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DACRE, Thomas Brand, 20 Baron. b. The Hoo, Kimpton, Herts. 15 March 1774; barrister L.I. 25 June 1800; M.P. for Herts. 11 May 1807 to 3 Oct. 1819 when he succeeded his mother. d. The Hoo 21 March 1851.
DACRE, Barbarina Brand, Baroness (3 dau. of Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle, who d. 27 Aug. 1816 aged 89). b. 9 May 1767; one of the most accomplished women of her time; an excellent amateur painter and sculptor; Ugo Foscolo dedicated to her his Essays on Petrarch 1823 the last 45 pages of which contain her translations from Petrarch; her tragedy in 5 acts entitled Ina was produced at Drury Lane theatre 22 April 1815; privately printed Dramas, translations and occasional poems 2 vols. 1821; Translations from the Italian 1836; edited Recollections of a Chaperon 1833 and Tales of the peerage and the peasantry 1835, both by her only dau. Mrs. Arabella Jane Sullivan who d. 27 Jany. 1839 aged 42. (m. (1) Valentine Henry Wilmot of Farnborough, Hants. m. (2) 4 Dec. 1819 Thomas Brand, baron Dacre 1774–1851). d. 2 Chesterfield st. May Fair, London 17 May 1854. G.M. xlii, 296–97 (1854).
DACRE, Henry Otway Brand-Trevor, 21 Baron (brother of 20 Baron Dacre 1774–1851). b. 17 July 1777; ensign Coldstream guards 27 April 1793, lieut.-col. 25 July 1814 to 19 July 1821; served in Flanders 1793–95; assumed additional name of Trevor 18 Nov. 1824; colonel 31 Foot 12 July 1847 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815; succeeded 21 March 1851. d. Great Cumberland place, London 2 June 1853.
DACRES, James Richard (son of Vice admiral James Richard Dacres 1749–1810). b. Lowestoft 22 Aug. 1788; entered navy 1796; captain 14 Jany. 1806; commander in chief at Cape of Good Hope 9 Aug. 1845 to 3 Aug. 1848; V.A. 20 March 1848. d. Catesfield lodge near Fareham, Hants. 3 Dec. 1853. bur. in family vault at Tetbury, Gloucs.
DACRES, Sir Richard James (son of Vice admiral Sir Richard Dacres 1761–1837). b. 1799; ed. at R.M.A. Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 15 Dec. 1817, lieut.-col. 23 Feb. 1852; served in Crimean war 1854–5; col. commandant 28 July 1864; commandant at Woolwich, May 1859 to 1865; general 2 Feb. 1868; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; constable of Tower of London 2 July 1881 to death; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 2 June 1869. d. Palmeira sq. Brighton 6 Dec. 1886. I.L.N. lxxix, 181 (1881), portrait.
DACRES, Sir Sidney Colpoys (brother of the preceding). b. Totnes, Devon 9 Jany. 1805; entered navy 8 Feb. 1817; captain 1 Aug. 1840; captain of the Sans Pareil 70 guns, 3 June 1852 to Nov. 1855; embarked the sick and wounded after battles of Alma and Inkerman; took charge of the port of Balaklava 27 Oct. 1854; superintendent of packet service at Southampton, Feb. to July 1856; superintendent of Royal Clarence victualling yard and Royal hospital, Haslar 7 July 1856 to 25 June 1858; granted good service pension 7 Feb. 1856; captain of the fleet in Mediterranean 25 Aug. 1859, second in command Dec. 1861 to April 1863; commanded channel fleet April 1863 to 17 Nov. 1865; a lord of the admiralty July 1865, first sea lord Dec. 1868 to Nov. 1872; admiral 1 April 1870; visitor and governor of Greenwich hospital 30 Nov. 1872 to death; K.L.H. 1828, K.T.S. 1865; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865, G.C.B. 20 May 1871. d. 47 Brunswick sq. Brighton 8 March 1884. I.L.N. lxii, 319, 321 (1873), portrait.
D’AETH, George William (only son of Wm. Hughes of Betshanger, Kent, who d. April 1786). b. April 1786; entered navy June 1799; assumed name of D’Aeth 4 June 1808; captain 13 June 1815; retired captain 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 4 Oct. 1862. d. Knowlton court, Kent 28 April 1873.
DAFFORNE, James. Contributed to the Art Journal 1845 to death; wrote 7 books 1872–77 on the pictures by C. R. Leslie, C. Stanfield, J. Phillip, Sir A. W. Callcott, Sir E. Landseer, W. Mulready and J. M. W. Turner; author of The pictorial table book 1873; The Albert memorial Hyde Park, its history and description 1877; The life and works of E. M. Ward, R.A. 1879. d. Brodrick road, Upper Tooting 8 June 1880.
DAFT, Thomas Barnabas. b. Birmingham 1816; an iron founder and manufacturer of metallic hot houses 1835; maker of philosophical apparatus 1839; manager of india rubber works of Charles Mackintosh and Co. at Manchester many years; took out 28 patents 1839–77; A.I.C.E. 7 Feb. 1860. d. 95 Clapham road, London 4 Dec. 1878.
DAGLISH, Robert. b. 21 Dec. 1779; engineer to Lord Balcarres at Wigan 1804; manager of Orrell colliery near Wigan; projected Bolton and Leigh railway 1825 which has no embankments or cuttings but undulates with natural surface of the land; invented best form of parallel rail and pedestals which gained premium of £100 given by London and Birmingham railway 1834 for which there were 72 competitors, this invention was generally adopted; projector of and partner in St. Helen’s foundry; M.I.C.E. 30 March 1830. d. Orrell near Wigan 28 Dec. 1865. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvi, 561–63 (1867).
DAGLISH, Robert (3 son of the preceding). b. Wigan 1809; partner in firm of Lee, Watson & Co. iron founders, St. Helens 1830; with John Smith worked the traffic of the St. Helen’s and Runcorn Gap railway 1839–48; erected his first cotton mill at Wigan 1845; built many railway bridges in Lancashire and Yorkshire 1846–49; constructed Preston extension of East Lancashire railway 1850; sole proprietor of the foundry from 1851 until 1869 when joined by his nephew George H. Daglish, M.I.C.E.; erected coal drops at Garston near Liverpool 1852; extended his foundry works so that they covered an area of 22,400 square yards in 1882; assoc. of Instit. of C.E. 1852 and member 1874. d. 6 May 1883. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiv, 283–5 (1883).
D’AGUILAR, Sir George Charles (son of Joseph D’Aguilar, captain 2 dragoon guards). b. Winchester, Jany. 1784; ensign 86 foot 24 Sep. 1799; major 1 Greek light infantry 1 April 1813 to 24 Feb. 1816 when regiment was disbanded and he was placed on h.p.; major Rifle brigade 6 March 1817 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p.; major 3 foot 22 June 1820 to 13 Sep. 1821 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general in Ireland 22 July 1830 to 23 Nov. 1841; commanded troops in China 1843–48; col. of 58 foot 5 Feb. 1848, col. of 23 foot 31 Jany. 1851 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 6 April 1852; author of The practice and forms of Courts Martial 1843, 5 ed. 1867. d. Lower Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 21 May 1855. United Service Mag. Aug. 1847 pp. 622–27.
DAINTREE, Richard. b. Hemingford Abbotts, Hunts. Dec. 1831; ed. at Bedford gr. sch. and Ch. coll. Cam.; went to Melbourne 1852; assistant geologist of colony of Victoria 1854–56; field geologist on geological survey of Victoria 1858–64; government geologist for North Queensland 1869–72; entrusted with collection sent to Exhibition at South Kensington 1871 but steamer “Queen of the Thames” containing collection was wrecked near Cape Agulhas about 200 miles from Cape Town 18 March 1871; agent general in London for colony of Queensland, March 1872 to 1876; C.M.G. 1875. d. Holyrood house, Beckenham, Kent 20 June 1878. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxv, 51–3 (1879); Geol. Mag. v, 336, 429–32 (1878).
D’ALBERT, Charles (son of a captain of cavalry in French army). b. Nienstellen near Hamburg 1808 or 1809; pupil in London of F. W. M. Kalkbrenner the pianist; studied music and dancing at Académie Royale, Paris; maître de ballet and first dancer at Covent Garden theatre; teacher of music in London; wrote various musical albums 1848–53; an exceedingly popular composer of innumerable waltzes, polkas and galops. d. 14 Alexander sq. South Kensington, London 26 May 1886 in 78 year. Illust. news of the world viii (1861), portrait.
DALE, James. b. Brancepeth near Durham; succeeded his father as head gardener to 6 Viscount Boyne at Brancepeth Castle 1854; a great judge of fruit and flowers; kept a splendid stock of plants and fruit but never exhibited; known as “The King of Pine growers”; a clever naturalist and ornithologist; it is stated in Loudon’s Natural History that Mr. Dale was the only man in England who ever took a siskin’s nest, which he did in a pine tree; left a valuable collection of stuffed animals and preserved fish. d. Brancepeth 1 April 1882 aged 66.
