1846_). _b._ Tullibody, Clackmannanshire, Jany. 1810 or 1811;
apprenticed to Aikman of Tullibody, baker 1824–28; journeyman
baker at Leith, Glasgow and Greenock 1828–30; baker at Thurso 1830
to death; accumulated an almost perfect collection of the British
flora and of fossil fishes; assisted Hugh Miller in his _Old red
sandstone_ 1841 and _Footprints of the Creator_ 1849; helped Sir
Roderick Murchison and other scientific men in their researches.
_d._ Thurso 24 Dec. 1866. _Robert Dick, baker of Thurso, geologist
and botanist by Samuel Smiles_ 1878, _portrait_; _H. A. Page’s
Leaders of men_ (1830) 94–139; _J. Copner’s Sketches of celibate
worthies_, _2 ed._ (1886), 351–72.
DICK, REV. THOMAS (_son of Mungo Dick of Dundee, linen
manufacturer_). _b._ the Hilltown, Dundee 24 Nov. 1774; ed. at
Univ. of Edin.; licensed to preach in the Secession church 1801;
teacher of Secession school at Methven 1807–17, taught at Perth
1817–27; lived at Broughty Ferry, Dundee 1827 to death; LLD. Union
college, Schenectady, State of New York 1832; F.R.A.S. 14 Jany.
1853; granted civil list pension of £50, 21 July 1855; author of
_The Christian philosopher or the connexion of science and
philosophy with religion_ 1823, _8 ed._ 1842; _Philosophy of a
future state_ 1828; _The mental illumination and moral improvement
of mankind_ 1836; _Celestial scenery or the wonders of the heavens
displayed_ 1837. _d._ Broughty Ferry 29 July 1857, monument in
churchyard of Chapel of Ease, Broughty Ferry, erected Jany. 1860.
_W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 167–72; _The sidereal
heavens by Rev. Thomas Dick, New York_ (1844), _portrait_.
DICK, WILLIAM (_2 child of John Dick of Edinburgh, blacksmith, who
d. 1844_). _b._ White Horse Close, Canongate, Edin. May 1793; ed.
at Univ. of Edinburgh and Veterinary coll. London, obtained his
diploma 27 Jany. 1818; practised as Vet. surgeon in Edin. 1818 to
death; founded Edinburgh Veterinary College 1818; professor of
veterinary surgery to Highland and Agricultural Society of
Scotland; vet. surgeon to the Queen for Scotland; Head inspector
of cattle for co. of Edin. 1865; published _Manual of veterinary
science_ 1862. _d._ Veterinary College, Clyde st. Edinburgh 4
April 1866. _Occasional papers on veterinary subjects by W. Dick
with a memoir by R. O. Pringle_ (1869).
DICKENS, CHARLES JOHN HUFFAM (_2 child of the succeeding_). _b._ 387
Mile End terrace, Commercial road, Landport, Portsea 7 Feb. 1812;
a reporter in Doctors Commons 1829–31, in the House of Commons
1831–36; lived at No. 13 Furnival’s Inn 1835, at No. 15, 1836 to
1837, at 48 Doughty st. 1837–39, at 1 Devonshire terrace, Regent’s
park 1839–51, at 1 Tavistock villas, Tavistock sq. 1851–60 and at
Gad’s hill place near Rochester 1860 to death; edited _Bentley’s
Miscellany_, Jany. 1837 to Jany. 1839; student at Middle Temple
1839; received freedom of Edinburgh 1841; visited U.S. of America
1842 and 1867–8; edited _Daily News_ 21 Jany. to 9 Feb. 1846;
started _Household Words_ 30 March 1850, edited it to 28 May 1859
when he merged it into _All the year round_ which he edited 30
April 1859 to his death; gave 4 series of public readings of his
own works 1858–9, 1861–3, 1866–7 and 1868–70 gave his last reading
5 March 1870 in St. James’s Hall, London; author of _Sketches by
Boz 2 vols._ 1835, _2nd series 1 vol._ 1836; _The Posthumous
Papers of the Pickwick Club_ 1837, and 32 other works. (_m._ at
St. Luke’s, Chelsea 2 April 1836 Catherine Thomson eld. dau. of
George Hogarth, musical and dramatic critic of the _Morning
Chronicle_, from whom he separated April or May 1858, she _d._ 70
Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 22 Nov. 1879 aged 64).
_d._ Gad’s Hill Place 9 June 1870. _bur._ in Westminster abbey 14
June. _J. Forster’s Life of C. Dickens 3 vols._ 1872–74,
_portrait_; _Letters of C. Dickens 3 vols._ 1880–82; _Charles
Dickens as I knew him by G. Dolby_ 1885; _J. T. Fields’s In and
out of doors with Charles Dickens_ 1876; _Charles Dickens by G. A.
Sala_ 1870; _P. Fitzgerald’s Recreations of a literary man, i_,
48–171 (1882); _C. Dickens as a reader by C. Kent_ 1872; _E.
Yates’s Recollections ii_, 91–128 (1884); _J. H. Friswell’s Modern
men of letters_ (1870) 1–48; _J. C. Jeaffreson’s Novels and
novelists ii_, 303–34 (1858), _portrait_; _R. H. Horne’s A new
spirit of the age i_, 1–76 (1844), _portrait_; _Bookseller, July
1870 pp._ 573–78, _and Christmas number 1879 pp._ 15–21; _Illust.
News of the world vol. ii_ (1858), _portrait_; _Graphic xx_, 556
(1879), _portrait of Mrs. Dickens_.
NOTE.—He is drawn by Anthony Trollope in his novel _The
Warden_ under the name of Mr. Popular Sentiment. The portrait
of him painted by Ary Scheffer 1855 exhibited at the R.A. 1856
was purchased by trustees of National portrait gallery, July
1870.
DICKENS, JOHN. Clerk in the navy pay office at Portsmouth and
Chatham dockyards to 1822, at Somerset House 1822 to 9 March 1825
when he left the service; compounded with his creditors 1823;
confined in King’s Bench or Marshalsea prison 1824; became
insolvent, applied to be discharged 15 Dec. 1831; reporter to the
_Morning Chronicle_ to 1839; lived at Exeter; is drawn by Charles
Dickens in _David Copperfield_ as Micawber. _d._ Malvern 31 March
1851 aged 66. _bur._ in Highgate cemetery 5 April, where also lie
the remains of his wife Elizabeth Dickens who _d._ 12 Sep. 1863
aged 73.
DICKENSON, HENRY. Writer Madras civil service 1806; member of
council and chief judge of the Sudder Dewannee and Sudder
Foujdarry Adawlut 1846 to 16 Feb. 1850 when he resigned the
service. _d._ Schweizenhof, Lucerne, Switzerland 29 Nov. 1859.
DICKEY, EDWARD JOHN. Entered Bengal army 1822; superintendent of
Stud department 9 May 1853; lieut.-col. 57 N.I. 15 April 1854;
M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ Parklands, Guildford 19 Sep. 1883 aged 79.
DICKIE, GEORGE. _b._ Aberdeen 23 Nov. 1813; ed. at Marischal coll.
Aberdeen and Univs. of Aberdeen and Edinburgh; A.M. Aberdeen 1830,
M.D. 1842; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1834; lecturer on botany at King’s
college, Aberdeen 1839–49; professor of natural history at Belfast
1849–60 and of botany in Univ. of Aberdeen 1860–77; F.L.S. 1863;
F.R.S. 1881; author of _Flora Abredonensis_ 1838; _The Botanists
guide to Aberdeen, Banff and Kincardine_ 1860; _A Flora of Ulster_
1864; author with James Mc Cosh of _Typical forms and special ends
in creation_ 1856. _d._ 16 Albyn terrace, Aberdeen 16 July 1882.
_Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv, pp. xii-xiii_ (1883).
DICKINSON, SIR DRURY JONES (_2 son of Edgar Dickinson of Dublin_).
_b._ Dawson st. Dublin 1804; a wine merchant in Dublin; high
sheriff of city of Dublin 1833–34; knighted by Marquess Wellesley
the lord lieut. of Ireland 1833. _d._ 10 Mountjoy place, Dublin 8
May 1869.
DICKINSON, JOHN (_eld. son of Thomas Dickinson, superintendent of
shipping to Board of Ordnance 44 years, who d. 24 May 1828 aged
74_). _b._ 29 March 1782; paper manufacturer at Apsley hill, Hemel
Hempstead to 1857; F.R.S. 6 March 1845; master of the Stationers’
Company 1857 and 1858. _d._ 39 Upper Brook st. London 11 Jany.
1869.
DICKINSON, JOHN (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 28 Dec. 1815; chief
founder of the India Reform Society 12 March 1853, hon. sec.
1853–61, chairman 1861; author of _Letters on the cotton and roads
of Western India_ 1851; _India, its government under a
Bureaucracy_ 1853; _Dhar not restored_ 1864 and other books
chiefly pamphlets on subject of India; found dead in his study at
1 Upper Grosvenor st. London 23 Nov. 1876. _J. Dickinson’s Last
counsels of an unknown counsellor, edited by Evans Bell_ (1883),
_portrait_.
DICKINSON, SIR JOHN NODES (_son of Nodes Dickinson, F.R.C.S., staff
surgeon to H.M.’s forces_). _b._ Island of Grenada 1806; ed. at
Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister I.T. 20 Nov.
1840; judge in supreme court of New South Wales 23 April 1844,
chief justice there 1860 to 18 Feb. 1861 when he retired on
pension of £1050 per annum; knighted by patent 19 June 1860;
author of _A letter to the lord chancellor on law consolidation_
1861. _d._ Rome 16 March 1882 in 76 year. _Heads of the people
ii_, 41 (1848), _portrait_.
DICKINSON, JOSEPH. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.B. 1837, M.A. and
M.D. 1843; physician to Royal infirmary, Liverpool about 1839 and
subsequently to the Fever hospital, workhouse and South
Dispensary, Liverpool; lectured on medicine and botany at
Liverpool school of medicine; pres. of Liverpool Lit. and Phil.
Soc.; L.R.C.P. 1844, F.R.C.P. 1859; F.L.S.; M.R.I.A.; F.R.S. 1
June 1854; author of _The Flora of Liverpool 1851 and Supplement_
1855. _d._ 92 Bedford st. south, Liverpool 21 July 1865.
DICKINSON, SEBASTIAN STEWART. _b._ Bombay 25 March 1815; ed. at
Eton; barrister I.T. 7 June 1839; M.P. for Stroud 19 Nov. 1868 to
26 Jany. 1874, re-elected 5 Feb. 1874 but election declared void
April 1874. _d._ Brown’s hill, Stroud 23 Aug. 1878.
DICKINSON, THOMAS. _b._ Hampshire; entered navy Feb. 1796; captain
29 Nov. 1832; received gold Vulcan medal of Society of Arts 1825
for his mode of applying percussion powder to the discharge of
ships guns; author of _A narrative of the operation for the
recovery of the public stores and treasure sunk in H.M.S. Thetis_
1836. _d._ Greenwich hospital 30 July 1854 aged 68.
DICKINSON, THOMAS. Entered Bengal army 1805; col. 10 Bengal N.I. 10
May 1853 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Teignmouth 24 Oct.
1859.
DICKSON, ALEXANDER. _b._ Edinburgh 21 Feb. 1836; ed. at Univ. of
Edin., M.D. 1860; professor of botany in Univ. of Dublin 1866, in
Univ. of Glasgow 1868–79; professor of botany in Univ. of Edin.
and regius keeper of Royal botanic garden 1 April 1879 to death;
pres. of Botanical Soc. of Edin. twice; F.R.S. Edin.; author of
numerous papers on botany. _d._ suddenly of heart disease at
Thriepland pond near Hartree, Peebleshire 30 Dec. 1887.
DICKSON, ELIZABETH (_dau. of Archibald Dalzel, governor of Cape
Coast Castle_). _b._ probably at Cape Coast Castle 1793; wrote to
the English press about 1809 to entreat that immediate steps might
be taken to relieve the British captives in Barbary, the matter
roused public feeling and resulted in the despatch of an
expedition under Lord Exmouth 1816; received a gold medal from the
Anti-Piratical Society of Knights and Noble Ladies; resided in
Africa, chiefly at Tripoli. (_m._ John Dickson, surgeon to Lord
Nelson at battle of Copenhagen). _d._ Tripoli 30 April 1862 aged
about 70.
DICKSON, ELLEN (_3 dau. of general Sir Alexander Dickson_). _b._
Woolwich 1819; an invalid from her youth; resided chiefly at
Lyndhurst, New Forest; composed under pseudonym of Dolores upwards
of 50 drawing-room songs which were very popular and some of which
are still sung, the best known of them are _As I lay a thynkinge_
1857; _The Brook_ 1857; _The Fairies_; _Clear and cool_; _The land
of long ago_; _O my lost love_; _The racing river_; _Tell her not
when I am gone_. _d._ Lyndhurst 4 July 1878.
DICKSON, JAMES A. _b._ London 1774; made his first appearance on the
stage in Boston, United States 1794 as Saville in _The Belle’s
Stratagem_; became eminent as an actor of comic old men; manager
of Boston theatre for some years from 1806; retired from the stage
14 April 1817. _d._ Boston 1 April 1853.
DICKSON, JOHN BOURMASTER. _b._ 29 April 1815; entered navy 1834;
captain 17 May 1854; retired R.A. 1 April 1870; C.B. 20 May 1871.
_d._ Thornborough, Ryde 11 Feb. 1876.
DICKSON, JOHN ROBINSON. _b._ Dungannon, co. Tyrone 15 Nov. 1819;
went to Canada 1838; graduated at Univ. of New York 1842; visiting
physician to general hospital at Kingston, Canada 1846–54,
visiting surgeon 1854–56, clinical lecturer 1856–60; dean of the
medical faculty and professor of surgery in Univ. of Queen’s
college, Kingston 1854, the name was altered in 1866 to Royal
College of physicians and surgeons, of which he was pres. 1866 to
death. _d._ Wolfe island, St. Lawrence river, Canada 23 Nov. 1882.
DICKSON, SIR JOSEPH RITCHIE LYON (_2 son of Elizabeth Dickson
1793–1862_). _b._ 1820; physician to British legation at Teheran,
Persia 11 Sep. 1847 to death; attended the Shah for typhus fever
1849 for which he received the Commander’s Star of the Lion and
Sun; accompanied the Shah to England 1873; knighted at Windsor
Castle 30 June 1873. _d._ St. Juliens, Malta on his way home from
Persia 7 Aug. 1887.
DICKSON, ROBERT. _b._ Dumfries 1804; ed. at high sch. and univ. of
Edin., M.D. 1826; a physician in London to 1866; L.R.C.P. 1831,
F.R.C.P. 1855; lectured on botany at medical school in Webb st.
London and afterwards at St. George’s hospital; author of _A
lecture on the dry rot_ 1837; wrote all the articles on Materia
Medica in the _Penny Cyclopædia_ 1833–58 and several articles on
popular science in _Church of England Mag._ _d._ Cambridge lodge,
Harmondsworth near Slough 13 Oct. 1875. _Medical times and gazette
ii_, 509–10, 669 (1875); _Proc. of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc.
viii_, 73 (1875).
DICKSON, SAMUEL. Educ. at Univ. of Edin. and in Paris; M.R.C.S.
Edin. 1825; M.D. Glasgow 1833; assistant surgeon in army in India
1828–33; practised at Cheltenham 1833, then in London to his
death; started _The Chrono-thermalist, or People’s Medical
Inquirer_ 1850 all of which he wrote himself, it ceased 1852; the
Penn Medical College of Philadelphia was founded to teach his
doctrines; he is drawn from life by Charles Reade in his novel
_Hard Cash_ 1863 as Dr. Sampson; author of _The fallacy of the art
of physic as taught in the schools_ 1836; _Fallacies of the
faculty being the spirit of the Chrono-thermal system_ 1839; _What
killed Mr. Drummond, the lead or the lancet?_ 1843, and 6 other
books. _d._ 12 Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 12 Oct. 1869 aged 67.
_S. Dickson’s Memorable events in the life of a London physician_
(1863).
DICKSON, THOMAS, _b._ Lauder, Berwickshire 26 March 1822; went to
Canada 1835; established the Dickson Manufacturing Co. for
building steam engines 1856 which became one of most important
locomotive works in United States; general superintendent of
Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. 1864, pres. 1869 to death; organised
a company for purchase of a large tract of iron land on shores of
Lake Champlain 1873; a director in 20 other companies, _d._
Morristown, New Jersey 31 July 1884.
DICKSON, WILLIAM GILLESPIE (_2 son of Henry Gordon Dickson of
Edinburgh, writer to the signet_). _b._ Edinburgh 9 April 1823;
ed. at academy and univ. of Edin.; member of Faculty of Advocates
9 March 1847; procureur and advocate general of Mauritius, July
1856 to March 1868; senior sheriff substitute at Glasgow, March
1868; sheriff of Lanarkshire 21 Jany. 1874 to death; LLD. Edin. 22
April 1874; published _A treatise on the law of evidence in
Scotland 2 vols._ 1855, _2 ed._ 1864. _d._ Glasgow 19 Oct. 1876.
DIGBY, GEORGE STEPHEN, _b._ 7 July 1821; second lieut. R.M.A. 16
Aug. 1842, col. 23 March 1865, col. commandant 3 May 1876 to
death; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. _d._ London 19 March 1877.
DIGBY, JANE ELIZABETH (_only dau. of Admiral Sir Henry Digby, G.C.B.
