the U.S. 1874; edited _Birmingham Morning
News_ from 2 Jany. 1871; mem. of Birmingham sch. board 28 Nov.
1871; took an active part in English and foreign politics; friend
of Mazzini and Kossuth; author of _Prayers with a discourse on
prayer_ 1877, _9 ed._ 1884; _Sermons on daily life and duty_ 1878;
_Three books of God, Nature, history and scripture_ 1882;
_Shakespeare and other lectures_ 1878. (_m._ 27 Aug. 1846 Susan
Frances youngest dau. of J. W. Crompton of Edgbaston, merchant,
she was _b._ Edgbaston 23 June 1820 and _d._ Malvern 9 Nov. 1878).
_d._ Kingsnorton near Birmingham 30 Nov. 1876. _Crosskey’s Memoir
of G. Dawson_ 1876; _Ireland’s Recollections of G. Dawson_ 1882;
_Manchester Quarterly i_, 181–204 (1882); _Gilfillan’s Second
gallery of literary portraits_ (1850) 196–213; _The lamps of the
temple, 3 ed._ (1856) 449–65; _Edgbastonia i_, 94–7, 114 (1881)
_portrait of Mrs. Dawson_, _ii_, 140–43 (1882), _portrait of G.
Dawson_; _Nineteenth Century ii_, 44–61 (1877); _Illust. news of
the world, ix_ (1862), _portrait_.
DAWSON, GEORGE. _b._ Falkirk, Stirlingshire 14 March 1813; taken to
America 1818; foreman in office of _Evening Journal_ at Albany,
New York 1830–36; edited Rochester _Daily Democrat_ 1836–39 and
1842–46; edited Detroit _Advertiser_ 1839–42; associate editor of
Albany _Evening Journal_ 1846, editor 1862–77; postmaster of
Albany 1861–67; author of _The pleasures of angling_ 1876. _d._
Albany, New York 17 Feb. 1883.
DAWSON, GEORGE ROBERT (_elder son of Arthur Dawson of Castledawson
1745–1822_). _b._ Rutland sq. Dublin 24 Dec. 1790; ed. at Harrow
and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1811; M.P. for co. Londonderry 1815–30, for
Harwich 1830–32; under sec. of state for home department 17 Jany.
1822 to 30 April 1827; sec. of the Treasury 28 Jany. 1828 to 26
Nov. 1830; P.C. 22 Nov. 1830; sec. of the Admiralty 24 Dec. 1834
to 27 April 1835; comr. of the Customs 29 Dec. 1841, deputy
chairman 1846 to death. _d._ Upper Grosvenor st. London 3 April
1856.
DAWSON, HENRY. _b._ Water st. Hull 3 April 1811; employed in a lace
factory at Nottingham to 1835; landscape painter at Nottingham
1835, at Liverpool 1844–50, at Croydon 1850; competed for
decoration of Houses of Parliament 1847; one of his best pictures
‘The wooden walls of old England’ which sold for £75 in 1853,
brought £1400 at Christie’s 1876; 57 of his pictures were at
Nottingham exhibition 1878 and several of his large pictures at
Jubilee exhibition, Manchester 1887. _d._ The Cedars, Chiswick 13
Dec. 1878. _C. Brown’s Lives of Nottinghamshire Worthies_ (1882)
360–66, _portrait_.
DAWSON, PUDSEY (_son of Pudsey Dawson of Langcliff hall, Yorkshire
1752–1816_). _b._ 2 Oct. 1778; sheriff of West Riding, Yorkshire
1845; assoc. of Archæol. assoc. 1851; Hornby castle devised to him
by Admiral Tatham who _d._ 24 Jany. 1840, was visited by British
Archæological Soc. 2 Aug. 1850. _d._ Hornby Castle, Lancaster 12
April 1859. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xvi_, 170–71
(1860).
DAWSON, ROBERT. Assistant draughtsman on the ordnance survey of
Great Britain 1794; a first-class draughtsman in corps of royal
military surveyors and draughtsmen 1802; contributed much to bring
sketching and shading of ordnance plans to degree of perfection
afterwards attained; instructor in topographical drawing at Royal
military college, also at H.E.I. Co.’s military seminary,
Addiscombe 1810; pensioned by Board of Ordnance. _d._ Woodleigh
rectory, South Devon 22 June 1860.
DAWSON, ROBERT KEARSLEY (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 1798;
second lieut. R.E. 1 March 1816, captain 18 Aug. 1837 to 1 Dec.
1853 when he retired on full pay as lieut.-col.; employed on the
Scotch and Irish surveys; assistant comr. under the Tithe Act
1836; member of the first Metropolitan sewers commission 1849;
A.I.C.E. 28 March 1838; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; compiled _Plans of the
cities and boroughs of England and Wales_ 1832. _d._ Blackheath,
Kent 28 March 1861. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi_, 582–4
(1862).
DAWSON, ROBERT PEEL (_eld. son of George Robert Dawson 1790–1856_).
_b._ London 2 June 1818; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; ensign
Grenadier guards 8 Aug. 1837; captain 11 Hussars 9 June 1846 to 13
July 1847 when he sold out; sheriff of Londonderry 1850; M.P. for
Londonderry 1859–74; lord lieut. of Londonderry 23 June 1870 to
death; col. of Londonderry militia 12 April 1871 to death. _d._
Dover 2 Sep. 1877.
DAWSON, THOMAS VESEY (_2 son of 2 Baron Cremorne 1788–1877_). Ensign
Coldstream guards 11 Aug. 1837, captain 22 Aug. 1851 to death;
M.P. for co. Louth 1841–1847, for co. Monaghan 1847–1852; killed
at battle of Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854.
DAWSON-DAMER, GEORGE LIONEL (_3 son of 1 Earl of Portarlington
1744–98_). _b._ Queen’s county 28 Oct. 1788; cornet 1 dragoon
guards 4 Dec. 1806, captain 31 Dec. 1812; captain 22 light
dragoons 22 Jany. 1818 to 17 Aug. 1820 when placed on h.p.;
captain 65 foot 8 June 1826; major 89 foot 13 Dec. to 24 Dec. 1833
when he sold out; assumed additional surname of Damer by r.l. 14
March 1829; M.P. for Portarlington 9 Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847,
for Dorchester 28 July 1847 to 1 July 1852; comptroller of H.M.’s
household, Sep. 1841 to July 1846; C.B. 26 Nov. 1816; P.C. 14 Sep.
1841. _d._ 23 Wilton crescent, Belgravia, London 14 April 1856.
DAY, ALFRED (_son of John B. Day, horse trainer, who d. 21 March
1860_). _b._ Danebury 3 Nov. 1830; rode in the Cesarewitch race
1843; won the One thousand guineas on Flea 1849 and on Kate 1852;
won the Two thousand guineas on Pitsford 1850, Hermit 1854 and The
Promised Land 1859; won the Derby on Andover 1854. _d._ Chilbolton
near Stockbridge 4 Jany. 1868. _Sporting Review xliv_, 198–203
(1860), _portrait_, _lix_, 78 (1868); _Baily’s Mag., May 1860_,
_portrait_.
DAY, EDWARD DERRY. _b._ Kerry 1801; served in 46 foot 1820–34;
police magistrate of Maitland, N.S.W. 1836–50 and at Maitland,
Muswell-brook and Port Macquarie 1853–69; captured the ‘Jew Boy’s
gang of bushrangers’ at Doughboy Hollow near Murrurundi, N.S.W. 20
Dec. 1840. _d._ Maitland 5 May 1876.
DAY, GEORGE EDWARD (_son of George Day of Manorabon house,
Swansea_). _b._ Tenby 4 Aug. 1815; entered Trin. coll. Cam. 1833;
scholar of Pemb. coll. 1833 or 1834, 29 wrangler 1837; B.A. 1837,
M.A. 1840; physician in London 1843; M.R.C.P. 1844, F.R.C.P. 1847;
phys. to Western general dispensary; lecturer on materia medica at
Middlesex hospital; Chandos professor of anatomy and medicine at
St. Andrews 1849–63; M.D. Giessen 1849; F.R.S. 6 June 1850;
translated J. F. Simon’s _Animal chemistry 2 vols._ 1845; J.
Vogel’s _Pathological anatomy of the human body_ 1847; author of
_A practical treatise on the domestic management and most
important diseases of advanced life_ 1849; _Chemistry in its
relations to physiology and medicine_ 1860, and of many articles
in medical papers and _Chambers’s Encyclopædia_. _d._ Andersey,
Torquay 31 Jany. 1872. _Medical Circular iii_, 241 (1853),
_portrait_; _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. vii_, 45–7 (1875).
DAY, GEORGE FIOTT. _b._ June 1820; entered navy Aug. 1833; captain
20 Aug. 1861; retired captain 14 Feb. 1867; C.B. 29 May 1875; V.C.
24 Feb. 1857. _d._ Weston-super-Mare 18 Dec. 1876. _O’Byrne’s
Naval biog. dict._ (1861) 289–90; _I.L.N. lxx_, 21 (1877),
_portrait_.
DAY, REV. HENRY THOMAS. Ed. at Clare coll. Cam., LL.B. 1836, LLD.
1841; V. of Mendlesham, Suffolk 1835 to death; author of _Sermons
at Mendlesham_ 1838; _Algarsife and other poems_ 1848; _An ode on
the liberation of Abd-el-Kader_, and letters and pamphlets in
favour of the revision of the authorised version of the
Scriptures. _d._ 27 Sep. 1861 aged 62.
DAY, JOHN (_son of the succeeding_). Trainer of horses at Danebury;
entered an action for libel against Admiral Rous which did not
come into court; trained horses for Duke of Beaufort, Lord
Hastings and many others. _d._ Danebury 3 Dec. 1882 aged 68.
_Baily’s Mag. xl_, 64–72, 121–2 (1883); _Illust. sp. and dr. news
xviii_, 345 (1882).
DAY, JOHN BARHAM. _b._ Houghton Down 1794; won the Oaks on Turquoise
1828, Oxygen 1831, Pussy 1834, Deception 1839 and Crucifix 1840;
trainer for Lord George Bentinck many years; trained many
celebrated horses for Henry Padwick and John Gully, among them
were Hermit winner of the Two thousand guineas, Andover winner of
the Derby, and Virago who won 12 races out of 13 as a 3 year old;
earned sobriquet of the “Lyndhurst of the Turf” by his habit of
talking sound sense. _d._ Woodyates 21 March 1860. _Rice’s British
turf i_, 274–8 (1879); _Corbet’s Tales of sporting life_ (1864)
55–67; _Baily’s Mag. i_, 228–34 (1860).
DAY, SAMUEL (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1801; won the Derby
on Gustavus 1821, on Priam 1830, on Mendicant 1846; won the Oaks
on Pyrrhus the First 1846; kept livery stables in London. _d._
London 17 Feb. 1866. _Bell’s Life in London 24 Feb. 1866 p. 4._
DAYMAN, REV. JOHN (_eld. son of John Dayman of Padstow, Cornwall
1778–1859_). _b._ St. Columb, Cornwall 1802; ed. at Tiverton and
C.C. coll. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; scholar of his coll. 1819,
fellow 1825–31; R. of Skelton, Cumberland 1831 to death; author of
_An essay concerning the nature of man_ 1837; _The Inferno of
Dante Alighieri translated in the terza rima of the original_
1843; _The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri translated in terza
rima_ 1865. _d._ London 8 July 1871.
DEACON, HENRY COLINS. Entered navy 3 Nov. 1800; captain 2 April
1817, retired 1 Oct. 1846, retired admiral 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ 12
Leonard place, Kensington 9 Nov. 1869.
DEAKIN, JAMES HENRY. _b._ near Manchester, Feb. 1851; M.P. for
Launceston 1874–77; barrister M.T. 1875. _d._ Werrington park near
Launceston 8 Nov. 1881.
DEALTRY, RIGHT REV. THOMAS (_son of James Dealtry of Knottingley
near Pontefract_). _b._ Knottingley 1795; usher in a school at
Doncaster; ed. at Cath. hall, Cam., LL.B. 1829; C. of St. Peter’s,
Cam. 1828; chaplain in Bengal army 1829; hon. sec. to Church
Missionary Soc. Calcutta; archdeacon of Calcutta 1835–48; Inc. of
St. John’s, Bedford row, London 1848–49; bishop of Madras 9 Nov.
