DAVIDSON, Thomas. b. Nottingham 28 Aug. 1828; went to Philadelphia 1832, ship builder there 1850–61; quartermaster in Philadelphia navy yard 1861, assistant naval constructor 1863, naval constructor 1866 to death; his greatest feat was the building in 70 days of the “Juanita” (1240 tons 7 guns) from the frame of a Florida frigate; executed the models and drawings for first large torpedo boats built in New York. d. Philadelphia 18 Feb. 1874.

DAVIDSON, Thomas. b. Edinburgh 17 May 1817; ed. in France, Italy and Switzerland; pupil of P. Delaroche and H. Vernet; matric. at Univ. of Edin. 1835; hon. sec. of Geol. Soc. 1858, Wollaston gold medallist 1865, Silurian medallist 1868; F.R.S. 11 June 1857, royal medallist 1870; author of British Fossil Brachiopoda 6 vols. and of the article ‘Brachiopoda’ in 9th ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica. d. 16 Oct. 1885. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxix, 8–11 (1886).

DAVIE, James. Violinist and composer at Aberdeen; published The music of the church of Scotland 1841; Caledonian Repository 6 vols.; established the Aberdeen Choral Society which held a Musical Festival 1834; choir master in St. Andrew’s ch. Aberdeen about 1835. d. Aberdeen 19 Nov. 1857 aged 74. W. Anderson’s Precentors and musical professors (1876) 85–94.

DAVIES, Rev. Benjamin. b. Werne near St. Clears, Carmarthenshire 26 Feb. 1814; ed. at Baptist college, Bristol, Univ. of Glasgow, Trin. coll. Dublin and Leipzig; Ph.D. Leipzig 1838; pres. of Baptist coll. Stepney 1844–7; a professor in Mac Gill coll. Montreal 1847–57; professor of oriental and classical languages in Baptist coll. Regents park, London 1857; one of the revisers of the Old Testament; published translations of Gesenius’s Hebrew Grammar and Lexicon; the Paragraph Bible issued by Religious Tract Society was chiefly his work. d. Frome, Somerset 19 July 1875.

DAVIES, David. Ensign 62 foot 4 June 1812, lieut. 13 Feb. 1814 to 25 June 1816 when placed on h.p.; fired a pistol loaded with ball at Lord Palmerston (the sec. of state for war) at the War Office, London 8 April 1818, tried at the Old Bailey 1 May 1818 when acquitted on ground of insanity; confined in Bethlehem hospital, May 1818 to death. d. of apoplexy in Bethlehem hospital 30 Dec. 1861 aged 67.

DAVIES, Sir David (only son of Robert Davies of Llwyn, Cardiganshire). b. 1793; physician at Hampton; domestic phys. to William iv, 1830 to 1837, and to Queen Adelaide 1837 to 1849; K.C.H. June 1837; knighted by Queen Victoria at St. James’s palace 19 July 1837. d. Lucca 1 May 1865.

DAVIES, David Arthur Saunders. b. 9 June 1792; M.P. for Carmarthenshire 27 Dec. 1842 to death; chairman of Cardiganshire quarter sessions. d. United University club, 4 Pall Mall, East London 22 May 1857.

DAVIES, David Christopher. b. Oswestry 1827; a mining engineer 1852; visited Norway on business 9 times; F.G.S. 1872; contributed numerous papers to Geological Mag.; author of Christ for all the ages and other lay sermons 1871; Treatise on slate and slate quarrying 1878, 2 ed. 1880; Metalliferous minerals and mining, 2 ed. 1880; Treatise on earthy and other minerals and mining 1884. d. suddenly on board the steamer Angelo while returning from Norway to Hull 19 Sep. 1885. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xlii, 43 (1886).

DAVIES, Rev. Evan. b. Hengwm, Lledrod, county of Cardiganshire 1805; ordained at Wycliffe Congregational chapel, London as a missionary to the Chinese 1835; sent to Penang by London Missionary Soc. 1835, returned home 1839; superintendent of Boys’ Mission school at Walthamstow 1842–44; pastor at Richmond, Surrey 1844–57; author of China and her spiritual claims 1845; Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel Dyer 1846; Revivals in Wales 1859. d. Llanstephan near Carmarthen 18 June 1864.

DAVIES, Evan. Watchmaker at Pontypridd; known as Myfyr Morganwg, Arch-Druid of Wales, recognized head of the Druids who meet periodically around famous rocking stone at Pontypridd; published several works on Druidism which he argued was the true religion, and several others on Celtic mythology. d. Pontypridd 23 Feb. 1888 in 89 year.

DAVIES, Francis John (youngest son of Thomas Davies of New house, co. Hereford 1751–92, advocate general Calcutta). b. 1 May 1791; ensign 52 foot 3 Feb. 1808; captain Grenadier guards 30 April 1827 to 18 May 1841 when placed on h.p.; col. of 67 foot 15 Jany. 1858 to death; general 14 Jany. 1866. d. 8 Eaton place, London 4 Dec. 1874.