DALE, James Murray (son of Very Rev. T. Dale 1797–1870). b. 20 July 1822; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; a solicitor in London 1843–73; author of Clergyman’s Legal handbook 1858, 6 ed. 1881; Church extension law 1864; Legal ritual, Judgments of privy council and dean of arches 1871. d. Cromer 2 March 1877.
DALE, John. b. Settle, Yorkshire 1 March 1803; articled to Reay and Collison, surgeons, Liverpool; played under Samuel Russell’s management in the provinces 1823; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre as Rob Roy 5 Oct. 1825; went to Paris with the Kean, Macready, Kemble company 1827; the original Adrastus in Talfourd’s tragedy Ion at Covent Garden, May 1836; played Cromwell to Macready’s Wolsey at Covent Garden; acted at Surrey and Victoria theatres; one of his best characters was Creve Cœur in The Bohemians. d. Manchester 25 Oct. 1872. Theatrical Times iii, 137, 146 (1848), portrait.
DALE, Joseph. Gardener to Society of the Middle Temple, London 1843 to decease, where he arranged annual exhibitions of chrysanthemums in November; greatly assisted and encouraged the plantation of trees in various parts of London; presented with a testimonial at the Salutation tavern, Newgate st. London 31 Jany. 1878; author of On the cultivation of the chrysanthemum 1856. d. Vicarage road, Leyton 31 Dec. 1878 aged 65. Gardener’s Magazine xxi, 59 (1878), xxii, 7, 80 (1879).
DALE, Very Rev. Thomas (son of William Dale of Pentonville, London). b. Pentonville 22 Aug. 1797; ed. at Christ hospital 1805–17 and C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1870; C. of St. Michael’s, Cornhill, London 1822–26; professor of English language and literature at London Univ. 1828–30, at King’s coll. London 1836–39; minister of St. Matthew’s chapel, Denmark hill 1830–35; V. of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London 3 Jany. 1835 to 1846; Golden lecturer at St. Margaret’s, Lothbury 1840–1849; preb. of St. Paul’s, March 1843 to Feb. 1846; canon of St. Paul’s 20 Oct. 1843 to 1870; V. of St. Pancras, July 1846 to March 1861 when that parish was subdivided into 20 incumbencies; R. of Therfield, Herts. 26 March 1861 to 1870; declined deanery of Ely 1869; dean of Rochester 23 Feb. 1870 to death, installed April 1870; author of The widow of Nain and other poems 1817; The outlaw of Taurus 1818; The tragedies of Sophocles translated into English verse 2 vols. 1824; Poetical works 1836; The sabbath companion being essays on first principles of Christian faith and practice 1844, 3 ed. 1853 and about 70 other books. d. 2 Amen corner, St. Paul’s, London 14 May 1870. Palmer’s St. Pancras (1870) 43, 142, 159–61; Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, fourth series (1860), portrait; Church of England photographic portrait gallery 1859, portrait 24; I.L.N. xxxv, 647 (1859), portrait, lvi, 563, 643 (1870).
DALGAIRNS, Rev. John Dobree (son of Wm. Dalgairns). b. Guernsey 21 Oct. 1818; ed. at Elizabeth coll. Guernsey and Ex. coll. Ox., scholar 27 May 1837; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; joined J. H. Newman’s band of disciples at Littlemore; received into R.C. church 29 Sep. 1845, ordained at Langres in France 1846; a preacher and confessor at the London Oratory King William st. Strand 1849 to 1853 and 1856 to 1863, at Birmingham Oratory 1853–56; superior of London Oratory, Brompton 1863–65; wrote some of the lives in J. H. Newman’s Lives of the English saints; author of The devotion to the heart of Jesus with an introduction on the history of Jansenism 1853, 2 ed. 1854; The German mystics of the fourteenth century 1858; The Holy Communion, its philosophy, theology and practice 1861 frequently reprinted, and of many articles in the British Critic, Dublin Review and Contemporary Review. d. in monastery of the Cistercians at Burgess hill, near Brighton 6 April 1876. bur. in private cemetery of the Fathers of the Brompton oratory at Sydenham. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 3–5 (1885).
DALGLISH, Robert (son of Robert Dalglish, provost of Glasgow). b. Glasgow 1808; a calico printer at Glasgow; M.P. for Glasgow 1 April 1857 to 26 Jany. 1874. d. Lennox-mill cottage, Lennoxtown near Glasgow 20 June 1880.
DALHOUSIE, James Andrew Brown-Ramsay, 1 Marquis of (youngest child of 9 Earl of Dalhousie 1770–1838). b. Dalhousie castle, co. Edinburgh 22 April 1812; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1838; contested city of Edin. Jany. 1835; M.P. for East Lothian 1837–38; succeeded as 10 Earl of Dalhousie 21 March 1838; P.C. 10 June 1843; vice pres. of Board of Trade 10 June 1843, pres. 5 Feb. 1845 to 6 July 1846; lord clerk register of Scotland 12 Dec. 1845; an elder brother of Trinity house 1846; governor general of India 4 Aug. 1847, arrived at Calcutta 19 Jany. 1848, left there 6 March 1856; annexed the Punjaub 1849, Pegu 1852, Nagpore 1853 and Oudh 1856; K.T. 12 May 1848; created Marquis of Dalhousie of Dalhousie castle and of the Punjaub 25 Aug. 1849; constable of Dover castle and lord warden of the Cinque Ports 13 Jany. 1853. d. Dalhousie Castle 19 Dec. 1860. Sir C. Jackson’s Vindication of the policy of Dalhousie’s Indian administration; J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known (1874) 98–104; I.L.N. xiv, 36 (1849), portrait, xxii, 61 (1853), portrait.
DALHOUSIE, Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11 Earl of (eld. son of 1 Baron Panmure 1771–1852). b. Brechin castle, Forfarshire 22 April 1801; ed. at the Charterhouse; ensign 79 foot 3 June 1819, captain 31 Oct. 1826, sold out 1831; M.P. for Perthshire 1835–37, for Elgin district of burghs 1838–41, for Perth 1841–52; under sec. of state for home department 18 April 1835 to 15 June 1841; vice pres. of board of trade 28 June to 3 Sep. 1841; P.C. 28 June 1841; sec. of state for war 6 July 1846 to Feb. 1852 and 8 Feb. 1855 to Feb. 1858; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1842; lord lieut. of Forfarshire 16 June 1849; keeper of privy seal of Scotland 25 May 1853; K.T. 28 Oct. 1853; G.C.B. 29 Oct. 1855; succeeded as 2 baron Panmure 13 April 1852 and as 11 Earl of Dalhousie 19 Dec. 1860. d. Brechin castle, Forfarshire 6 July 1874. The statesmen of England (1862), portrait; Illust. news of the world, i, (1858), portrait; I.L.N. xvi, 245 (1850), portrait, xxvi, 152 (1855), portrait, lxv, 61, 67, 115, 523 (1871), portrait.
DALHOUSIE, George Maule-Ramsay, 12 Earl of (2 son of hon. John Ramsay 1775–1842, col. of 79 foot). b. 26 April 1806; entered navy Dec. 1820; captain 20 March 1843; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 27 July 1857 to 1 Sep. 1862; commander in chief on South American station 7 May 1866 to 17 March 1869; succeeded as 12 Earl 6 July 1874; created Baron Ramsay of Glenmark, co. Forfar in peerage of the U.K. 12 June 1875; retired admiral 30 July 1875. d. Dalhousie castle 20 July 1880.
DALHOUSIE, John William Ramsay, 13 Earl of (son of the preceding). b. 29 Jany. 1847; naval cadet Jany. 1861; commander 4 March 1874, commanded the Britannia 1877–79, retired 26 July 1884; contested Liverpool 6 Feb. 1880; M.P. for Liverpool, March 1880 to 20 July 1880 when he succeeded his father; a lord in waiting to the Queen, Sep. 1880 to June 1885; K.T. Nov. 1881; P.C. 3 April 1886; sec. of state for Scotland 5 April 1886 to 26 June 1886. d. Havre 25 Nov. 1887. bur. parish church of Cockpen, co. Edinburgh 1 Dec. 1887. London Figaro 3 Dec. 1887 p. 5, col. 2, portrait.