1849 to death, installed 2 Feb. 1850; author of _The divinity of
our Lord Jesus Christ proved from his own discourse_ 1830. _d._
Madras 4 March 1861. _Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known_, _2
ed._ (1874) 106–7; _I.L.N. xv_, 376 (1849), _portrait_.
DEALTRY, VENERABLE THOMAS (_only son of the preceding_). _b._ 1825;
ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; assistant chaplain
Madras army 1850–71; archdeacon of Madras 1861–71; R. of
Swillington, Yorkshire 1872–78; V. of Maidstone 1878 to death.
_d._ Maidstone 29 Nov. 1882.
DEANE, BONAR MILLETT. _b._ 30 Sep. 1834; ensign 96 foot 12 March
1853; lieut.-col. 19 foot 14 April 1875 to 15 Jany. 1879 when
placed on h.p.; D.A.G. and Q.M.G. Cape of Good Hope 2 Aug. 1880 to
death; killed by the Boers at Laing’s Neck, Natal 28 Jany. 1881.
_I.L.N. lxxviii_, 149 (1881), _portrait_.
DEANE, CHARLES (_elder son of Charles Meredith Deane, captain 24
light dragoons_). _b._ Southampton 6 June 1791; cornet 24 light
dragoons 5 Sep. 1805, captain 5 Dec. 1818 to 25 July 1819 when
regiment was disbanded; captain 1 foot 14 Nov. 1822, major 19 June
1835 to death; K.H. 1836. _d._ Newport, co. Monmouth 18 March
1853.
DEANE, REV. JOHN BATHURST (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Cape of
Good Hope 27 Aug. 1797; ed. at Merchant Taylors; Parkin’s
exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Cam. 1816, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823;
second classical and head mathematical master at Merchant Taylors
1836–55; V. of St. Helen, Bishopsgate 1855 to death; R. of St.
Martin, Outwich 1855 to death; author of _The worship of the
Serpent traced throughout the world and its traditions referred to
the events in Paradise_ 1830; _The life of Richard Deane general
at sea in the service of the Commonwealth_ 1870. _d._ Sion hill,
Bath 12 July 1887.
DEANE, JOHN CONNELLAN (_eld. son of the succeeding_). _b._ 1816;
called to Irish bar; poor law inspector 1846; associated with Wm.
Dargan, Sir Joseph Paxton and others in the Great Exhibitions at
Cork 1852, Dublin 1853, and the Crystal palace and Alexandra
palace, London; originator of Great Exhibition at Manchester;
closely associated with early promoters of submarine telegraphy.
_d._ Naples 24 Feb. 1887.
DEANE, SIR THOMAS (_eld. son of Alexander Dean of Cork, builder_).
_b._ Cork 1792; a builder at Cork to 1830, an architect there 1830
to death; designed Commercial buildings, old and new Savings’
banks, Bank of Ireland and Queen’s college, Cork; joint designer
of The University Museum at Oxford 1855; mayor of Cork 1830;
knighted by Duke of Northumberland at Cork 1830; pres. of
Institute of Irish architects many years. _d._ 26 Longford
terrace, Monkstown, Dublin 2 Oct. 1871. _I.L.N. lix_, 338 (1871).
DEANE, WILLIAM WOOD (_3 son of John Wood Deane, cashier in Bank of
England, who. d. 5 Dec. 1854 aged 68_). _b._ Liverpool road,
Islington, London 22 March 1825; assoc. R.I.B.A. 1848; acted at
Miss Kelly’s theatre, London which he subsequently decorated;
architect in London 1853; made designs and perspectives for
architects; assoc. of Instit. of painters in water colours 1862,
member 1867; assoc. of Society of painters in water colours 1870;
exhibited 23 pictures at R.A., 4 at B.I. and 13 at Suffolk st.
gallery 1844–72. _d._ of cancer of the liver at 64 King Henry’s
road, Hampstead 18 Jany. 1873.
DEARDEN, THOMAS FERRAND. Solicitor at Rochdale 1823 to death;
coroner for co. of Lancaster, March 1835 to death. _d._ The Elms,
Rochdale 1 Jany. 1870 aged 68.
DEAS, SIR DAVID (_son of Francis Deas, provost of Falkland, who d.
1857_). _b._ Falkland, Sep. 1807; assistant surgeon R.N. 7 June
1828; chief medical officer of naval forces engaged during Russian
war, and Chinese war up to peace of Tientsin 1859; inspector
general of hospitals and fleets 1 March 1855 to March 1872 when
placed on retired list; granted good service pension 11 April
1869; C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ 32 Heriot row,
Edinburgh 15 Jany. 1876.
DEAS, SIR GEORGE (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 7 Jany. 1804;
ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1826; called to Scotch bar 1828;
advocate depute 1840–41 and 1846–50; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty
1850–51; solicitor general 1851–52; lord ordinary of court of
session with courtesy title of Lord Deas and a judge of Exchequer
25 May 1853; a lord comr. of justiciary April 1854 to Feb. 1885;
knighted at St. James’s palace 18 Feb. 1858; edited _The Scottish
Jurist_ 1829; edited with James Anderson, _Cases in the Court of
Session, Jury Court, and the High Court of Justiciary_ 1829–33, _4
vols._ _d._ 32 Heriot row, Edinburgh 7 Feb. 1887.
DEASE, MATTHEW O’REILLY (_son of Richard Dease, M.D. of Dublin, who
d. 1819_). _b._ 1819; ed. at Univ. of Paris; sheriff of Louth 1857
and of Cavan 1861; contested co. Cavan 1867; M.P. for co. Louth
1868–74; gave by his will remainder of his real and personal
property (equal to £40,000) to be applied towards extinguishing
National Debt. _d._ 17 Aug. 1887.
DEASY, RICKARD (_2 son of Richard Deasy of Clonakilty, Cork_). _b._
Clonakilty 1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834;
called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1849; bencher of King’s
Inns 1858; third serjeant at law 1858–59; M.P. for co. Cork
1855–61; solicitor general for Ireland, June 1859 to Feb. 1860;
attorney general Feb. 1860 to Jany. 1861; P.C. 1860; baron of
court of Exchequer, Jany. 1861; a judge of Court of Appeal 1 Jany.
1878 to death. _d._ 41 Merrion sq. east, Dublin 6 May 1883.
_O’Flanagan’s Munster circuit_ (1880) 254, 376–80.
DE BAR, BENEDICT. _b._ London 5 Nov. 1812; made his début at T.R.
Margate 1832; went to United States 1834; opened old National
theatre, New York 1837; played in London 1840; proprietor of
Chatham theatre, N.Y. 1849–52, of St. Charles’ theatre, New
Orleans 1853, of St. Louis theatre 1855; the best Falstaff in
America 1872 to death. _d._ St. Louis 14 Aug. 1877. _Era 14 Oct.
1877 p. 4._
DE-BEAUVOIR, SIR JOHN EDMOND, 2 Baronet (_eld. son of Sir John
Edmond Browne, 1 baronet 1748–1835_). _b._ 10 Dec. 1794; ed. at
Westminster; assumed name of De-Beauvoir in lieu of Browne 1825;
claimed as eldest son of a baronet, honour of knighthood which was
conferred on him 1827; contested Windsor, Dec. 1832, July 1837 and
June 1841; M.P. for Windsor 7 Jany. 1835 to 6 April 1835 when
unseated on petition; presented coat of arms over doorway of
Westminster school to replace the former escutcheon which he
helped to destroy when at school; author of _Miscellaneous poetry
and scraps written for ladies’ albums_ 1837. _d._ Upper Gloucester
st. Dorset sq. London 29 April 1869.
DE BEAUVOISIN, AUGUSTE MARIOT. Professor of French in King William
st. city of London 1844 to death; also taught French at St.
George’s and St. James’s halls, London; chevalier de la Toison
d’Or; author of _How to read and translate French_ 1847; _French
acquired in four months_ 1852; _Confabulateur Français_ 1855;
_French reading for self instruction_ 1861; _Anecdotes in French_
1866; _French verbs at a glance_ 1873. _d._ 53 Carlton hill, St.
John’s Wood, London 30 Oct. 1879.
DE BERG, ALEXANDER. Russian attaché chamberlain and consul general
in London 16 April 1862 to death. _d._ London 14 March 1884.
DE BERGUE, CHARLES LOUIS AIMÉ. _b._ Kensington, London 24 Sep. 1807;
went to Paris 1819, returned to England 1834; civil engineer at
Manchester 1850, at Cardiff 1861; invented several valuable
machine tools; invented a new iron permanent way for the Barcelona
and Tarragona line which he constructed; invented a new
construction of lattice bridge uniting lightness with great
strength; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1849. _d._ 17 Kensington palace
gardens, London 10 April 1873.
DE BLAQUIÈRE, WILLIAM DE BLAQUIÈRE, 3 Baron (_2 son of 1 Baron De
Blaquière 1735–1822_). _b._ 27 Jany. 1778; ensign 56 foot 31 Aug.
1791; major 25 light dragoons 1 Feb. 1798 to 22 Jany. 1801;
lieut.-col. 22 light dragoons 22 Jany. 1801 to 22 Aug. 1805;
lieut.-col. 2 dragoon guards 22 Aug. 1805 to 30 July 1807;
lieut.-col. 71 foot 30 July 1807 to 1808; general 23 Nov. 1841;
succeeded his brother as 3 Baron 7 April 1844; great alnager of
Ireland; F.R.S. 21 Feb. 1805; shot himself at Beulah hill, Norwood
12 Nov. 1851.
DE BLAQUIÈRE, PETER BOYLE (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Dublin
27 April 1784; served as a midshipman at battle of Camperdown;
emigrated to Canada 1837; a member of Canadian legislative council
1838 to death; chancellor of Toronto University; a member of the
Anglican synod. _d._ Yorkville (now part of Toronto) 23 Oct. 1860.
DE BURGH, ULICK CANNING (_elder son of 1 Marquis of Clanricarde
1802–74_). _b._ St. James’s sq. London 12 July 1827; ed. at Eton;
ensign Coldstream guards 27 March 1846, captain 3 Nov. 1854 to
1860; aide-de-camp to lord lieut. of Ireland 1846–52, state
steward of his household Jany. 1853; served in Crimean war, taken
prisoner by the Russians 22 Oct. 1854; military sec. to Lord
Canning governor general of India 1856–57; M.P. for Galway
1857–65, for co. Galway 1865 to death. _d._ 17 Stratton st.
Piccadilly, London 16 Aug. 1867.
DE BURGH, REV. WILLIAM (_3 son of Thomas Burgh of Oldtown, co.
Kildare, who d. 1832_). Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1821, M.A.
1847, B.D. 1851, D.D. 1857; Incumbent of St. John’s, Sandymount,
Dublin 1852–65; R. of Ardboe, Armagh 1865 to death; author of
_Lectures on the Second Advent_, _3 ed._ 1841; _Discourses on the
life of Christ_ 1849; _The Christian Sabbath_ 1856; _An exposition
of the Book of Revelations_, _5 ed._ 1857; _Commentary on Book of
Psalms_, _2 vols._ 1860. _d._ Ardboe 15 Oct. 1866.
DE BUTTS, SIR AUGUSTUS (_son of Elias De Butts of Wicklow_). _b._
1770; second lieut. R.E. 22 Aug. 1787, col. 30 Dec. 1814, col.
commandant 20 March 1827 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; K.C.H.
1837; knighted by Wm. iv at St. James’s palace 1 March 1837. _d._
14 Cambridge sq. London 27 Nov. 1853.
DE CETTO, BARON. Bavarian minister in London to 1872. _d._ 6 Hill
st. Berkeley sq. London 7 Aug. 1879 aged 84.
DE CHABOT, SIR LOUIS WILLIAM DE ROHAN CHABOT, Viscount (_eld. son of
Comte de Jarnac_). _b._ 1780; cornet 18 light dragoons 30 April
1793; major 9 light dragoons 16 March 1809; deputy adjutant
general in Canada 1807–8; served in expedition to Walcheren and in
Portugal 1809–10; M.G. 19 July 1821; K.C.H. 1822. _d._ 10 July
1875.