DAVIES, George. b. Wells 15 Dec. 1800; entered navy 23 June 1813; inspecting commander in coast guard of Banff district, July 1843, of Penzance district 3 July 1848 to 1 Jany. 1851; captain 1 Jany. 1851; saved the lives of more than 200 persons at shipwrecks; retired V.A. 29 May 1873; chief constable of Cambridgeshire, Nov. 1851 to death, and of Hunts. April 1857 to death. d. 10 Scrope terrace, Cambridge 24 Nov. 1876. O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict. (1861) 281–2; I.L.N. xviii, 61–2 (1851).

DAVIES, Griffith (son of Owen Davies, farmer, who d. 21 March 1854 aged 93). b. parish of Llandwrog, Carnarvon 28 Dec. 1788; kept a school in London 1811; actuary to Guardian Assurance Co. 1823 to death; constructed many tables for the Reversionary Interest Soc. 1823; F.R.S. 16 June 1831; wrote 20 reports on the various Indian funds for the H.E.I.Co.; author of Key to Bonnycastle’s Trigonometry 1814; Tables of life contingencies containing the rates of mortality among the members of the Equitable Society 1825. d. 25 Duncan terrace, Islington, London 21 March 1855. Assurance Mag. July 1855 pp. 337–48; C. Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia ii, 172–4; Pink’s Clerkenwell (1881) 705–8.

DAVIES, Henry. b. London 1782; M.R.C.S. 1803; served in army medical service; M.D. Aberdeen 26 Sep. 1823; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1823; phys. to British Lying-in hospital; lecturer on midwifery at St. George’s hospital; edited M. Underwood’s Treatise on the diseases of children 1846; author of The young wife’s guide 1852. d. London 9 Jany. 1862.

DAVIES, Henry Thomas. Entered navy 3 March 1794; captain 19 Feb. 1814; retired captain 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861. d. Bath 21 Feb. 1869 aged 91.

DAVIES, Herbert (son of Thomas Davies of London, physician 1792–1839). b. London 30 Sep. 1818; scholar of Gonville and Caius coll. Cam. 1838, migrated to Queen’s coll.; 31 wrangler 1842; B.A. 1842, M.B. 1843, M.D. 1848; fellow of Queen’s coll. 1844; assistant phys. to London hospital 5 Aug. 1845, phys. 1854–74; F.R.C.P. 1850; phys. to Bank of England; author of Lectures on the physical diagnosis of the diseases of the lungs and heart 1851, 2 ed. 1854, translated into German and Dutch; On the treatment of rheumatic fever in its acute stage exclusively by free blistering 1864. d. Hampstead 4 Jany. 1885. Medical Circular iii, 439 (1853), portrait.

DAVIES, Rev. James (2 son of Richard Banks of Kington, Herefordshire). b. Kington 20 May 1820; ed. at Repton and Lincoln coll. Ox., scholar; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1846; Inc. of Ch. Ch. Forest of Dean 1847–52; head master of Ludlow gr. sch. 1852–57; took name of Davies in lieu of Banks 1858; wrote majority of classical articles in Saturday Review many years; author of a remarkable essay on ‘Epigrams’ in Quarterly Review Jany. 1865; translated Hesiod, Theognis and Callimachus into prose for Bohn’s Classical library; wrote vols. on Hesiod and Theognis and on Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius for Collins’s Ancient Classics for English readers; revised several of Murray’s Guides for the press; author of a vol. of original verse entitled Nugæ 1854. d. Moor Court, Kington 11 March 1883.

DAVIES, Rev. John. Educ. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1831, D.D. 1844; R. of Gateshead 1840 to death; hon. canon of Durham, Feb. 1853 to death; author of An estimate of the human mind, a philosophical inquiry into the legitimate application and extent of its leading faculties 1828; The ordinances of religion practically illustrated and applied 1832, and about 20 other works. d. Ilkley Wells, Yorkshire 21 Oct. 1861.

DAVIES, Lucy Clementina (youngest child of Leon Maurice called by courtesy Lord Leon Maurice Drummond de Melfort 1761–1826). b. Château of St. Germain near Paris 21 Nov. 1795; granted precedency of an Earl’s daughter by r.l. 30 Sep. 1853; author of Recollections of society in France and England 2 vols. 1872, a work which contains much of her family history. (m. 8 Sep. 1823 Francis Henry Davies a registrar of Court of Chancery, who d. 22 Oct. 1863 aged 72). d. 22 Palace gardens terrace, Kensington, London 27 April 1879.

DAVIES, Venerable Richard. V. of St. John’s, Brecknock 1804 to death; archdeacon of Brecknock 15 Feb. 1805 to death; canon of St. Davids 1805 to death. d. Residentiary house, St. David’s cathedral, Brecon 14 May 1859 aged 82.