1770–1842_). _b._ 3 April 1807. _m._ (1) 15 Sep. 1824 Edward Law 1
Earl of Ellenborough, they separated 22 May 1829, he obtained a
divorce in Consistory Court of Bishop of London 20 Feb. 1830 for
her adultery with Felix, Prince Swartzenburgh, marriage was
dissolved by private act of parliament 11 Geo. iv, cap. 51, 8
April 1830; _m._ (2) 10 Nov. 1832 Charles Theodore Herbert, Baron
Venningen of Bavaria; _m._ (3) Hadji-Petros a general in the Greek
army; _m._ (4) a Bedouin Arab called Midjouel. She is sketched by
About under the name of Ianthe, in his _Grèce Contemporaine_
(1854) _pp._ 99–111. _d._ Damascus 11 Aug. 1881.
DIGBY, JOSEPH. _b._ 15 July 1786; entered navy 12 June 1800; captain
8 Sep. 1815; retired V.A. 9 July 1857. _d._ 5 March 1860.
DIGBY, KENELM HENRY (_younger son of Very Rev. Wm. Digby 1730–1812,
dean of Clonfert_). _b._ 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1823;
joined Church of Rome 1823; author of _The broad stone of honour,
or rules for the gentlemen of England_ 1822 anon., which he
rewrote and published in _4 vols._ 1826–27 omitting the second
title, an edition de luxe _5 vols._ 1876–7; _Mores Catholici or
ages of faith 11 vols._ 1831–40, and 16 other books. _d._ 7 The
Terrace Kensington 22 March 1880. _Gillow’s English Catholics_,
_ii_, 81–3 (1885).
DIGGLE, CHARLES. Ensign 52 foot 31 Aug. 1804; captain of companies
of gentlemen cadets at Royal military college 10 Aug. 1820 to 23
June 1843 when placed on h.p. with rank of major; M.G. 31 Aug.
1855; K.H. 1831. _d._ Cheltenham 18 Sep. 1862 aged 74.
DILKE, ASHTON WENTWORTH (_younger son of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke
1810–69_). _b._ London 11 Aug. 1850; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam.,
scholar; bought _Weekly Dispatch_ for £14,000 Jany. 1875, edited
it to his death; M.P. for Newcastle, April 1880 to Feb. 1883;
author of _I. S. Turgenev’s Virgin Soil translated by A. W. Dilke_
1878. _d._ Algiers 12 March 1883. _Graphic xxvii_, 469 (1883),
_portrait_.
DILKE, CHARLES WENTWORTH (_eld. son of Charles Wentworth Dilke
1742–1826, clerk in the Civil Service_). _b._ 8 Dec. 1789; in the
Navy Pay Office to 1836 when office was abolished and he retired
on a pension; edited the _London Mag._; edited the _Athenæum_ 5
June 1830 to 23 May 1846; managed the _Daily News_, April 1846 to
April 1849. _d._ Alice Holt near Farnham, Hants. 10 Aug. 1864.
_bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 16 Aug. _The Papers of a Critic
edited by Sir C. W. Dilke_ (1875) _i_, 1–91.
DILKE, SIR CHARLES WENTWORTH (_only son of the preceding_). _b._
London 18 Feb. 1810; ed. at Westminster and Trin. hall, Cam., LLB.
1834, LLM. 1860; founded with John Lindley the _Gardener’s
Chronicle_ 1841; chairman of council of Society of Arts several
years; commissioner of Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862; unpaid comr.
to New York exhibition 1853 and Paris Exposition 1855; created a
baronet for services as comr. 22 Jany. 1862; M.P. for Wallingford
13 July 1865 to 11 Nov. 1868; F.S.A.; F.R.G.S. _d._ Hotel de
France, St. Petersburgh 10 May 1869. _The Queen, vol._ 1 (1862),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xix_, 487, 509 (1851), _xl_, 215, 225 (1862),
_portrait_.
DILLON, CHARLES. _b._ Diss, Norfolk 24 May 1819; wrote magazine
articles and melodramas 1836–38; acted Hamlet at City of London
theatre 1840; stage manager, leading actor and dramatic author at
Marylebone theatre 1842; starred in every city and important town
in Great Britain and Ireland 1845–56; played at Sadlers Wells,
April to Sep. 1856; lessee and manager of Lyceum, Sep. 1856 to 2
April 1857 and 20 Jany. to 22 March 1858; played at Drury Lane
1860, in the United States 1861–63 and 1866–68, in Australia
1863–66, at Sadler’s Wells 1868 and Drury Lane 1869; last appeared
in London at Drury Lane, when he played Belphegor for his benefit
7 Dec. 1878; last appeared on the stage at Hawick town hall as
Othello 23 June 1881; dropped dead in High st. Hawick 24 June
1881. _bur._ Brompton cemetery, London 29 June. _Time, Feb. 1883
pp._ 213–17; _C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1880) 119–26; _The
Players i_, 161 (1860), _portrait_; _Touchstone 28 Sep. 1878_,
_portrait_; _The Era 25 June 1881 p. 5 col. 4_, _2 July p. 9 col.
4_, _and 9 July p. 14 col. 1_.
DILLON, JOHN BLAKE (_3 son of Luke Dillon_). _b._ Ballyhadenan, co.
Mayo 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1841;
agitated for the repeal of the Union; one of founders and
proprietors of the _Nation_ newspaper 1842; attached himself to
political fortunes of Smith O’Brien 1848; escaped to France 1848;
went to the United States where he practised in the New York
courts 1848; returned to Ireland 1855; a leader of the National
party; M.P. for co. Tipperary 24 July 1865 to death; alderman of
city of Dublin; one of founders of National Association 1865 and
secretary; author of _The history of Indiana 1 vol._ 1843, no more
published. _d._ Druid lodge, Killiney 15 Sep. 1866. _O. J. Burke’s
Anecdotes of Connaught circuit_ (1885) 323–5; _Sullivan’s New
Ireland_ (1877) _i_, 148–53; _Nation 6 Oct. 1866_, _portrait_.
DILLON, MR. _b._ about 1830; clerk in general post office, London;
went to France about 1850; on the staff of Paris paper _Le Sport_;
killed by Duc de Gramont-Caderousse in a duel with swords in
Forest of St. Germain near Paris 21 Oct. 1862; his widow obtained
an order in the Court of Versailles, Nov. 1862 obliging the Duke
to pay her an annuity of 3600 francs. _Larouse’s Grand
Dictionaire_ (1870) _vi_, 855–56.
DILLON, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (_son of Sir John Talbot Dillon, a baron
of the Holy Roman empire_). _b._ Birmingham 8 Aug. 1779; entered
navy May 1790; a prisoner in France 1803–6; captain 21 March 1808;
naval equerry to Duke of Sussex; K.C.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted at
St. James’s palace 24 June 1835; V.A. 5 March 1853. _d._ Monaco 9
Sep. 1857. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xiv_, 191 (1858).
DILLWYN, LEWIS WESTON (_son of Wm. Dillwyn of Higham Lodge,
Walthamstow, minister of Society of Friends, who d. Sep. 1824 aged
81_). _b._ Ipswich 21 Aug. 1778; head of the Cambrian pottery,
Swansea 1802; published _Natural history of British Confervæ_ in
parts 1802–1809, and other works on natural history; wrote with
Dawson Turner _The Botanists Guide 2 vols._ 1805; pres. of Royal
Institution of South Wales from its foundation 1835 to his death;
sheriff of Glamorganshire 1818; alderman of Swansea 1835–40, mayor
1839; M.P. for Glamorganshire 17 Dec. 1832 to July 1837; F.L.S.
1800, F.R.S. 1804. _d._ Sketty hall near Swansea 31 Aug. 1855.
_Proc. of Linnæan society_ (1856) 36–39.
DIMOCK, REV. JAMES FRANCIS. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., Bell’s
scholar 1830; 29 wrangler 1833; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; minor canon
of Southwell 1846–63; R. of Barnborough, Yorkshire 1863 to death;
preb. of Lincoln 1869 to death; author of _Explanation of the
Thirty-nine articles 2 vols._ 1845; _Southwell church, views with
architectural description_ 1854; edited _A metrical life of St.
Hugh of Lincoln_ 1860; _Magna vita S. Hugonis_ 1864; _Giraldi
Cambrensis Opera_, _vols. 5 and 6_, 1867–69. _d._ Barnborough 21
April 1876 aged 65.
DINNEFORD, WILLIAM. _b._ London; first appeared in America at
Chestnut st. theatre, Philadelphia 1823, leading actor there; made
his début in New York at Lafayette theatre 1826; became manager of
the Bowery theatre and of the Franklin theatre, New York;
travelled with strolling companies all over the United States from
Maine to California; an actor, author, manager, auctioneer, broker
and merchant; opened a lodging and eating house at 157 Broadway,
New York called the Byron 1845. _d._ Panama 8 Dec. 1852.
_Ireland’s Records of the New York stage i_, 405 (1866).
DINORBEN, WILLIAM LEWIS HUGHES, 1 Baron (_eld. son of Rev. Edward
Hughes of Kinmel park near St. Asaph, who d. 1815_). _b._ 10 Nov.
1767; M.P. for Wallingford 5 July 1802 to 10 Sep. 1831 when
created Baron Dinorben of Kinmel park, co. Denbigh; militia
aide-de-camp to the Queen 7 Feb. 1840 to death. _d._ Kinmel park
10 Feb. 1852.
DINSDALE, FREDERICK. Educ. at Chr. coll. Cam., LLB. 1829, LLD. 1835;
barrister M.T. 23 May 1834; judge of Court of Requests at Oldham
1843 to March 1847; judge of county courts, circuit No. 22
(Warwickshire), March 1847 to death; changed his name from Trotter
to Dinsdale 1847; author of _A glossary of provincial words used
in Teesdale_ 1849, anon. _d._ Tachbrooke house, Leamington 8 July
1872.
DIPROSE, JOHN (_eld. son of John Diprose of London, bookbinder_).
_b._ Bell Alley, Temple Bar, London 1814; bookseller at Newington
Butts 1837, at 312 Strand 1841, at 16 Portugal st. Lincoln’s Inn
Fields, at 9 Sheffield st. 1876 to death; began his career as a
publisher by issuing _The royal song book_ 1840; wrote or edited
upwards of 30 minor works which he styled books for the
non-reading public; author of _Some account of the parish of St.
Clement Danes past and present 2 vols._ 1868–76, vol. 2 has the
date 1876 on the title page but was not published till 1880. _d._
131 Kennington park road, London 20 June 1879. _Diprose’s St.
Clements ii, v-xxiii_ (1876).
DIRCKS, HENRY. _b._ Liverpool 26 Aug. 1806; a practical engineer
conducting railway canal and mining works to 1842, a consulting
engineer 1842–58; patented several inventions 1840–57; invented
optical delusion exhibited at Polytechnic, London under name of
Pepper’s Ghost, July 1863; author of _Jordantype, otherwise called
Electrotype_ 1852; _Perpetuum mobile or search for self-motive
power_ 1861, _second series_ 1870; _Joseph Anstey or the patron
and protégé_ 1863, a novel published under pseud. of D. S. Henry;
_The life of the Second Marquis of Worcester_ 1865 and other
books. _d._ Brighton 17 Sep. 1873. _H. Dircks’s Inventors and
Inventions_ 1867, _portrait_; _H. Dircks’s Nature-Study_ 1869,
_portrait_; _H. Dircks’s Naturalistic poetry_ 1872, _portrait_;
_Notes and Queries 6 S. xii_, 309, 477 (1885).
DISBROWE, SIR EDWARD CROMWELL (_son of Col. Edward Disbrowe of
Walton, Derbyshire, who d. 30 Nov. 1818_). Educ. at Eton; matric.
from Ch. Ch. Ox. 21 Oct. 1808 aged 18; M.P. for Windsor 11 Feb.
1823 to 2 June 1826; entered diplomatic service 1826; envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at the Hague 28 Oct.
1835 to death; G.C.H. 1831. _d._ The Hague 29 Oct. 1851. _The Eton
portrait gallery_ (1876) 406–8.
DISNEY, JOHN (_eld. son of Rev. John Disney, Unitarian clergyman
1746–1816_). _b._ Flintham hall, Notts. 29 May 1779; inherited
from his father the collection of antiquities formed by Hollis and
Brand in Italy 1748–53 to which he made additions; barrister I.T.
13 May 1803; recorder of Bridport 14 Sep. 1807 to Oct. 1823;
contested Harwich, Dec. 1832 and North Essex, May 1835; F.R.S. 7
June 1832; F.S.A.; presented to Univ. of Cam. a collection of 83
ancient marbles 16 April 1850; founded Disney professorship of
archæology in Univ. of Cam. 1851, endowed it with sum of £1000
which he increased to £3250 by a bequest in his will 1857;
published _A collection of acts of parliament relative to
elections_ 1811; _Outlines of a penal code_ 1826; _Museum
Disneianum 3 parts_ 1846–9. _d._ The Hyde, Ingatestone, Essex 6
May 1857.
DISSTON, HENRY. _b._ Tewkesbury 21 May 1819; went to United States
1833; manufacturer of saws in Philadelphia about 1840 to death,
employed 400 workmen; invented more than 20 improvements in saw
manufacture, among them the movable or inserted teeth; inventor
and manufacturer of the Disston saw. _d._ Philadelphia 16 March
1878.
DISTIN, JOHN. _b._ 1793; trumpet player in Her Majesty’s theatre,
London; bandmaster to Marquis of Breadalbane; formed a Quintet
band of wind instruments, composed of himself and his sons 1833,
travelled with it in England 1833–36 and abroad 1836–44; made an
improvement in the sax horn 1844; first played at Jullien’s
concerts, Covent Garden 3 Nov. 1844. _d._ Great Newport st. St.
Martin’s lane, London 8 July 1863. _I.L.N. v_, 384 (1844),
_portraits of John Distin and his 4 sons_.
DITCHER, REV. JOSEPH. Educ. at Queen’s coll. Cam.; P.C. of Holy
Trinity, Bitton, Gloucs. 1821–35; M.A. by Abp. of Canterbury 3
Feb. 1837; judge of consistorial episcopal court of Bath and Wells
1836–41; V. of South Brent, Somerset 1841 to death; prosecuted
Archdeacon G. A. Denison for his sermons on the doctrine of the
Real Presence 1856; author of _A statement of the proceedings in
the case of Ditcher v. Denison_ 1858. _d._ South Brent 28 Nov.
1875. _S. Ditcher’s Memorials of Rev. J. Ditcher_ 1876.
DIVETT, EDWARD. _b._ 1797; ed. at Eton; M.P. for Exeter 12 Dec. 1832
to death. _d._ Bystock near Exmouth 25 July 1864.
DIXON, GEORGE (_3 son of John Dixon of Gledhow hall, Yorkshire
1753–1825_). _b._ 5 Aug. 1801; ensign 3 Foot guards 20 Jany. 1820,
major 25 March 1853 to 20 June 1854; col. 104 Foot 2 Feb. 1867 to
death; general 1 April 1870. _d._ 97 Mount st. London 15 May 1874.
DIXON, HENRY HALL (_2 son of Peter Dixon of Warwick bridge,
Carlisle, cotton manufacturer_). _b._ Carlisle 16 May 1822; ed. at
Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1846; articled to a solicitor at
Doncaster; contributed to the _Sporting Review_ about 1850–60;
barrister M.T. 7 May 1852; wrote _The herds of Great Britain_ in
the _Mark Lane Express_ 1859–60; wrote the article entitled _The
Farm_ in the _Illustrated London News_ some years; author of _The
law of the farm_ 1858, _4 ed._ 1879; _Field and Fern 2 vols._
1865; published under pseudonym of The Druid _Post and Paddock_
1856; _Silk and Scarlet_ 1859; _Scott and Sebright_ 1862; _Saddle
and Sirloin_ 1870. _d._ Warwick gardens, Kensington, London 16
March 1870. _Sporting Review lxiii_, 294–97 (1870); _Illust.
sporting and dramatic news i_, 65–6 (1874), _portrait_; _Sporting
Times 6 Feb. 1886 pp._ 2–3.
DIXON, REV. JAMES. _b._ King’s Mills near Castle Donington, Leics.
29 Oct. 1788; joined Methodist Society 1808, licensed at quarter
sessions to preach 14 Jany. 1812; appointed to Cardiff circuit
1816; pres. of the Conference 1841; D.D. of Univ. of Pennsylvania,
July 1843; appointed to South London circuit 1844; pres. of
Conference of Upper Canada 1848; retired from full ministry 1862;
a great preacher and orator; author of _Methodism in its origin,
economy and present position_ 1841; _Methodism in America_ 1849
and other books. _d._ Bradford 28 Dec. 1871. _R. W. Dixon’s Life
of James Dixon, D.D._ 1874; _Methodist Quarterly ix_, 9, (1849),
_portrait_.
DIXON, HIS GRACE THE MOST REV. JOSEPH. _b._ Cole Island near
Dungannon, co. Tyrone 2 Feb. 1806; entered Royal college of St.
Patrick, Maynooth 1822, dean there 5 years, professor of Sacred
Scripture and Hebrew 1828; R.C. archbishop of Armagh and primate
of all Ireland 28 Sep. 1852 to death, consecrated 21 Nov.; author
of _A general introduction to the Sacred Scriptures in a series of
dissertations 2 vols._ 1852; _The blessed Cornelius, or some
tidings of an archbishop of Armagh who went to Rome in the twelfth
century_ 1855. _d._ Armagh 29 April 1866. _Catholic Directory_,
_Dublin_ 1867 _pp._ 421–28.
DIXON, MANLEY HALL. _b._ Stoke Damarel, Devon 8 June 1786; entered
navy June 1794; captain 28 June 1811; R.A. 27 Dec. 1847; V.A. 7
Feb. 1855; pensioned 28 Dec. 1855; admiral on half pay 1 Nov.