DE CHAUMONT, FRANCIS STEPHEN BENNETT FRANÇOIS. _b._ Edinburgh 1833;
ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1853; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1853, F.R.C.S.
Edin. 1804; assistant surgeon in the army 28 April 1854; served
with Rifle brigade in Crimean war; surgeon 20 June 1865; surgeon
major on h.p. 11 Oct. 1876; assistant professor of hygiene at army
medical school Netley hospital 1863–76, professor 1876 to death;
F.R.S. 12 June 1879; author of _Different families of the human
race_ 1865; _Hygiene in civil and military life_, _5 ed._ 1878.
_d._ Woolston Lawn, Southampton 18 April 1888.
DE CLIFFORD, EDWARD SOUTHWELL RUSSELL, 23 Baron. _b._ Upton Warws.
30 April 1824; M.P. for Tavistock 2 Aug. 1847 to 1 July 1852;
succeeded 3 Jany. 1874. _d._ Kirkby Mallory, Leics. 1877.
DE COLQUHOUN, JAMES (_only son of Patrick Colquhoun, lord provost of
Glasgow_). _b._ Kelvin grove, Lanarkshire 7 June 1780; ed. at St.
John’s coll. Cam.; consul general in London for Saxony 1827 to
death; chargé d’affaires in London for grand duke of Oldenburg
1848 to death; assumed designation of Chevalier; fellow of univ.
of Glasgow. _d._ Stratford place, London 23 July 1855.
DE COURCY, MICHAEL (_eld. child of Nevinson De Courcy, captain R.N.
1789–1844_). _b._ 8 May 1811; entered navy 1 Feb. 1824; captain 6
Sep. 1852; R.A. 18 Oct. 1867; retired admiral 15 June 1879; C.B.
13 March 1867. _d._ Milburn, Newton Abbot, Devon 22 Oct. 1881.
DE COURCY, NEVINSON WILLOUGHBY (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 27
Sep. 1823; 2 lieut. R.M. 17 Aug. 1841; captain 24 Feb. 1854;
lieut. col. 30 Oct. 1872 to 8 Oct. 1877 when he retired on
full-pay; C.B. 2 June 1877. _d._ Clapham near London 30 March
1885.
DEEDES, JOHN (_5 son of Wm. Deedes of Sandling park, Kent, M.P. for
Hythe_). _b._ 1803; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A.
1825, M.A. 1826; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1829, bencher 1863,
treasurer 1877; a revising barrister many years; recorder of
Queenborough 1834, of Deal, Sandwich, and Canterbury 1845–72;
assessor to the liberty of Romney, March 1858. _d._ 26 Chapel st.
Belgrave sq. London 11 Jany. 1885.
DEEDES, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Sandling park,
Kent 17 Oct. 1796; ed. at Winchester and C.C. coll. Ox., B.A.
1818; Fellow of All Souls coll. 1818–33; M.P. for East Kent
1845–57 and Dec. 1857 to death; a comr. of church estates 30 April
1858 to death; chairman of Kent general sessions; major commandant
of East Kent yeomanry cavalry. _d._ Eaton terrace, London 30 Nov.
1862.
DEEDES, WILLIAM (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 11 Oct. 1834;
ed. at Harrow; second lieut. Rifle brigade 1852; served in Crimean
war and Indian mutiny; lieut.-col. commandant of East Kent militia
1865–69; M.P. for East Kent 1876–80. _d._ Saltwood Castle, Hythe,
Kent 27 May 1887.
DE FOULON, JAMES FOULON, MARQUIS. _b._ England 1795; ed. under his
godfather John Nash the architect; lived some time at Hastings
where he taught the Princess Victoria perspective drawing;
architect to sir Henry Meux of Oxford st. London, brewer 1831–41;
his only son was killed at Lucknow during the Indian mutiny. _d._
Fulham road, London 22 Jany. 1887. _London Figaro 5 Feb. 1887_,
_portrait_.
DE FREYNE, ARTHUR FRENCH, 1 Baron (_eld. son of Arthur French, M.P.
for co. Roscommon, who d. 24 Nov. 1820_). _b._ 1795; called to
Irish bar 1825; M.P. for co. Roscommon 1821–32; created baron de
Freyne of Artagh 16 May 1839, and baron De Freyne of Coolavin 5
April 1851. _d._ 71 Connaught terrace, Hyde park, London 29 Sep.
1856.
DE GEX, SIR JOHN PETER (_eld. son of John De Gex of Leicester place,
Leicester sq. London_). _b._ 1809; ed. at Jesus coll. Cam.,
fellow, hon. fellow; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. 30 Jany.
1835; published with Basil Montagu and Edward Deacon _Cases in
bankruptcy argued in the Court of Review and on appeal before the
lord chancellor 3 vols._ 1842–5, with John Smale _Reports of cases
decided in Chancery by Knight-Bruce, V.C. and Parker, V.C. 5
vols._ 1849–53, with Macnaghten and Gordon _Cases in the Court of
appeal in Chancery 8 vols._ 1851–7; Q.C. 28 March 1865; bencher of
his inn 19 April 1865, treasurer 1882; knighted at Windsor Castle
7 Dec. 1882 on occasion of opening new law courts in the Strand;
author with R. H. Smith of _Arrangements between debtors and
creditors under the bankruptcy act_ 1861, _and 2 supplements 3
vols_. 1867–69. _d._ 20 Hyde park sq. London 14 May 1887. _I.L.N.
lxxxi_, 656 (1882), _portrait_.
DE GREY, THOMAS PHILIP DE GREY, 2 Earl (_eld. son of Thomas
Robinson, 2 baron Grantham 1738–86_). _b._ Whitehall, London 8
Dec. 1781; succeeded as 3 baron Grantham 20 July 1786; ed. at St.
John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1801; assumed surname of Weddell 7 May
1803; lord lieut. of Bedford 13 Feb. 1818; succeeded as 2 Earl De
Grey 4 May 1833; assumed surname of De Grey in lieu of Weddell 24
June 1833; first lord of the admiralty 22 Dec. 1834 to 25 April
1835; P.C. 29 Dec. 1834; lord lieut. of Ireland 3 Sep. 1841 to 2
July 1844; grand master of order of St. Patrick 1841–44; K.G. 12
Dec. 1844; pres. of Instit. of British Architects 1834 to death;
F.R.S. 29 April 1841; author of _Memoir of the life of Sir C.
Lucas_ 1845; _Characteristics of the Duke of Wellington apart from
his military talents_ 1853. _d._ 4 St. James’s sq. London 14 Nov.
1859. _I.L.N. 25 Feb. 1842 p. 146_, _portrait_, _13 Jany. 1844_,
22, 24, _portrait_.
DE HAMEL, FELIX JOHN (_son of Comte Jean Baptiste Augustin Bruno de
Hamel_). _b._ Tamworth 1808; ed. at Repton; admitted solicitor
1835; assistant solicitor for the Customs 1845, chief solicitor
for the Customs and Board of Trade 1848–78; consolidated the Acts
relating to the Customs 1854 and 1876; facilitated Customs
business by introducing a simpler form of bond. _d._ 70 Avenue
road, Regent’s park, London 31 July 1885 in 78 year.
DE HAVILLAND, THOMAS FIOTH (_eld. son of Sir Peter De Havilland of
Havilland hall, Guernsey, who d. 1821_). _b._ Havilland 10 April
1775; entered Madras army 1791; superintending engineer and
architect of Madras presidency 1814; constructed Madras bulwark
and pier 1822; retired lieut. col. 20 April 1825; lived in
Guernsey 1823 to death. _d._ De Beauvoir, Guernsey 23 Feb. 1866.
_Vibart’s Madras Engineers ii_, 1–35 (1883).
DE JARNAC, PHILIPPE FERDINAND AUGUSTE DE ROHAN CHABOT, Comte (_eld.
son of Viscount De Chabot 1780–1875_). _b._ 2 June 1821; chief
sec. of French embassy in London; lived in Kilkenny 20 years;
French ambassador in London 28 Nov. 1874 to death; author of
_Rockingham or the younger brother_ 1849, anon.; _Love and
ambition 3 vols._ 1851, anon.; _Cécile or the pervert By Sir
Charles Rockingham_ 1851; _Electra, a story of modern times 3
vols._ 1853, anon. _d._ French embassy, Albert Gate house, London
22 March 1875. _I.L.N. lxvi_, 321, 331 (1875), _portrait_.
DE JERSEY, HENRY. _b._ 1804; solicitor in City of London 1826 to
death; vestry clerk of parishes of St. Anne, St. Agnes and St.
Mary Staining; common councilman for Aldersgate ward 1840–71;
chairman of Commission of Sewers 1862–71; master of the Loriners’
Company 1871; secondary of City of London 1871 to Nov. 1884; under
sheriff of London and Middlesex twice. _d._ 32 St. James’s road,
Brixton, London 1 Dec. 1884 in 81 year.
DE LA BECHE, SIR HENRY THOMAS (_son of Thomas De La Beche of Halse
hall, Clarendon, Jamaica, a colonel in the army_). _b._ London 10
Feb. 1796; ed. at Ottery St. Mary, Devon and Great Marlow; F.G.S.
1817; studied geology in Dorset, Devon, Pembroke, Switzerland and
France; conducted the Geological Survey under the Ordnance in
Cornwall and Devon 1832, director general of Ordnance Survey 1840
to death; sec. to Geological Society 1831, foreign Sec. 1835–46,
Pres. 1847 and 1848, Wollaston medallist 1855; F.R.S. 23 Dec.
1819; F.L.S. 1821; Geological museum in Jermyn st. London founded
on his recommendation 1851; received order of Leopold of Belgium;
created a Knight of Danish order of Dannebrog; knighted at St.
James’s palace 13 April 1842; C.B. 27 April 1848; author of
_Researches in theoretical geology_ 1834; _How to observe geology_
1835; _Report on the geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset_
1839 and other books. _d._ London 13 April 1855. _Quarterly
Journal of geological society xii_, _pp. xxxiv-viii_ (1856);
_Proceedings of royal society vii_, 582–86 (1855); _I.L.N. xviii_,
422 (1851), _portrait_.
DELACOMB, HENRY ISATT. Second lieut. R.M. 21 Oct. 1805; col.
commandant 22 June 1855 to 1 April 1870; general 23 Aug. 1866;
C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ 19 Albion st. Hyde park, London 15 Nov.
1878 aged 89.
DELAGARDE, PHILIP CHILWELL (_son of a clergyman at Jersey_). _b._
1797; ed. at Exeter gr. sch.; apprenticed to Peppin and Barnes,
surgeons, Exeter; house surgeon St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London
25 Sep. 1818; M.R.C.S. Aug. 1819, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon Eye
infirmary, Exeter 1836; surgeon Devon and Exeter hospital, Exeter
1841, afterwards senior surgeon; ophthalmic surgeon and after the
retirement of Barnes, the most popular operator in the West of
England; mayor of Exeter, Nov. 1834 to 1 Jany. 1836; sheriff of
Exeter 1832–33; author of _A treatise on Cataract_ 1821; _A
supplement to the account of the church of St. Andrew, Cullompton
and its mural paintings_ in Spreate’s _Sketches of churches in
Devon_ 1842; _A brief commentary on the construction of hospitals_
1870, and _Nursing Sisterhoods_, a pamphlet. _d._ 23 Southernhay,
Exeter 17 Nov. 1871 in 74 year. _Medical Times and Gazette 2 Dec.
1871 p. 694_; _Lancet 16 Dec. 1871 p. 868_.
DELAMAINE, CHARLES HENRY. Entered Bombay army 1820; retired colonel
24 April 1854; C.B. 4 July 1843. _d._ Dinan, France 19 June 1870.
DELAMERE, THOMAS CHOLMONDELEY, 1 Baron (_eld. son of Thomas
Cholmondeley of Vale Royal, Northwich, Cheshire 1726–79, M.P. for
Cheshire_). _b._ Beckenham, Kent 9 Aug. 1767; high sheriff of
Cheshire 1792; M.P. for Cheshire 11 June 1796 to 29 Sep. 1812;
created Baron Delamere on coronation of King George 4th, by patent
dated 17 July 1821. _d._ 12 Hereford st. London 30 Sep. 1855.