DAVIES, Robert (eld. son of Peter Davies of York). b. York 19 Aug. 1793; solicitor at York 1814, town clerk 1827–48; F.S.A. 22 Dec. 1842; author or editor of The freeman’s roll of the city of York 1835; The Fawkes’s of York in the sixteenth century 1850; Notices of the mints and coinages at York 1854; The life of M. Rawdon, Camden Soc. 1863; A memoir of the York press 1868; Walks through the city of York 1880. d. The Mount, York 23 Aug. 1875.

DAVIES, Venerable Roland Robert. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827; archdeacon of Hobart Town, Tasmania 1855 to death. d. Ferndean, Hobart Town 13 Nov. 1880 aged 75.

DAVIES, Scrope Berdmore. Educ. at Eton 1796–99 and King’s coll. Cam., fellow 1805, senior fellow 1822 to death; B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; remarkable for his dexterity at all athletic games especially cricket and tennis, competed with Lord Byron in swimming; intimate friend of Tom Moore and Lord Byron who when on his death bed sent him a ring; Lord Byron’s Parisina is dedicated to him; lived at Ostend 1836; a well known talker and diner out. d. 2 Rue Miromenil, Paris 24 May 1852. T. C. Grattan’s Beaten Paths (1862) ii, 146–70.

DAVIES, Venerable Thomas Hart Francis Penrose. Educ. at Trin. hall, Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1841; C. of Holbrooke, Suffolk 1837–39; C. of Knaresborough 1839–41; P.C. of Trinity, Nottingham 1841–51; archdeacon of Melbourne, Australia 1851–53; V. of Ch. Ch. Ramsgate 1853 to death. d. Ramsgate 5 Jany. 1873 aged 76. Kent Coast Times 9 Jany. 1873 pp. 2, 3.

DAVIES, Thomas Stephens. b. 1794; F.R.S. Edin. 1831; F.S.A. 19 March 1840; professor of mathematics at R.M.A. Woolwich 1834 to death; edited many mathematical works. d. Broomhall cottage, Shooter’s hill, Kent 6 Jany. 1851. Westminster Review lv, 70–83 (1851); Mechanics’ Mag. 11 Jany. 1851 pp. 33–5; The Expositor i, 284 (1851), portrait.

DAVIES, William Edmund. b. King’s Cross, London 1819; employed by Cubitt and Co. as a carpenter; originated the betting list system 1846, hung up first of his betting lists at Salisbury Arms, Durham st. Strand, betting lists were declared illegal by act of parliament 20 Aug. 1853; lost £100,000 over the Derby 1852 when Daniel O’Rourke won, and £48,000 over the Derby 1853 when West Australian won; became known as the Leviathan; retired at end of racing season 1857. d. at 18 Gloucester place, Brighton 4 Oct. 1879. Rice’s History of the Turf ii, 271–80 (1879); Sporting Review, Jany. 1859 pp. 39–42; Sporting Times 30 May 1885 p. 2.

Note.—By his will he left property in railway shares valued at £60,000 to the Brighton corporation subject to the payment of certain annuities. His widow gave notice to dispute the will, but on 21 Jany. 1880 an arrangement was made by which the greater part of the property came to the corporation on her death. Preston park, Brighton which cost £50,000 was purchased with this money and opened 8 Nov. 1884.

DAVIS, Charles. b. near Hertford 15 Jany. 1788; whipper-in to his father who hunted the King’s harriers 1800 and Pistol boy to George iii; whipper-in to Mr. Sharpe’s staghounds 1812; huntsman to the Queen 1821–66; presented with a testimonial in London 5 Feb. 1859, which testimonial he left to the Queen. d. Royal Kennels, Ascot 26 Oct. 1866. bur. Sunninghill churchyard 2 Nov. His horse Comus, a gift from the Prince of Wales, was shot by his last wish and one ear of the horse in a small box was placed in his grave. Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known, second series ii, 284–305; J. N. Fitt’s Covert side sketches (1878) 274–78; Sporting Review lx, 418–20 (1866), lvi, 402–8 (1866); Baily’s Mag. xii, 254, 326–36 (1867); The Sportsman n.s. ii, 277 (1837), portrait; I.L.N. xxxiv, 164, 165 (1859), portrait.

DAVIS, Right Rev. Charles Henry. b. Usk, co. Monmouth 18 May 1815; professed at St. Gregory’s, Downside near Bath 1834; a member of Benedictine order 1833; ordained priest Nov. 1840; pastor of Downside 1844–48; the first R.C. bishop of Maitland, Australia 1848 to death, consecrated 25 Feb. 1848; coadjutor of the archbishop of the diocese. d. Sydney 17 May 1854.