DALLAS, Rev. Alexander Robert Charles (2 son of Robert Charles Dallas, miscellaneous writer 1754–1824). b. Colchester 29 March 1791; clerk in commissariat office of Treasury 1805–10, deputy assistant commissary general 5 June 1810 to 1 July 1814 when placed on h.p., retired 1820; gentleman commoner of Worcester coll. Ox. 29 Feb. 1820; C. of Radley, Berks. 17 June 1821, of Highclere Hants. 1821, of Woburn 1824, of Burford, Oxon. 1826; V. of Yardley, Herts. 22 Sep. 1827; R. of Wonston, Hants. 14 Sep. 1828 to death; chaplain to bishop of Winchester 1828 to death; founded Society for Irish church missions to the Roman Catholics 1848, hon. sec. 1848 to death; author of Cottager’s guide to the New Testament 6 vols. 1837–43; A Guide to the Acts of the Apostles by A. D. 1847; Revelation readings 3 vols. 1848 and upwards of 50 other books. d. in house of Mr. Annesley, Blackheath, Kent 12 Dec. 1869. bur. Wonston churchyard 17 Dec. Incidents in the life and ministry of Rev. A. R. C. Dallas by his widow (1871), portrait.
DALLAS, Charles. Ensign 32 foot 23 March 1815; governor of St. Helena 14 Feb. 1828 to 1836. d. Trefusis house, Exmouth 26 April 1855 in 88 year.
DALLAS, Elmslie William (2 son of Wm. Dallas of ‘Lloyds,’ London). b. London 27 June 1809; studied at the R.A. London 1831–34; painted a series of views of Scotland for garden pavilion at Buckingham palace; exhibited at Royal Scottish Academy; F.R.S. Edin. 1851; author of The Elements of plane practical geometry 1855. d. 26 Jany. 1879. Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. x, 340 (1880).
DALLAS, Eneas Sweetland (elder son of John Dallas of Jamaica, physician). b. Jamaica 1828; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; a journalist on the Times many years, special correspondent at Paris 1867 and 1870; contributed to Daily News, Saturday Review, Pall Mall Gazette and The World; edited Once a Week 1868; author of Poetics, an essay on poetry 1852; The gay science 2 vols. 1866; edited an abridgment of Richardson’s Clarissa Harlowe 1868; published Kettner’s Book of the table, a manual of cookery 1877 anon. (m. in Scotland, Dec. 1853 and in London 12 July 1855 the well-known actress Isabella Glyn (widow of Edward Wills), marriage was dissolved in the divorce court, London on her petition 10 May 1874). d. 88 Newman st. Oxford st. London 17 Jany. 1879. I.L.N. 8 Feb. 1879 pp. 78, 129, 131, portrait; Law Journal Reports xlvi, pt. 1, pp. 51–3 (1876).
DALLIN, Thomas Francis (eld. son of Thomas James Dallin of Plumstead, Kent). Matric. from Merton coll. Ox. 10 June 1858 aged 17, B.A. 1863, M.A. 1865; student at L.I. 23 Nov. 1861; fellow of Queen’s coll. Ox. 1864–71, tutor 1866; professor of rhetoric at Gresham college, London, Aug. 1875; public orator Univ. of Ox. 8 May 1877 to death; one of secs. of Oxford Univ. commission 1880 to death; author with J. Y. Sargent of Materials and models for Greek and Latin prose composition 1870, 2 ed. 1875; Materials for Greek prose composition 1878. d. Brighton 11 Nov. 1880. bur. in Holywell cemetery, Oxford 16 Nov. Times 13 Nov. 1880 p. 5, col. 6, 15 Nov. p. 9, col. 4, 17 Nov. p. 9, col. 6.
DALLING and BULWER, William Henry Lytton Eakle Bulwer, Baron (2 son of Wm. Earle Bulwer 1757–1807, col. 106 foot). b. 31 Baker st. Portman sq. London 13 Feb. 1801; ed. at Sunbury and Harrow; entered Trin. coll. Cam. 1819, migrated to Downing coll.; went to the Morea as agent of the Greek committee in London 1824; attaché at Berlin 1827, at Vienna 1829, at the Hague 1830; M.P. for Wilton, Wilts. 1830–31, for Coventry 1831–34, for Marylebone 1835; chargé d’affaires at Brussels 1835–36; sec. of embassy at Constantinople 1837–39, at Paris 1839–43; ambassador at Madrid 14 Nov. 1843, arbitrator between Spain and Morocco 1844; P.C. 30 June 1845; K.C.B. 27 April 1848, G.C.B. 1 March 1851; ambassador at Washington 27 April 1849; minister plenipotentiary at Florence 19 Jany. 1852 to 26 Jany. 1855; granted a pension 25 April 1855; ambassador at Constantinople 10 May 1858 to Aug. 1865; M.P. for Tamworth 17 Nov. 1868 to 21 March 1871 when created baron Dalling and Bulwer of Dalling in the county of Norfolk; said to be the original of George Sand’s ‘Mauprat’ 1836; author of An autumn in Greece 1826; France, social, literary and political 2 vols. 1834, being the first half of a work called The monarchy of the middle classes 1836; Historical characters 3 vols. 1867–73; Life of Viscount Palmerston 3 vols. 1870–74. d. Naples 23 May 1872. A. Hayward’s Biographical essays ii, 320–40 (1870); Madden’s Life of Countess of Blessington iii, 63–74 (1855); Illust. Review iv, 97–103 (1872), portrait; I.L.N. ix, 245 (1846), portrait, lxi, 168 (1872).
DALLMEYER, Johann Heinrick (2 son of Wm. Dallmeyer of Loxten near Versmold, Westphalia). b. Loxten 6 Sep. 1830; apprenticed to an optician at Osnabruck 3 years; came to England 1851; a manufacturer of telescopes in London 1859; naturalised 17 Sep. 1859; F.R.A.S. 1861; supplied photographic lenses to photographers in all parts of the world; patented a single wide-angle lens 1864 largely used for photographing landscapes; received highest awards at Dublin, Berlin, Paris and Philadelphia exhibitions; author of On the choice and use of photographic lenses, 6 editions. d. on board ship off coast of New Zealand 30 Dec. 1883. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xlv, 190–91 (1885).
DALMER, Thomas. Second lieut. 23 foot 22 May 1797, major 10 Dec. 1807 to 24 July 1817 when placed on h.p.; col. 47 foot 16 April 1847 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815. d. Hawkhurst, Kent 26 Aug. 1854.
DALRYMPLE, Sir Adolphus John, 2 Baronet (elder son of Sir Hew Whiteford Dalrymple, 1 baronet, who d. 9 April 1830 in 80 year). b. parish of Marylebone, London, Feb. 1784; ed. at Harrow; ensign 37 foot 25 Oct. 1799; major 19 light dragoons 17 Nov. 1808 to Dec. 1814 when placed on h.p.; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign 1830–41; general 11 April 1860; M.P. for Weymouth 1817–18, for Appleby 1819–26, for Haddington district of burghs 1826–31, for Brighton 1837–41. d. Delrowe house near Watford, Herts. 3 March 1866.
DALRYMPLE, Donald (4 son of Wm. Dalrymple of Norwich, surgeon 1772–1847). b. Norwich 1814; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. and Guy’s hospital; F.R.C.S. 1854; M.R.C.P. 1859; a surgeon at Norwich 1835–62; sheriff of Norwich 1860–61; M.P. for Bath 17 Nov. 1868 to death; author of Meteorological observations on the climate of Egypt 1861. d. Coldecot near Southampton 19 Sep. 1873.
DALRYMPLE, John (brother of the preceding). b. Norwich 1803; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; a surgeon at 8 New Broad st. City of London 1827–39 when he moved to 6 Holles st. Cavendish sq.; assistant surgeon to Royal London Ophthalmic hospital 1832, surgeon 1843, consulting surgeon 1849; a founder of Royal college of Chemistry 1845; F.R.S. 7 June 1849; author of The anatomy of the human eye 1834; The pathology of the human eye 1852. d. 60 Grosvenor st. London 2 May 1852 in 49 year. Proc. of Royal Soc. vi, 250 (1852).
DALTON, Charles James (youngest son of Rev. James Dalton, R. of Croft, Yorkshire). b. 13 May 1812; Second lieut. R.A. 18 Dec. 1829, col. 25 Sep. 1859 to 23 April 1868, col. commandant 20 April 1877 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. Percy house, Twickenham park, Twickenham 7 Nov. 1880.
DALTON, John (son of Wm. Dalton of Bessville, co. Westmeath). b. Bessville 29 June 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1813; comr. of Irish loan fund board 1835; granted a civil list pension of £50, 4 March 1856; gained prize of £80 and Cunningham gold medal of Royal Irish Academy for best essay on social and political state of Irish people 1827; author of History of the county of Dublin 2 vols. 1838; The history of Drogheda 2 vols. 1844; History of Ireland to the year 1245, 2 vols. 1845 and other books. d. 48 Summer hill, Dublin 20 Jany. 1867.
DALTON, Rev. John. Educ. at Oscott college; engaged in R.C. missions at Northampton, Norwich and Lynn; elected a member of the chapter of see of Northampton; published Christianity in Europe by Novalis translated from the German 1844; The art of dying well, translated from the Latin of Bellarmine 1846 and many other translations from German, Latin and Spanish. d. St. John’s, Maddermarket, Norwich 15 Feb. 1874 in 60 year.