DELAMERE, HUGH CHOLMONDELEY, 2 Baron (_eld. son of the preceding_).
_b._ Vale Royal 3 Oct. 1812; ed. at Eton; M.P. for Denbighshire
1840–41 and for Montgomery 1841–47; col. 1 Royal Cheshire militia
28 Aug. 1840 to death. _d._ Vale Royal 1 Aug. 1887.
DE LA MOTTE, FREEMAN GAGE (_son of Wm. De La Motte 1775–1863_).
Author of _Examples of modern alphabets_ 1859; _Embroiderer’s book
of design_ 1860; _Primer of the art of illumination_ 1860;
_Mediæval alphabets and initials for illuminators_ 1861; _Book of
ornamental alphabets 9th to 19th century_ 1858, _5 ed._ 1863. _d._
of apoplexy 15 Beaufort buildings, Strand, London 16 July 1862
aged 48.
DE LA MOTTE, PETER. Entered Bombay army 1797; col. 3 Bombay light
cavalry 27 April 1826 to death; general 16 June 1860; C.B. 28 July
1838. _d._ 15 Craven hill gardens, London 5 Feb. 1861 aged 79.
DE LA MOTTE, WILLIAM ALFRED (_eld. son of Peter De La Motte of
Weymouth, postal agent_). _b._ Weymouth 2 Aug. 1775; pupil of
Benjamin West, R.A.; drawing master at royal military colleges,
Great Marlow and Sandhurst 1803–43; published _Thirty etchings of
rural subjects_ 1816; exhibited 53 pictures at R.A., 13 at B.I.
and 7 at Suffolk st. gallery 1793–1850; author of _Smoking and
Smokers_ 1845, anon.; _Historical sketch of priory and hospital of
St. Bartholomew_ 1846. _d._ The lawn, St. Giles’s fields, Oxford
13 Feb. 1863.
DELANE, JOHN THADEUS (_2 son of the succeeding_). _b._ South Molton
st. London 11 Oct. 1817; ed. at King’s college, London and Magd.
hall, Ox., B.A. 1839; barrister M.T. 28 May 1847; engaged upon the
_Times_ 1839, editor May 1841 to Nov. 1877; organised with aid of
Lieut. Thomas Waghorn a special _Times_ express from Alexandria to
London 1845; exposed and stopped the railway mania 1845, at an
immense cost by loss of advertisements. _d._ Ascot Heath house
near Ascot 22 Nov. 1879. _Macmillan’s Mag., Jany. 1880 pp._
267–72; _Kinglake’s Crimean war_, _6 ed. vol. vii_, _chapter ix,
pp. 214–72_; _Hatton’s Journalistic London 1882 p._ 81,
_portrait_; _Times 25 Nov. 1879 p. 7, cols. 3–5_; _I.L.N. lxxv_,
548 (1879), _portrait_.
DELANE, WILLIAM FREDERICK AUGUSTUS. Financial manager of _Times_
newspaper; barrister G.I. 26 Jany. 1831; manager of _Morning
Chronicle_ to 1847; treasurer of county courts of Kent and part of
Surrey (circuits 47, 48, 49 and 50), March 1847 to death; author
of _A collection of decisions in the courts for revising the lists
of electors for the counties of Berks_ [_and other counties,
cities and boroughs_] 1834, _2 ed._ 1836; _The present laws for
regulating highways_ 1835. _d._ Hellesdon, Norwich 29 July 1857
aged 64.
DELANY, MOST REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Bandon 25 Dec. 1803; ed. at
Dunboyne; parish priest of Bandon 1845; R.C. bishop of Cork 1847
to death, during which period there was a great revival of church
architecture and multiplication of religious institutions. _d._
Blackrock near Cork 14 Nov. 1886.
DE LA RUE, THOMAS. _b._ Guernsey 24 March 1793; printer there 1815;
manufacturer of straw hats in London; invented bonnets of embossed
paper; founded house of De La Rue and Sons, card and ornamental
paper makers; introduced several new printing inks; invented
embossing of bookbinder’s cloths; patented fixing of iridescent
films on paper; Chevalier of Legion of Honour 1855. _d._ 84
Westbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 7 June 1866.
DE LA SAUSSAYE, SIR RICHARD (_son of Richard Sausse of
Carrick-on-Suir, co. Tipperary_). _b._ 1807; ed. at Stonyhurst and
Trin. coll. Dublin; ensign in Spanish royal foot guards 1827;
served with distinction during civil war 1833–40 attaining rank of
brigadier general; sent on a special mission to Great Britain
1854; commanded a division in campaign to Africa against the Moors
1859–60 where he was made major general; chamberlain to Queen of
Spain; military governor of fortress of Carthagena and of province
of Murcia; knighted at Windsor Castle 21 Aug. 1841 for services
performed while in command of British auxiliary brigade in north
of Spain; received Grand Cross of order of Isabel the Catholic.
_d._ Paris 27 Oct. 1872.
DE LASAUX, THOMAS THORPE. _b._ Canterbury 1797; solicitor there 1820
to death; coroner for East Kent 1820 to death being the oldest
coroner in England; coroner for Canterbury many years; said to
have held 4000 inquests. _d._ Canterbury 21 May 1884 in 87 year.
DELAWARR, GEORGE JOHN SACKVILLE WEST, 5 Earl (_only son of 4 Earl
Delawarr 1758–95_). _b._ Savile row, London 26 Oct. 1791;
succeeded 28 July 1795; ed. at Harrow and Brasenose coll. Ox.;
chief friend of Lord Byron at Harrow; B.A. 1812, M.A. 1819; hon.
D.C.L. Cam. 1828, hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1834; lord chamberlain 8 Sep.
1841 to 8 July 1846, and 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859; P.C. 14
Sep. 1841; took name of Sackville before West 6 Nov. 1843. _d._
Buckhurst park, Tunbridge Wells 23 Feb. 1869. _Portraits of
eminent conservatives, second series_ (1846), _portrait_.
DELAWARR, CHARLES RICHARD SACKVILLE-WEST, 6 Earl (_2 son of the
preceding_). _b._ Upper Grosvenor st. London 13 Nov. 1815; ensign
43 foot 26 July 1833; lieut.-col. 21 foot 9 March 1855 to 15 Aug.
1856 when placed on h.p.; commanded a brigade in expedition to
Kinburn 1855 and a brigade at Shorncliffe 1856; M.G. 29 Oct. 1864;
C.B. 5 July 1855; knight of the Medjidie 2 March 1858; K.C.B. 20
May 1871; a comr. for abolition of army purchase 30 Sep. 1871;
drowned himself in the river Cam at Cambridge 22 April 1873.
_United Service Mag._ 1873 _part_ 3, 39–49; _I.L.N. lx_, 157, 158
(1872), _portrait_.
DELEPIERRE, JOSEPH OCTAVE (_son of Joseph Delepierre,
receveur-général of province of West Flanders_). _b._ Bruges,
Belgium 12 March 1802; ed. at Univ. of Ghent; an avocat;
archiviste de la Flandre Occidentale, Bruges; came to London 1843;
sec. of Belgian legation, Aug. 1849 to 1874; Belgian consul in
London 1 Oct. 1849 to 14 April 1875; hon. sec. of the Philobiblon
Society 1853, contributed 22 papers to its privately printed
Miscellanies; hon. F.S.A. 1 May 1845; author of _Heures de loisir,
essais poétiques_ 1829; _Old Flanders, traditions and legends of
Belgium 2 vols._ 1845, and of 53 other books. _d._ 29 Upper
Hamilton terrace, London 18 Aug. 1879. _J. O. Delepierre In
memoriam, by N. Trubner_ 1880, _portrait_; _Le Livre, Paris, Jany.
1880 pp._ 22–28, 291–92; _R. Blakey’s Memoirs_ (1879) 208–12, 230,
239.
DELEVANTI, GEORGE, assumed name of George Crippin. _b._ London 29
July 1848; pupil of John Delevanti the clown 1854; entered the
profession as an acrobat; champion somersault rider of the world
at one time; performed in nearly every part of the globe; leading
equestrian at Renz’s circus, Berlin. _d._ 34 Headland park,
Plymouth 3 May 1887.
DELF, THOMAS. _b._ London; a bookseller in Bow lane, afterwards at
168 New Bond st. 1853 to death; partner with Nicholas Trubner
1851–2; projected _The Artist_, _The Children’s Journal_ 1863,
_The photographic art Journal_ 1862, _The royal cook_ 1858; author
under pseudonym of Charles Martel of _The principles of colouring
in painting_ 1855; _The principles of form in ornamental art_
1856; _Love letters of eminent persons_ 1859; _On the materials
used in painting with remarks on varnishing and cleaning pictures_
1859; _The principles of harmony and contrast of colours by M. E.
Chevreul, translated by C. Martel_ 1854, _3 ed._ 1859. _d._ 23
July 1865 aged 55.
DE LIEFDE, JACOB. _b._ Holland; _Daily News_ war correspondent
outside Paris 1870–71; author of _Six months among the charities
of Europe 2 vols._ 1865, _new ed._ 1872; _Romance of charity_
1867; _Truth in Tales_ 1870; _The great Dutch admirals_ 1873, _new
ed._ 1880. _d._ Twickenham 6 Feb. 1878 aged 31.
DE L’ISLE and DUDLEY, PHILIP CHARLES SIDNEY, 1 Baron (_only son of
Sir John Shelley Sidney, 1 baronet 1771–1849_). _b._ 11 March
1800; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; member of Sidney Sussex coll. Cam.,
D.C.L. Cam. 1835; M.P. for Eye, Suffolk 19 Oct. 1829 to Feb. 1831;
K.C.H. 1830, G.C.H. 1831; surveyor general of Duchy of Cornwall,
March 1832 to March 1849; created Baron De L’Isle and Dudley by
patent dated 13 Jany. 1835; succeeded as 2 baronet 14 March 1849.
(_m._ 13 Aug. 1825 Sophia eld. child of King Wm. iv, by Mrs.
Jordan the actress, she _d._ 10 April 1837). _d._ Penshurst, Kent
4 March 1851.
DE LISLE, AMBROSE LISLE MARCH PHILLIPPS (_eld. son of Charles March
Phillipps of Garendon park, Leics. 1779–1862_). _b._ Garendon 17
March 1809; received into R.C. church 1824; ed. at Trin. coll.
Cam. 1826–28; gave 230 acres of land in Charnwood Forest for
re-establishment of Cistercian order 1835, exactly 3 centuries
after its suppression; received the habit of third order of St.
Dominic at Rome 1837; built R.C. church at Sheepshed 1842; a
principal founder of Association for the promotion of the unity of
Christendon 1857; assumed name of De Lisle 1862; sheriff of Leics.
1868; translated from the Italian _The lamentations of England by
Father Dominic, Passionist_ 1831; _A vindication of Catholic
morality by Count Alexander Manzoni_ 1836 and other books. _d._
Garendon 5 March 1878. _Two sermons preached on the death of A. L.
M. P. De Lisle, March 1878, preceded by a short sketch of his
life, privately printed_ 1878; _Gillow’s English Catholics ii_,
38–47 (1885).
DE LISLE, RUDOLPH EDWARD LISLE MARCH PHILLIPPS (_son of the
preceding_). _b._ Gracedieu manor 23 Nov. 1853; midshipman R.N. 28
July 1868; lieut. 24 May 1877; lieut. Alexandra 12 guns 9 Jany.
1883; served in naval brigade attached to the Upper Nile
expedition, Aug. 1884 to death; killed at battle of Abu Klea 17
Jany. 1885. _Memoir of Lieut. Rudolph De Lisle by Rev. H. N.
Oxenham_ (1886), _portrait_.
DELLAGANA, BARTOLOMEO. _b._ Annigino canton Ticino, Switzerland;
stereotyper at 61 Red Lion st. Clerkenwell, London 1855, moved to
Shoe Lane 1857; effected great improvements in stereotyping by
using papier mâché; stereotyped the Illustrated London News,
Times, Daily Telegraph and other papers; naturalised in England 7
Jany. 1867. _d._ The Terrace, Kennington park, London 26 May 1882
in 50 year.