DAVIS, Right Rev. Daniel Gateward (son of Rev. Wm. Davis). b. Island of St. Christopher, West Indies 1788; ed. at Reading and Pemb. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1823, D.D. 1842; went to the West Indies; R. of St. Paul’s, Charleston, Nevis; R. of St. George’s, Basseterre, St. Christophers; rural dean; archdeacon of Antigua 1837; visited England 1842; bishop of Antigua 21 Aug. 1842 to death, consecrated in Westminster Abbey 24 Aug. d. 3 Bryanston st. Portman sq. London 25 Oct. 1857.

DAVIS, Edward Dean. b. near Bath 1806; manager of Taunton theatre 1835; travelled the Devonshire circuit with a company 1843–46; lessee of T.R. Newcastle 1846–70; lessee of Lyceum theatre, Sunderland 1854, theatre was entirely destroyed by fire 23 Dec. 1855, theatre was reopened 29 Sep. 1856 when Henry Irving made his first appearance on the stage, lessee of the theatre again 1870–76. d. Eldon square, Newcastle 19 Feb. 1887.

DAVIS, George Lenox. Ensign 9 foot 15 Sep. 1808, lieut. col. 19 Dec. 1845 to 2 April 1852; inspecting field officer of Liverpool recruiting district 2 April 1852 to death; C.B. 27 June 1846. d. Galway 14 April 1852.

DAVIS, Hart. Commissioner of Excise 11 Aug. 1824, deputy chairman Sep. 1837 to 6 Jany. 1849; F.R.S. 20 May 1841. d. Bere hill house, Whitchurch 17 June 1854.

DAVIS, Henry George (son of Mr. Davis, master of St. Paul’s parochial schools, Knightsbridge, London). b. 4 Mills Buildings, Knightsbridge 14 Aug. 1830; clerk in a circulating library; contributed a series of articles on ‘Our local associations’ to West Middlesex Advertiser; prepared for the press Memorials of the hamlet of Knightsbridge with notices of its immediate neighbourhood, ed. by his brother C. Davis 1859; left in manuscript two unfinished works ‘Pimlico’ and ‘Recollections of Piccadilly’; wrote many antiquarian papers in Notes and Queries. d. St. Paul’s parochial school, Wilton place, Belgravia 30 Dec. 1857.

DAVIS, James Edward (son of Aaron Wall Davis, M.D. of Presteign, Radnorshire). b. 1817; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1842; revising barrister 1854; reporter for Law Journal Reports in Court of Exchequer 1855–64; stipendiary magistrate for Stoke-upon-Trent 1864–70, for Sheffield 1870–74; legal adviser to comrs. of Metropolitan Police 1874 to death; author of Prize essay on the laws for the protection of women 1854; Practice and evidence in the county courts 1855, 6 ed. 1887; The Criminal law consolidation statutes 1861; A manual of the law of registration and election 1868, 2 ed. 1879. d. suddenly at 4 Whitehall place, London 12 July 1887 in 70 year. Law Journal xxii, 397, 406, 426 (1887).

DAVIS, John Edward (son of Henry Davis, commander R.N.) b. 9 Aug. 1815; entered navy 5 July 1828; Second master in the Terror in Antarctic expedition 1839–43; surveyor to North Atlantic telegraph expedition in the Fox 1862; retired captain 9 Aug. 1870; naval assistant to the Hydrographer; author with his son of the Azimuth Tables; invented an improved sextant; drew the charts for Antarctic expedition 1839–43; the illustrations in Narrative of Sir James Clark Ross 1847 are from his drawings; F.R.G.S. d. Douglas house, Maze hill, Greenwich 30 Jany. 1877.

DAVIS, John Ford. b. Bath 1773; ed. in London and Edin.; M.D. Edin. 24 June 1797; L.R.C.P. 30 Sep. 1808; phys. to general hospital, Bath 1817–34; author of An inquiry into the symptoms and treatment of Carditis, or inflammation of the heart 1808. d. Bath 1 Jany. 1864.

DAVIS, John Philip, called Pope Davis. Exhibited 33 pictures at the R.A., 17 at B.I. and 59 at Suffolk st. gallery 1811–57; painted at Rome 1824 a large picture of the ‘Talbot family receiving the benediction of the Pope’ (hence his cognomen ‘Pope Davis’); awarded a premium of £50 by directors of British Institution 1825; author of Facts of vital importance relative to the embellishment of the Houses of Parliament 1843; The Royal Academy and the National Gallery, What is the state of these institutions? 1858; Thoughts on great painters 1866. d. 67 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 28 Sep. 1862 in 79 year.