1860. _d._ Stoke, Devonport 3 March 1864.
DIXON, REV. RICHARD (_son of Joshua Dixon of Whitehaven_). Matric.
from Queen’s coll. Ox. 3 May 1796 aged 16; B.A. 1799, M.A. 1803;
fellow of his college to 1829, tutor 1822; F.R.S. 21 March 1811;
R. of Niton, Isle of Wight 1828 to death. _d._ Niton rectory 13
May 1858.
DIXON, VENERABLE ROBERT VICKERS. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A.
1833, M.A. 1840, B.D. and D.D. 1862, fellow 1839; R. of
Clogherney, co. Tyrone 1853 to death; archdeacon of Armagh 1883 to
death. _d._ Clogherney rectory 14 May 1885.
DIXON, REV. WILLIAM HENRY (_son of Rev. Henry Dixon, V. of Wadworth
near Doncaster_). _b._ Wadworth 2 Nov. 1783; ed. at Pemb. coll.
Cam., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1809; V. of Bishopthorpe near York 1824 to
death; chaplain to Abp. of York to death; preb. of York 1825–31,
canon residentiary 1831 to death; canon of Ripon 1836; R. of Etton
near Beverley, Yorkshire 1837 to death; F.S.A. 31 May 1821; author
of _Synodus Eboracensis, or a short account of the convocation of
the province of York_ 1848. _d._ Minster yard, York 17 Feb. 1854.
_Memoir of Rev. W. H. Dixon by Rev. C. B. Norcliffe, privately
printed_ 1860; _Rev. W. H. Dixon’s Fasti Eboracenses_, _edited by
Rev. James Raine vol. 1_, 1863, _preface_.
DIXON, WILLIAM HEPWORTH (_son of Abner Dixon of Holmfirth,
Yorkshire_). _b._ Newton st. Ancoats, Manchester 30 June 1821;
wrote a series of articles on the literature of the lower classes
and on London prisons in the _Daily News_ 1846; barrister I.T. 1
May 1854; contributed to the _Athenæum_ 1846, editor Jany. 1853 to
Aug. 1869; F.S.A. 15 Jany. 1852; helped to found Palestine
exploration fund 1865, chairman of executive committee; knight
commander of German order of the Crown 4 Oct. 1872; member for
Marylebone of London school board 29 Nov. 1870 to Nov. 1873;
author of _William Penn, an historical biography_ 1851; _The Holy
Land 2 vols._ 1865; _New America 2 vols._ 1867 of which there were
8 editions in England, 3 in America and several in France, Russia,
Holland, Italy and Germany, and about 20 other books. _d._ 6 St.
James’s terrace, Regent’s park, London 27 Dec. 1879. _In Memoriam
Hepworth Dixon_ 1880; _Illustrated Review vi_, 225–28 (1873),
_portrait_; _Cartoon Portraits_ (1873) 227–38, _portrait_;
_Graphic xxi_, 69 (1880), _portrait_.
DIXON, WILLIAM JERROLD (_elder son of the preceding_). _b._ 1848;
ed. at Westminster and Trin. hall, Cam., B.A. 1871; in saving
lives in the skating accident in Regent’s Park 15 Jany. 1867
caught a cold which rendered him an invalid and cripple for life;
barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1870; hon. sec. of the Savage club,
London; sec. to Dublin sanitary commission 1879; author of
articles in periodicals; adapted Molière’s _Le Médecin malgré lui_
under title of _The Doctor in spite of himself_, comedy in 3 acts
produced at Globe theatre 23 June 1877; wrote _Married another_, a
comedietta; wrote in _The Theatre_ and _London Society_, in
Belgravia under name of Gerald Dixon. _d._ Dublin 20 Oct. 1879 in
31 year. _Belgravia xl_, 193–97 (1880); _Theatre iii_, 277–79
(1879).
DIXON, WILLIAM MANLEY HALL. _b._ 1817; second lieut. R.A. 18 June
1835, col. 27 Feb. 1866 to 23 Dec. 1871 when he retired on full
pay; prepared plans for attack on Bomarsund and other places
during Russian war; superintendent of Royal small arms factories
at Enfield 1855 to 1871; C.B. 20 May 1871; M.G. 23 Dec. 1871. _d._
Tharp lodge, Hornchurch, Essex 19 March 1888.
DOBBS, CONWAY RICHARD. _b._ 1796; ed. at Eton; entered navy 4 Sep.
1810; fought at battle of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816; lieut. 16 Oct.
1821; placed on reserved list July 1851; retired commander 1 July
1864; M.P. for Carrickfergus 19 Dec. 1832 to March 1833 when
unseated on petition; sheriff of Antrim 1841. _d._ 28 Feb. 1886.
DOBBS, WILLIAM CARY (_only son of Rev. Robert Conway Dobbs, who d. 9
Dec. 1809 aged 38_). _b._ 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A.
1827, M.A. 1830; called to bar in Ireland 1833; crown prosecutor
on North East circuit 1851–59; Q.C. 26 May 1858; a judge of Landed
Estates Court, April 1859 to death; M.P. for Carrickfergus 2 April
1857 to 23 April 1859. _d._ Wimpole st, London 17 April 1869.
DOBELL, SYDNEY THOMPSON (_eld. son of John Dobell of Cranbrook,
Kent, hide merchant_). _b._ Cranbrook 5 April 1824; a wine
merchant at Cheltenham 1848 to death; author of _The Roman, a
dramatic poem by Sydney Yendys_ 1850; _Balder, part the first, By
the author of the Roman_ 1854; _England in time of war_ 1856; a
complete edition of his works was published in 3 vols. 1875–6.
_d._ Barton end house, Nailsworth near Stroud 22 Aug. 1874. _The
life of Sydney Dobell edited by E. J. [Miss E. Jolly] 2 vols._
1878; _The golden decade of a favored town, by Contem Ignotus_
(1884) 154–93; _T. H. Ward’s English poets_, _2 ed. iv_, 615–20
(1883); _Temple Bar lvi_, 80–91 (1879); _Graphic x_, 264 (1874),
_portrait_.
DOBSON, GEORGE (_son of John Dobson of Mortimer, Berkshire_). _b._
1795; entered navy 14 Dec. 1807; captain 5 Jany. 1844; admiral on
h.p. 11 Dec. 1875. _d._ 52 Pulteney st. Bath 13 June 1877.
DOBSON, JOHN. _b._ Chirton, North Shields 1788; executed designs for
damasks 1800; pupil of David Stephenson, architect, Newcastle
1803–10; architect at Newcastle 1811 to death; became most noted
architect in North of England; said to be real author of modern
Gothic revival in actual practice; restored many churches;
designed or erected greatest part of the public buildings and
finest new streets in Newcastle; pres. of Northern Architectural
Assoc. 1859. _d._ New Bridge st. Newcastle 8 Jany. 1865 in 77
year. _Memoirs of John Dobson_ (1885), _portrait_.
DOBSON, THOMAS. Assistant sec. of Excise, Somerset House, London
1856–60; joint sec. to Board of inland revenue 1860–63 when his
services were acknowledged in a special treasury minute laid
before Parliament; granted a pension of £1010 a year 1863;
presented with a service of plate by 2489 officers of excise
surveying department 1863; discovered with Mr. Phillips the method
of testing gravities of beer, and substitution of duty free malt
in distilleries in room of malt drawback; invented method of
levying duties on spirits. _d._ Yarrow lodge, Sydenham 19 June
1885 in 88 year. _I.L.N. 17 Oct. 1863 p. 401._
DOBSON, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ 1809; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll.
Cam., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; fellow of his coll. 1834–41; V. of
Tuxford, Notts 1840–48; principal of Cheltenham college 1841–61.
_d._ Cheltenham 31 Dec. 1867. _Rev. T. Mozley’s Reminiscences i_,
170–74 (1882).
DOBSON, WILLIAM (_son of Lawrence Dobson of Preston, stationer_).
_b._ Preston 1820; stationer at Preston; edited the _Preston
Chronicle_ to March 1868; member of Preston town council 1862–72
and 1874–83; member of Chetham Society; author of _History of the
parliamentary representation of Preston during the last hundred
years_ 1856, _2 ed._ 1868; _Rambles by the Ribble 3 series_
1864–83 and other books. _d._ Churton road, Chester 8 Aug. 1884.
DOBSON, WILLIAM BURDETT. Entered navy 11 Dec. 1806; inspecting
commander in coast guard 5 May 1834 to July 1837; captain on half
pay 23 Nov. 1841; V.A. on half pay 24 May 1867. _d._ Lyde house,
Bath 22 March 1872 aged 79.
DOCHARTY, JAMES _b._ Bonhill, Dumbartonshire 1829; a pattern
designer in Glasgow to about 1862; a landscape painter about 1862
to death; A.R.S.A. 14 Nov. 1877; exhibited many pictures in
Glasgow and Edinburgh; exhibited 13 landscapes at the R.A.
1865–77. _d._ Pollokshields, Glasgow 5 April 1878.
DOCKRAY, ROBERT BENSON. _b._ 13 Nov. 1811; resident engineer at
Birmingham of the London and Birmingham railway 7 March 1838,
engineer for the entire line 12 June 1840 to 18 Sep. 1852;
M.I.C.E. 13 June 1834, Telford medallist 1849. _d._ Dalton square,
Lancaster 8 Sep. 1871. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii_,
213–15 (1872).
DOD, CHARLES ROGER PHIPPS (_only son of Rev. Roger Dodd, V. of
Drumlease, Leitrim_). _b._ Drumlease 8 May 1793; entered King’s
Inns, Dublin 30 July 1816; settled in London 1818; compiled
summary of parliamentary debates for the _Times_ and wrote nearly
all the memoirs of deceased celebrities; changed spelling of his
name from Dodd to Dod 1847; published _Parliamentary pocket
companion_ 1833–42; _Parliamentary Companion_ 1843–55; _Peerage,
baronetage and knightage_ 1841–55; _A manual of dignities,
privileges and precedents_ 1842; _The annual biography_ 1843;
_Electoral facts from 1832 to 1852 impartially stated_, 1852, _2
ed._ 1853. _d._ 5 Foxley road, North Brixton, London 21 Feb. 1855.
DOD, ROBERT PHIPPS (_only son of the preceding_). Educ. at King’s
coll. London; captain in Shropshire militia 26 Jany. 1858 to
death; privately printed _Birth and worth, an enquiry into the
practical use of a pedigree_ 1849; published _Parliamentary
Companion_ 1856 to death; _Peerage, baronetage and knightage_ 1856
to death. _d._ Nant Issa hall near Oswestry 9 Jany. 1865.
DODD, GEORGE. _b._ 1808; miscellaneous writer of books chiefly for
the publishers Charles Knight and Messrs. Chambers; edited and
wrote in _Cyclopædia of the industry of all nations_ 1851; some of
his papers were collected and published under titles of _Days at
the factories_ 1843 and _Curiosities of industry_ 1852; author of
_The textile manufactures of Great Britain 6 vols._ 1844–6; _The
food of London_ 1856 and many other books; contributed papers to
the _Companion to the British Almanac_ 30 years; found dead at
Torriano avenue, Kentish Town, London 21 Jany. 1881.
DODD, REV. PHILIP STANHOPE (_son of Rev. Richard Dodd, R. of Cowley,
Middlesex, who d. 17 June 1811 aged 73_). Educ. at Tunbridge and
Magd. coll. Cam., B.A. 1796, M.A. 1799; fellow of his college;
minister of Lambeth chapel, London 1803–7; R. of St. Mary at Hill,
London 1807–12; R. of Aldrington, Sussex 1812 to death; R. of
Penshurst, Kent 1819 to death; author of _Hints to Freshmen at the
University of Cambridge_ 1798, _3 ed._ 1807 both anon.; _A view of
the evidence afforded by the life and ministry of St. Peter to the
truth of the Christian revelation_ 1837. _d._ Penshurst rectory 22
March 1852 aged 77. _G.M. xxxvii_, 626–27 (1852).
DODDS, REV. GEORGE THEOPHILUS (_son of Rev. Mr. Dodds, minister of
free church of Lochee, a suburb of Dundee_). _b._ Lochee 2 June
1850; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews and New coll. Edin.; settled at
Paris as a missionary of the McAll Protestant mission, Nov. 1877;
went to the United States with Mr. Réveilland as a missionary
1880. _d._ Buisson Luzas, Salbrio near Orleans, France 9 Sep.
1882. _bur._ Passy cemetery near Paris 14 Sep. _Life and work of
Rev. G. T. Dodds, missionary, by H. Bonar, D.D._ 1884, _portrait_.
DODDS, ISAAC (_2 son of Thomas Dodds, viewer of the Felling
colliery, killed 21 Oct. 1805_). _b._ Felling hall, Heworth,
Durham 9 July 1801; apprenticed to George Stephenson at Newcastle;
invented double action air pump 1830 and machine for weighing
coals in carts 1832; engineer to the Horseley iron works,
Staffordshire 1832–36; built the Star locomotive for the Liverpool
and Manchester railway 1833; first maker of a locomotive to ascend
an incline; inventor of plan of prevention of boiler explosions by
using a plug of fusible metal, now in general use; locomotive
superintendent North Midland railway 1835; invented the turn
table, self-acting switches and spring buffers; took his son T. W.
Dodds into partnership and recommenced the Holmes engine and
railway works, Rotherham 1850, works closed 1866; introducer of
steel rails. _d._ 13 Townend st. Nether Hallam near Sheffield 1
Nov. 1882. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxv_, 308–14 (1884).
DODDS, JAMES. _b._ Softlaw near Kelso 6 Feb. 1813; ed. at Univ. of
Edin.; schoolmaster at Sandyknowe; articled to a lawyer at Melrose
1836–40; writer to the Signet; a solicitor in London 1846;
lectured in London and Scotland; published _The fifty years
struggle of the Covenanters_ 1860; _Thomas Chalmers, a
biographical study_ 1870. _d._ Lochee, Dundee 12 Sep. 1874. _Lays
of the Covenanters by James Dodds, edited by Rev. James Dodds_
(1880) _pp._ 1–140.
DODDS, REV. JAMES. _b._ Annan, Dumfriesshire 1812; ed. at Univ. of
Edin.; minister of the parish of Humbie, East Lothian 1841–43;
minister of free church, Dunbar 1843 to death; author of _A
century of Scottish church history_ 1846; _A memoir of Rev. Thomas
Rosie_ 1862 and other books. _d._ Free church manse, Dunbar 3 Sep.
1885.
DODGSON, VENERABLE CHARLES (_eld. son of Charles Dodgson of
Hamilton, Lanarkshire_). Matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 5 May 1818 aged
17, student 1818–28; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824; P.C. of Daresbury,
Cheshire 1827–43; R. of Croft near Darlington 20 Jany. 1843 to
death; canon res. of Ripon cathedral 1852 to death; archdeacon of
Richmond 1854 to death; chaplain to Abp. of Canterbury 1862 to
death; published 12 charges, sermons and letters 1837–68. _d._
Croft rectory 21 June 1868.
DODGSON, GEORGE HAYDOCK. _b._ Liverpool 16 Aug. 1811; apprenticed to
George Stephenson the engineer; prepared plans for Whitby and
Pickering railway; settled in London 1835 where he made drawings
for architects; assoc. of New Soc. of Painters in water-colours
1842, member 1844–47; assoc. of Soc. of Painters in water-colours
1848, member 1852; exhibited 1 landscape at B.I. and 9 at Suffolk
st. gallery 1835–41. _d._ 28 Clifton hill, St. John’s Wood, London
4 June 1880. _I.L.N. lxxvi_, 612 (1880), _portrait_.
DODSON, SIR JOHN (_eld. son of Rev. John Dodson, R. of
Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, who d. July 1807_). _b._ Hurstpierpoint 19
Jany. 1780; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. and Oriel coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804, D.C.L. 1808; advocate of college of Doctors
of law 3 Nov. 1808; commissary to dean and chapter of Westminster;
M.P. for Rye, July 1819 to March 1823; advocate to Admiralty Court
11 March 1829; advocate general 18 Oct. 1834; knighted at St.
James’s palace 29 Oct. 1834; barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1834, bencher
1835; master of the Faculties, Nov. 1841; Vicar-general to the
lord primate 1849; judge of Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Feb.
1852 to 9 Dec. 1857 when court was abolished; dean of the Arches
court, Feb. 1852 to 9 Dec. 1857; P.C. 5 April 1852; published
_Reports of cases in the high court of admiralty_ 1811–22, _2
vols._ 1815–28. _d._ 6 Seamore place, Mayfair, London 27 April
1858.
DODSWORTH, REV. WILLIAM (_3 son of John Dodsworth of Carlton hall,
Yorkshire_). _b._ 1798; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A.
1823; minister of Margaret st. chapel, Cavendish sq. London to
1837; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Regent’s park, London 1837 to Jany. 1851
when he joined Church of Rome; author of _Discourses on the Lord’s
Supper_ 1835; _The Priest’s Companion in the visitation of the
Sick_ 1843; _Sermons in Advent_ 1849; _Clarendon, a tale 3 vols._
1850, and about 25 other books. _d._ York terrace, Regent’s park
10 Dec. 1861.
DODWORTH, THOMAS. _b._ Sheffield 1790; went to New York 1826;
organised the “City Band” which became the National brass band and
was first independent military band in New York. _d._ Morrisania,
New York 30 April 1876.
DOHERTY, HENRY EDWARD. _b._ 20 April 1817; cornet 14 light dragoons
31 Dec. 1833, lieut.-col. 23 Nov. 1848 to 25 Aug. 1857 when placed
on h.p.; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 9 June 1849. _d._ Vernon house,
Weston park, Bath 15 Sep. 1885.