DALTON, John Stuart. Librarian of free public library, William Brown st. Liverpool 1852 to death; author of many poems. d. Low hill, Liverpool 2 Aug. 1868 aged 72.
DALTON, William Henry. Bookseller in Cockspur st. London about 1833–63; founded Booksellers Protection Association about 1851; member of Metropolitan Board of Works for parish of St. Martin in the Fields 1855 to death, being the last survivor of the original members. d. 30 Coleherne road, South Kensington, London 23 June 1884.
DALY, Cuthbert Featherstone. Entered navy 17 Feb. 1794; captain 18 Aug. 1808; R.A. on h.p. 9 Nov. 1846; C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Hayes place, Lisson grove, London 6 Dec. 1851.
DALY, Sir Dominic (3 son of Dominic Daly of Benmore, co. Galway, who d. 1841). b. Ardfry, co. Galway 11 Aug. 1798; went to Canada as private sec. to Sir Francis Burton 1822; assistant sec. to province of Lower Canada 1825–27, sec. 1827–40, sec. of province of Canada on union of the two provinces 1840–48; lieut. governor of Tobago 16 Sep. 1851, of Prince Edward’s Island 8 May 1854 to 1859; knighted by patent 2 July 1856; governor and commander in chief of South Australia 28 Oct. 1861 to death, assumed office March 1862. (m. 20 May 1826 Caroline Maria 2 dau. of Ralph Gore of Barrowmount, co. Kilkenny, she was granted a civil list pension of £100, 17 Nov. 1868 and d. 1872), he d. Government house, Adelaide 19 Feb. 1868. J. P. Stow’s South Australia (1883) 37–42.
DALY, Ellen. b. Kidderminster 1806; acted in melodrama at Adelphi theatre, London 1820–21; acted at Covent Garden and Haymarket, at Surrey theatre 14 years, at Standard theatre 1848–49; at Princess’s theatre under Charles Kean 1850–59. d. Notting hill, London 18 Jany. 1883. Actors by daylight i, 89 (1838), portrait; Dramatic Mirror (1847) p. 37, portrait; Theatrical Times iv, 1–2 (1849), portrait.
DALY, Right Rev. Robert (younger son of Denis Daly of Dunsandle, co. Galway 1747–91, P.C.) b. Dunsandle 8 June 1783; fellow commoner at Trin. coll. Dublin 1799, gold medallist 1803, B.A. 1803, M.A. 1832, B.D. and D.D. 1843; preb. of Holy Trinity, Cork 1809–43; preb. of Stagonill, Dublin 1809–43; R. of Powerscourt 1809–43; dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, elected 8 Dec. 1840, declared dean 1842 by court of delegates appointed to try validity of the election; bishop of united dioceses of Cashel, Emly, Waterford and Lismore 12 Jany. 1843 to death; an eminent leader of the Evangelical party; edited O’Brien’s Focaloir Gaoidhilge-Sags-Bhéarla, or an Irish-English dictionary 1832; Letters and papers of Viscountess Powerscourt 1838, 9 ed. 1874. d. See house, Waterford 16 Feb. 1872. Personal recollections of Right Rev. Robert Daly by An old parishioner i.e. Mrs. H. Madden 1872.
DALYELL, Sir John Graham, 6 Baronet (2 son of Sir Robert Dalyell, 4 baronet, who d. 1791). b. Binns, Linlithgowshire, Aug. 1775; lamed for life when an infant; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Edin.; advocate at Scottish bar 1796; knighted by patent 22 Aug. 1836; pres. of Society of Arts for Scotland 1839–40; succeeded his elder brother as 6 baronet 1 Feb. 1841; author of Fragments of Scottish history 1798; Scottish poems of the sixteenth century 1801; Journal of Richard Bannatyne 1806; Darker superstitions of Scotland 1834; Musical memoirs of Scotland 1849. d. 14 Great King st. Edinburgh 7 June 1851. Sir J. G. Dalyell’s The powers of the creator displayed in the creation to which is prefixed a memoir of the author, vol. iii, 1858.
DALYELL, Sir Robert Alexander Osborne, 8 Baronet (eld. son of the succeeding). b. 1821; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1847; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1849; employed in the consulate at Bucharest 1855–57; consul at Erzeroum 1859–65; consul for the Vilayet of the Danube 17 Oct. 1865 to 1 July 1874 when he retired on a pension. d. The Binns, Linlithgow 21 Jany. 1886.
DALYELL, Sir William Cunningham Cavendish, 7 Baronet. b. 27 April 1784; entered navy 1793; a prisoner in France 1805–14; commander of Greenwich hospital 27 Aug. 1840 to death; retired captain 1 July 1864; succeeded 7 June 1851. d. Royal hospital, Greenwich 16 Feb. 1865.
DALZELL, Nicol Alexander. b. Edinburgh 21 April 1817; ed. at high sch. and Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1837; assistant comr. of customs, Bombay 1841; forest ranger of Scinde; conservator of forests Bombay, retired on a pension 1870; F.R.S. Edin.; author of A review of Plowden’s Report on salt revenue of Bombay 1855; The Bombay Flora 1861. d. Edinburgh, Jany. 1878.
DAMES, William Longworth. Ensign 66 foot 26 July 1826, major 12 Oct. 1841 to 6 Nov. 1846 when placed on h.p.; col. 5 foot 12 Jany. 1865 to death; L.G. 4 Feb. 1867. d. 23 East Cliff, Dover 20 Feb. 1868 aged 61.
DAMPIER, John Lucius (2 son of Sir Henry Dampier 1758–1816, justice of Court of King’s Bench). b. 19 Bloomsbury sq. London 23 Dec. 1792; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fellow of his coll.; barrister L.I. 22 May 1819; recorder of Portsmouth 1837–38; a comr. to enquire into rights and claims connected with New Forest and Waltham forest 1849; a comr. for investigating state of Univ. of Ox. 1850; vice warden of Stannaries in county of Devon 16 Dec. 1850 to death. d. 33 Pulteney st. Bath 24 May 1853. G.M. xl, 94–5 (1853).
DANBY, Francis (3 son of James Danby of Common near Wexford, farmer). b. Common 16 Nov. 1793; landscape painter especially of sunsets; exhibited 48 pictures at R.A., 17 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1820–60; A.R.A. 7 Nov. 1825; lived in Paris and on the lake of Geneva 1829–41, at Lewisham, Kent 1841–47, and at Exmouth 1847 to death; his picture ‘The Deluge’ exhibited in London 1840 was chief artistic feature of Dublin Exhibition 1853. d. Shell house, Exmouth 17 Feb. 1861. Sandby’s History of the royal academy ii, 68–71 (1862); Redgrave’s Century of painters ii, 437–49 (1866); W. Stokes’s Life of George Petrie (1869) 7–10.
DANBY, James Francis (eld. son of the preceding). b. Bristol 1816; member of Soc. of British Artists; exhibited 35 landscapes at R.A., 42 at B.I. and 46 at Suffolk st. gallery 1842–76. d. 54 Park road, Haverstock hill, London 22 Oct. 1875. Graphic xii, 518 (1875), portrait.
DANBY, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. about 1817; copied pictures at the Louvre, Paris for his living 1830–41; exhibited 30 pictures at R.A. and 42 at B.I. 1842–76; associate of Soc. of Painters in Water-colours 1867, member 1870, his landscapes were among the chief ornaments of the Society’s exhibitions. d. 11 Park road, Haverstock hill, London 25 March 1886.
DANCE, Charles (son of George Dance of London, architect 1740–1825). b. about 1794; clerk in Court for relief of Insolvent Debtors, London, registrar and auditor 1851, taxing officer 1853, chief clerk May 1858 to Oct. 1861 when he retired on pension of £800 a year; wrote many extravaganzas alone and with J. R. Planché; called the founder of modern burlesque; of his 30 dramatic pieces the Bengal Tiger, Delicate Ground, A morning call, Who speaks first, and Naval Engagements are still sometimes played. d. Lowestoft 5 Jany. 1863. Planche’s Extravaganzas ii, (1879), portrait.
DANCER, John Benjamin. b. London 1812; optician at Manchester 1835 to death; suggested application of photography in connexion with the magic lantern; constructed the optical chromatic fountain since further developed at South Kensington exhibitions; constructed the first perfectly accurate thermometer in England; produced the first cheap good microscopes; member of Manchester literary and philosophical society; F.R.A.S. d. Manchester about 6 Dec. 1887.