DAVIS, Joseph Barnard. b. York 13 June 1801; went as a surgeon in a whaling ship to the Arctic seas 1820; L.S.A. 1823, M.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon at Shelton Hanley, Staffs. to death; M.D. St. Andrews 1862; collected a museum of skulls and skeletons of various races, larger than all the collections in British public museums, which he sold to Royal college of Surgeons 1880; F.S.A. 21 Dec. 1854; F.R.S. 4 June 1868; author of Popular manual of the art of preserving health 1836; Thesaurus Craniorum 2 vols. 1867–75; published with John Thurnam, M.D., Crania Britannica, or delineations of the skulls of the early inhabitants of the British Islands 1856–65. d. Hanley 19 May 1881. Nature 26 May 1881.

DAVIS, Nathan. Lived in an old Moorish palace 10 miles from Tunis many years; edited the Hebrew Christian Magazine 1852; became a Nonconformist minister; engaged excavating at Carthage and Utica for the British Museum 1856–58, chief antiquities he discovered were Roman mosaic pavements; author of Tunis, or selections from a journal during a residence in that Regency 1841; Evenings in my tent 2 vols. 1854; Carthage and her remains 1861; Ruined cities within Numidian and Carthaginian territories 1862. d. Florence 6 Jany. 1882. Antiquarian Mag. i, 152 (1882); Edwards’s Lives of the founders of the British Museum (1870) 666–8.

DAVIS, Richard Barrett (son of Mr. Davis, huntsman to the royal harriers). b. Watford, Herts. 1782; animal painter; exhibited 70 pictures at R.A., 57 at B.I. and 141 at Suffolk st. gallery 1802–53; animal painter to William iv, 1831. d. 9 Bedford place, Kensington, London 13 March 1854.

DAVIS, William. Founded a free school at Gower’s walk, Whitechapel, London 1807; one of founders of National Society 1811 and of Society for promoting enlargement, building and repairing of churches and chapels 1818. d. 19 Nov. 1854 aged 88.

DAVIS, William. b. Dublin 1812; portrait painter at Liverpool; professor of painting at Liverpool academy; exhibited 16 landscapes at the R.A. 1851–72. d. London 22 April 1873.

DAVISON, Rev. Edward (son of Rev. Edward Davison 1760–1839, Inc. of St. Nicholas, Durham). Matric. from C.C. coll. Ox. 25 Nov. 1803 aged 15, B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810; fellow of Univ. coll. 1807–16; R. of Harlington, Middlesex 1822–56; P.C. of St. Nicholas, Durham 1825–56; author of Tentamen Theologicum, or an attempt to assist the young clergyman of the Church of England in the choice of a subject for his sermon on any Sunday throughout the year by E. D. 1850, and of several sets of lectures and sermons. d. Durham 22 May 1863.

DAVISON, Sir Henry (4 son of Thomas Davison of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London). Matric. from Trin. coll. Ox. 23 Oct. 1823 aged 18, scholar 1824, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1834; barrister I.T. 6 May 1834; puisne judge of supreme court of Madras 16 March 1857, chief justice 11 March 1859 to death; knighted by the Queen at Windsor castle 28 Nov. 1856; published with H. Merivale Reports in the Queen’s Bench and upon Writs of Error 1844. d. Ootacamund on the Neilgherry hills, Madras 3 Nov. 1860.

DAVISON, James William. b. London 5 Oct. 1813; ed. at Univ. coll. sch. and Royal Acad. of Music; wrote pianoforte music for Bohn’s Harmonist; edited the Musical World to death; musical critic of the Times 1850–78; wrote for the Saturday Review and Graphic; contributed to Grove’s Dictionary of music and musicians; author of An essay on the works of Frederic Chopin 1849. (m. 1860 Arabella Goddard the pianist). d. York hotel, Margate 24 March 1885. bur. Brompton cemetery, London 28 March. Theatre v, 230–4, 247–9 (1885); Musical Standard 4 April 1885 pp. 212–3; London Figaro 4 April 1885 p. 11, portrait.

DAVISON, John Robert (2 son of Rev. Edward Davison, R. of Harlington, Middlesex, who d. 1863). b. Church st. Durham 15 April 1826; ed. at Houghton and Durham gr. schs. and C.C. coll. Ox., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1847; barrister M.T. 2 Nov. 1849; Q.C. 9 Jany. 1866; chairman of Durham quarter sessions 1868; M.P. for city of Durham, Nov. 1868 to death; advocate general 28 Dec. 1870 to death; P.C. 8 Feb. 1871. d. The Auberies near Sudbury 15 April 1871. Law Journal vi, 282–3, 287–8 (1871); I.L.N. lviii, 427, 444 (1871), portrait, lix, 98 (1871).

DAVISON, Joseph (son of Thomas Davison of Sedgefield, Durham). Solicitor at Durham 1831; deputy registrar in Episcopal registry for wills Durham 1835–57; district registrar of Court of Probate 1857 to death; clerk and deputy steward of the Halmote Court at Durham (through which all transfers of copyhold property in co. Durham pass) 25 Nov. 1850 to death; held the office of Cursitor in the Palatinate Chancery Court 25 Jany. 1836 to death when office was abolished and documents were transferred to Record Office, London; principal proprietor of Bedlington colliery on the Tyne. d. Greencroft hall, Durham 20 Dec. 1868.