DOHERTY, SIR RICHARD (_son of Leonard O’Dogherty of Coolmoyne, co.
Tipperary_). _b._ Garculea house near Golden, co. Tipperary 1785;
lieut. 90 foot 22 Nov. 1804; major 21 foot 16 Sep. 1824;
lieut.-col. 1 West India regt. 6 Dec. 1827 to 4 Sep. 1835;
lieut.-col. 89 foot 4 Sep. 1835 to 10 Aug. 1838; lieut.-col. royal
African colonial corps 10 Aug. 1838 to Oct. 1840; lieut.-col. 3
West India regt. Oct. 1840 to 1 Aug. 1845 when placed on h.p.;
knighted by patent 27 Nov. 1841; inspecting field officer 1 Jany.
1847 to 11 Nov. 1851; col. 11 foot 5 Sep. 1857 to death; L.G. 26
Oct. 1858; governor of Sierra Leone 27 March 1837 to 1840;
commander in chief at Jamaica 1853–55. _d._ Charles st. St.
James’s, London 2 Sep. 1862.
DOLBY, ANASTASIA MARICE. Embroideress to the Queen; author of
_Church embroidery, ancient and modern_ 1867; _Church vestments,
their origin, use and ornament_ 1868. (_m._ Edwin Thomas Dolby of
London, artist). _d._ 12 Southwood terrace, Highgate 18 Feb. 1873
aged 49.
DOLBY, THOMAS (_son of Thomas Dolby of Sawtry, Hunts., ploughman_).
_b._ Sawtry 6 July 1782; a woodcutter and thatcher; attendant on
Brigadier General Charles William Este, April 1804 to 1808;
bookseller at 34 Wardour st. London 1808, at 299 Strand 1819, and
at 17 Catharine st. Strand 1824–25 when he became bankrupt; edited
_Dolby’s Parliamentary Register_, 67 numbers Jany. to June 1819;
imprisoned for selling _Sherwin’s Register_ 1819; tried 21 Oct.
1822 for publishing _Political Dictionary_, required to enter into
recognizances, Nov. 1823; published _Dolby’s British Theatre_ 84
numbers, which became _Cumberland’s British Theatre_ in 1823;
author of _A letter to the friends of liberty_ 1819; _The
Shaksperian Dictionary_ 1832; _The literary cyclopædia_ 1834; _The
school of reform in church and state_ 1835; _Floreston, or the new
Lord of the manor, a tale of humanity_ 1839, anon. _d._ Edward st.
Portman sq. London 24 June 1856. _Memoirs of T. Dolby 5 parts_
1827.
DOLLOND, GEORGE. _b._ London 25 Jany. 1774; apprenticed to his uncle
Peter Dollond of St. Paul’s churchyard, optician 1788, partner
with him Nov. 1804 to 1819, carried business on alone 1819 to
death; assumed by royal permission surname of Dollond instead of
Huggins 1804; F.R.S. 23 Dec. 1819; an active founder of
Astronomical Soc. 1820; F.R.G.S. 1830; invented the Atmospheric
recorder for which he received council medal of Great Exhibition
1851. _d._ Camberwell terrace north, London 13 May 1852.
DOLMAN, CHARLES (_only son of Charles Dolman of Monmouth, who d.
1807_). _b._ Monmouth 20 Sep. 1807; R.C. publisher at 61 New Bond
st. London 1837–58 when he formed his business into the Catholic
Bookselling and publishing company which failed; published the
_Catholic Mag._ April 1838 to June 1844; _Dolman’s Mag._, March
1845 to 1849; _Lingard’s History of England_, _5 ed. 10 vols._
1849 and other books. _d._ 64 Rue du Faubourg, St. Honoré, Paris
31 Dec. 1863. _Gillow’s English Catholics ii_, 87–90 (1885).
DOMBRAIN, SIR JAMES (_son of Abraham Dombrain of Canterbury_). _b._
Canterbury 1793; entered navy 1808; deputy comptroller general of
coast guard in England 1816; comptroller general of coast guard in
Ireland 1819–49, introduced and organised that force; knighted by
Earl De Grey, lord lieut. of Ireland at Kingstown, Dublin 1844
after an inspection of the Irish squadron of revenue cruisers.
_d._ Woodstock, Sandford near Dublin 24 Sep. 1871.
DOMETT, ALFRED (_son of Nathaniel Domett of Camberwell Grove,
Surrey_). _b._ Camberwell Grove 20 May 1811; ed. at St. John’s
coll. Cam.; barrister M.T. 19 Nov. 1841; went to New Zealand 1842;
colonial sec. for New Munster (the Middle island of New Zealand)
1848; sec. for New Zealand 1851; comr. of crown lands, and
resident magistrate of Hawke’s Bay 1853–6; M.P. for Nelson 1855;
prime minister 1862–3; registrar general of lands 1865;
administrator of confiscated lands 1870–71; author of _Venice_
1839 a poem; _Narrative of the Wairoan massacre_ 1843; _Ordinances
of New Zealand classified_ 1850; _Ranolf and Amohia, a South Sea
day dream_ 1872, _2 ed._ 1883; _Flotsam and Jetsam, rhymes old and
new_ 1877. _d._ 32 St. Charles sq. North Kensington, London 2 Nov.
1887. _W. Gisborne’s New Zealand Rulers_ (1886) 134, _portrait_.
DOMVILE, SIR JOHN COMPTON, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Charles
Pocklington, M.P. for co. Dublin, who assumed surname of Domvile
and d. April 1810_). Ensign 6 foot 23 May 1800; captain 5 garrison
battalion 8 Oct. 1807; captain 68 foot 1 Dec. 1808 to 1809 or
1810; assumed name of Domvile by r.l. 25 March 1815; created
baronet 22 May 1815; M.P. for Bossiney, Cornwall 18 June 1818 to 2
June 1826, for Oakhampton 10 June 1826 to 24 July 1830, for
Plympton 23 Dec. 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832; custos rotulorum of co.
Dublin 1823 to death. _d._ 5 Grosvenor sq. London 23 Feb. 1857.
DOMVILLE, HENRY JONES (_3 son of James Domville, M.D. of Greenwich,
who d. 28 June 1846_). Assistant surgeon R.N. 18 May 1839; surgeon
9 Nov. 1846; M.R.C.S. 1844; M.D. St. Andrews 1862; deputy
inspector general of hospitals 1864, inspector general 13 Feb.
1875 to 17 Dec. 1878; C.B. 13 March 1867; granted good service
pension 7 Oct. 1882. _d._ South Hill, Paignton, Devon 8 July 1888.
DOMVILLE, WILLIAM THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). Assistant
surgeon R.N. 3 May 1842; surgeon 7 Feb. 1852; served in Resolute
in Arctic regions in search of Sir John Franklin 1852–54;
inspector general of hospitals and fleets 18 Feb. 1875; in chief
control of Haslar hospital 13 Nov. 1877 to death; C.B. 2 June
1877. _d._ royal naval hospital, Haslar 21 Oct. 1879.
DON, EMILY ELIZA (_eld. dau. of John Saunders of Adelphi theatre,
London, actor_). Acted in comedy and farce at Adelphi, Haymarket,
Surrey and other theatres. (_m._ at Marylebone 17 Oct. 1857 Sir
Wm. Henry Don 1825–62). acted in Australia 1861–2, in England
1862–7, in New York 1867; lessee of T.R. Nottingham short time;
sang at music halls latterly. _d._ Edinburgh 20 Sep. 1875.
DON, GEORGE (_eld. son of George Don, curator of royal botanic
garden, Edinburgh_). _b._ Doo Hillock, Forfarshire 17 May 1798;
assistant in Botanic garden, Chelsea 1818–21; travelled as
collector of Horticultural Society in Brazil, West Indies and
Sierra Leone, Dec. 1821 to Feb. 1823; F.L.S. 1831; published _A
general system of gardening and botany 4 vols._ 1832–38. _d._
Bedford place, Kensington, London 25 Feb. 1856. _Proc. of Linnæan
Soc._ (1856) 39–41.
DON, SIR WILLIAM HENRY, 7 Baronet (_only son of Sir Alexander Don, 6
bart. of Newtondon, Berwickshire, who d. 11 April 1826 aged 47_).
_b._ 4 May 1825; ed. at Eton 1838–41; page to Lady Montgomerie at
Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839; cornet 5 dragoon guards 3
June 1842, lieut. 14 March 1845 to 28 Nov. 1845 when he sold out;
owner of steeple chase horses; sold Newtondon for £85,000; acted
in America 1850–55, in Great Britain 1855–61, in Australia 1861 to
death; played Queen Elizabeth in burlesque of _Kenilworth_ at
Hobart Town 15 March 1862. _d._ Webb’s hotel, Hobart Town 19 March
1862. _N. P. Willis’s Hurry-graphs_, _2 ed._ (1851) 230–33.
DONALDSON, JOHN. Called to Scottish bar 1826; a teacher of music in
Edinburgh; Reid professor of music in Univ. of Edin. 1845 to
death; contributed largely to means of carrying out concerts by
erection of music room and organ 1860; got rights of the professor
established by process at law 1855 after 5 years litigation;
granted civil list pension of £75, 19 April 1861. _d._ Marchfield
near Edin. 12 Aug. 1865. _Sir A. Grant’s Story of the Univ. of
Edinburgh ii_, 232–3, 459–61 (1884).
DONALDSON, REV. JOHN WILLIAM (_2 son of Stuart Donaldson of London,
merchant_). _b._ London 7 June 1811; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1834, M.A. 1837, B.D. 1844, D.D. 1849; fellow of his college
1835–40; head master of Bury St. Edmunds school 1841–55; a tutor
at Cambridge 1855 to death; author of _The New Cratylus, or
contributions towards a more accurate knowledge of the Greek
language_ 1839, _3 ed._ 1859; _Complete Greek grammar_ 1848;
_Complete Latin grammar_ 1852; _Jashar, fragmenta archetypa
carminum Hebraicorum_ 1854, _2 ed._ 1860; _Christian orthodoxy
reconciled with the conclusions of modern Biblical learning_ 1857
and about 20 other books. _d._ 21 Craven hill, Hyde park, London
10 Feb. 1861.
DONALDSON, SIR STUART ALEXANDER (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
London 26 Dec. 1815; partner in mercantile firm of Donaldson and
Co. of Sydney, N.S.W. 1836–56; a territorial magistrate 1838–59;
member of council and assembly 1848–59; colonial sec. 6 June to 25
Aug. 1856; colonial treasurer 3 Oct. 1856 to 7 Sep. 1857; fought a
duel with Sir Thomas Mitchell 27 Sep. 1851; returned to England
1859; contested Harwich 24 April 1860; knighted by patent 23 Aug.
1860. _d._ Carleton hall, Cumberland 11 Jany. 1867.
DONALDSON, THOMAS LEVERTON (_eld. son of James Donaldson of London,
architect_). _b._ 8 Bloomsbury sq. London 19 Oct. 1795; studied
architecture in Italy and Greece; member of Academy of St. Luke at
Rome 1822; architect in London; an active founder of Royal
Institute of British Architects 1834, gold medallist 1851, pres.
1864; professor of architecture at Univ. coll. London 1841–65,
emeritus professor July 1865 to death; district surveyor for South
Kensington; exhibited 27 works at R.A. 1816–54; author of _Pompeii
2 vols._ 1827; _A collection of the most approved examples of
doorways from ancient buildings in Greece and Italy_ 1833 and 10
other books. _d._ 21 Upper Bedford place, Bloomsbury, London 1
Aug. 1885. _Builder 24 July 1869 p. 586_, _portrait_, _8 Aug. 1885
p. 179_.
DONALDSON, WALTER ALEXANDER. Actor at Dublin; in Scotland; first
appeared in London at Royal Coburg theatre 11 May 1818 as Second
Smuggler in _Trial by Battle_; appeared at Bristol 1826; retired
about 1852; author of _Recollections of an actor_ 1865; reprinted
under title of _Fifty years of green-room gossip_ 1881,
_Theatrical portraits or the days of Shakespeare, Betterton,
Garrick and Kemble_ 1870 _with portrait of Donaldson_. _d._ Putney
near London 19 Dec. 1877 aged 84.
DONEGALL, GEORGE HAMILTON CHICHESTER, 3 Marquis of (_eld. child of 2
Marquis of Donegall 1769–1844_). _b._ Great Cumberland place,
London 10 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; lieut. 7 hussars
4 Oct. 1821 to 16 April 1823 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for
Carrickfergus 1818–20, for Belfast 1820–30, for Antrim 1830–37,
for Belfast again 1837–38; vice chamberlain of the household
1830–34; P.C. 19 July 1830; G.C.H. 1831; lord lieut. of co. Antrim
24 April 1841 to death; col. of Antrim militia 3 April 1841 to 17
Aug. 1881; created a peer of the U.K. by titles of baron
Ennishowen of Ennishowen, co. Donegal and Carrickfergus of
Carrickfergus, co. Antrim 18 Aug. 1841; succeeded 5 Oct. 1844;
militia aide de camp to the Queen 15 April 1847 to death; captain
of yeomen of the guard 16 Feb. 1848 to 1852; K.P. 1857; lieut.
col. commandant of London Irish volunteers 15 May 1860 to death;
col. of 4 battalion Royal Irish rifles 17 Aug. 1881 to death. _d._
Brighton 20 Oct. 1883.
DONERAILE, HAYES ST. Leger, 3 Viscount (_elder son of 2 Viscount
Doneraile 1755–1819_). _b._ Doneraile house, co. Cork 9 May 1786;
succeeded 8 Nov. 1819; a representative peer of Ireland 15 March
1830 to death; colonel of South Cork militia to death. _d._
Doneraile, co. Cork 27 March 1854.
DONKIN, BRYAN. _b._ Sandoe, Northumberland 22 March 1768;
apprenticed to Mr. Hall of Dartford, Kent, paper maker;
practically developed paper making machines of which he
constructed 191, 1802–51; introduced improvements in printing
machinery; invented and first used the composition printing roller
1816; a civil engineer in London 1815 to death; received 2 gold
medals from Society of Arts; a founder of Institution of Civil
Engineers 1818; F.R.S. 18 Jany. 1838. _d._ 6 The Paragon, New Kent
road, London 27 Feb. 1855. _W. Walker’s Memoirs of distinguished
men of science of Great Britain_ (1862) 75–7, _portrait_; _Proc.
of Royal Soc. vii_, 586–89 (1855).
DONKIN, WILLIAM FISHBURN. _b._ Bishop Burton, Yorkshire 15 Feb.
1814; ed. at St. Peter’s sch. York and St. Edmund hall, Ox.;
classical scholar Univ. coll. 1834, fellow 1836; double first
class 1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; Savilian professor of astronomy
in Univ. of Ox. 1842 to death; F.R.S. 13 Jany. 1842; F.R.A.S.;
author of _A defence of voting against propositions to be
submitted to convocation_ 1845; _Acoustics_ 1866. _d._ from
phthisis 34 Broad st. Oxford 15 Nov. 1869.
DONKIN, WILLIAM FREDERICK (_eld. son of the preceding_). Educ. at
Eton; matric. from Magd. coll. Ox. 17 Oct. 1864 aged 18, demy
1864; B.A. 1868, M.A. 1872; lecturer on natural science at Keble
coll. 1875–77, tutor 1877–80; professor of practical chemistry at
St. George’s hospital, London 1880 to death; sec. of the Alpine
Club, London to death; sec. of Photographic Soc. of Great Britain
to death; his photographs of the higher Alps were quite unique in
their character; went to the Caucasus on an exploring expedition,
July 1888, started from Balkar in the vale of the Terch with Mr.
Harry Fox and two Swiss guides 30 Aug.; all the party probably
lost their lives by an accident on the mountain known as Shkara
about 1 Sep. 1888.
DONNADIEU, ALEXANDER. _b._ France; served in Napoleon Bonaparte’s
army; decorated with the legion of honour; came to England about
1829; gained his living as a talented musician and singer;
collected autographs which he sold; lived for many years in
chambers at 8 Duke st. Piccadilly where he _d._ 8 Jany. 1861 aged
about 70.
DONNE, WILLIAM BODHAM (_only son of Edward Charles Donne of
Mattishall, East Dereham, Norfolk, who d. 1819_). _b._ 29 July
1807; ed. at Bury St. Edmunds’ gr. sch. and Caius coll. Cam.;
lived at Mattishall to 1846 and at Bury St. Edmunds 1846–52;
declined editorship of _Edinburgh Review_ 1852; librarian of the
London library, London 1852–57; deputy examiner of stage plays,
Aug. 1849, examiner 27 March 1857 to June or July 1874; author of
_Old roads and new roads_ 1852; _Essays on the Drama_ 1858, _2
ed._ 1863; edited _The correspondence of George III with Lord
North_ 1867; contributed the _Euripides_ and _Tacitus_ to Lucas
Collins’s _Classics for English readers_. _d._ 25 Weymouth st.
Portland place, London 20 June 1882.
DONNELLY, THOMAS LESTER. _b._ London 31 Dec. 1832; became an actor
1854; appeared at Wood’s theatre, Cincinnati 1855 under stage name
of Thomas Lester; managed a company in the Western States; lessee
of Brooklyn Olympic, New York 1867–75; joint lessee with John F.
Poole of the Grand Opera house, New York 1876 to death; one of
best actors of Irish characters in America. _d._ 224 West
Twenty-fourth st. New York 5 July 1880.
DONNELLY, WILLIAM. _b._ 1804; called to Irish bar 1833; registrar
general of marriages in Ireland 1844, of births, deaths and
marriages to 1876; superintendent of agricultural and emigration
statistics 1851–1876; C.B. 13 June 1857. _d._ Auburn, Malahide,
co. Dublin 25 Oct. 1879.