DANELL, Right Rev. James (son of Mr. Danell of London). b. Fitzroy st. Fitzroy sq. London 14 July 1821; ed. at St. Edmund’s college near Ware and St. Sulpice, Paris; ordained priest 6 June 1846; served mission at St. George’s, Southwark 1846–70; canon of Southwark 27 Jany. 1857, vicar general 16 May 1862, vicar capitular 2 June 1870; bishop of Southwark 10 Jany. 1871 to death, consecrated by Abp. Manning at St. George’s cathedral 25 March 1871. d. The Bishop’s house, St. George’s cathedral, Southwark 14 June 1881. The Tablet 18 and 25 June 1881.
DANIEL, George. b. City of London 16 Sep. 1789; clerk to a stockbroker in Tokenhouse yard; contributed many poems to Ackerman’s Poetical Magazine 1808–11; author of The Times, a prophecy 1811 anon.; Miscellaneous poems 1812; Dick Distich 3 vols. 1812 anon.; published several squibs on royal scandals under pseud. of P—— P——, poet laureate; author of The modern Dunciad a satire with notes, biographical and critical 1814, 2 ed. 1816; edited Chef d’Œuvres from French authors 2 vols. 1821; his interlude Doctor Bolus was acted at English opera house 21 July 1818, and his musical farce The disagreeable surprise at Drury lane 1 Dec. 1819; edited Cumberland’s British Theatre with remarks, biographical and critical 39 vols. 1823–31, for each of the plays (nearly 300) he wrote a preface under the initials D—— G——; edited Cumberland’s Minor Theatre 14 vols. 1831–32; author of Remarks on Miss Mitford’s tragedy of Rienzi 1828; Ophelia Kean, a dramatic legendary tale 1829 anon., a scurrilous attack on Edmund Kean; Garrick in the green room 1829; Merrie England in the olden time 2 vols. 1842, reprinted 1874; The Missionary 1847 a religious poem; Democritus in London, to which are added Notes festivous and the Stranger Guest 1852; Love’s last labour not lost 1863. d. at his son’s house, The Grove, Stoke Newington, London 30 March 1864. Memoir of D—— G—— prefixed to Colman’s Blue Devils in Cumberland’s British theatre vol. xxxix (1838), pp. 3–8, portrait; G.M. 1864 pt. 2, pp. 450–5.
DANIEL, William Shand. Educated at Univ. of Glasgow; contributed poetical pieces to Glasgow college Albums; wrote part of a drama which appeared in Collections of miscellaneous poetical pieces Edin. 1843–44; sheriff clerk depute of Dumbarton 1844 to death; edited History of the abbey and palace of Holyrood by Duncan Anderson 1852. d. 2 Dec. 1858. R. Inglis’s Dramatic writers of Scotland 1868 p. 130.
DANIELL, Edmund Robert (son of George Daniell of London, barrister, who d. 1833). Barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1816; joint comr. with John Balguy of Birmingham court of bankruptcy 21 Oct. 1842 to death; F.R.S. 5 June 1828 to 1850; author of Reports of cases argued on the equity side of the Court of Exchequer 1824; The practice of the high Court of Chancery 3 vols. 1837–41, 6 ed., 3 vols. 1882–84; Practical observations on the new Chancery orders 1841, 2 ed. 1842. d. Meriden hall near Coventry 21 March 1854.
DANIELL, William Freeman. b. Liverpool 1818; M.R.C.S. 1841; assistant surgeon in the army 26 Nov. 1847; served on coast of West Africa; staff surgeon 11 March 1853; wrote a paper on the frankincense tree of West Africa which led to establishment of genus Daniellia, Benn. called after him; author of Medical topography and native diseases of the Gulf of Guinea 1849; On the Cascarilla plants of the West Indies 1862. d. Southampton 26 June 1865. bur. Kensal Green cemetery, London 3 July.
DANSEY, Charles Cornwallis. Second lieut. R.A. 19 July 1803, col. 9 Nov. 1846 to death; C.B. 19 July 1838. d. London 21 July 1853.
DANSEY, Rev. William (son of John Dansey of Blandford, Dorset). b. Blandford 1792; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., Stapledon scholar 1811–12; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817, M.B. 1818; R. of Donhead, St. Andrew, Wilts. 1820 to death; preb. of Salisbury 10 Aug. 1841 to death; translated Arrian on Coursing 1831; edited A brief account of the office of Dean Rural by J. Priaulx 1832; author of Horæ Decanicæ Rurales being an attempt to illustrate the name, title and functions of rural deans with remarks on the rise and fall of rural bishops 2 vols. 1835, 2 ed. 1844. d. Weymouth 7 June 1856.
DANSON, George. b. Lancaster 4 June 1799; scene painter at theatres in London many years; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1823–48; the following pictures by him were shown at Surrey Zoological gardens, Mount Vesuvius 1837–8 reproduced 1846, Iceland and its volcanoes 1839, the City of Rome occupying 5 acres 1841 reproduced 1848, Temple of Ellora 1843, London and the great fire of 1666, 1844, Edinburgh 1845, storming of Badajoz 1849, Napoleon’s passage of the Alps 1850. d. 711 Wandsworth road, London 23 Jany. 1881. Daily Telegraph 1 Feb. 1881 p. 5, col. 3.
DARBY, George (4 son of John Darby of Markly, Sussex, who d. 1834). b. 1798; ed. at Westminster and St. Cath. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1821; M.P. for East Sussex 1 Aug. 1837 to Jany. 1846; an inclosure comr. for England and Wales 21 Aug. 1846 to 1852; a copyhold inclosure and tithe comr. 1852 to death. d. Down st. Piccadilly, London 16 Nov. 1877. bur. Markley 21 Nov.
DARBY, Rev. John Nelson (brother of the preceding). b. London 18 Nov. 1800; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Dublin, gold medallist 1819, B.A. 1819; called to Irish bar about 1825; C. in Wicklow 1826–27; joined the ‘Brethren’ at Dublin 1827; worked in Switzerland 1838–40, many congregations of Darbyites were founded in cantons Vaud, Geneva and Bern; started a separate assembly at Plymouth 28 Dec. 1845, this division spread to Bristol, London and other places and Darbyism became established in England; travelled in America, New Zealand and West Indies; a most voluminous writer under his own name, his initials J. N. D., and anonymously. d. Bournemouth 29 April 1882. Collected writings of J. N. Darby ed. by W. Kelly 32 vols. 1867–83; Herzog’s Religious Encyclopædia iii, 1856–9, 2592–3 (1884); Estéoule’s Le Plymouthisme d’autrefois et le Darbyisme d’aujoud’hui 1858; A. N. Grove’s Darbyism, its rise and development 1866; The close of 28 years association with J. N. D. by W. H. D. 1866.
DARBY, Jonathan George Norton (eld. son of George Darby 1798–1877). b. 1829; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; barrister L.I. 9 June 1854; author with F. A. Bosanquet of A practical treatise on the statutes of limitations in England and Ireland 1867. d. 29 Westbourne park road, London 17 March 1870 in 41 year.
DARBY, Joseph. Second lieut. R.A. 1 July 1802, lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837 to 1 April 1844 when placed on retired full pay; general 1 Jany. 1868. d. Clifton 21 May 1869 aged 83.
DARBY-GRIFFITH, Christopher. b. 1805; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1826; M.P. for Devizes 1857–68. d. Padworth house near Reading 19 March 1885.
D’ARCY, George Abbas Kooli. Ensign 94 foot 21 April 1837, adjutant 3 Aug. 1838 to 5 Jany. 1841, captain 9 Nov. 1846 to 6 July 1852; major 3 West India regiment 6 July 1852, lieut. col. 7 July 1854 to 7 May 1858 when he sold out; aide-de-camp to 5 successive governors of Bombay; governor and commander in chief of the Gambia, June 1859 to Jany. 1867 when presented with a sword of honour value £120; governor of the Falkland Islands 24 Feb. 1870 to 1876. d. 9 Leigham villas, Plymouth 22 Oct. 1885 aged 67.
DARELL, Sir Harry Francis Colville, 3 Baronet. b. Lucknow 17 Nov. 1814; succeeded 13 April 1828; ensign 18 foot 1 June 1832; major 7 dragoon guards 3 Sep. 1847 to 27 June 1851 when placed on h.p. d. Cagliari, Sardinia 6 Jany. 1853.
DARGAN, William (son of Mr. Dargan of co. Carlow, farmer). b. co. Carlow 28 Feb. 1799; employed by Thomas Telford in constructing Holyhead road 1820; contractor of the first railway in Ireland, from Dublin to Kingstown 1831, of the Ulster canal, of the Dublin and Drogheda railway, of the Great southern and western, and the Midland Great western; found the capital nearly £100,000 for the Irish exhibition 1853 and bore the deficit of £20,000; declined a baronetcy offered him at close of exhibition; the Irish national gallery on Leinster Lawn was erected as a monument to Dargan with a fine bronze statue of him. d. 2 Fitzwilliam sq. east, Dublin 7 Feb. 1867. The Irish industrial exhibition of 1853 by J. Sproule (1854) ix-xiv, portrait; Irish tourist’s illustrated handbook (1853) pp. 12, 41, 148, portrait.