DAVISON, Maria Rebecca (dau. of Mr. Duncan of Liverpool, actor). b. Liverpool 1783; acted in England, Scotland and Ireland; first appeared in London at Drury Lane 8 Oct. 1804 as Lady Teazle; created the rôle of Juliana in The Honeymoon 31 Jany. 1805; acted at Drury Lane 1804–19 and 1825–29 and at Covent Garden 1819–21; her best parts were Maria in The Citizen and Miss Hardcastle in She stoops to conquer. (m. 31 Oct. 1812 James Davison, who d. March 1858). d. Brompton, London 30 May 1858. Mrs. C. Baron Wilson’s Our actresses i, 167–88 (1844); Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography i, 51–7 (1825), portrait; J. H. Leigh Hunt’s Critical essays on the performers of the London theatres (1807) 170–79; The London Stage vol. 3, portrait.

DAVISON, Robert. b. Belford, Northumberland 10 May 1804; resident engineer to Truman and Co. brewers, London 1831–45; patented a process for drying wood and other substances by currents of hot air which was worked by Patent Desiccating Co. 1845 and received gold medal of Soc. of Arts; erected Findlater’s brewery, Dublin 1852; designed Allsopp’s new brewery at Burton; invented machinery for raising and conveying malt; patented machinery for cleansing casks by a double rotatory motion; A.I.C.E. 1834, M.I.C.E. 1840; prime warden of Blacksmiths’ Co. 1857–58. d. Finchley 14 March 1886. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. ii, 192 (1842), iii, 57 (1843), lxxxiv, 442–44 (1886).

DAVISON, Sir William (son of Alexander Davison of St. James’s sq. London, government contractor 1750–1829). b. 1788; ed. at Eton; captain Northumberland militia 7 July 1807; equerry to 1 Duke of Cambridge 1813–50; equerry to 2 Duke of Cambridge 1850 to death; captain on half pay of 2 Foot 25 Dec. 1813; lieut. col. in the army 10 Jany. 1837; K.H. 1824; knighted at the King’s lodge, Windsor 3 Sep. 1824. d. London 14 Jany. 1873.

DAVY, David Elisha (son of Mr. Davy of Rumburgh, Suffolk, farmer, who d. 1799 aged 90). b. 1769; F.L.S. 17 Dec. 1793; receiver general for Suffolk 1795; collected for nearly 50 years, materials for history of Suffolk which were bought by British Museum 1852; communicated a series of notices of sepulchral monuments existing in parish churches of Suffolk to the Topographer and Genealogist; wrote many articles on genealogical matters to Gent. Mag. under initials D. A. Y.; author of A short account of Leiston Abbey by D. E. D. edited by J. Bird 1823. d. Ufford near Woodbridge, Suffolk 15 Aug. 1851.

DAVY, Edmund (2 son of William Davy of Penzance). b. Penzance 1785; assistant in laboratory of Royal Institution, London 1804–13; professor of chemistry in Royal Cork Institution 1813–26 and in Royal Dublin Society 1826–1854 when he retired on full salary; gave upwards of 30 courses of lectures on chemical subjects; F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1826; author of An essay on the use of peat or turf as a means of promoting the public health and the agriculture of the United Kingdom 1850, and of 33 papers 1812–57. d. Kimmage lodge, co. Dublin 5 Nov. 1857. H. B. Jones’s Royal Institution (1871) pp. 280, 360, 366.

DAVY, Edward (eld. son of Thomas Davy of Ottery St. Mary, Devon, surgeon). b. Ottery St. Mary 16 June 1806; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; L.S.A. 1828, M.R.C.S. 1829; operative chemist at 390 Strand, under title of Davy and Co. 1830; invented and patented Davy’s Diamond Cement 1835; laid down a mile of copper wire around inner circle of Regent’s Park 1837 where he made many experiments in electricity; opened an exhibition of his telegraphic apparatus at Exeter hall 29 Dec. 1837; patented his electro-chemical recording telegraph 4 July 1838 which was bought by the Electric Telegraph Company for £600; sailed for Australia as medical superintendent of an emigrant ship 15 April 1839; edited the Adelaide Examiner 1843–5; manager of copper smelting works at Yatala 1848–51; head of Government Assay office at Adelaide 1852–3 and at Melbourne, July 1853 to Dec. 1854; surgeon at Malmesbury, Victoria 1855 to death; author of An experimental guide to chemistry 1836; Outline of a new plan of telegraphic communication 1836. d. Malmesbury 27 Jany. 1885. Memoir of E. Davy by his nephew H. Davy 1883; J. J. Fahie’s Edward Davy and the electric telegraph 1836 to 1839 (1883).