DONOUGHMORE, JOHN HELY-HUTCHINSON, 3 Earl of (_eld. son of Francis
Hely-Hutchinson 1759–1824, collector of customs, Dublin_). _b._
1787; ensign Grenadier guards 25 Sep. 1807, lieut. 19 Nov. 1812 to
27 May 1819 when placed on h.p.; assisted in the escape of Comte
Antoine de Lavalette (who had been sentenced to death as an
accomplice of Napoleon Bonaparte) by secreting him in his rooms in
Paris during the night of 20 Dec. 1815; tried 22 April 1816 and
sentenced to 3 months imprisonment, struck off British army list
but afterwards restored; M.P. for co. Tipperary 1826–30 and
1831–32; succeeded his uncle as 3 Earl 29 June 1832; lord lieut.
of Tipperary 14 Aug. 1832 to death; K.P. 8 April 1834; P.C.
Ireland 17 Nov. 1834; a comr. of charitable donations and bequests
in Ireland 18 Dec. 1844 to 17 Feb. 1851; known by the sobriquet of
Lavalette Hutchinson. _d._ Palmerston house near Dublin 12 Sep.
1851. _P. Burke’s Celebrated naval and military trials_ (1866)
376–99; _G.M. xxxvi_, 539–40 (1851); _The trial of Sir R. T.
Wilson and captain J. H. Hutchinson for aiding the escape of
general Lavalette_ 1816.
DONOUGHMORE, RICHARD JOHN HELY-HUTCHINSON, 4 Earl of (_only son of
the preceding_). _b._ Dublin 4 April 1823; ed. at Harrow; ensign
98 foot 18 June 1841, lieut. 1843–45; lieut. col. South Tipperary
artillery 24 July 1849 to death; paymaster general and vice pres.
of Board of Trade 6 April 1858, pres. 3 March 1859 to 18 June
1859; P.C. 6 April 1858. _d._ 52 South Audley st. London 22 Feb.
1856. _bur._ Knocklofty near Clonmel 2 March. _I.L.N. xxi_, 402
(1852), _portrait_, _xxxii_, 385 (1858), _portrait_.
DONOVAN, SIR HENRY (_son of John Donovan of Tralee, co. Kerry_).
_b._ 1822; sheriff of Kerry 1873–4; knighted by Earl Spencer lord
lieutenant of Ireland, at Dublin Castle 25 Feb. 1874; chairman of
Tralee town commission. _d._ Seafield, Tralee 16 July 1886.
DONOVAN, MICHAEL. Chemist; invented Donovan’s Solution the liquor
arsenici et hydrargyri hydriodalis of the Dublin pharmacopœia
1839; author of _Observations and experiments concerning Mr.
Davy’s hypothesis of Electrochemical affinity_ 1811; _A treatise
on chemistry_ 1832 (Cabinet cyclop. vol. 106); _On the
extemporaneous preparation of hydrocyanic acid from cyanide of
potassium, in Pharmaceutical Journal, March 1843 pp._ 573–83. _d._
April 1876. _Pharmaceutical Journal 29 April 1876 p._ 879.
DOO, GEORGE THOMAS. _b._ 6 Jany. 1800; produced his first published
engraving “The Duke of York” 1824; opened an academy for study of
the antique, and of the life in the Savoy, London 1826; historical
engraver in ordinary to William iv 1836–37, to Queen Victoria
1842; a member of many foreign academies; A.R.A. 1855, R.A. 1856;
published many plates; pres. of Artists’ Annuity fund 1861;
chairman of committee of class 40 (engravings and etchings) at
International Exhibition 1862; F.R.S. 5 June 1851 to 1860; granted
civil list pension of £70, 19 June 1868. _d._ Sutton, Surrey 13
Nov. 1886. _Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii_, 324 (1862).
DORAN, JOHN (_only son of John Doran of London, contractor, who d.
1824_). _b._ London 11 March 1807; writer on the _Literary
Chronicle_ 1826–28; author of _The Wandering Jew_ produced at
Surrey theatre 2 Sep. 1832; Ph.D. Univ. of Marburg, Prussia;
literary editor of _The Church and State Gazette_ 1841–52; wrote
for the _Athenæum_ 1854 to death, edited it several times during
Hepworth Dixon’s absence; edited _Notes and Queries_ 1 Oct. 1872
to death; F.S.A. 19 May 1859; author of _Lives of the Queens of
England of the house of Hanover 2 vols._ 1855, _4 ed._ 1874;
_Monarchs retired from business 2 vols._ 1857; _“Their Majesties
Servants,” Annals of the English stage from T. Betterton to E.
Kean 2 vols._ 1864, _2 ed._ 1865, _new ed. by R. W. Lowe 3 vols._
1888 and 15 other works. _d._ 33 Lansdowne road, Notting hill,
London 25 Jany. 1878. _J. Doran’s New pictures and old panels_
1849, _portrait_; _London Society xlii_, 29–37 (1882), _portrait_;
_Temple Bar lii_, 460–94 (1878); _I.L.N. lxxii_, 133 (1878),
_portrait_.
DORATT, SIR JOHN. _b._ about 1779; ed. at Westminster school and
Univ. of Leyden, M.D. 1805; physician to British embassy at St.
Petersburgh 1835–37; physician to Earl of Durham, governor general
of British North America 1838–40; knighted at St. James’s palace
14 Feb. 1838. _d._ 9 North terrace, Alexander sq. Brompton, London
4 Sep. 1863.
DORIN, JOSEPH ALEXANDER. _b._ Edmonton near London 15 Sep. 1802;
assistant to accountant general at Calcutta 1821; secretary to
Bank of Bengal; deputy accountant general; first financial sec.
Jany. 1843; a member of supreme council of India 1853 to May 1858.
_d._ St. Lawrence, Isle of Wight 22 Dec. 1862.
DORNFORD, REV. JOSEPH (_only son of Josiah Dornford of Deptford,
Kent_). _b._ Deptford 9 Jany. 1794; ed. at Wadham coll. Ox.,
commoner 4 Dec. 1813, scholar; B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820; Michel fellow
of Queen’s coll. 1817–19; fellow of Oriel 1819–36, tutor 1823,
dean 1828, classical examiner in the schools 1826–28; proctor 1830
when nicknamed the University Corporal; ascended Mont Blanc with
Dr. Joseph Von Hamel 18–20 Aug. 1820 when three of the guides were
lost in a crevasse and he narrowly escaped same fate; R. of
Plymtree, Devon 1832 to death; hon. canon in Exeter cath. 1844 to
death. _d._ Plymtree 18 Jany. 1868. _Mozley’s Reminiscences ii_,
55–77 (1882); _G.M. Sep. 1820 p._ 365.
DORNIN, THOMAS ALOYSIUS. _b._ Ireland about 1800; midshipman United
States navy 2 May 1815; sailed round the world 1829–30; commanded
the “Portsmouth” 1851; prevented invasion of Nicaragua by Wm.
Walker the filibuster 1851; captain 1855; commodore on the retired
list 16 July 1862; in charge of the fifth light house district
1865 to death. _d._ Norfolk, Virginia 22 April 1874.
DORRIAN, MOST REV. PATRICK. _b._ Downpatrick, co. Down 29 March
1814; ed. at Downpatrick; entered Maynooth college 23 Aug. 1833;
ordained priest 23 Sep. 1837; C. at Belfast 1837–47; parish priest
of Loughlin island 1847–60; coadjutor bishop of Down and Connor 4
June 1860, bishop 1865 to death; consecrated in St. Malachy’s ch.
Belfast 19 Aug. 1860. _d._ Dublin 3 Nov. 1885.
D’ORSAY, GILLION GASPARD ALFRED DE GRIMAUD, Comte (_younger son of
Albert D’Orsay, Comte D’Orsay, general in French army_). _b._
Paris 4 Sep. 1798; in the Garde du corps of Charles x, 1815–23;
became acquainted with the Earl and Countess of Blessington 1822,
travelled with them in South of Europe. _m._ at Naples 1 Dec. 1827
Harriett Anne Frances dau. of 1 Earl of Blessington, they
separated 1829, she was _b._ 5 Aug. 1812, _m._ (2) 1 Sep. 1852
hon. Charles Spencer Cowper and _d._ 17 Dec. 1869; the leader of
fashion in London 1830–49; lived at 22 Curzon st. Mayfair 1833–36,
at 4 Upper Gore, Kensington 1836–45; most intimately associated
with Lady Blessington, they fled to Paris to escape imprisonment
for debt April 1849, where she _d._ 4 June 1849 aged 60; 120
profile sketches by him of celebrities of the day were
lithographed by R. J. Lane and published by Mitchell of Bond st;
the handsomest man of his time. _d._ at house of his sister
Duchesse de Gramont in Paris 4 Aug. 1852. _bur._ at Chambourcy
near Paris 7 Aug. next to Lady Blessington. _R. R. Madden’s
Literary life of the Countess of Blessington i_, 318–72 (1855),
_portrait_, _ii_, 406–72; _J. Grant’s Portraits of public
characters ii_, 191–204 (1841); _Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I
have known_, _second series ii_, 198–224; _W. Bates’s Maclise
portrait gallery_ (1883) 284–90, _portrait_; _Gore House,
Bentley’s New Monthly Mag. June 1849 pp._ 135–51; _H. Melton’s
Hints on hats_ (1875) 33–8, _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. xli_, 153–55
(1883); _Colburn’s New Monthly Mag. xcvi_, 112–26 (1852);
_Grantley Berkeley’s My Life_ (1866) _iii_, 201–31; _S. Sidney’s
Book of the horse_ 1886 _p._ 257, _portrait_.
NOTE.—A satire on him with a portrait was published in 1844
entitled D’Horsay or the follies of the day, By A Man of
Fashion. Disraeli dedicated to him Henrietta Temple 1837,
which contains a flattering portrait of him as Count Mirabel.
His character and peculiarities furnished Eugene Sue with the
idea of the hero of his novel Le Marquis de Létorière ou L’Art
de plaire 1845. He was much satirized by Gilbert A’Beckett in
Figaro in London 1832–34.
DOTTIN, ABEL ROUSE (_son of Abel Dottin of Granada hall, Barbados,
who d. 1782_). Matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 24 May 1786 aged 17;
M.P. for Gatton, Surrey 17 June 1818 to 29 June 1820; M.P. for
Southampton 9 June 1826 to 23 April 1831, and 9 Jany. 1835 to 23
June 1841. _d._ 31 Argyll st. Oxford st. London 7 June 1852.
_Portraits of eminent conservatives_, _first series_ (1836),
_portrait_.
DOUBLEDAY, HENRY (_elder son of Benjamin Doubleday of Epping, Essex,
tradesman, who d. 1848_). _b._ Epping 1 July 1808; grocer at
Epping 1848–70; introduced the now familiar plan of ‘sugaring’ for
moths 1842; an original member of Entomological Soc. of London
1833; published _A nomenclature of British birds_ 1838, _4 ed._
1845; _The Zoologists’ Synonymic list of British butterflies and
moths_ 1847, _2 ed._ 1859, _2 supplements_ 1865 _and_ 1873; in a
lunatic asylum 1871; the chief lepidopterist England has produced,
his collections of lepidoptera have been at Bethnal Green museum
since Feb. 1876. _d._ Epping 29 June 1875. _Entomologist x_, 53–61
(1877), _portrait_.
DOUBLEDAY, THOMAS (_son of George Doubleday of Newcastle, soap
manufacturer_). _b._ Newcastle, Feb. 1790; helped forward reform
agitation 1832; sec. to Northern political union; junior partner
in firm of Doubleday and Easterby, soapmakers, Newcastle; became
insolvent; registrar of births, marriages and deaths in St.
Andrew’s parish, Newcastle; secretary to the Coal trade to death;
author of _The true law of population shewn to be connected with
the food of the people_ 1842, _3 ed._ 1853; _The eve of St. Mark,
a romance of Venice 2 vols._ 1857; _A Financial, monetary and
statistical history of England_ 1847; _On mundane moral
government_ 1852, and 10 other books. _d._ Bulman village (now
Gosforth) near Newcastle 18 Dec. 1870. _Monthly Chronicle of north
country lore, Nov. 1888 pp._ 485–88, _portrait_.
DOUDNEY, REV. GEORGE DAVID. _b._ 1811; a tailor at 97 Fleet st.
London, retired 13 Nov. 1847; preached his first sermon at Clapham
Asylum 21 Jany. 1848; matric. Corpus coll. Camb. 3 Feb. 1848; went
to Ireland as a missionary and studied the Irish language;
ordained by Bp. of Derry 23 Dec. 1848; Incumbent of Dunlewey,
Donegal where he preached his first sermon in Irish 25 April 1849;
Incumbent of Charles church, Plymouth 26 Jany. 1852 to death;
preached 245 sermons 1852; author of _Sermons preached in Charles’
Chapel_, _Plymouth_ 1866–67, _2 vols._ _d._ Mannamead, Plymouth 19
May 1865. _Recollections of Rev. G. D. Doudney_ 1866, _portrait_.
DOUGAL, NEIL. _b._ Greenock 9 Dec. 1776; a sailor 1792 to 14 June
1794 when he lost his eyesight by an accident; kept a tavern in
Greenock 1824 and then a boarding house; teacher of singing in
Greenock 1799; composed about 100 psalm and hymn tunes of which
‘Kilmarnock’ is one of the standard melodies in Presbyterian
church service; author of _Poems and Songs_ 1854. _d._ Greenock 1
Dec. 1862.
DOUGLAS, ANDREW SNAPE. Secretary of legation at Court of Palermo
1809; sec. of embassy at the Hague 1 Oct. 1824, minister
plenipotentiary 6 Nov. to 6 Dec. 1824 and 22 Jany. to 25 April
1825; retired from the service 5 Jany. 1829, granted a pension 15
Sep. 1829. _d._ 7 Onslow sq. Brompton 19 Nov. 1869.
DOUGLAS, SIR CHARLES EURWICKE (_natural son of Right Hon. Charles
Philip Yorke 1764–1834_). _b._ 12 May 1806; ed. at Harrow and St.
John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, private sec. to Viscount
Goderich at Colonial office, Nov. 1830 to March 1833; king-at-arms
of order of St. Michael and St. George 1832–59; M.P. for Warwick
1837–1852, for Banbury 1859–1865; contested Durham city 1853;
comr. of Greenwich hospital 8 Aug. 1845 to July 1846; knighted at
St. James’s palace 12 Oct. 1832; K.C.M.G. 1859. _d._ 27 Wilton
crescent, London 21 Feb. 1887.
DOUGLAS, CLAUDE. Ensign 10 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1819; major 14 N.I.
10 June 1842; col. 56 N.I. 1 May 1858, col. 65 N.I. 1859–70;
general on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Bognor 11 April 1883 in
84 year.
DOUGLAS, FRANCIS WILLIAM BOUVERIE (_2 son of 7 Marquis of
Queensberry 1818–58_). _b._ Harleyford near Marlow 8 Feb. 1847;
ed. at Eton; came out first in examination for direct commissions
in the army 1865; killed by a fall whilst descending the
Matterhorn, Switzerland 14 July 1865. _E. Whymper’s Ascent of the
Matterhorn_ (1880) 273–95.
DOUGLAS, RIGHT REV. HENRY ALEXANDER (_5 son of Henry Alexander
Douglas of Dryfesdale, co. Dumfries 1781–1857_). _b._ Lockaby
house 22 Feb. 1821; ed. at Glasgow Univ. and Balliol coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848, D.D. 1868; C. of Alverstoke, Hants. 1846–48;
minister of Abp. Tenison’s chapel, Regent st. London 1848–49; V.
of Abbotsley, Hunts. 1849–52; dean of Capetown 1852–68; bishop of
Bombay, Sep. 1868 to death; consecrated in chapel royal, Whitehall
3 Jany. 1869; author of _Sermons_ 1862; _Missions in India_ 1877.
_d._ Clifton lodge, Clifton gardens, Maida Vale, London 13 Dec.
1875.
DOUGLAS, SIR HOWARD, 3 Baronet (_3 son of Sir Charles Douglas, 1
Baronet, who d. Feb. 1789_). _b._ Gosport, Hants. 23 Jany. 1776; 2
lieut. R.A. 1 Jany. 1794; commandant of Military college senior
department at High Wycombe 1804–8 and 1809, inspector general of
instructions to 1820; succeeded his brother 23 May 1809; patented
the reflecting circle or semicircle known by his name 2 July 1811;
governor of New Brunswick 5 Sep. 1823 to 1831 where he founded
University of Frederickton; lord high comr. of Ionian islands 13
March 1835 to 2 Dec. 1840; col. of 99 foot 15 March 1841, of 15
foot 6 Oct. 1851 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; M.P. for
Liverpool 1842–46; F.R.S. 25 Jany. 1816; C.B. 3 Feb. 1817, K.C.B.
18 July 1840, G.C.B. 27 Aug. 1841; G.C.M.G. 18 March 1835; author
of _An Essay on the principles and construction of military
bridges_ 1816, _3 ed._ 1853; _A Treatise on naval gunnery_ 1820,
_5 ed._ 1860; _On naval warfare with steam_ 1858, _2 ed._ 1860 and
9 other books. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 9 Nov. 1861. _Life of Sir
Howard Douglas by S. W. Fullom_ (1863), _portrait_.