DEMAINBRAY, REV. STEPHEN GEORGE FRANCIS TRIBOUDET (_only son of
Stephen Charles Triboudet Demainbray 1710–82, astronomer to royal
observatory at Kew_). _b._ Ealing, Middlesex 7 Aug. 1759; ed. at
Harrow and Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1781, M.A. 1782, B.D. 1793; fell.
of his coll. 30 June 1778 to 4 Feb. 1799; astronomer at Kew
observatory 1782–1840 when it was given up; Whitehall preacher
1794; V. of Long Wittenham, Berks 9 Aug. 1794 to 4 Feb. 1799; R.
of Broad Somerford, Wilts. 4 Feb. 1799 to death; one of His
Majesty’s chaplains at Kew 1801; chaplain in ord. at St. James’s
palace 1802; author of _The poor man’s best friend_ 1831. _d._
Broad Somerford rectory 6 July 1854. _G.M. xlii_, 193–94 (1854).
DE MAULEY, WILLIAM FRANCIS SPENCER PONSONBY, 1 Baron (_3 son of 3
Earl of Bessborough 1758–1844_). _b._ Cavendish sq. London 31 July
1787; M.P. for Poole 1826–31, for Knaresborough 1831–32 and for
Dorset 1832–37; created baron De Mauley of Canford, Dorset 10 July
1838; chairman of Submarine electric telegraph company. _d._ 21
St. James’s place, London 16 May 1855.
DEMAUS, REV. ROBERT. Educ. at Univ. of Edin., signet medallist, M.A.
1851; chaplain to bishop of Aberdeen 1860–65; C. of St. Luke,
Chelsea 1865–72; principal of Whiteland’s training college,
Chelsea 1872 to death; author of _Class book of scripture history_
1863; _English literature and composition_ 1866; _William Tyndale,
a contribution to history of English Bible_ 1871; _The Jesuits, a
historical sketch_ 1873. _d._ of apoplexy 11 St. Leonard’s
terrace, Chelsea 15 March 1874 aged 45.
DE MORGAN, AUGUSTUS (_5 child of John De Morgan, col. in Madras
army, who d. 1816_). _b._ Madura, Madras 27 June 1806; lost his
right eye soon afterwards; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; scholar 1825,
fourth wrangler 1827, B.A. 1827; student at Lincoln’s Inn 1827;
professor of mathematics in London University 23 Feb. 1828 to 24
July 1831; fellow of Astronomical Soc. May 1828, member of council
1830–61, hon. sec. 1831–38 and 1848–54; professor of mathematics
in University college, London, Oct. 1836 to 10 Nov. 1866; pres. of
Mathematical Soc. 7 Nov. 1864; granted civil list pension of £100,
21 Jany. 1870; author of _Elements of arithmetic_ 1830, _6 ed._
1876; _Formal Logic_ 1847; _Trigonometry and double algebra_ 1849;
_Book of almanacs_ 1851, _2 ed._ 1871; _Budget of Paradoxes_ 1872,
and nearly one sixth of articles in _Penny Cyclopædia_ 1833–58.
(_m._ 1837 Sophia Elizabeth dau. of Wm. Frend of London, she was
granted civil list pension of £50, 25 July 1871). _d._ Merton
road, Regent’s park, London 18 March 1871. _Memoir of A. De Morgan
by S. E. De Morgan_ 1882, _portrait_, _with list of his writings
at pp. 401–17_; _Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxx_, 11,
112–18 (1872).
DE MORGAN, CAMPBELL GREIG (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
Clovelly, Devon 1811; ed. at Univ. coll. London; M.R.C.S. 1835,
F.R.C.S. 1843; assistant surgeon Middlesex hospital 1842, surgeon
1848 to death; lectured on forensic medicine there 1841,
afterwards on physiology and surgery to death; professor of
anatomy 1845; F.R.S. 6 June 1861; author of _The origin of Cancer_
1872, and of the article Erysipelas in Holmes’s _System of
surgery_ 1860. _d._ 29 Seymour st. Portman sq. London 12 April
1876. _Medical Circular iv_, 67 (1854); _Medical Times and Gazette
i_, 483–5 (1876).
DEMPSTER, WILLIAM RICHARDSON. _b._ Keith, Scotland 1809; went to the
United States when young, and became naturalised; a successful
composer and public singer; set Tennyson’s _May Queen_ to music;
composed music for most of the songs found in Tennyson’s longer
poems. _d._ London 7 March 1871.
DENBIGH, WILLIAM BASIL PERCY FIELDING, 7 Earl of. _b._ Berwick
house, Salop 25 March 1796; succeeded his grandfather as 7 Earl 14
July 1800; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; lord chamberlain to
Queen Adelaide, Jany. 1833; P.C. 4 Feb. 1833; G.C.H. 1833; master
of the Horse to Queen Adelaide 15 Dec. 1834 to 2 Dec. 1849 when
she died. _d._ Hampstead 25 June 1865.
DENDY, WALTER COOPER. _b._ at or near Horsham, Sussex 1794; M.R.C.S.
1814; practised in City of London; fellow of Medical Soc. of
London, president; senior surgeon to Royal infirmary for children,
Waterloo Road; author of _Practical remarks on the diseases of the
skin_ 1837, _2 ed._ 1854; _The philosophy of mystery_ 1841;
_Psyche, a discourse on the birth and pilgrimage of thought_ 1853;
_The beautiful islets of Britaine_ 1857, _2 ed._ 1860, and other
books. _d._ 25 Suffolk st. Haymarket, London 10 Dec. 1871. _J. F.
Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections_ (1874) 441–9; _Medical
Circular iv_, 155–6 (1854).
DE NEMOURS, VICTOIRE AUGUSTE ANTOINETTE, Duchesse (_only dau. of
Ferdinand George Augustus, Duke of Saxe Coburg 1785–1851_). _b._
Vienna 16 Feb. 1822; lived at Claremont, Surrey 1848 to death.
(_m._ 27 April 1840 Duc de Nemours 2 son of Louis Phillippe King
of the French, he was _b._ 25 Oct. 1814). _d._ Claremont 10 Nov.
1857. _bur._ in the Taylor vault under R.C. church of St. Charles
Borromeo, Weybridge, Nov.; body removed to a mortuary chapel
adjoining above church 5 Oct. 1883.
DENHAM, SIR HENRY MANGLES (_son of Henry Denham of Sherborne,
Dorset_). _b._ 28 Aug. 1800; entered navy April 1809; captain 17
Aug. 1846; F.R.S. 28 Feb. 1839; a younger brother of Trinity House
1841 to death; employed in the construction of charts 1822–52;
inspector of steam-boat accidents; invented a valuable contrivance
for steering a ship when disabled called Denham’s Jury Tiller,
also Denham’s Rowlocks for rowing boats; knighted at Windsor
Castle 26 March 1867; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877; A.I.C.E. 4
March 1851; author of _Sailing directions for the British Channel_
1839 and other works. _d._ 21 Carlton road, Maida vale, London 3
July 1887. _Min. Proc. I.C.E. xci_, 460–62 (1888).
DENHAM, REV. JOSHUA FREDERICK. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A.
1827, M.A. 1830; lecturer of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London 1828;
R. of St. Mary-le Strand, London 1839 to death; F.R.S. 20 May
1841; author of _Natural theology_ 1828; _History of the old St.
Dunstan’s church_ 1832; _Letters on education_ 1832 and other
books. _d._ 8 New Inn, Strand, London 26 Jany. 1861 aged 60.
DENHAM, MICHAEL AISLABIE. _b._ near Bowes, Yorkshire; in business at
Hull; general merchant at Piercebridge, Durham; printed _Folk Lore
or a collection of local rhymes, proverbs, sayings, prophecies,
slogans, &c. relating to Northumberland, Newcastle-on-Tyne and
Berwick-upon-Tweed_ 1858, and other books on folk lore. _d._
Piercebridge 10 Sep. 1859.
DENIEHY, DANIEL HENRY. _b._ Kent st. Sydney 1828; attorney in Sydney
and Goulburn; mem. for Argyle in Representative Assembly 1856–58,
for East Macquarie 1858–59; published a series of obituary notices
in the _Southern Cross_ 1859–60; edited _The Victorian_ Melbourne
weekly paper 1862–64. _d._ in the hospital, Bathurst 22 Oct. 1865
in 37 year. _G. B. Barton’s Poets and prose writers of New South
Wales_ (1866) 94–148.
DENING, EMMA GERALDINE HENRIETTA HAMILTON (_dau. of Thomas Clarence
Hooper_). _b._ Paris 30 March 1841, ed. at Bath; converted by Rev.
Wm. Haslam; commenced a prayer meeting at Avon st. Bath 1861;
preached in Temperance hall, Widcombe, Bath to large congregations
1862; popular preacher in country districts and in tent services;
preached about 4500 sermons. (_m._ 2 Oct. 1868 T. Henry Dening of
Ottery St. Mary, Devon, farmer). Mr. and Mrs. Dening by their
efforts built St. James’s hall, Bath 1871 where they preached,
hall burnt down 1878. _d._ Green park, Bath 12 Aug. 1872. _bur._
Locksbrook cemetery 16 Aug. when 6000 people were present. _Mrs.
G. Guinness’ She spake of Him_ (1873), _portrait_; _S. D. Major’s
Notabilia of Bath_ (1879) 90, 194.
DENISON, CHRISTOPHER BECKETT (_2 son of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4
baronet 1787–1874_). _b._ 9 May 1825; in Bengal C.S. 1845–65; M.P.
eastern division of West Riding of Yorkshire 25 Nov. 1868 to 24
March 1880; deputy chairman Great Northern railway, Jany. 1880 to
death. _d._ Ireland 30 Oct. 1884. _Catalogue of collection of
pictures, &c. of C. B. Denison_ (1885).
DENISON, RIGHT REV. EDWARD (_2 son of John Wilkinson, who took name
of Denison, of Ossington, co. Nottingham, M.P. for Chichester, who
d. 6 May 1820_). _b._ 34 Harley st. London 13 March 1801; ed. at
Esher, Eton and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1837;
fell. of Merton coll. 1826; V. of St. Peters in the East, Oxford
to 1837; select preacher before Univ. of Ox. 1834; bishop of
Salisbury 13 March 1837 to death, consecrated at Lambeth 16 April
1837; author of Sermons and charges. _d._ The Close, Salisbury 6
March 1854. _The Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 157–62; _G.M. April
1854 pp._ 418–20.
DENISON, EDWARD (_eld. child of the preceding_). _b._ The Palace,
Salisbury 8 Sep. 1840; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; read law
1862–66; lived in Philpot st. Mile end road, London where he built
and endowed a school 1867–68; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1868; M.P.
for Newark 18 Nov. 1868 to death; left England for Australia, Oct.
1869. _d._ Melbourne 26 Jany. 1870. _Letters and other writings of
the late Edward Denison, edited by Sir Baldwyn Leighton_ 1872;
_Stray studies by J. R. Green_ (1876) 3–28.
DENISON, SIR WILLIAM THOMAS (_brother of Right Rev. Edward Denison
1801–54_). _b._ Portland place, London 3 May 1804; ed. at Eton and
R.M.A. Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 15 March 1826; lieut. governor of
Tasmania 26 Jany. 1847 to 8 Jany. 1855; governor of New South
Wales with title of governor general of Australia 20 Jany. 1855 to
22 Jany. 1861; col. R.E. 20 Sep. 1860 to 7 Nov. 1868; governor of
Madras, March 1861 to March 1866; acted as governor general of
India 20 Nov. 1863 to Jany. 1864; chairman of commission to
inquire into best means of preventing pollution of rivers 6 April
1868 to death; L.G. 23 Nov. 1870; knighted at Buckingham palace 1
Aug. 1846; K.C.B. 19 July 1856; F.R.A.S. 1834; A.I.C.E. 14 March
1837, Telford medallist; F.R.S. 22 Feb. 1838; author of _Varieties
of viceregal life 2 vols._ 1870, and many other works. _d._ The
Observatory, East Sheen 19 Jany. 1871. _Papers on subjects
connected with duties of Corps of Royal Engineers n.s. xx, pp.
ix-xlii_, (1872); _Therry’s Reminiscences, 2 ed._ (1863) 449–69;
_Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii_, 251–59 (1872);
_Dunkin’s Obituary notices of Astronomers_ (1879) 32–34.