DAVY, John (2 son of Robert Davy of Penzance, wood-carver, who d. 1794). b. Penzance 24 May 1790; studied medicine at Edin., M.D. 1814; F.R.S. 17 Feb. 1814; hospital assistant in the army 19 May 1815; inspector general of army hospitals 22 Dec. 1848 to 3 Feb. 1849 when placed on h.p.; author of An account of the interior of Ceylon 1821; Researches, physiological and anatomical 1839; Notes and observations on the Ionian islands 2 vols. 1842; Lectures on chemistry 1849; Discourses on agriculture 1849; On some of the more important diseases of the army 1862; The angler and his friends or piscatory colloquies and fishing excursions 1855. d. Lesketh-how near Ambleside 24 Jany. 1868. Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi, 79–81 (1868); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 111 (1874), iii, 1152 (1882).

DAVY, Sir William Gabriel (eld. son of Major Davy, Persian secretary to Warren Hastings). b. King’s Holme near Gloucester 1779; ensign 61 foot March 1797; major 60 foot 5 Feb. 1807; lieut.-col. 7 garrison battalion 28 Dec. 1809 to 1810 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.H. 1836; knighted at St. James’s palace 23 March 1836; col. commandant 60 foot 2 Nov. 1842 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Tracy park near Bath 25 Jany. 1856 aged 77.

DAVYS, Right Rev. George (son of John Davys of Rempstone, Notts.) b. Loughborough, Leics. 1 Oct. 1780; a sizar at Ch. coll. Cam. 1799, fellow 14 Jany. 1806–1814; tenth wrangler 1803; B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; V. of Willoughby in the Wolds, Lincs. 1811–29; educated the Princess Victoria at Kensington Palace 1827–37; R. of Allhallows on the Wall, city of London 1829–39; dean of Chester 10 Jany. 1831 to May 1839, instituted 21 Feb. 1831; bishop of Peterborough, May 1839 to death, consecrated 16 June; author of Village conversations on the Liturgy of the Church of England 1820, 8 ed. 1829; Village conversations on the principal offices of the Church 1824, 2 ed. 1849; Letters between a father and his son on Roman history and other subjects 1848, and of various educational works which appeared anonymously in The cottagers’ monthly visitor and National School Mag. d. The palace, Peterborough 18 April 1864.

DAVYS, Venerable Owen. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; V. of Cranwell, Lincs. 1834–46; archdeacon of Northampton 15 Sep. 1842 to death; canon of Peterborough 15 Sep. 1842 to death; R. of Fiskerton, Lincs. 1846 to death. d. 8 Feb. 1875.

DAWES, George (youngest son of Thomas Dawes, who d. 3 Jany. 1871). b. Angel court, Throgmorton st. London 23 Nov. 1810; solicitor at Angel court 1835 to death; solicitor to Associated fire offices and Fire office committee; settled form of fire policy generally used by insurance offices; conducted most of the leading insurance cases. d. Barlow, Florida, U.S. 9 Dec. 1887.

DAWES, Very Rev. Richard (son of James Dawes of Hawes in Wensleydale, Yorkshire). Baptised at Hawes 13 April 1793; entered Trin. coll. Cam. Oct. 1813; 4 wrangler 1817; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; fellow and tutor of Downing college 1818; V. of Tadlow, Cambs. 1819–36; R. of Kings Somborne, Hants. 1836, founded a school there opened Oct. 1842; dean of Hereford 15 May 1850 to death, installed 13 June 1850; restored the cathedral and re-opened it 1863; master of St. Catherine’s hospital, Ledbury 1861; vice pres. of British association at Bath 1864; author of Suggestive hints towards improved secular instruction making it bear upon practical life 1849 and ten other small books. d. The deanery, Hereford 10 March 1867. A biographical notice of the late Very Rev. R. Dawes by W. C. Henry, privately printed 1867; G.M. May 1867 pp. 674–75.

DAWES, Thomas. Attorney in City of London 1795 to death. d. Tunbridge Wells. 3 Jany. 1871 aged 98 being oldest attorney on the rolls.

DAWES, William Rutter (son of Mr. Dawes, mathematical master at Christ’s hospital, London). b. Christ’s hospital 19 March 1799; ed. at Charterhouse sch.; surgeon at Haddenham, Bucks., at Liverpool 1826; took charge of a small independent congregation at Ormskirk, Lancs. to 1839; had charge of the observatory at South villa, Regent’s park, London belonging to George Bishop 1839–1844; fitted up an observatory at Camden lodge near Cranbrook, Kent 1844; invented several valuable improvements in practical astronomy; F.R.A.S. 14 May 1830, gold medallist 1855; F.R.S. 1865. d. Hopefield, Haddenham 15 Feb. 1868. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxix, 116.