DOUGLAS, SIR JAMES (_eld. son of John Douglas of Glasgow_). _b._
Demerara 14 Aug. 1803; chief factor of the Hudson Bay company,
chief agent for region west of the Rocky Mountains 1833; governor
of Vancouver’s island 9 May 1851 to 1863, of British Columbia 3
Sep. 1858 to 1863 when he retired on a pension of £500; C.B. 30
Nov. 1858, K.C.B. 11 Aug. 1863. _d._ Victoria, Vancouver’s island
2 Aug. 1877.
DOUGLAS, JAMES. _b._ Brechin 20 May 1800; ed. at Univ. of Edin.;
M.R.C.S. Edin. 1820; M.R.C.S. London; went to New York 1824;
practised in Quebec 1826–51; one of founders of lunatic asylum at
Beauport near Quebec 1845, also manager; an enthusiastic traveller
and antiquarian. _d._ New York 14 April 1886.
DOUGLAS, SIR JAMES DAWES (_elder son of James Sholto Douglas
1757–1830, major in the army_). _b._ 14 Jany. 1785; D.A.Q.G. in
South America 1806 and in Portugal 1807; lieut. col. 8th
Portuguese regiment 1809–11; commanded 7th Portuguese brigade
1813–14; lost his leg at battle of Toulouse 10 April 1814;
commanded south west district of Ireland 1825–30; governor of
Guernsey 1830–38; col. of 93 foot 15 June 1840, of 42 foot 10
April 1850 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.T.S.; K.C.B. 2 Jany.
1815, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Clifton 6 March 1862.
DOUGLAS, JOHN. _b._ 1811; ensign 79 foot 25 June 1829; lieut. col.
11 Hussars 13 Aug. 1854 to 8 March 1859 when placed on h.p.; C.B.
5 July 1855; M.G. 6 March 1868. _d._ Aldershot 10 May 1871.
DOUGLAS, JOHN. One of a family of 24 children; _b._ Lambeth Walk,
Lambeth, London 17 March 1814; played in pantomime at Covent
Garden theatre 1825; manager of Gravesend and other theatres
1833–45; manager of Douglas troupe at Sans Souci theatre,
Leicester sq. London; lessee of Westminster theatre; lessee of
Marylebone theatre; manager of Standard theatre, Shoreditch 1845,
proprietor 1852, theatre burnt down 21 Oct. 1866, reopened it 18
Dec. 1867; manager of Pavilion theatre, Whitechapel 1857–71. _d._
Castle villa, Dalston, London 31 Jany. 1874. _Theatrical Times
iii_, 399, 424 (1848), _portrait_.
DOUGLAS, SIR JOHN (_son of Sir James Dawes Douglas 1785–1862_). _b._
5 Dec. 1836; ed. at Rugby, Cheltenham and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A.
1864; clerk in audit office, Mauritius, Feb. 1859, sec. to council
1867; poor law comr. June 1868; auditor general Ceylon, Dec. 1869
to 1876; colonial sec. Straits Settlements 1876–78; lieut.
governor and colonial sec. Ceylon, July 1878 to death; K.C.M.G. 24
May 1883. _d._ Lyndhurst, Watford 23 Aug. 1885.
DOUGLAS, SIR JOHN (_son of Sir Neil Douglas 1780–1853_). _b._ 7 July
1817; ensign 79 foot 6 Sep. 1833, lieut. col. 13 Aug. 1854 to 16
March 1860 when placed on h.p.; A.A.G. in Scotland 1860–65;
commanded the forces in Scotland 1 Oct. 1870 to 30 Sep. 1875; col.
79 foot 1 Jany. 1879 to death; general 30 Jany. 1880; placed on
retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 14 May 1859,
G.C.B. 2 June 1877. _d._ Glenfinart, Argyllshire 8 Sep. 1887.
DOUGLAS, SIR JOSEPH ABRAHAM (_son of Joseph Douglas of Whitehaven,
Cumberland_). _b._ Chepstow 17 Jany. 1799; master in the navy 30
May 1823, retired 1851; knighted at St. James’s palace 24 March
1841 for having armed his ship the Cambridge and assisted the
British in Hong Kong bay in June 1839 losing £10,000 for which the
government would not compensate him. _d._ of epilepsy at 2 Apsley
cottage, Moor terrace, Lower park road, Peckham, London 3 April
1866. _A case of individual sacrifice and of national gratitude_
1847.
DOUGLAS, SIR NEIL (_5 son of John Douglas of Glasgow, merchant_).
_b._ Glasgow 1780; 2 lieut. 21 foot 28 Jany. 1801; captain 79 foot
19 April 1804, lieut. col. 3 Dec. 1812 to 16 Aug. 1833 when placed
on h.p.; aide-de-camp to George iv and William iv 27 May 1825 to
10 Jany. 1837; governor of Edinburgh Castle 1 April 1842 to 1
Jany. 1847; col. of 81 foot 11 July 1845, of 72 foot 12 July 1847,
of 78 foot 29 Dec. 1851 to death; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; C.B. 22 June
1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep.
1831. _d._ Brussels 1 Sep. 1853 in 74 year. _W. B. Crombie’s
Modern Athenians_ (1882), _portrait_; _My adventures by Col.
Montgomery Maxwell i_, _pp. v-vi_ (1845), _portrait_.
DOUGLAS, ROBERT. Second lieut. R.A. 1 Nov. 1796, lieut. col. 31 Dec.
1827 to 6 May 1835 when placed on retired full pay; general 25
Sep. 1859; C.B. 4 June 1815. _d._ Claygate near Esher 10 Feb. 1871
aged 93.
DOUGLAS, WILLIAM. Second lieut. R.E. 1 July 1801, lieut. col. 23
March 1825 to 27 Jany. 1829 when placed on half pay; lieut. col.
on full pay 11 Nov. 1851 to death; general 3 April 1862. _d._
Hastings 10 Feb. 1864 aged 77.
DOUGLAS, WILLIAM SCOTT. _b._ Hawick 10 Jany. 1815; ed. in Heriot’s
hospital, Edinburgh; sec. of Edinburgh Burns club 1877 to death;
edited _The Complete poetical works of Robert Burns_ 1871,
_revised ed._ 1876; _Picture of the county of Ayr_ 1874; _The
works of Robert Burns 6 vols._ 1877–79; supplied letterpress for
_Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ 1882; found drowned near end of the
East pier, Leith 23 June 1883.
DOULTON, FREDERICK (_3 son of John Doulton of Lambeth_). _b._
Lambeth 1824; manufacturer of earthenware goods; member of
Metropolitan board of works for Lambeth 1856 to death; contested
Reigate 6 Feb. 1858; M.P. for Lambeth 5 May 1862 to 11 Nov. 1868.
_d._ of apoplexy at Summerhill house, Tunbridge Wells 21 May 1872.
_Affaire Doulton Bruxelles_ 1868.
DOVASTON, JOHN FREEMAN MILWARD (_only son of John Dovaston of
Westfelton near Oswestry 1740–1808_). _b._ 30 Dec. 1782; ed. at
Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807;
barrister M.T. 12 June 1807; author of _Fitz Gwarine with other
rhymes_ 1812, _3 ed._ called _Poems, legendary, incidental and
humorous_ 1825; _A selection of British melodies_ 1817; _The Dove_
1822 a selection of old poems; _Lectures on natural history and
national melody_ 1839. _d._ Nursery villa, Westfelton 8 Aug. 1854.
_G.M. xlii_, 395–6 (1854).
DOVE, PATRICK EDWARD (_son of Henry Dove, lieutenant R.N._) _b._
Lasswade near Edinburgh 31 July 1815, lived at the Craig near
Ballantrae, Ayrshire 1841–48 when he lost most of his fortune;
captain of Midlothian rifle club April 1853; edited the _Witness_
for 6 months in 1854; edited the _Commonwealth_ newspaper at
Glasgow 1858; edited first 20 numbers of _Imperial dictionary of
biography_ 1857; edited with M. Rankine _Imperial Journal of the
arts and sciences_; invented a rifled cannon with ratchet grooves
which had great range and accuracy; commanded 91st Lanarkshire
rifle volunteers 1859; won several prizes at Wimbledon 1860;
author of _The theory of human progression and natural probability
of a reign of justice_ 1850, anon.; _The Elements of political
science_ 1854; _Romanism, Rationalism and Protestantism_ 1855;
_The logic of the Christian faith_ 1856; _The Revolver, its
description and use_ 1858. _d._ Edinburgh 28 April 1873.
DOVE, THOMAS. A house painter; a marine artist of great ability; his
best pictures were produced at Liverpool. _d._ in the Whitby
workhouse 27 Dec. 1886.
DOVE, WILLIAM (_son of Mr. Dove of Leeds, leather manufacturer, who
d. 24 Dec. 1854_). A farmer at Bramham near Tadcaster to 1855;
poisoned his wife Harriet by strychnia 1 March 1856, tried at the
Assizes at York 16–18 July 1856, hanged at York 9 Aug. 1856 aged
30. _G. L. Browne and C. G. Stewart’s Trials for poisoning_ (1883)
233–68; _Sir J. F. Stephen’s History of the criminal law of
England iii_, 426–37 (1883); _Observations on the trials of J.
Hill and W. Dove_ 1856.
DOVETON, FREDERICK LARKINS. Entered Madras army 1806; col. 8 Madras
light cavalry 18 Feb. 1845 to death; L.G. 13 March 1859. _d._
Cheltenham 20 Dec. 1859 aged 68.
DOVETON, SIR JOHN (_son of Sir Wm. Webber Doveton, knt., of the
H.E.I.Co.’s civil service, who d. 13 Oct. 1843 in 90 year_). _b._
St. Helena 1783; cavalry cadet in H.E.I.Co.’s army, 31 Oct. 1798;
aide-de-camp to Marquis Wellesley; commanded a division of the
Nizam’s army; commanded centre division of Madras army; lieut.
col. 4 Madras Native Cavalry 19 Aug. 1813, col. 9 Nov. 1821; col.
5 Madras light cavalry 1847 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B.
26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 20 July 1838. _d._ Vichy, France 23 Sep.
1857.
DOW, REV. WILLIAM (_youngest son of Rev. Anthony Dow, D.D., minister
of Kirkpatrick, Irongray, Perthshire, who d. 17 July 1834_). Educ.
at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 17 April 1839; licensed by Presbytery of
Dumfries 6 Nov. 1821; presented by George iv to Tongland,
Kirkcudbright 13 June and ordained 21 Sep. 1826; withdrew his
adherence to the confession of faith, deposed by the General
Assembly 23 May 1832; called to be an Apostle of the Catholic
Apostolic church when at Kirkcudbright, June 1835; made a tour of
the continent 1839 as the Apostle to Russia; a writer in the
_Morning Watch_; author of _A series of discourses on practical
and doctrinal subjects_ 1847, _second series_ 1850; _Sermons and
Homilies_ 1856; _First principles of the doctrine of Christ_ 1856.
_d._ Albury, Surrey 3 Nov. 1855 aged 56. _Miller’s Irvingism i_,
157, 166, 181, 271 (1878); _Scott’s Fasti, vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 725_.
NOTE.—His elder brother Rev. David Dow, assistant minister of
Kirkpatrick, Irongray, was called to be an Apostle of the
Catholic Apostolic church when at Irongray, June 1835 but
declined to accept the call; he went to the Cape of Good Hope
and became a farmer.
DOWBIGGIN, MONTAGU HAMILTON (_son of Wm. Henry Dowbiggin 1780–1849,
lieut. 12 Lancers, by Georgina 5 dau. of 1 Baron Panmure_). _b._
15 Jany. 1832; ensign 71 foot 30 June 1848; major 99 foot 22 July
1859, lieut. col. 3 March 1863 to 10 Dec. 1863 when placed on
h.p.; served in Crimean war 1854–55; the object of Lord Panmure’s
celebrated telegram to Lord Raglan “Take care of Dowb”; retired
from army June 1865; knight of the Legion of Honour 1856. _d._
Portland place, Brighton 3 Feb. 1866. _bur._ Haversham, Bucks.
DOWDESWELL, GEORGE (_youngest son of George Dowdeswell, M.D. of
Gloucester, who d. 1776_). Writer Bengal civil service 7 Aug.
1783; sec. to Board of Revenue 25 Aug. 1794; sec. in judicial and
revenue departments 16 March 1801; superintendent general of
police 1805; chief sec. to Government 30 Oct. 1812; member of
supreme council 28 Dec. 1814 to 1823 when he resigned. _d._ Down
house, Redmarley, Worcs. 6 Feb. 1852 aged 86.
DOWDESWELL, JOHN EDMUND (_youngest child of Wm. Dowdeswell, M.P. for
Worcs. who d. 1775_). _b._ 3 March 1772; ed. at Westminster
1779–89 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1795; pupil of Sir Samuel
Romilly; barrister I.T. 6 May 1796, bencher 1834, reader 1841,
treasurer 1842; recorder for Tewkesbury 1798–1833; M.P. for
Tewkesbury 1812–1832; comr. of bankrupts 1806–1820; master in
Chancery 8 Feb. 1820 to 1851. _d._ Pull court near Tewkesbury 11
Nov. 1851.
DOWDESWELL, WILLIAM (_elder son of the preceding_). _b._ Oct. 1804;
ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829;
contested Tewkesbury 12 Dec. 1832; M.P. for Tewkesbury 1835 to
1847; sheriff of Worcs. 1855. _d._ Pull court 6 Feb. 1887.
DOWKER, HOWARD. Entered Madras army 1813; col. 40 Madras N.I. 3
March 1848 to 1853, col. 2 Madras N.I. 1853–1869; L.G. 21 April
1863. _d._ 5 Feb. 1870.
DOWLING, ALFRED SEPTIMUS (_son of Vincent Dowling of 30 Lincolns Inn
Fields, London, bookseller_). Barrister G.I. 18 June 1828;
serjeant at law 12 Nov. 1842; judge of county courts circuit No.
15 Yorkshire 9 Nov. 1849 to death; a comr. for inquiring into
state of county courts 20 Aug. 1853; author of _A collection of
statutes passed 1830–2_, _2 vols._ 1832; _A collection of statutes
passed 2 Wm. iv and 3 Wm. iv_, 1833; _Reports of cases in King’s
Bench practice courts with the points of pleading and practice
decided in the Courts of Common Pleas and Exchequer 1830–41_, _7
vols._ 1833–42, _new series (with Vincent Dowling) 1841–43_, _2
vols._ 1843–44; _Reports of cases in continuation of the above
(with J. J. Lowndes) 1844–49_, _7 vols._ 1845–51; _The practice of
the superior courts_ 1848. _d._ 34 Acacia road, St. John’s Wood,
London 3 March 1868 aged 63.
DOWLING, FRANK LEWIS (_son of Vincent George Dowling 1785–1852_).
_b._ 18 Oct. 1823; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1848; edited _Bell’s
Life in London_ 1852 to death; edited and published annual issues
of _Fistiana, or the Oracle of the Ring_ 1853–64, prepared another
ed. published 1868; managed the fight between Heenan and Sayers at
Farnborough, Hants. 17 April 1860. _d._ Norfolk st. Strand, London
10 Oct. 1867. _Illustrated Sporting News 19 Oct. 1867 p._ 657,
_portrait_.
DOWLING, REV. JOHN. _b._ Pevensey, Sussex 12 May 1807; kept a
boarding school near Oxford 1829–32; ordained Baptist minister in
Catskill, New York 1832; minister at Newport, Rhode Island
1834–36, in New York 1836; preached in Providence, Philadelphia,
Newark and other places; D.D. Transylvania University; author of
_Exposition of the prophecies_ 1840; _Defence of the Protestant
Scriptures_ 1843; _The History of Romanism_ 1845 and other books.
_d._ Middletown, New York 4 July 1878. _M. H. Smith’s Sunshine and
shadow in New York_ (1868) 589–92.
DOWLING, VINCENT GEORGE (_brother of Alfred Septimus Dowling, who d.
1868_). _b._ London 1785; contributed to the _Observer_ from 1804;
employed on the _Day_ newspaper 1809; edited _Bell’s Life in
London_, Aug. 1824 to death, a service of plate value 100 guineas
voted him 18 July 1833; one of the first persons to seize
Bellingham when he shot Spencer Perceval in lobby of House of
Commons 11 May 1812; claimed to be the author of the plan on which
new police system was organised; edited and published _Fistiana or
the Oracle of the Ring_, 14 editions 1840–52. _d._ Stanmore lodge,
Kilburn, London 25 Oct. 1852. _I.L.N. 13 Nov. 1852 pp._ 406, 408,
_portrait_.
DOWN, JAMES SOMERS. Entered Bombay army 1819; col. 1 Bombay N.I. 13
July 1858 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. _d._ Kilburn, London 25 Sep.
1871.
DOWNALL, VENERABLE JOHN (_only son of James Downall of Liverpool_).
Matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 3 July 1822 aged 19, B.A. 1826, M.A.
1829; P.C. of St. George’s, Kidderminster 1843–49; V. of
Okehampton, Devon 1850 to death; preb. of Exeter cath. 1855 to
death; archdeacon of Totnes, April 1859 to death; author of
_Laying on of hands or Letters on confirmation_ 1848; _An address
after confirmation_ 1848, _5 ed._ 1858 and 7 charges and sermons.
_d._ Bournemouth 7 April 1872.
DOWNE, WILLIAM HENRY DAWNAY, 7 Viscount. _b._ 15 May 1812; M.P. for
Rutland 12 July 1841 to Jany. 1846; succeeded 23 May 1846. _d._
Torquay 26 Jany. 1857.
DOWNES, ULYSSES DE BURGH, 2 Baron (_only son of Thomas Burgh of Bert
house, Athy, co. Kildare, who d. 1810_). _b._ Dublin 15 Aug. 1788;
ensign 54 foot 31 March 1804; captain 92 foot 25 Nov. 1808;
captain Grenadier guards 25 July 1814 to 5 July 1827 when placed
on h.p.; surveyor general of the ordnance 18 March 1820 to 14 May
1827, clerk of the ordnance 1828–30; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign
27 May 1825 to 10 Jany. 1837; col. of 54 foot 4 April 1845, of 29
foot 15 Aug. 1850 to death; general 20 June 1854; succeeded his
cousin 2 March 1826; Irish representative peer 4 April 1833 to
death; reassumed ancient name of De Burgh 1848; K.C.B. 2 Jany.