DENMAN, THOMAS DENMAN, 1 Baron (_only son of Thomas Denman of
London, physician 1733–1815_). _b._ Queen st. Golden sq. London 23
Feb. 1779; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1800, M.A.
1803; a special pleader 1803; barrister L.I. 9 May 1806, bencher
1820; M.P. for Wareham, Dorset 1818; M.P. for Nottingham 1820–26
and 1830–32; solicitor general to Queen Caroline 8 Feb. 1820 to
her death 7 Aug. 1821; received freedom of city of London 7 June
1821; common serjeant of city of London 26 April 1822 to Nov.
1830; K.C. Nov. 1828; attorney general 19 Nov. 1830 to 4 Nov.
1832; knighted by Wm. 4 at St. James’s palace 24 Nov. 1830; lord
chief justice of King’s Bench 4 Nov. 1832 to 28 Feb. 1850; P.C. 9
Nov. 1832; created Baron Denman of Dovedale, Derbyshire 22 March
1834; the first chief justice of England who sat in House of Lords
without his judicial robes. _d._ Stoke Albany near Rockingham,
Northamptonshire 22 Sep. 1854. _Arnould’s Memoir of Lord Denman 2
vols._ 1873, _portrait_; _The Eton portrait gallery_ (1876)
436–45; _J. Whiteside’s Early sketches of eminent persons_ (1870)
21–45; _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches_, _4 ed._ (1876)
238–46.
DENMAN, JOSEPH (_3 son of the preceding_). _b._ 23 June 1810;
entered navy 7 April 1823; captain 23 Aug. 1841; captain of H.M.’s
yacht Victoria and Albert 19 Oct. 1853 to 15 Jany. 1862; naval
aide-de-camp to the Queen 20 March 1858; R.A. 15 Jany. 1862;
commander in chief in the Pacific 10 May 1864 to 21 Nov. 1866;
V.A. 20 Nov. 1866; granted Greenwich hospital pension 9 Jany.
1869; contested Manchester 2 May 1859; author of _The African
squadron and Mr. Hutt’s committee_ 1850. _d._ 17 Eaton terrace,
London 26 Nov. 1874.
DENNETT, JOHN. _b._ 1790; invented Dennett’s life-saving rocket
apparatus for conveying a rope from the shore to a shipwrecked
crew 1832, these rockets were sent to all parts of the world, they
were superseded by Boxer’s rocket 1865; custodian of Carisbrook
Castle, Newport, Isle of Wight to death; contributed to _Journal
of British Archeol. Assoc. vols._ 1–5 accounts of various
antiquities in England. _d._ Carisbrook Castle 10 July 1852.
DENNIS, SIR JAMES (_son of John Dennis, an attorney_). _b._ 1778;
midshipman in navy; ensign 49 foot 2 Sep. 1796, major 25 April
1828 to 4 June 1833; lieut. col. 3 foot 4 June 1833 to 11 Nov.
1851; commanded a division of infantry at battle of Maharajpore 29
Dec. 1843; K.C.B. 30 Oct. 1844; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Pall Mall,
London 14 Jany. 1855.
DENNIS, REV. JAMES BLATCH PIGGOT (_son of Philip Piggot Dennis_).
Matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 28 May 1835 aged 19, B.A. 1839; C.
of Maxey, Northants. 1842–54; C. of St. James, Bury St. Edmunds;
F.G.S., an authority on fossil bones; his collection of hawks and
owls is in Bury St. Edmunds’ museum; author of _An answer to the
parishioners of Lawshall, telling them why he became a Catholic_
1859. _d._ Garland st. Bury St. Edmunds 12 Jany. 1861. _Bury and
Norwich Post 15 Jany. 1861 p. 2._
DENNIS, JAMES SAMUEL AKED. _b._ 1809; entered navy 24 Oct. 1822;
captain 18 July 1857; retired V.A. 2 Aug. 1879. _d._ rectory
cottage, Hanwell 9 Feb. 1881.
DENNISTOUN, ALEXANDER. _b._ Glasgow 1790; a merchant at Glasgow;
M.P. for co. Dunbarton 1835 to 1837. _d._ Lagarie row, Dennistoun,
Glasgow 15 July 1874.
DENNISTOUN, JAMES (_eld. son of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, co.
Dumbarton, who d. 1 June 1834_). _b._ Dumbartonshire 17 March
1803; ed. at Univs. of Edin. and Glasgow; mem. of faculty of
advocates 1824; edited several publications for the Bannatyne and
Maitland clubs; contributed many articles chiefly on Art to
_Edinburgh_ and _Quarterly Reviews_; published _Memoirs of the
Dukes of Urbino 3 vols._ 1851, and _Memoirs of Sir Robert Strange,
knt., engraver, and of his brother in law Andrew Lumisden, private
secretary to the Stuart Princes 2 vols._ 1855. _d._ 119 George st.
Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1855. _G.M. xliii_, 647–8 (1855); _Fraser’s Mag.
li_, 643–4 (1855).
DENNISTOUN, JOHN. _b._ 1803; M.P. for Glasgow 1837 to 1847. _d._
Armadale Row, Dumbartonshire 9 Sep. 1870.
DENNY, HENRY. Curator of museum of Literary and Philosophical
Society, Leeds 1826 to death; author of _Monographia Pselaphidarum
et Scydmænidarum Britanniæ, or an essay on the British species of
the genera Pselaphus of Herbst and Scydmænus of Latreille_ 1825,
_er_; _Monographia Anoplurorum Britanniæ, or an essay on the
British species of parasite insects belonging to the order
Anoplura of Leach_ 1842. _d._ Leeds 7 March 1871 aged 68.
DENNY, WILLIAM. _b._ Dumbarton 25 May 1847; educ. Edinburgh high
school; Apprentice to his father a shipbuilder at Dumbarton 1864
and partner 1868; partner in engineering firm of Denny & Co.,
Leven shipyard on the Clyde, increased size of works from 19 to 42
acres in 1881; made great improvements in the construction and
building of steam ships 1869–82; founded an Award scheme for
inventions and improvements made by his workmen 1880; read papers
on ships, etc. before Lit. and Philos. Soc. of Dumbarton, Instit.
of Civil engineers, Instit. of Naval Architects and other
Societies 1869–82; served on the Load Line Committee 1884–5;
M.I.C.E. 7 March 1876; his-residence Bellfield with a valuable
library burnt down 1882. _d._ Buenos Ayres 17 March 1887. _Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix_, 457–66 (1887).
DENT, CHARLES CALMADY. _b._ 26 Sep. 1793; entered navy 9 Aug. 1810;
captain 16 Feb. 1852; retired R.A. 1 April 1870. _d._ 37 Nelson
road, Great Yarmouth 3 Jany. 1872.
DENT, EDWARD JOHN. _b._ London 19 Aug. 1790; employed by Vulliamy
and son, and Barrauds and son, chronometer makers 1815–29; partner
with John Roger Arnold at 84 Strand 1830–40; kept a shop at 82
Strand 1840; opened branch depôts at 33 Cockspur st. and 34 Royal
Exchange; began manufacture of turret clocks 1843; A.I.C.E. 1833;
received order for great clock at Westminster 1852, lived only to
see commencement of it; author of _On the construction and
management of chronometers, watches and clocks_ 1846, and other
works. _d._ The Mall, Kensington Gravel Pits, London 8 March 1853.
_Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiii_, 156–61 (1854); _Sir E.
Beckett’s Clocks, watches and bells_ (1883) _pp._ 181, 238,
266–68, 300, 310, 313.
DENT, JOHN (_eld. son of John Dent of Worcester, glover 1751–1811_).
_b._ 1777; glove manufacturer at Worcester with his brother Wm.
Dent, who _d._ 11 Oct. 1854 aged 70; they purchased from Duke of
Buckingham the ruined site of Sudeley castle and chapel,
Gloucestershire which they restored; sheriff of Worcs. 1849. _d._
Sudeley Castle 8 Oct. 1855.
DENTON, REV. WILLIAM (_eld. son of James Denton of Newport, Isle of
Wight_). Matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 28 May 1841 aged 26,
B.A. 1844, M.A. 1848; C. of Shoreditch, London 1847–50; V. of St.
Bartholomew, Cripplegate, London 1850 to death; author of _A
commentary on Gospels for the Sundays and other Holy Days 3 vols._
1861–63, _3 ed._ 1875; _A commentary on the Epistles_ 1869;
_Servia and the Servians_ 1862; _Records of St. Giles’
Cripplegate_ 1882 and many other books. _d._ 22 Westbourne sq.
Paddington, London 2 Jany. 1888.
DENYS, SIR GEORGE WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (_only son of Peter Denys of
Hans place, Chelsea, who d. 27 June 1816_). _b._ Easton Neston,
Northamptonshire 20 May 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1814;
equerry to Duke of Sussex; M.P. for Hull 6 Oct. 1812 to 10 June
1818; created Bart. 23 Nov. 1813. _d._ 42 Onslow sq. Brompton,
London 26 April 1857.
DE PORQUET, LOUIS PHILIPPE R. FENWICK (_son of Capt. Fenwick_). _b._
Paris 1796; taught English in France; adopted his mother’s name;
came to England about 1823; author of educational works in the
English, French, Italian and Spanish languages, upwards of 40 in
number 1823 to death. _d._ 17 Camden st. Camden Town, London 26
Aug. 1873.
DE QUINCEY, THOMAS (_4 child of Thomas Quincey of Manchester,
merchant, who d. 18 July 1793 aged 38_). _b._ Manchester 15 Aug.
1785; ed. at Bath and Manchester gr. schs.; matric. from Worcester
coll. Ox. 17 Dec. 1803 where his name remained on the books till
Dec. 1810; student of Middle Temple about 1808; edited
Westmoreland Gazette 1819–20; wrote in the _London Mag._ 1821–24,
_Blackwood’s Mag._ 1826–49 and _Tait’s Mag._ 1834–51; published
_Klosterheim, or the masque by the English opium eater_ 1832 which
was dramatised for two of the London theatres; eat opium 1804–16,
1817–18, 1824–25 and 1841–44, in 1813 his dose had risen to 340
grains of opium or 8000 drops of laudanum per diem, about half
what Coleridge was taking at that time; he is described in J. H.
Burton’s _The Book Hunter_ as Papaverius; author of _Confessions
of an English opium eater_ 1822 first published in the _London
Mag._ 1821; _The logic of political economy_ 1844; the first
English edition of his collected works was published in 1853–60 as
_Selections grave and gay 14 vols._, _4 ed. 16 vols._ 1875–80, the
most complete edition of his works is the American in _20 vols._
1852–55. _d._ 42 Lothian st. Edinburgh 8 Dec. 1859. _T. De Quincey
by H. A. Page 2 vols._ (1877), _portrait_; _D. Masson’s De
Quincey_ (1881); _S. Hodgson’s Outcast Essays_ (1881) 1–98; _F.
Espinasse’s Lancashire Worthies, second series_ (1877) 378–461;
_C. Mackay’s Forty years recollections_ (1877) _i_, 314–26; _H.
Martineau’s Biographical Sketches_, _4 ed._ (1876) 409–17; _John
Bull Mag. July 1824 pp._ 21–24.
DE RAMSEY, EDWARD FELLOWES, 1 Baron (_2 son of Wm. Henry Fellowes of
Ramsey abbey, Hunts. 1769–1837_). _b._ 14 April 1809; ed. at the
Charterhouse; M.P. for Hunts. 10 Aug. 1837 to 24 March 1880;
chairman of the Middle Level commission; created Baron De Ramsey 5
July 1887. _d._ 3 Belgrave sq. London 9 Aug. 1887.
DERBY, EDWARD SMITH STANLEY, 13 Earl of (_only son of 12 Earl of
Derby 1752–1834_). _b._ 21 April 1775; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll.