DARK, James Henry. b. Edgware road, London 24 May 1795; professional at Lord’s cricket ground, Marylebone 1809–36; umpire in many great matches; purchased remainder of lease of the ground from Wm. Ward 1836, proprietor and manager of the ground 1836 to 1864 when he sold the 29½ years remainder of the lease to Marylebone club for £12,500; built a house 31 St. John’s Wood road, overlooking the ground, and d. there 17 Oct. 1871. bur. Kensal Green 21 Oct. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i, 350–51 (1862), v, pp. xiii, xxii, (1876).
DARLEY, Edward. Ensign 49 foot 29 Nov. 1791; major 58 foot 18 Sep. 1817 to 5 July 1831 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 61 foot 24 Aug. 1832 to 28 June 1838; granted distinguished service reward 1 Jany. 1843; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. 24 North bank, Regent’s park, London 24 March 1854 aged 78.
DARLEY, Right Rev. John Richard (2 son of Richard Darley of Fairfield, co. Monaghan). b. Fairfield, Nov. 1799; ed. at Dungannon and Trin. coll. Dublin, foundation scholar 1819, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1827, B.D. and D.D. 1875; master of Dundalk gr. sch. 1826, of royal school of Dungannon 1831; R. of Drumgoon 1850; R. of Templemichael 1866; archdeacon of Ardagh 7 Nov. 1866; bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh 23 Sep. 1874 to death; consecrated in Armagh cathedral 25 Oct. 1874; author of The Grecian drama, a treatise on the dramatic literature of the Greeks 1840; A treatise on Homer with questions 1848. d. The Palace, Kilmore 20 Jany. 1884.
DARLEY, William Wallace. Second lieut. R.A. 16 Dec. 1816, lieut. col. 4 April 1851 to 22 April 1853 when retired on full pay; L.G. 7 Feb. 1870. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 23 Nov. 1874.
DARLING, Sir Charles Henry (eld. son of Henry Charles Darling, governor of Barbados, who d. 1845). b. Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia 1809; ensign 57 foot 27 April 1827, lieut. 29 Sep. 1830 to 30 Oct. 1838 when placed on h.p., retired 1841; lieut. governor of island of St. Lucia 21 Dec. 1847, of Cape of Good Hope 1851, of Newfoundland, May 1855; captain general and governor in chief of Jamaica, Feb. 1857; governor of Victoria 11 Sep. 1863 to April 1866; K.C.B. 23 July 1862. d. 7 Lansdowne terrace, Cheltenham 25 Jany. 1870.
DARLING, George. b. Stow near Galashiels; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.D. Aberdeen 1 April 1815; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1819; practised at Russell square, London 1820 to death; much employed by artists; author of An essay on medical economy 1814 anon.; Instructions for making unfermented bread 1846 anon. 17 ed. 1851. d. Russell sq. London 30 April 1862 in 80 year.
DARLING, James. b. Edinburgh 1797; apprenticed to Adam Black the publisher 1809–18; bookseller at 22 Little Queen st. Holborn, London 1825 to death, and at 81 Great Queen st. 1854 to death; commenced a library for use of theological students Jany. 1840 named at first the Clerical library, afterwards the Metropolitan library; compiled and published Bibliotheca Clericalis 1843; Cyclopædia Bibliographica or library of theological and general literature 2 vols. 1854–59. d. Fortess terrace west, Kentish Town, London 2 March 1862.
DARLING, John (younger son of George Darling, M.D. of Russell sq. London). b. 16 Aug. 1821; ed. at Univ. coll. London, Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Ox.; barrister I.T. 1 May 1846; author of An examination of the scriptural grounds on which the prohibition against marriage with a deceased wife’s sister is based 1849; A treatise on the administration of trust funds under the Trustee Relief Act 1855. d. Thornbury house, Ryde, Isle of Wight 27 Sep. 1858.
DARLING, Sir Ralph (son of Christopher Darling, adjutant 45 foot). b. 1775; ensign 45 foot 15 May 1793; lieut.-col. 69 foot 17 July 1801 to 8 May 1806; lieut.-col. 51 foot 8 May 1806 to 4 June 1813; deputy adjutant general at the Horse Guards 1814–18; commanded troops in Mauritius 1818–23; col. 90 foot 9 Oct. 1823 to 26 Sep. 1837; governor in chief of New South Wales 19 Dec. 1825 to 21 Oct. 1831; col. 41 foot 26 Sep. 1837 to 5 Feb. 1848; general 23 Nov. 1841; col. 69 foot 5 Feb. 1848 to death; G.C.H. 2 Sep. 1835. d. Brunswick sq. Brighton 2 April 1858. Braim’s History of New South Wales i, 53–74 (1876).
DARLING, William. b. Belford 7 Feb. 1786; lighthouse keeper at the Longstone or Outer Farn or Faroe island 1815 to Dec. 1860 when he retired on full pay; went out to the wreck of the steamboat Forfarshire (with his daughter Grace Darling 1815–43) and rescued the 9 survivors of the crew 7 Sep. 1838, the boat in which they went out was on view during the summer of 1883 at the Fisheries Exhibition, South Kensington, and on 9 Nov. it was carried through the streets of London in the Lord Mayor’s show. d. The Wynding house, Bamburgh 28 May 1865. Journal of W. Darling 1795–1860, (1886); I.L.N. xlvi, 553 (1865).
DARLING, William. b. Demse, Scotland; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; studied and taught anatomy in New York 1830–42; M.D. New York 1842; M.R.C.S. 1856, F.R.C.S. 1866; studied in London and Paris 1856–66; professor of anatomy in Univ. of New York 1867; censor of New York college of Veterinary surgeons 1868; professor of anatomy in Univ. of Vermont 1873; author of Anatomography or graphic anatomy 1879; author with A. L. Renney of Essentials of anatomy 1880. d. Univ. of New York 25 Dec. 1884 aged 82.
DARLING, William Lindsay. Ensign 99 foot 13 Dec. 1801; captain 51 foot 18 April 1811 to 1814; col. 98 foot 17 April 1854 to death; general 15 Dec. 1861. d. Strote house near Chepstow 8 Oct. 1863.
DARNELL, George. Established and conducted a large day school at Islington, London; started Darnell’s Copybooks about 1840 when he introduced plan of giving a line of copy in pale ink to be first written over by the pupil then to be imitated by him in the next line, the copy being thus always under his eye; author of Short and certain road to reading 1845; Grammar made intelligible to children 1846; Reading lessons 6 numbers 1855; Arithmetic made intelligible to children 1855, all of which had a great sale. d. 70 Gibson sq. Islington 26 Feb. 1857 aged 58.
DARNELL, Rev. William Nicholas (son of Wm. Darnell of Newcastle, wine merchant). b. Newcastle 14 March 1776; ed. at Newcastle gr. sch. and C.C. coll. Ox., Durham scholar, fellow, tutor; B.A. 1796, M.A. 1800, B.D. 1808; R. of St. Mary-le-bow, Durham 1809–15; V. of Stockton 1815–20; V. of Lastingham, Yorkshire 1815–28; preb. of ninth stall in Durham cath. 12 Jany. 1816, of sixth stall 12 Oct. 1820 to 1831; Inc. of St. Margaret’s, Durham 1820–27; V. of Norham, co. Durham 1827–31; R. of Stanhope, co. Durham 1831 to death, a living worth £6000 a year; author of Sermons 1816; The correspondence of Isaac Basire with a memoir 1831; An arrangement and classification of the Psalms, with a view to render them more useful for private devotion 1839, and of sermons, charges and other works. d. Stanhope rectory 19 June 1865. bur. Durham cathedral churchyard 24 June.
DART, Joseph. Deputy sec. H.E.I. Co. 1814, sec. 1818–29. d. Budleigh Salterton, Devon 29 Nov. 1866 aged 93.
DART, Joseph Henry (eld. son of the preceding). b. India house, Leadenhall st. London 1817; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., Newdigate prizeman for his poem The Exile of St. Helena 1838; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; barrister L.I. 28 Jany. 1841, bencher Feb. 1885; one of the six conveyancing counsel to Court of Chancery 1860; senior conveyancing counsel to high court of justice 1875–86; a verderer of New Forest 1877; author of A compendium of the law and practice of vendors and purchasers of real estate 1851, 6 ed. 2 vols. 1888; The Iliad of Homer in English hexameter verse 1862. d. Beech house, Ringwood, Hants. 27 June 1887. Law Journal xxii, 373, 381 (1887).