1815, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Bert house, Athy 26 July 1863.
DOWNIE, SIR ALEXANDER MACKENZIE (_youngest son of Rev. Alexander
Downie, minister of Lochalsh, Rosshire_). _b._ 1811; physician to
Princess Elizabeth, landgravine of Hesse Homburg; knighted at St.
James’s palace 1 July 1840 for his attention to the Princess;
phys. to British legation at Frankfort 1834–49; phys. in ordinary
to Duke of Cambridge 30 Nov. 1840; phys. extraordinary in
household of Duchess of Kent 1846; author of _A short description
of Kissingen_ 1841; _A practical treatise on mineral waters in the
cure of chronic disease_ 1841. _d._ Frankfort 3 Feb. 1852.
DOWNING, DAVID. Ensign 6 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1819; colonel Bengal
infantry 7 May 1855; general 23 Aug. 1875. _d._ The Grange,
Plaxtole, Kent 18 Dec. 1888 aged 88.
DOWNING, M’CARTHY (_2 son of Eugene Downing of Kenmare, co. Kerry_).
_b._ 11 May 1814; took an active part in formation of Irish
parliamentary party of 1852; M.P. for county Cork 30 Nov. 1868 to
death. _d._ Prospect house, Skibbereen, co. Cork 9 Jany. 1879.
DOWNING, SAMUEL (_son of Rev. Samuel Downing, R. of Fenagh,
Leighlin_). _b._ Bagenalstown, Carlow 19 June 1811; ed. at
Kilkenny coll. and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1834; educ. in
engineering at Edin.; employed in construction of viaduct from
Portland island to mainland, and on the Coed-re-Coed curved
viaduct on Taff Vale railway; assistant professor of engineering
Trinity coll. 1847, professor 1852 to death; Assoc. I.C.E. 2 March
1852; author of _The elements of practical hydraulics for the use
of students_ 1855, _3 ed._ 1875; _Elements of practical
construction in engineering and architecture_ 1875; _Selections
and specifications of public works_. _d._ 21 April 1882. _Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxii_, 310–11 (1883).
DOWNMAN, HUGH. _b._ Plymouth 29 Oct. 1765; entered navy 10 Oct.
1776; captain 26 Dec. 1798; admiral 24 April 1847; awarded pension
1 July 1851. _d._ Hambledon, Hants. 4 Jany. 1858.
DOWNMAN, SIR THOMAS CHARLES FRANCIS (_eld. son of Col. Francis
Downman, Royal artillery_). _b._ St. Neots, Hunts. 1776; 2 lieut.
R.A. 24 April 1793; lieut. col. R.H.A. 20 Dec. 1814, col.
commandant 28 Sep. 1843 to death; commanded Woolwich district and
garrison 1848 to death; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign 27 May 1825
to 10 Jany. 1837; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; K.C.B. 6
April 1852; K.C.H. 1831; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep.
1831. _d._ Royal arsenal, Woolwich 11 Aug. 1852.
DOWNSHIRE, ARTHUR WILLS BLUNDELL SANDYS TRUMBULL WINDSOR HILL, 4
Marquis of (_eld. child of 3 Marquis of Downshire 1788–1845_).
_b._ Hillsborough castle, co. Down 6 Aug. 1812; ed. at Eton and
Ch. Ch. Ox.; ensign Royal South Down militia 4 June 1833, col. 30
July 1845 to death; M.P. for co. Down 30 Aug. 1836 to 12 April
1845 when he succeeded; K.P. 24 May 1859. _d._ Dolphin hotel,
Herne Bay 6 Aug. 1868.
DOWTON, JOHN. _b._ Uxbridge 1820; tutor at Haileybury; professor of
Hindustani at University college, London and at Staff college,
Sandhurst 1855–77; author of _Grammar of the Urdu or Hindustani
language_ 1862; _Classical dictionary of Hindu mythology and
religion, history and literature_ 1879; edited from the papers of
Sir H. M. Elliott _History of India as told by its own historians
8 vols._ 1867–77. _d._ Sandhurst lodge, East Worthing 23 Aug.
1881.
DOWTON, WILLIAM (_son of Mr. Dowton of Exeter, Innkeeper_). _b._
Exeter 25 April 1764; joined a company of strolling players at
Ashburton 1781; acted with Mrs. Baker’s company in Kent 1791–96;
made his first appearance in London at Drury Lane as Sheva in _The
Jew_ 11 Oct. 1796, continued at Drury Lane 36 years playing at the
Haymarket in the summer; manager of theatres at Canterbury and
Maidstone; acted in New York, June to Nov. 1836; one of the most
versatile actors of his time. _d._ Brighton terrace, Brixton 19
April 1851. _Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iv_, 253–62 (1826),
_portrait_; _Bentley’s Miscellany xli_, 318–30 (1857);
_Cumberland’s British Theatre xxvii_, 7–8, _portrait_; _British
Stage, Nov. 1819 pp._ 25–6, _portrait_; _Tallis’s Dramatic Mag.
June 1851 pp._ 235–6, _portrait_; _Illust. sporting and dramatic
news 30 Oct. 1880 pp._ 160, 162, _portrait_.
DOWTON, WILLIAM (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 1793; manager of
the Kent circuit 1815–35; made his first appearance in London at
Drury Lane theatre 3 Dec. 1832 as Tangent; a brother of the
Charterhouse 1846 to death. _d._ the Charterhouse, London 19 Sep.
1883.
DOXAT, LEWIS. _b._ British West Indies 1773; employed on the
_Morning Chronicle_ in London 25 years; manager of the _Observer_
1804–57; manager of the _Morning Chronicle_ 1821–34. _d._ 13
Queen’s crescent, Haverstock hill, London 4 March 1871 aged 98.
DOYLE, ANDREW (_3 son of Andrew Doyle of Dublin, merchant_). _b._
1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister L.I. 10 June 1842;
inspector of poor law board, Feb. 1848 to 1871, of local
government board 1871–76, his district included nearly all Wales;
prepared elaborate reports on vagrancy 1849 and 1865, on pauper
education 1850 and 1862, and a detailed report on sanitary state
of his district on passing of first Public Health act 1872;
assistant comr. on agricultural depression in England for Western
district 1879–80. _d._ Pendarren, Crickhowell, Breconshire 14 Dec.
1888.
DOYLE, SIR CHARLES HASTINGS (_eld. son of Sir Charles Wm. Doyle,
C.B. 1770–1842_). _b._ 10 April 1803; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 87
foot 23 Dec. 1819; A.A.G. in Ireland 1847; inspector general of
militia in Ireland 1856–61; commanded the troops in Nova Scotia
1861–68; lieut. governor of New Brunswick Oct. 1866 to Oct. 1867;
lieut. governor of Nova Scotia, Oct. 1867 to May 1873; col. of 70
foot May 1868, of 87 foot 10 Oct. 1870 to death; commanded forces
in British North America 1870–74, and Southern district of England
1874–77; general 15 March 1877, placed on retired list 1 Oct.
1877; K.C.M.G. 23 June 1869. _d._ at his lodgings 18 Bolton st.
Piccadilly, London 19 March 1883.
DOYLE, SIR FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES, 2 Baronet (_only son of Sir
Francis Hastings Doyle, 1 baronet 1783–1839_). _b._ Nun Appleton,
Yorkshire 22 Aug. 1810; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1832,
B.C.L. 1843, hon. D.C.L. 1877; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1835–45
and 1872–77; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1837; assistant solicitor of
the Excise 1845–46; receiver general of Customs 1846 to Nov. 1869;
comr. of Customs, Nov. 1869 to 1883; professor of poetry at Oxford
20 June 1867 to June 1877; author of _Miscellaneous Verses_ 1834;
_Two Destinies, a poem_ 1844; _Return of the guards and other
poems_ 1866; _Lectures delivered before the University of Oxford_
1868, _second series_ 1877; _Reminiscences and opinions_ 1886.
_d._ 46 Davies st. Berkeley sq. London 8 Feb. 1888.
DOYLE, JOHN. _b._ Dublin 1797; portrait painter in London 1821;
published 6 plates entitled _The life of a racehorse_ 1822; issued
under initials of H. B. a series of lithographed caricatures
entitled _Political sketches of H. B., Nos. 1–917 a series of
coloured lithographic prints 9 vols._ 1829–51, there was a key to
them entitled _A Key to the political sketches Nos. 1–600 of H. B.
11 vols._ 1831–43; paid £300 by the War Office for an improved
Tent 1856. _d._ 54 Clifton gardens, Maida Vale, London 2 Jany.
1868. _Everitt’s English caricaturists_ (1886) 238–86; _J. Paget’s
Paradoxes and puzzles_ (1874) 461–3; _The Month viii_, 392–411
(1868).
DOYLE, SIR JOHN MILLEY (_2 son of Rev. Nicholas Milley Doyle, R. of
Newcastle, co. Tipperary_). _b._ 1781; ensign 107 foot 31 May
1794; lieut. col. Portuguese army March 1809; commanded sixth
Portuguese brigade 1813–14; lieut. col. on half pay 11 May 1820;
retired from service as col. 27 May 1825; M.P. for co. Carlow
1831–32; served in Portuguese army 1832 to May 1834; military
knight of Windsor, July 1853; serjeant at arms to the Queen, June
1854 to death; nominated K.T.S. 12 Oct. 1812, gazetted 20 March
1813; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 28 July 1814;
K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; published pamphlets and petitions 1829–46 by
which he got the mixed commission appointed to liquidate claims of
English officers who served in Portuguese army. _d._ Lower ward,
Windsor castle 9 Aug. 1856.
DOYLE, PERCY WILLIAM (_brother of Sir Charles Hastings Doyle
1803–83_). _b._ 1806; attached to British mission at Washington 2
June 1825; sec. of legation to Mexican republic 6 Dec. 1842,
minister plenipotentiary 24 Dec. 1851 to 19 Feb. 1858 when he
retired on pension; C.B. 4 March 1858. _d._ 5 Half Moon st.
Piccadilly, London 21 Feb. 1888.
DOYLE, RICHARD (_2 son of John Doyle 1797–1868_). _b._ London, Sep.
1824; published _The Eglinton Tournament or the days of chivalry
revived_ 1839; kept a manuscript ‘Journal’ 1840, issued in
facsimile 1885; contributed sketches and cartoons to _Punch_
1843–50; designed the cover for _Punch_ now used; his _Manners and
customs of ye Englyshe_ appeared in _Punch_ 1849; published _The
foreign tour of Brown, Jones and Robinson_ 1854; illustrated _The
Newcomes_ by Thackeray 1854 and other books; contributed
_Birds’-eye views of society_ to _Cornhill Mag._ 1861–63; many
water-colours by him were exhibited at Grosvenor gallery, London
1885; drawn by Leech in his cartoon entitled “Mr. Punch’s fancy
ball” in _Punch vol. xii, p._ 14, Jany. 1847, as the clarionet
player in the orchestra. _d._ 7 Finborough road, South Kensington,
London 11 Dec. 1883. _Everitt’s English caricaturists_ (1886)
381–94; _Gillow’s English Catholics ii_, 101–3 (1885); _W. M.
Rossetti’s Fine Art_ (1867) 289–91; _Blackwood’s Mag. April 1885
pp._ 485–91; _Graphic xxviii_, 608 (1883), _portrait_; _I.L.N.
lxxxiv_, 13 (1884), _portrait_.
DOYLE, REV. THOMAS. _b._ 21 Dec. 1793; ed. at St. Edmund’s college,
Ware, ordained priest 1819; priest at Royal Belgian chapel, London
road, Southwark 1820, senior priest there 1829; St. George’s R.C.
cathedral in St. George’s Fields was built owing to his exertions,
consecrated 4 July 1848; Provost of cathedral chapter of Southwark
1850 to death; wrote letters in _The Tablet_ and other periodicals
under signature of ‘Father Thomas.’ _d._ St. George’s Cathedral,
London 6 June 1879. _Gillow’s English Catholics ii_, 103–5 (1885).
DOYLE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (_son of Edward Doyle_). _b._ Nassau,
Bahamas 1823; barrister M.T. 8 May 1846; registrar of court of
bankruptcy for Bahamas 1847–58; assistant justice of general court
of Bahamas 1858, chief justice and pres. of legislative council 14
Sep. 1865 to 31 March 1875; knighted at Windsor Castle 12 Dec.
1873; chief justice of Leeward Islands 31 March 1875; chief
justice of Gibraltar, judge of vice admiralty court and court of
requests 14 May 1877 to death. _d._ 8 Montpellier villas,
Cheltenham 27 April 1879.
DOYLEY, HENRY (_youngest son of Ven. Matthias Doyley, archdeacon of
Lewes, who d. 13 Nov. 1815 aged 71_). _b._ 21 April 1780; ensign
Grenadier guards 2 Aug. 1797, lieut. col. 10 Jany. 1837 to 28 June
1838; col. 33 foot 28 Sep. 1847 to death; general 30 Jany. 1855.
_d._ Nevill park, Tunbridge Wells 26 Sep. 1855.
DOYLEY, THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ London 16 Nov.
1774; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1795, B.C.L. 1800,
D.C.L. 1804; fellow of All Souls’ college 1800–20; barrister M.T.
9 Nov. 1798; serjeant at law 9 Feb. 1819, received patent of
precedence 1834; chairman of quarter sessions, West Sussex; edited
with E. V. Williams _Burn’s Justice of the Peace 5 vols._ 1836.
_d._ Rottingdean near Brighton 14 Jany. 1855.
DOYNE, WILLIAM THOMAS (_2 son of Rev. J. Doyne, P.C. of Old
Leighlin, co. Carlow_). _b._ April 1823; articled to Edward Dixon,
C.E. 1840; resident engineer of Rugby and Leamington railway
1847–50; in charge of the Army works corps consisting of about
2400 navvies and artificers, at Balaclava 1855–56; practised at
Melbourne 1866 to death; consulting engineer to government of
Western Australia 1869; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1849, M.I.C.E. 9 Nov.
1852; author of _The causes which have retarded the construction
of railways in India_ 1860; _Report upon the plains and rivers of
Canterbury, New Zealand_ 1864. _d._ Melbourne 29 Sep. 1877. _Min.
of proc. of Instit. of C.E. li_, 270–73 (1878).
DRAKARD, JOHN. Printer and bookseller at Stamford; started a weekly
paper called _The Stamford News_ 15 Sep. 1809; sentenced to 18
months’ imprisonment in Lincoln Castle and fined £200 at Lincoln
13 March 1811 for a seditious libel, an article in his paper of 24
Aug. 1810 entitled ‘One thousand lashes’; started a weekly paper
called _The Champion of the East_ 5 Jany. 1830, the name was
changed to the _Stamford Champion_; both his papers ceased 1834;
published _Drakard’s Edition of the public and private life of
Colonel Wardle, Stamford n.d._; author of _The history of
Stamford_ 1822. _d._ Ripon 25 Jany. 1854 aged 79. _Howell’s State
Trials xxxi_, 495–544 (1823).
DRAKE, CHARLES FREDERICK TYRWHITT (_younger son of Col. Wm. Tyrwhitt
Drake of the Royal horse guards, who d. 21 Dec. 1848_). _b._
Amersham, Bucks. 2 Jany. 1846; ed. at Rugby, Wellington coll. and
Trin. coll. Cam. but took no degree; spent winters of 1866 and
1867 in Morocco; visited Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Greece and
Turkey 1868–70; engaged on survey of Palestine for Palestine
exploration fund society 1870 to death; F.R.G.S.; author of
_Modern Jerusalem_ 1875; author with Sir R. F. Burton of
_Unexplored Syria 2 vols._ 1872. _d._ Jerusalem 23 June 1874.
_Literary remains of C. F. T. Drake by W. Besant_ 1877; _Modern
Jerusalem by the late C. F. T. Drake with a memoir_ 1875;
_Palestine Fund Reports_ (1874) _pp._ 131–4.
DRAKE, JOHN POAD (_son of Thomas Drake of Stoke Damerel, Devon, who
d. 20 May 1835_). Baptised at Stoke Damerel 20 July 1794; painted
a picture of Napoleon on board the Bellerophon at Plymouth 1815
which he exhibited in New York; occupied with schemes for
breechloading guns 1829–37; laid proposals before government for
ironcased floating batteries and steam rams 1832–40; patented his
diagonal system of shipbuilding and a screw trenail fastening
1837; failed to obtain adoption of any of his inventions. _d._
Fowey, Cornwall 26 Feb. 1883. _Dict. of Nat. Biog. xv_, 447
(1888).
DRAKE, SAMUEL, stage name of Samuel Bryant. _b._ England 15 Nov.
1768; apprenticed to a printer; ran away and became an actor;
managed a theatre in West of England; acted at Boston theatre,
U.S. 1809–13, and at Albany, New York 1813–15; managed theatres at
Frankfort, Lexington and Louisville all in Kentucky 1815 to about
1827, afterwards managed theatres in Ohio, Tennessee, Missouri and
Indiana; may properly be called the pioneer of the drama in the
West. _d._ Oldham county, Kentucky 16 Oct. 1854.