Cam., M.A. 1795; M.P. for Preston 1796–1812 and for Lancashire
1812–32; colonel 2 Lancashire militia 1 March 1797; created Baron
Stanley of Bickerstaffe, co. palatine of Lancaster 22 Dec. 1832;
succeeded his father 21 Oct. 1834; K.G. 2 April 1839; F.L.S. 1807,
pres. 1828–34; pres. of Zoological Soc. 1831 to death; formed at
Knowsley hall collections of living animals and birds, which far
surpassed any menagerie or aviary previously attempted by a
private person in this country, these collections were sold 6–11
Oct. 1851 for £7000; privately printed _Gleanings from the
menagerie and aviary at Knowsley hall 2 parts with 76 plates_
1846–50. _d._ Knowsley hall 30 June 1851. _P. Draper’s House of
Stanley_ (1864) 275–82; _Law Review xvi_, 1–32 (1852); _I.L.N.
xix_, 14, 405, 449 (1851).
DERBY, EDWARD GEOFFREY SMITH STANLEY, 14 Earl of (_eld. son of the
preceding_). _b._ Knowsley 29 March 1799; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch.
Ox.; M.P. for Stockbridge 1822–26, for Preston 1826–30, for
Windsor 1830–32, for North Lancashire 1832–44; under sec. of state
for Colonies, April 1827 to Jany. 1828; chief sec. to lord lieut.
of Ireland 26 Nov. 1830 to March 1833; P.C. 22 Nov. 1830, P.C.
Ireland 10 Jany. 1831; sec. of state for Colonies 28 March 1833 to
5 June 1834; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow 1834–36; sec. of
state for Colonies 3 Sep. 1841 to Dec. 1845; created Baron Stanley
of Bickerstaffe 4 Nov. 1844; succeeded 30 June 1851; first lord of
the Treasury 27 Feb. to 28 Dec. 1852, 1 March 1858 to 18 June 1859
and 13 June 1866 to 25 Feb. 1868; chancellor of Univ. of Oxford 12
Oct. 1852; K.G. 28 June 1859; won the One thousand guineas with
Canezou 1848, Goodwood Cup with Canezou 1849 and 1850, the Oaks
with Iris 1851, and the Two thousand guineas with Fazzolette 1856;
sold greater part of his racing stud 1858 for over £5000;
privately printed _Translations of poems ancient and modern_ 1862;
published _The Iliad of Homer rendered into English blank verse 2
vols._ 1864, _10 ed._ 1876. _d._ Knowsley 23 Oct. 1869, personalty
sworn under £250,000, 9 April 1870. _P. Draper’s House of Stanley_
(1864) 282–97; _The Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 291–99; _W. C.
Taylor’s National portrait gallery iv_, 51 (1848), _portrait_; _G.
H. Francis’s Orators of the age_ (1847) 101–23; _Baily’s Mag. i_,
1–6 (1861), _portrait_, _xvii_, 227–37 (1870).
DERBY, ALFRED THOMAS (_eld. son of William Derby, water-colour
painter 1786–1847_). _b._ London 21 Jany. 1821; painted portraits
and scenes from Sir Walter Scott’s novels; produced many drawings
from paintings of well-known masters; exhibited 22 pictures at
R.A. 8 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1839–72. _d._ of
jaundice 11 Hammersmith terrace, Hammersmith 19 April 1873.
DERINZY, BARTHOLOMEW VIGORS. Ensign 81 foot 26 May 1806; lieut. col.
86 foot 7 Jany. 1842 to 30 April 1852; inspecting field officer 30
April 1852 to 7 Sep. 1855 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 7 Sep.
1855; K.H. 1834. _d._ 4 Beaufort villas, Cheltenham 22 Nov. 1861
aged 73.
DE ROBECK, JOHN MICHAEL HENRY FOCK, Swedish Baron. _b._ 14 July
1790; cornet 7 Hussars, July 1808, retired 1814; sheriff of co.
Kildare 1834, of co. Dublin 1838, of co. Wicklow 1839; well known
for his scientific attainments; found drowned in the fall of the
salmon leap in the Liffey near Dublin 11 Oct. 1856. _Annual
Register 1856 p. 165._
DE ROS, WILLIAM LENNOX LASCELLES FITZGERALD-DE-ROS, 23 Baron (_3 son
of hon. Henry Fitzgerald 1761–1829_). _b._ Thames Ditton, Surrey 1
Sep. 1797 or 7 Sep. 1795, according to his memorial tablet in
chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula in Tower of London; cornet 1 Life
guards 1819, captain 1825–27 when placed on h.p.; succeeded his
brother 29 March 1839; deputy lieut. of Tower of London 13 Feb.
1852 to death when the office was abolished; captain of Yeomen of
the Guard 17 March 1852 to Dec. 1852 and March 1858 to June 1859;
P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; Q.M.G. to army in Turkey 1854–55; col. 4
Hussars 6 Feb. 1865 to death; general 10 Nov. 1868; author of
_Field movements for a division of cavalry_ 1844; _Memorials of
the Tower of London_ 1866; edited _The young officer’s companion_
1857. _d._ Old Court, Strangford, co. Down 6 Jany. 1874.
DE ROS, JOHN FREDERICK FITZGERALD. _b._ Boyle farm, co. Surrey 6
March 1804; entered navy 20 March 1818; captain 7 Feb. 1834; R.A.
on half pay 14 Feb. 1857; F.R.S. 9 June 1831; author of _Narrative
of travels in the United States and Canada_ 1827. _d._ 122
Piccadilly, London 19 June 1861.
DE ROSAS, JUAN MANUEL. _b._ Buenos Ayres 30 March 1793; captain
general of Buenos Ayres 1831; united all the Plate River States
into the Argentine Confederation 1835; his government was
overthrown Feb. 1852 when he came to England; lived in Rockstone
place, Carlton crescent, Southampton several years, then at
Burgess street farm, Swathling near Southampton to death;
corresponded with Lord Palmerston many years. _d._ Burgess st.
farm, Swathling 14 March 1877.
DE ROSAZ, LE CHEVALIER FRANÇOIS. _b._ Savoy; a great supporter of
the Orleans dynasty; settled in England after the revolution 1848;
F.R.A.S. 8 May 1874; bequeathed his astronomical instruments to
the Museum at Brighton. _d._ Upper Bedford place, Russell sq.
London 21 Sep. 1876 in 76 year.
DERRY, RIGHT REV. JOHN. Roman Catholic bishop of Clonfert, Ireland 9
July 1847 to death; consecrated 21 Sep. 1847. _d._ Cams, Fuerty,
co. Roscommon 28 June 1870 aged 59.
DERVILLE, ADOLPHUS. Entered Madras army 1816; col. 34 Madras light
infantry 20 Aug. 1853 to 1860; col. 42 light infantry 1860 to 12
Dec. 1862; col. 31 light infantry 12 Dec. 1862 to death; general
25 June 1870. _d._ 8 The Terrace, Kensington gardens sq. Bayswater
27 March 1874 aged 72.
DERWENTWATER, AMELIA MATILDA MARY TUDOR RADCLIFFE, calling herself
Countess of (_dau. of John James Radcliffe 1764–1833 by Amelia
Anna Charlotte, Princess Sobieski_). Came over to England and
commenced to agitate for her rights 1865; resided at Blaydon,
Northumberland 1865; took possession of the old ruined castle of
Dilston 29 Sep. 1868 and suspended portraits of her family on
walls of the principal hall; ejected by the agent of the Lords of
the Admiralty 1 Oct. 1868 who recovered £500 damages against her;
adjudicated bankrupt 24 March 1871; confined in Newcastle gaol 25
Nov. 1872 to July 1873 for contempt of court. _d._ of bronchitis
at 53, Cutler’s hall road, Benfieldside, Lanchester near Durham 26
Feb. 1880 aged 49. _The heirs of Dilston and Derwentwater by S. S.
Jones_ 1869; _Gillow’s English Catholics ii_, 49–50 (1885);
Monthly chronicle of north country lore and legend, _April 1888
pp. 165–70_, _May 1888 pp. 205–212_, _portrait_; _Saturday Review
17 Oct. 1868 pp. 520–21_; _Celebrated Claimants_ (1873) 246–55.
DE SALIS, RODOLPH. _b._ May 1811; cornet 8 Dragoons 17 Dec. 1830,
lieut.-col. 2 Oct. 1856 to 21 Feb. 1865; C.B. 1 March 1861; col. 8
Hussars 22 Sep. 1875 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 27 Ashley
place, Westminster 13 March 1880.
DESANGES, SIR FRANCIS (_son of Wm. Desanges_). Sheriff of London
1817–18; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 17 April 1818;
sheriff of Oxon 1825. _d._ in the Queen’s Bench prison, London
where he had been confined 4 years 20 Sep. 1860.
DESART, OTWAY O’CONNOR CUFFE, 3 Earl of (_only son of 2 Earl of
Desart 1788–1820_). _b._ Desart house, Kilkenny 12 Oct. 1818; ed.
at Ch. Ch. Ox.; elected M.P. for Ipswich 3 June 1842 but unseated
on petition Aug. 1842; a representative peer of Ireland 19 Jany.
1847 to death; under sec. of state for the Colonies March to Dec.
1852. _d._ Eaton sq. London 1 April 1865. _I.L.N. xx_, 321 (1852),
_portrait_.
DESBOROUGH, LAURENCE. Solicitor in City of London 1818 to 1884;
member of the Law Association 1823, president 1881 to death. _d._
46 Gloucester gardens, Hyde park, London 10 Sep. 1888 aged 92.
DE SLANE, WILLIAM MACGUCKIN, French Baron. _b._ Belfast 12 Aug.
1801; went to Paris 1830; on missions at Constantinople and in
Algeria for French government 1843–45; interpreter to the army of
Africa; professor of modern Arabic at Ecole de langues Orientales,
Paris to death; member of French institute 1862. _d._ Passy, Paris
4 Aug. 1878.
DE SOLA, REV. ABRAHAM (_son of the succeeding_). _b._ London 18 Sep.
1825; minister of Portuguese synagogue in Montreal 1847 to death;
professor of Hebrew and Oriental literature at McGill Univ. 1848;
LLD. 1858; pres. of Natural history soc. of Montreal; author of
_Scripture Zoology_; _The sanitary institutions of the Hebrews_;
_Mosaic Cosmogony_, and other books. _d._ New York 5 June 1882.
_H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 103–4.
DE SOLA, REV. DAVID AARON. _b._ Amsterdam 26 Dec. 1796; student in
the Medrash 1807–16; arrived in London and became Second Hazan or
minister of the Sephardi congregation London 1817; preacher in
English in the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, Bevis Marks,
March 1831 and senior minister; instrumental in organising an
Association for the promotion of Jewish Literature 1842; author
with M. J. Raphall of _A new edition of the sacred scriptures_
1844, only vol. 1 completed; author of _Eighteen treatises from
the Mishna_ 1845; _Ancient melodies of the liturgy of the Spanish
and Portuguese Jews_ and other works; Revised the Jewish library a
work issued at the expense of Mrs. Charlotte Montifiore. _d._
London 29 Oct. 1860. _Biography of Rev. D. A. De Sola by Rev. A.
De Sola_ (1865); _J. Picciotto’s Sketches of Anglo Jewish history_
(1875) 327, 359–61.
DESPARD, HENRY. Ensign 17 foot 25 Oct. 1799, lieut. col. 13 Aug.
1829 to 23 June 1838; lieut. col. 99 foot 27 Sep. 1842 to 20 June
1854; C.B. 2 July 1846; M.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Baring Crescent,
Heavitree, Exeter 30 April 1859 aged 74.
DE STERN, HERMAN STERN, Baron. _b._ Frankfort 1815; established with
his brother Viscount de Stern a foreign banking business in London
about 1848; launched many foreign loans; created a Baron by King
of Portugal 1864 having been much connected with Portuguese
finance. _d._ 4 Hyde park gate, London 20 Oct. 1887, personalty in
England sworn over £3,540,000, Jany. 1888.
DE TABLEY, GEORGE WARREN, 2 Baron (_son of 1 Baron De Tabley
1762–1827_). _b._ Tabley house, Knutsford, Cheshire 28 Oct. 1811;
ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; lieut.-col. commandant Cheshire
yeomanry cavalry 1847–69; a lord in waiting to the Queen, Jany.
1853 to Feb. 1858 and June 1859 to July 1866; treasurer of the
Queen’s household, Dec. 1868 to March 1872. _d._ Tabley house 19
Feb. 1887.