DARTMOUTH, William Legge, 4 Earl of (eld. son of 3 Earl of Dartmouth 1755–1810). b. in parish of St. George, Hanover sq. London 29 Nov. 1784; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1805, D.C.L. 1834; succeeded his father 1 Nov. 1810; colonel of Staffordshire militia 15 April 1812 to death; F.R.S. 7 Nov. 1822. d. Patshull near Wolverhampton 22 Nov. 1853.
DARUSMONT, Frances, known as Fanny Wright (dau. of Mr. Wright of Dundee, merchant, who d. 1798). b. Miln’s buildings, Nethergate, Dundee 6 Sep. 1795; brought up in England by her aunt; spent two years in the U.S. 1818–20; produced a tragedy ‘Altorf’ in New York 19 Feb. 1819; lived in Paris 1821–24; purchased 2000 acres of land on the river Nashoba in Tennessee and settled negro slaves upon it 1824, this experiment failed and the slaves were liberated and sent to Hayti; joined Robert D. Owen in his socialistic scheme at New Harmony, Indiana and edited the New Harmony Gazette; lectured in chief cities of U.S. on social questions 1829–30 and 1833–36, these lectures led to the formation of Fanny Wright Societies; one of the first advocates of female suffrage; author of Views of society and manners in America 1821; A few days in Athens 1822. (m. 1838 Phiquepal-Darusmont a French reformer, from whom she separated). d. Cincinnati, Ohio 14 Dec. 1852. R. D. Owen’s Threading my way (1873) 264–72; Mrs. Trollope’s Domestic manners of the Americans (1831) i, 96–100, ii, 76–77; S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record, 2 ed. (1855) p. 842.
DARVALL, Edward. Ensign 57 Bengal N.I. 1 May 1823; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 12 Sep. 1866 to 1 Oct. 1877 when placed on retired list; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Acton place, Suffolk 20 Oct. 1885 in 80 year.
DARVALL, Sir John Bayley (son of Edward Darvall, captain 9 dragoons). Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1838, admitted to bar of N.S.W. 16 Sep. 1839; practised at Sydney, N.S.W. 1839–67; Q.C. 1853, member of senate of Univ. of Sydney 1850–67; solicitor general N.S.W. 1856–7, attorney general 1857–67; C.M.G. 23 June 1869, K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877. d. 23 Upper Wimpole st. Cavendish sq. London 28 Dec. 1883.
DARVILL, Sir Henry (eld. son of John Darvill). b. 1812; solicitor at Windsor 1834 to death; mayor of Windsor 1853, town clerk 1854 to death; registrar of Windsor county court; knighted at Osborne 20 April 1883. d. Chirbury, Shropshire 30 Sep. 1883. bur. Windsor cemetery 5 Oct.
DARWIN, Charles Robert (5 child of Robert Waring Darwin of Shrewsbury, physician 1766–1848). b. The Mount, Shrewsbury 12 Feb. 1809; ed. at Shrewsbury, Univ. of Edin. and Christ’s coll. Cam.; B.A. Cam. 1832, M.A. 1837, hon. LLD. 1877; naturalist to the Beagle on her surveying voyage round the world Dec. 1831 to Oct. 1836; F.G.S., sec. 1838–41; lived at 12 Gower st. London 1839–42, at Down near Beckenham, Kent 1842 to death; F.R.S. 24 Jany. 1839, royal medallist 1853, Copley medallist 1864; author of Narrative of the surveying voyages of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle, vol. 3, entitled Journal and Remarks; Geology of the voyage of the Beagle 3 parts 1842–46; On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life 1859; The descent of man and selection in relation to sex 1871, and other books. d. Down 19 April 1882. bur. Westminster Abbey 26 April, statue of him by J. Boehm, R.A. placed in Natural history museum, South Kensington 1885. Life and letters of C. Darwin edited by his son F. Darwin 3 vols. 1887, portrait; Charles Darwin, Nature series 1882; Illust. Review ii, 289–91 (1871), portrait; Nature x, 79 (1874), portrait; The Examiner 11 Oct. and 12 Nov. 1879, 2 portraits.
DARWIN, Sir Francis Sacheverell (2 son of Erasmus Darwin of Derby, M.D., F.R.S. 1731–1802). b. parish of All Saints, Derby 17 June 1786; ed. at Repton and Emm. coll. Cam.; M.D. Edin.; physician at Lichfield; knighted by George iv at Carlton house 10 May 1820 on presenting an address from city of Lichfield. d. Breadsall priory near Derby 6 Nov. 1859. Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iii, 195 (1861).
DASENT, John Bury (eld. son of John Roche Dasent, attorney general of St. Vincent). b. 22 Dec. 1806; ed. at Westminster school and Trin. hall, Cam., LL.B. 1830; barrister M.T. 19 April 1833; judge of Bow and Shoreditch county courts (circuit No. 40) 2 Oct. 1858 to Jany. 1884 when he retired on a pension. d. 15 Warwick road, Maida hill, London 7 April 1888.
DASHWOOD, Rev. George Henry (son of Rev. James Dashwood, R. of Doddington, Isle of Ely). b. Downham Market, Norfolk 21 Oct. 1801; ed. at Linc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1825; C. of Stow Bardolph, Norfolk 1840, Vicar 1852 to death; F.S.A. 6 June 1844; printed at his private press Vice-Comites Norfolciæ, or sheriffs of Norfolk from the first year of Henry the Second to the fourth of Queen Victoria 1844; author of Sigilla Antiqua 1847, and of many papers in the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society’s Norfolk Archæology vols. 1–5. d. Quebec house, East Dereham, Norfolk 9 Feb. 1869. Register and mag. of biog. i, 310–12 (1869).
DASHWOOD, William Bateman. b. 1 Sep. 1790; entered navy 3 Aug. 1799; lost his right arm in action 29 Nov. 1811; granted pension for wounds 4 April 1816; captain 21 Oct. 1818, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 22 April 1862. d. suddenly at Geneva 9 May 1869.
DAUBENY, Charles Giles Bridle (3 son of Rev. James Daubeny, R. of Stratton, Gloucs. who d. 9 Feb. 1817). b. Stratton 11 Feb. 1795; ed. at Winchester and Magd. coll. Ox., demy 1810, lay fellow 1815 to death, bursar 1828, vice pres. 1830; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817, B.M. 1818, M.D. 1821; M.D. Dublin 1835; Aldrichian professor of chemistry at Oxford, Oct. 1822–1855, professor of botany there 1834 to death, professor of rural economy 1840 to death; physician to Radcliffe infirmary 1826–30; pres. of British Association at Cheltenham 1856; F.R.S. 19 Dec. 1822; author of A description of active and extinct volcanoes 1826, 2 ed. 1848; An introduction to the atomic theory 1831, 2 ed. 1850; Lectures on Roman husbandry 1857; Lectures on Climate 1863; Miscellanies on scientific and literary subjects 2 vols. 1867. d. Botanic gardens, Oxford at 12.5 a.m. 13 Dec. 1867. Proc. of Royal Society xvii, 74–80 (1869); Quarterly Journal of Geological society xxiv, 33–36 (1868).
DAUBENY, Henry. Ensign 84 foot 8 July 1795, lieut. col. 11 Dec. 1813 to 21 Nov. 1822 when placed on h.p.; col. 80 foot 31 Jany. 1850 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; K.H. 1832; edited C. Daubeny’s Guide to the Church 1830. d. Rome 10 April 1853.
DAUBENY, Henry. b. 1820; M.R.C.S. 1843; M.D. St. Andrews 1845; L.S.A. 1846; surgeon in London 1843–61, at San Remo, Italy 1861 to death; author of The climate of San Remo as adapted to invalids 1865. d. Hôtel des Iles Britanniques, San Remo 26 Jany. 1887.
DAUGARS, John William Gustavus Leo (only son of Rev. Guillaume Gustavus Daugars, pastor of French protestant church, St. Martin’s le Grand, London). b. Thurlow sq. Brompton, London 1849; ed. at Harrow and Brasenose coll. Ox., migrated to St. Alban hall, B.A. 1873; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1875; contributed to Temple Bar, The Graphic and other publications under nom de plume of Claude Templar. d. Hastings 20 Feb. 1885 in 36 year.
DAUGLISH, John (son of Wm. Dauglish of Bethnal Green, London, clerk in a large East India house). b. Bethnal Green 10 Feb. 1824; ed. at Hackney; studied medicine at Univ. of Edin. 1852–55, bracketed gold medallist for his M.D. degree 1855; took out a patent for “An improved method of making bread” 1 Oct. 1856 and 4 other patents on same subject 1857–65, this unfermented bread which he called aerated was first made in factory of Messrs. Carr of Carlisle 1856; erected a model bakery at Islington 1859; silver medallist of Society of Arts 1860; bread sold in special shops in London and the provinces. d. Furze bank, Great Malvern 14 Jany. 1866. On the healthy manufacture of bread by B. W. Richardson 1884, portrait; I.L.N. xxxvi, 259–60 (1860).