DRAKE, SIR THOMAS TRAYTON FULLER-ELIOTT, 1 Baronet (_3 son of John
Trayton Fuller of Ashdown house, Sussex, who d. 1812_). _b._
Heathfield park, Sussex 8 Feb. 1785; lieut. 52 foot 5 Oct. 1804,
major 26 May 1814 to 25 May 1815 when placed on h.p.; assumed
additional surnames of Eliott and Drake by r.l. 31 March 1813;
created baronet 22 Aug. 1821; sheriff of Devon 1822; edited _Life
of Sir F. Drake_ 1828. _d._ Nutwell court near Exeter 6 June 1870.
DRAKE, THOMAS TYRWHITT (_eld. son of Thomas Drake of Shardeloes,
Bucks., who d. 1810_). _b._ 16 March 1783; M.P. for Amersham,
Bucks. 31 Jany. 1805 to 3 Dec. 1832; sheriff of Bucks. 1836;
master of hounds in the Bicester country many years. _d._
Bucknell, Oxfordshire 23 March 1852.
DRAKE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (_son of John Drake, deputy commissary
general, who d. 24 June 1867 aged 84_). _b._ 1812; deputy
assistant commissary general 16 April 1835, commissary general 21
June 1859; controller in Ireland 1867, in Great Britain 1869;
director of supplies and transports 3 Sep. 1871 to 29 Sep. 1872;
C.B. 4 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 20 May 1871. _d._ 10 Clanricarde gardens,
Bayswater, London 28 Jany. 1882.
DRAPER, REV. DANIEL JAMES. _b._ parish of Wickham, Hants. 28 Aug.
1810; became a Wesleyan Methodist 1830; minister of Chatteris
circuit 1834; minister at Sydney, N.S.W. 1836–37, 1842–46, at
Melbourne 1846–47 and 1855 to 1865, at Adelaide 1847–55; president
of the Conference 1859; drowned with 244 other passengers in the
wreck of the “London” steamship in the Bay of Biscay 11 Jany.
1866. _F. J. Jobson’s Memorial tribute to D. J. Draper_ 1866,
_portrait_.
DRAPER, JOHN WILLIAM (_son of John C. Draper, Wesleyan minister, who
d. 1829_). _b._ St. Helen’s near Liverpool 5 May 1811; ed. at
Woodhouse grove school, London Univ. and Univ. of Pennsylvania,
M.D. 1836; professor of chemistry and natural philosophy in
Hampden Sidney college, Virginia 1836–39; professor of medical
department in Univ. of New York 1839, of chemistry 1840–81; pres.
of New York medical college 1850–73; made first photographic
portrait from life 1839 and first photograph of moon’s surface
1840; LLD. Princeton 1860; first pres. of American Chemical Soc.
1876; author of _Text book of chemistry_ 1846; _Text book of human
physiology_ 1856; _History of the intellectual development of
Europe 2 vols._ 1864; _History of the American civil war 3 vols._
1871; _History of the conflict between religion and science_ 1874,
translated into 9 languages. _d._ Hastings on river Hudson 20
miles north of New York 4 Jany. 1882. _Barker’s Memoir of J. W.
Draper_ 1882, _portrait_; _Appleton’s American Biog. ii_, 226–27
(1887), _portrait_; _Graphic xxv_, 68, (1882), _portrait_.
DRAPER, WILLIAM HENRY (_son of Rev. Henry Draper, lecturer of St.
George’s ch. Southwark_). _b._ near London 11 March 1801; arrived
in Cobourg, Canada 4 June 1820; called to bar in Canada 16 June
1828; reporter to the King’s Bench 18 Nov. 1829 to March 1837;
solicitor general of Upper Canada 23 March 1837, member of
executive council, Dec. 1837, the first attorney general for Upper
Canada 13 Feb. 1841 to 28 May 1847; Q.C. 1842; a legislative
councillor of Canada 10 April 1843 to Jany. 1845; member of
legislative assembly Jany. 1845 to 28 May 1847; a puisne judge of
Queen’s Bench 12 June 1847; chief justice of Common Pleas 5 Feb.
1856; chief justice of Upper Canada 22 July 1863 to 20 Oct. 1868;
C.B. 23 June 1854; pres. of court of error and appeal Ontario 20
Oct. 1868; author of _Upper Canada King’s Bench Reports_ 1729–31,
_2 vols._ 1861–62. _d._ Yorkville, Toronto 3 Nov. 1877. _Law
Magazine and law review xxvii_, 362 (1869).
DRAYTON, HENRI. _b._ Philadelphia 1822; ed. at Paris Conservatoire;
primo basso in Italian opera in France and Belgium 1848–50; sang
in English opera in London 1850–59; gave parlor opera
entertainments with his wife in the United States 1859–61 when he
returned to England; sang with Riching’s English Opera company in
America 1867–70; author of dramas and operas. _d._ 57 East ninth
st. New York 11 Aug. 1872. _I.L.N. xxx_, 411 (1856), _portrait_.
DREW, ANDREW. _b._ 27 Nov. 1792; entered navy 4 May 1806; commodore
of provincial marine of Upper Canada 1838–39; captain on h.p. 10
June 1843; agent victualler at Cape of Good Hope 16 Dec. 1850 to
30 Jany. 1863; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1875; discovered a
dangerous shoal between Trinidad and Tobago 1842, afterwards
called Drew’s Rock. _d._ Glenwood house, Peckham Rye, Surrey 19
Dec. 1878. _A narrative of the capture of the Caroline_ 1844.
NOTE.—He successfully defended Cape Coast castle in 1824 with
160 sailors against an attack by 50,000 Ashantees. During the
Canadian rebellion in 1838 with only about 35 men he captured
the rebel steamer Caroline and sent it burning over the falls
of Niagara, one of the most daring exploits recorded in naval
history.
DREW, REV. GEORGE SMITH (_son of George Drew of 11 Tottenham court
road, London, tea dealer_). _b._ Louth, Lincs. 1819; sizar at St.
John’s coll. Cam. 22 Jany. 1839; 27 wrangler 1843; Inc. of St.
John the Evangelist, St. Pancras, London 1850–54; V. of
Pulloxhill, Beds. 1854–58; V. of St. Barnabas, South Kensington,
London 1858–70; select preacher to Univ. of Cam. 1869–70; R. of
Avington, Hants. 1870–72; Hulsean lecturer at Cam. 1877; V. of
Holy Trinity, Lambeth, London 18 Sep. 1872 to death; F.R.G.S.;
author of _Scripture studies or readings in the Old Testament_
1855, _2 ed._ 1869; _Scripture lands in connection with their
history_ 1860, _2 ed._ 1862; _Reasons of faith or the Christian
argument developed_ 1862, _2 ed._ 1869 and 11 other books. _d._
Holy Trinity vicarage, Lambeth 21 Jany. 1880.
DREW, JOHN. _b._ Bower Chalk, Wiltshire 1809; kept a school at
Southampton 1826–42; built a small observatory there 1847;
supplied the correct time to ships leaving Southampton many years;
Ph.D. Univ. of Basle; F.R.A.S. 9 Jany. 1846; a founder of
Meteorological Soc. 1850; author of _A manual of Astronomy_ 1845,
_2 ed._ 1853; _Practical meteorology_ 1855, re-edited by his son
1860 and other books and many papers. _d._ Surbiton, Surrey 17
Dec. 1857.
DREW, JOHN. _b._ Dublin 3 Sep. 1825; appeared at Bowery theatre, New
York 1845 as Dr. O’Toole in _The Irish Tutor_; lessee with Wm.
Wheatley of Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 20 Aug. 1853 to 1855;
acted in England 1855, California 1858 and Australia 1859;
returned to New York from England 9 Jany. 1862; best Irish
comedian on American stage; played for last time 9 May 1862. _d._
Philadelphia 21 May 1862. _T. A. Brown’s History of the American
stage_ (1870) p. 105, _portrait_.
DREW, REV. WILLIAM HENRY. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., 8 wrangler
1849; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1856; mathematical master at Blackheath
proprietary school 1856–73; C. of Crockenhill near Dartford
1866–73; professor of mathematics at King’s college, London June
1869 to death; author of _A geometrical treatise on conic
sections_ 1857, _6 ed._ 1880. _d._ Park house, Maida hill west,
London 14 July 1882 aged 55.
DRISCOLL, HENRY. _b._ Dublin 1792; ensign 67 foot 13 June 1811;
lieut. 100 foot 3 March 1814; lieut. 99 foot 1815 to 1817 when
removed from the army; studied for the bar at Montreal; edited the
_Herald_ newspaper; edited the _Courant_ newspaper; called to
Canadian bar May 1823; Q.C.; police magistrate 1840. _d._ Montreal
28 Oct. 1869.
DROOP, HENRY RICHMOND (_son of John Abraham Droop of Stamford Hill,
Middlesex_). _b._ about 1831; ed. at Marlborough and Trin. coll.
Cam., scholar 1853, 3 wrangler 1854; fellow of his coll. 1855,
mathematical lecturer; B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; barrister L.I. 26
Jany. 1859; author of _North side of the table, a criticism_ 1866;
_Proportional representation as applied to election of local
governing bodies_ 1871; _Relations between an invading army and
the inhabitants_ 1871; _The Edwardian vestments an investigation_
1875. _d._ 11 Cleveland gardens, London 21 March 1884.
DROUGHT, THOMAS ARMSTRONG. _b._ 1798; Ensign 15 Foot 11 Nov. 1813,
lieut. col. 21 March 1845 to 1 Oct. 1854; inspecting field officer
1 Oct. 1854 to 11 Jany. 1860; col. 45 Foot 25 June 1866 to 21
April 1868; col. 15 Foot 21 April 1868 to death; general 29 May
1875. _d._ Hill house, Winchester 22 Aug. 1877.
DRUCE, CHARLES CLARIDGE (_one of the 24 children of Charles Druce of
city of London, solicitor 1791–1881_). _b._ Billiter sq. London
1819; solicitor in Billiter sq. 1843 to death; vice pres. of
Incorporated Law Society 1880–81, pres. 1881–82. _d._ Brighton 10
June 1885 in 66 year.
DRUCE, GEORGE (_brother of the preceding_). Educ. at Shrewsbury and
St. Peter’s coll. Cam., senior classic 1843, 2 chancellor’s
medallist 1843; B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; fellow of his college 1846;
barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1846; Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; one of standing
counsel to univ. of Cam. Nov. 1867 to death. _d._ Denmark hill,
Camberwell, London 15 April 1869 aged 48 in consequence of an
accident while riding the day before. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_,
470–71 (1869).
DRUITT, ROBERT. _b._ Wimborne, Dorset, Dec. 1814; studied at King’s
college and Middlesex hospital; L.S.A. 1836; M.R.C.S. 1837,
F.R.C.S. 1845; F.R.C.P. 1874; M.D. Lambeth, Sep. 1878; practised
in London from 1837; on his retirement 370 subscribers presented
him with a cheque for £1215 in a silver cup; edited _The Medical
Times and Gazette_ 1862–72; a medical officer of health for St.
George’s, Hanover sq. 1856–67; pres. of Metropolitan Association
of medical officers of health 1864–72; author of _The Surgeon’s
Vade Mecum_ 1839, _11 ed._ 1878; _Report on the cheap wines, their
quality, wholesomeness and price_ 1865, _2 ed._ 1873. _d._ 8
Strathmore gardens, Kensington, London 15 May 1883. _W. T.
Robertson’s Photographs of medical men_ (1868) _ii_, 109–13,
_portrait_.
DRUMMOND, BERKELEY. _b._ 27 May 1796; ensign 3 Foot guards 5 March
1812, lieut. col. 31 Dec. 1844 to 28 June 1850 when placed on
h.p.; col. 3 Foot 12 Dec. 1857 to death; L.G. 9 April 1859. _d._
Eaglehurst, Hants. 3 May 1860.
DRUMMOND, GEORGE HARLEY. _b._ 23 Nov. 1783; M.P. for Kincardineshire
26 Feb. 1812 to 29 Feb. 1820. _d._ 23 July 1853.
DRUMMOND, SIR GORDON (_4 son of Colin Drummond, paymaster general of
the forces at Quebec_). _b._ Quebec 27 Sep. 1772; ensign 1 foot 21
Sep. 1789; lieut. col. 8 foot 22 April 1794 to 28 July 1804;
commanded a division in Jamaica 1805–1807; won battle of Niagara
25 July 1814; commanded forces in Canada 1814–16; col. of 97 foot
8 Feb. 1814 to 24 Nov. 1818 when regiment was disbanded; col. of
88 foot 10 March 1819, of 71 foot 16 Jany. 1824, of 49 foot 21
Sep. 1829, of 8 foot 24 April 1846 to death; general 27 May 1825;
K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 7 Jany. 1817. _d._ 25 Norfolk st. Park
lane, London 10 Oct. 1854. _Historical record of King’s Liverpool
regiment of foot_, _2 ed._ (1883) 270–71.
DRUMMOND, HENRY (_eld. son of Henry Drummond of the Grange, Hants.
1762–94_). _b._ 5 Dec. 1786; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.;
partner in Drummond’s bank, London; M.P. for Plympton Earle, Devon
1810–13; M.P. for West Surrey 1847 to death; founded professorship
of political economy at Oxford 1825; F.R.S. 19 Dec. 1839; seceded
from Church of England and was immersed by Rev. James Harrington
Evans about 1817, for whom he built a chapel in John st. Bedford
Row, London 1818; one of founders of Catholic Apostolic or
Irvingite church 1832, pastor at Albury near Guildford 20 Oct.
1832, apostle at Albury 25 Sep. 1833; took charge of Scotland and
Switzerland 1833 to death, built the C.A. church at Albury 1835 at
cost of £16,000; erected new parish church of SS. Peter and Paul
at Albury 1841; author of _Dialogues on prophecy 3 vols._ 1828–29;
_Social Duties_ 1830; _Condition of Agricultural classes 2 vols._
1842; _On Tracts for the Times 24 parts_ 1843; _Histories of
British families 8 parts_ 1844–49 and about 90 other books and
pamphlets. _d._ Albury Park near Guildford 20 Feb. 1860. _Miller’s
History of Irvingism 2 vols._ 1878; _London quarterly review Oct.
1860 pp._ 255–84; _Speeches of Henry Drummond edited by Lord
Lovaine 2 vols._ 1860.
DRUMMOND, HENRY. Second lieut. Bengal engineers 2 Dec. 1843, col. 23
July 1874 to 1 June 1878 when he retired on full pay with hon.
rank of M.G.; sec. of government of India public works department
1874–78. _d._ at his residence near Bedford 28 March 1883.
DRUMMOND, HENRY HOME. _b._ 28 July 1783; M.P. for co. Stirling
1820–1831, for Perthshire 1840–1852. _d._ Blair Drummond near
Stirling 12 Sep. 1867. _Proc. of R. S. of Edin. vi_, 191 (1869).
DRUMMOND, JAMES. Botanical collector; in charge of Cork botanic
garden to 1829; A.L.S. 1810; went to Swan River, Western Australia
1829; Lindley’s _Sketch of the vegetation of the Swan River_ 1839
was drawn up from his collections; _Drummondita_ a genus of
Diosmeæ was founded by Dr. Harvey 1855. _d._ Western Australia 27
March 1863 aged 79.
DRUMMOND, JAMES (_son of Mr. Drummond of Edinburgh, merchant_). _b._
1810; studied in School of Design, Edin.; subject and history
painter; A.R.S.A. 1846, R.S.A. 1852, librarian 1857; curator of
National gallery, Edin. 1868; member of council of Royal Scottish
Soc. of Antiquaries and curator of the museum; exhibited 11
pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1839–72;
author of _Catalogue of national gallery of Scotland_ 1869 many
editions. _d._ Edinburgh 12 Aug. 1877.
DRUMMOND, JAMES LAWSON (_son of William Drummond, surgeon R.N._)
_b._ Larne, co. Antrim 1783; surgeon in the navy 1807 to 21 May
1813; M.D. Edin. 24 June 1814; practised in Belfast from 1814;
professor of anatomy Belfast Academical Institution 15 Dec. 1818
to Nov. 1849 when collegiate part of the Instit. was merged in
Queen’s College; chief founder of Belfast natural history society
5 June 1821; author of _Thoughts on the study of natural history_
1820, anon.; _First steps to botany_ 1823; _Letters to a young
naturalist_ 1831; _First steps to anatomy_ 1845. _d._ 8 College
sq. north, Belfast 17 May 1853. _bur._ Ahoghill, co. Antrim 19
May. _Proc. of Belfast Nat. Hist. and Philos. Soc._ (1882) 13.
DRUMMOND, JOHN (_only son of John Drummond of The Boyce Court near
Ledbury, who d. 13 May 1835 aged 81_). _b._ 5 Oct. 1793; ed. at
Harrow; ensign Coldstream guards 22 Nov. 1810, captain 22 June
1826 to 13 April 1832 when placed on h.p.; general 10 Feb. 1865.
_d._ The Boyce court 15 April 1875.
DRUMMOND, JOHN GAVIN. Entered Bengal army 1807; lieut. col. 30
Bengal N.I. 1847 to death; quartermaster general Bengal army 8
Feb. 1850 to death; C.B. 30 Oct. 1844. _d._ Ghelum, Bengal 11
Jany. 1852.
DRUMMOND, PETER ROBERT. _b._ parish of Madderty, Perthshire 1802;
kept a circulating library at 15 High st. Perth 1832; a bookseller
at 32 High st. Perth and then at 46 George st.; built the Exchange
hotel, Perth; a farmer at Balmblair, Perthshire; gained a medal
for a churn at Great Exhibition 1851; author of _The tenants and
landlords versus the free traders, By Powdavie_ 1850; _Perthshire
in bygone days, one hundred biographical essays_ 1879; _The life
of Robert Nicoll poet, edited by James Drummond_ 1884. _d._
Ellengowen, Almond Bank near Perth 4 Sep. 1879 in 77 year.