DE TRAFFORD, SIR THOMAS JOSEPH, 1 Baronet (_son of John Trafford of
Croston and Trafford, who d. 29 Oct. 1815_). _b._ 22 March 1778;
sheriff of Lancashire 1834; created Baronet by patent dated 7 Sep.
1841; received royal license to alter his name to De Trafford 2
Oct. 1841. _d._ Trafford park, Manchester 10 Nov. 1852.
DEUTSCH, EMANUEL OSCAR MENAHEM. _b._ Neisse, Prussian Silesia 28
Oct. 1829; assistant librarian British Museum 1855 to death;
author of an essay on the Talmud in _Quarterly Review_ Oct. 1867,
pp. 417–64 and of many articles in Smith’s _Dictionary of the
Bible, Chambers’s Cyclopædia_ and other books. _d._ of cancer of
the kidneys and bladder, Prussian Deaconesses hospital, Alexandria
12 May 1873. _Literary remains of the late Emanuel Deutsch with
memoir_ [_by Lady Strangford_] 1874; _Contemporary Review xxiii_,
779–98 (1874); _Macmillan’s Mag. xxviii_, 382–84 (1873).
DE VESCI, JOHN VESEY, 2 Viscount (_eld. child of 1 Viscount de
Vesci, who d. 13 Oct. 1804_). _b._ 15 Feb. 1771; M.P. for
Maryborough in Irish parliament 1796–97; succeeded 13 Oct. 1804; a
representative peer for Ireland 19 Jany. 1839 to death; lord
lieut. of Queen’s county 1831 to death. _d._ Portaferry, co. Down
19 Oct. 1855.
DE VESCI, THOMAS VESEY, 3 Viscount (_son of the preceding_). _b._
Merrion sq. Dublin 21 Sep. 1803; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1825;
sheriff of Queen’s county 1827; M.P. for Queen’s county 1835–37
and 1841–52; a representative peer for Ireland 10 Jany. 1857 to
death; an ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland 1868. _d._ 4 Carlton
house terrace, London 23 Dec. 1875. _I.L.N. lxviii_, 43, 431
(1876).
DEVEY, GEORGE. _b._ London 1820; architect in London; exhibited 6
designs at the R.A. 1841–48; F.R.I.B.A. 1856; produced large
number of sketches; added to and altered many fine old English
mansions, including those of the Duke of Argyll, Lord Granville,
Lord Rosebery, Lord Wolverton and others. _d._ Hastings 5 Nov.
1886.
DE VINNE, REV. DANIEL. _b._ Londonderry 1 Feb. 1793; a minister of
Methodist Episcopal church 1819; minister in Louisiana and
Mississippi 1819–25, in state of New York 1825 to death; author of
_The Methodist Episcopal church and slavery_ 1844; _Recollections
of fifty years in the Ministry_ 1869; _History of the Irish
primitive church_ 1870. _d._ Morrisania, New York 10 Feb. 1883.
DEVLIN, ANNE (_niece of Michael Dwyer, Irish insurgent leader
1771–1815_). _b._ about 1780; servant of Robert Emmett at his
residence in Butterfield lane, Rathfarnham; messenger between him
and his friends in Dublin when he was hiding in the Dublin
mountains 1803; suffered more than two years imprisonment in
Kilmainham gaol; a washerwoman in Dublin. _d._ Dublin 18 Sep. 1851
aged 70. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery where there is a monument.
DEVON, WILLIAM COURTENAY, 10 Earl of (_eld. son of Right Rev. Henry
Reginald Courtenay 1741–1803, bishop of Exeter_). _b._ Lower
Grosvenor st. London 19 June 1777; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1798,
M.A. 1801, D.C.L. 1837; barrister L.I. 11 June 1799; patentee of
the Subpœna office 1800–52 when office was abolished; M.P. for
Exeter 1812–26; a master in Chancery 30 July 1817 to 23 March
1826; clerk assistant of the Parliaments 6 Feb. 1826 to 26 May
1835 when he succeeded his cousin as 10 Earl; high steward of
Univ. of Ox. Feb. 1838 to death; an ecclesiastical comr. for
England 21 Jany. 1842 to Aug. 1850. _d._ Shrivenham, Berkshire 19
March 1859. _Doyle’s Official baronage i_, 583 (1886), _portrait_;
_Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen_, _second
series_ (1846), _portrait_.
DEVONSHIRE, WILLIAM GEORGE SPENCER CAVENDISH, 6 Duke of (_only son
of 5 Duke of Devonshire 1748–1811_). _b._ Paris 21 May 1790; ed.
at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, LLD. 1811; succeeded 29
July 1811; lord lieut. of Derbyshire 19 Aug. 1811 to death; bought
library of Thomas Dampier, bishop of Ely for £10,000, 1812, and
John Kemble’s collection of plays for £2000, 1821; ambassador
extraordinary to Russia for coronation of Emperor Nicholas 25
April 1826; received Russian orders of St. Andrew and St.
Alexander Newski and St. Anne 18 Aug. 1828 for magnificence of his
embassy which cost him £50,000 beyond allowance for it made by
Government; P.C. 30 April 1827; K.G. 10 May 1827; lord chamberlain
of the household 5 May 1827 to 18 Feb. 1828 and 22 Nov. 1830 to 15
Dec. 1834; entertained Emperor of Russia, King of Saxony and
Prince Albert at Chiswick 8 June 1844. _d._ Hardwick hall,
Derbyshire 18 Jany. 1858. _G.M. iv_, 209–10 (1858); _I.L.N. 15
June 1844 pp._ 384–5, _23 Jany. 1858 p._ 75; _Waagen’s Treasures
of art in Great Britain ii_, 88–96 (1854), _iii_, 344–70 (1854);
_Catalogue of the library at Chatsworth 4 vols._ 1879.
DE WALDEN, THOMAS BLAIDES. _b._ London 1811; made his début on the
stage at Haymarket theatre 1841; first appeared in America at Park
theatre, New York 1844 as Belmour in _Is he jealous?_; engaged in
mercantile pursuits 1857; a chaplain in volunteer army of United
States during the civil war; author of _The upper ten and the
lower twenty_ played at Burton’s theatre, New York; _The Seven
Sisters_; _The Jesuit_ played at Bowery theatre, New York 1854;
_The Hypochondriac_; wrote more than 100 plays. _d._ New York 26
Sep. 1873.
DEWAR, FREDERICK CHARLES (_son of James Dewar 1793–1846, musical
director of theatre royal, Edinburgh_). Made his first appearance
in London at St. James’s theatre 29 Oct. 1860 as Tunstall in _Up
at the hills_; made his first success at same house as Dr. Bland
in _Friends or Foes_ the English version of Sardou’s _Nos Intimes_
8 March 1862; played Tom Stylus in Robertson’s comedy _Society_,
at Prince of Wales’s theatre 11 Nov. 1865 to Sep. 1866; played
Captain Crosstree in Burnand’s burlesque _The latest edition of
Black-eyed Susan, or the little Bill that was taken up_, at New
Royalty theatre 400 times from 29 Nov. 1866 to 20 March 1868;
played Bishopriggs in Wilkie Collins’s drama _Man and Wife_, at
Prince of Wales’s 22 Feb. 1873; played Angus McAlister in
Gilbert’s comedy _Engaged_, at Haymarket 3 Oct. 1877 to 4 Jany.
1878. _d._ Chelsea workhouse, London 8 Jany. 1878 aged 46. _bur._
Brompton cemetery. _The Universal Review 15 Oct. 1888 pp._ 162,
169, 177, _portrait_; _The Entr’ Acte 19 Jany. 1878 pp._ 6, 9,
_portrait_; _The Era 13 Jany. 1878 pp._ 6, 12.
DE WILDE, GEORGE JAMES (_son of Samuel De Wilde, portrait painter
1748–1832_). _b._ London 1804 or 1805; contributed many articles
to various periodicals; edited the _Northampton Mercury_ 1830 to
death; author of _Rambles round about, and Poems, edited by E.
Dicey_ 1872; his portrait by J. E. Williams was presented by his
friends to the Northampton Museum 1871. _d._ The Parade,
Northampton 16 Sep. 1871 in 67 year. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 22
Sep. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii_, 311 (1872); _The
Northampton Mercury 23 Sep. 1871 pp._ 3, 5, 8.
DIAMOND, HUGH WELCH (_eld. son of Wm. Batchelor Diamond, surgeon
H.E.I.Co.’s service_). _b._ 1809; ed. at Norwich gr. sch.; studied
at St. Bartholomew’s and Bethlehem hospitals; L.S.A. 1829;
M.R.C.S. 1834; practised in Soho, London; resident superintendent
of female patients at Surrey county lunatic asylum 1848–58; kept a
private asylum for female patients at Twickenham 1858 to death;
invented the paper or cardboard photographic _portrait_; sec. of
London Photographic Soc. 1883, edited its Journal vols. 5–8
(1859–64); contributed papers to first series of _Notes and
Queries_ on photography; F.S.A. 15 May 1834. _d._ Twickenham
house, Twickenham 21 June 1886.
DIAVOLO, JOEL IL, otherwise known as Joel Benedict. Wire walker,
pantomimist and ballet master; one of the original troupe of
Bedouin Arabs at Surrey theatre 1839; created a great sensation
under name of Joel il Diavolo at Vauxhall Gardens 1845 by
descending a single wire stretched across the gardens from a
platform 120 feet high to the ground at opposite end of the
gardens; adopted stage name of Joel Benedict about 1850; acting
manager to Charles Dillon several years from 1852 sustaining part
of clown in his pantomimes; travelled with Charles Harrison’s
company in the provinces 1862. _d._ 3 Feb. 1887. _I.L.N. vi_, 396
(1845), _with view_.
NOTE.—There were about half a dozen performers who
successively bore the name of Joel il Diavolo at Vauxhall
Gardens; the last one in 1849 was John Delany who had been a
miner in the Dudley coal mines.
DIBB, JOHN EDWARD. _b._ Beeston near Leeds 24 May 1812; deputy
registrar of deeds and wills in West Riding of Yorkshire 1840 to
death; barrister G.I. 1869; author of _A practical guide to
registration of deeds and wills in the West Riding of Yorkshire_
1846; _Registries of deeds, suggestions for the improvement of the
Yorkshire offices_ 1851. _d._ Wakefield 17 Sep. 1872.
DIBDIN, HENRY EDWARD (_youngest son of Charles Isaac Mungo Pitt
known as Charles Dibdin, dramatist 1768–1833_). _b._ Sadler’s
Wells, London 8 Sep. 1813; pupil of Bochsa the harpist; made his
first appearance 3 Aug. 1832 at Covent Garden theatre when he
played the harp at Paganini’s last concert; organist of Trinity
chapel, Edinburgh 1833 to death; published _The Standard Psalm
tune book_ 1851, and about 40 songs, piano and harp pieces and
hymn tunes. _d._ Edinburgh 6 May 1866.
DICEY, THOMAS EDWARD (_only son of Thomas Dicey of Claybrook hall,
Leicestershire 1742–1807_). _b._ Claybrook hall, Leics. 11 Oct.
1789; matric. at Oriel coll. Ox. 17 Oct. 1806; migrated to Trin.
coll. Cam.; senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1811; B.A.
1811, M.A. 1814; chairman of Midland counties railway; a director
of North Staffordshire railway from its foundation 1846 to his
death; proprietor of _Northampton Mercury_. _d._ Princes terrace,
Hyde park, London 20 Feb. 1858.
DICK, ALEXANDER. Entered Bengal army 1803; col. 71 Bengal N.I. 8
Feb. 1843 to 1869; general 3 May 1866. _d._ Deyrah, North West
provinces of India 25 Nov. 1875 aged 86.
DICK, HOPE. Ensign 23 Bengal N.I. 28 Sep. 1808; major 56 Bengal N.I.
1839–45; colonel Bengal infantry 16 Jany. 1855; general 28 April
1875. _d._ Cheltenham 24 May 1885 aged 93.
DICK, JOHN (_son of James Dick of Rochester_). _b._ Rochester;
entered navy Sep. 1785; captain 28 April 1802; admiral 19 Jany.
1852; a knight of the Crescent (Turkish order) 8 Oct. 1801. _d._
Southampton 10 Sep. 1854.