DAUNT, Very Rev. Achilles (eld. son of Achilles Daunt of Tracton abbey, co. Cork, who d. 28 Aug. 1871). b. Rincurran near Kinsale 23 Aug. 1832; ed. at Kinsale and Univ. of Dublin, scholar 1852, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1866; V. of Rincurran 26 March 1856 to 11 Jany. 1867; R. of Ballymoney, co. Cork 1867; R. of Stackallen, co. Meath 1867; V. of St. Matthias, Dublin, Aug. 1867; dean of Cork and R. of St. Finbar, Cork 1875 to death; author of The Church a lesson book for angels 1872; The person and offices of the Holy Ghost 1879; The morning of life and other gleanings from the manuscripts of the late A. Daunt 1881. d. St. Anne’s, Blarney near Cork 17 June 1878. Spent in the service, a memoir of the Very Rev. Achilles Daunt by Rev. F. R. Wynne 1879, portrait; Some account of the family of Daunt by John Daunt (1881) 25–28, portrait.
DAVENPORT, Edward Gershom. b. 1838; M.P. for St. Ives, Cornwall 5 Feb. 1874 to death. d. 28 Lancaster gate, Hyde park, London 4 Dec. 1874.
DAVENPORT, John Marriott. b. Shirburn, Oxon, Sep. 1809; solicitor at Oxford 1831 to death; clerk of the peace for co. Oxon 1831–81, undersheriff 1853–75; F.S.A. 9 March 1854; privilegiatus Univ. of Ox. 3 Nov. 1866; author of Lords lieutenant and high sheriffs of Oxfordshire 1086–1868, 1868; Oxfordshire Annals 1869; Lord lieutenant and high sheriff, correspondence upon the question of precedence 1871; Notes upon the jurisdiction of the county justices within the city of Oxford 1872; Notes as to Oxford Castle 1877. d. 62 St. Giles’s, Oxford 31 Jany. 1882.
DAVENPORT, Richard Alfred. b. about 1777; author of New elegant extracts, 2nd series 12 vols. 1823–7; wrote some of the biographical notices and critical prefaces to Whittingham’s British poets 100 vols. 1822; edited more than 100 vols. of miscellaneous works including the Poetical Register 8 vols. 1802–11. d. from inadvertently taking an overdose of opium at Brunswick cottage, Park st. Camberwell, London 25 Jany. 1852.
DAVENPORT, Samuel (son of Mr. Davenport of Bedford, architect). b. Bedford 10 Dec. 1783; articled to Charles Warren of London, line engraver; engraved in outline a large number of portraits for biographical works; engraved The works of W. Hogarth 1821; his best plates are in the Forget-me-not 1828–42; one of the earliest engravers on steel. d. 15 July 1867.
DAVEY, Richard (youngest son of Wm. Davey of Redruth, Cornwall, solicitor, who d. 16 April 1849). b. Redruth 11 Dec. 1799; ed. at Tiverton and Univ. of Edin.; M.P. for West Cornwall 1857–68. d. Bochym near Helston 24 June 1884. I.L.N. xxxiii, 92, 94 (1858), portrait.
DAVIDS, Rev. Thomas William (only child of William Saunders Davids of Swansea, Congregational minister, who d. Dec. 1816). b. Swansea 11 Sep. 1816; minister of Congregational church, Lion walk, Colchester 3 Feb. 1841 to 1874; secretary of Essex congregational union 20 years; author of Annals of Evangelical Nonconformity in the county of Essex from the time of Wycliffe to the restoration 1863, and of a number of historical articles and reviews. (m. 1841 Louisa eld. dau. of Robert Winter of Clapham Common, London, solicitor, she was widely known by her Essay on Sunday schools 1847 and Sunday school hymn book, she d. Colchester 18 Nov. 1853 aged 37), he d. Forest Gate, Essex 11 April 1884. Congregational year book (1885) 187–8.
DAVIDSON, Rev. Alexander Dyce. b. Aberdeen 8 May 1807; ed. at Aberdeen Univ.; minister of the South ch. Aberdeen 3 Aug. 1832, of the West ch. 5 May 1836, of Free ch. Belmont st. 28 Jany. 1844, of a new Free ch. in Union st. 14 Feb. 1869 to death; author of Lectures on the book of Esther 1859; Lectures and sermons edited by F. Edmond 1872. d. Aberdeen 27 April 1872. Wylies’ Disruption Worthies (1881) 211–14.
DAVIDSON, Archibald (son of Rev. T. Davidson of the Tolbooth church, Edinburgh). b. 1805; ed. at high sch. Edin. and Univs. of Glasgow and St. Andrews; called to Scotch bar 1827; senior advocate depute 1846; sheriff of Kincardine 1847, of Aberdeen 10 Jany. 1848, of Edinburgh 10 Oct. 1865, of the Lothians and Peebles to Feb. 1886; arranged for publication Lord Cockburn’s Memorials of his time 1856. d. Edinburgh 27 March 1886.
DAVIDSON, Cuthbert. Entered Bengal army 1827; lieut. col. 49 Bengal N.I. 31 May 1857 to 1860; lieut. col. 51 Bengal N.I. 1860 to death; C.B. 18 May 1860. d. 2 Aug. 1862.
DAVIDSON, Duncan. b. 1800; M.P. for co. Cromarty 30 June 1826 to 24 July 1830 and 20 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; lord lieutenant of co. Ross 18 Feb. 1879 to death; married five times. d. Edinburgh 18 Sep. 1881.
DAVIDSON, Ellis A. Author of Linear Drawing 1868; Drawing and design without instruments 1869; Elements of practical perspective 1870; Model drawing from solid forms 1871; Boy joiner and model maker 1874; House painting and graining 1875, 3 ed. 1880; Amateur house carpenter 1875 and many other books. d. 29 Clarendon gardens, Maida hill, London 9 March 1878.
DAVIDSON, George Henry. Music publisher at 19 Peters hill, Doctors Commons, London; published Universal Melodist 2 vols. 1847–9; Instrumental Gems 4 vols. 1851; Davidson’s Recitations and Comic songs 1854; sold his business to the Music publishing company limited for £20,000, 1860; author of The Thames and Thanet Guide 1838, 6 ed. 1850. d. 26 Clifton road, Peckham 4 July 1875 in 75 year.
DAVIDSON, Harriet (2 child of Hugh Miller the geologist 1802–56). b. Cromarty, Scotland 25 Nov. 1839; ed. at Edin. and London; author of Isabel Jardine’s History 1867; Christian Osborne’s Friends 1869; contributed poems and stories to the Adelaide newspapers and to Chambers’s Journal. (m. 1863 Rev. John Davidson, minister of Chalmer’s church, Adelaide, who d. 1881). d. Adelaide 23 Dec. 1883.
DAVIDSON, James (eld. son of James Davidson of Tower Hill, London, stationer). b. Tower Hill 15 Aug. 1793; lived at Secktor near Axminster, Devon 1822 to death; author of The British and Roman remains in the vicinity of Axminster 1833; History of Axminster church 1835; History of Newenham Abbey, Devon 1843; Axminster during the civil war 1851; A glossary to the obsolete and unused words and phrases of the Holy Scriptures in the authorised English version 1850; Bibliotheca Devoniensis, a catalogue of printed books relating to the county of Devon 1852 and Supplement 1862; Notes on the antiquities of Devonshire 1861. d. Secktor house, Axminster 29 Feb. 1864. G. P. R. Pulman’s book of the Axe (1875) 12, 47, 677.
DAVIDSON, John. b. Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire 29 March 1804; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; transcriber for the Spalding Club 20 years; arranged the Burgh records of Dundee 1865; wrote a number of pamphlets on various political subjects; a small vol. containing many poems and prose pieces by him was published at Aberdeen 1872. d. 28 Sep. 1871.
DAVIDSON, John. L.R.C.S. Edin. 1838; surgeon in the navy 29 July 1839; M.D. St. Andrews 1845; M.R.C.P. 1860; inspector general of hospitals 4 July 1866 to 26 Oct. 1874 when he retired; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Bosworth lodge, Willesden lane, London 31 Jany. 1881 aged 63.
DAVIDSON, Thomas (son of Jonah Davidson of Oxnam Row farm near Jedburgh, shepherd). b. Oxnam Row 7 July 1838; entered Univ. of Edin. 1855; schoolmaster at Forres 1860–61, in Edinburgh 1861; licensed as a preacher in united presbyterian church 2 Feb. 1864; obtained second prize in rhetoric class for a poem on ‘Ariadne at Naxos’ 1859, one of his friends sent this poem to Thackeray who inserted it in Cornhill Mag. Dec. 1860; sent songs and short poems to the ‘Scotsman.’ d. Bankend, Jedburgh 29 April 1870. The life of a Scottish probationer, being a memoir of Thomas Davidson by James Brown (1878), portrait.