DAWKINS, Henry. b. 1765; comr. of woods and forests 31 July 1810 to 1832 when he retired on pension of £800; M.P. for Aldborough, Yorkshire 12 Oct. 1812 to Aug. 1814. d. Encombe house near Sandgate, Kent 2 Nov. 1852 in 88 year.

DAWKINS, Henry. b. 28 Nov. 1788; ed. at Harrow and Marlow; ensign Coldstream guards 10 March 1804, captain 25 July 1814 to 31 Aug. 1826 when placed on h.p.; served through Peninsular war and at Waterloo; retired from army 1846; M.P. for Boroughbridge, Yorkshire 10 March 1820 to 24 July 1830. d. Over Norton, Oxfordshire 13 Nov. 1864.

DAWSON, George (son of Jonathan Dawson of London, schoolmaster). b. 36 Hunter st. Brunswick sq. London 24 Feb. 1821; ed. at Glasgow Univ., B.A., M.A.; minister of baptist chapel at Rickmansworth, Herts. 1843; min. of Mount Zion chapel, Birmingham, 6 Oct. 1844 to Dec. 1845; min. of “The Church of the Saviour,” Birmingham 8 Aug. 1847; lectured in all chief towns of the Kingdom 30 years; lectured in the U.S. 1874; edited Birmingham Morning News from 2 Jany. 1871; mem. of Birmingham sch. board 28 Nov. 1871; took an active part in English and foreign politics; friend of Mazzini and Kossuth; author of Prayers with a discourse on prayer 1877, 9 ed. 1884; Sermons on daily life and duty 1878; Three books of God, Nature, history and scripture 1882; Shakespeare and other lectures 1878. (m. 27 Aug. 1846 Susan Frances youngest dau. of J. W. Crompton of Edgbaston, merchant, she was b. Edgbaston 23 June 1820 and d. Malvern 9 Nov. 1878). d. Kingsnorton near Birmingham 30 Nov. 1876. Crosskey’s Memoir of G. Dawson 1876; Ireland’s Recollections of G. Dawson 1882; Manchester Quarterly i, 181–204 (1882); Gilfillan’s Second gallery of literary portraits (1850) 196–213; The lamps of the temple, 3 ed. (1856) 449–65; Edgbastonia i, 94–7, 114 (1881) portrait of Mrs. Dawson, ii, 140–43 (1882), portrait of G. Dawson; Nineteenth Century ii, 44–61 (1877); Illust. news of the world, ix (1862), portrait.

DAWSON, George. b. Falkirk, Stirlingshire 14 March 1813; taken to America 1818; foreman in office of Evening Journal at Albany, New York 1830–36; edited Rochester Daily Democrat 1836–39 and 1842–46; edited Detroit Advertiser 1839–42; associate editor of Albany Evening Journal 1846, editor 1862–77; postmaster of Albany 1861–67; author of The pleasures of angling 1876. d. Albany, New York 17 Feb. 1883.

DAWSON, George Robert (elder son of Arthur Dawson of Castledawson 1745–1822). b. Rutland sq. Dublin 24 Dec. 1790; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1811; M.P. for co. Londonderry 1815–30, for Harwich 1830–32; under sec. of state for home department 17 Jany. 1822 to 30 April 1827; sec. of the Treasury 28 Jany. 1828 to 26 Nov. 1830; P.C. 22 Nov. 1830; sec. of the Admiralty 24 Dec. 1834 to 27 April 1835; comr. of the Customs 29 Dec. 1841, deputy chairman 1846 to death. d. Upper Grosvenor st. London 3 April 1856.

DAWSON, Henry. b. Water st. Hull 3 April 1811; employed in a lace factory at Nottingham to 1835; landscape painter at Nottingham 1835, at Liverpool 1844–50, at Croydon 1850; competed for decoration of Houses of Parliament 1847; one of his best pictures ‘The wooden walls of old England’ which sold for £75 in 1853, brought £1400 at Christie’s 1876; 57 of his pictures were at Nottingham exhibition 1878 and several of his large pictures at Jubilee exhibition, Manchester 1887. d. The Cedars, Chiswick 13 Dec. 1878. C. Brown’s Lives of Nottinghamshire Worthies (1882) 360–66, portrait.

DAWSON, Pudsey (son of Pudsey Dawson of Langcliff hall, Yorkshire 1752–1816). b. 2 Oct. 1778; sheriff of West Riding, Yorkshire 1845; assoc. of Archæol. assoc. 1851; Hornby castle devised to him by Admiral Tatham who d. 24 Jany. 1840, was visited by British Archæological Soc. 2 Aug. 1850. d. Hornby Castle, Lancaster 12 April 1859. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xvi, 170–71 (1860).

DAWSON, Robert. Assistant draughtsman on the ordnance survey of Great Britain 1794; a first-class draughtsman in corps of royal military surveyors and draughtsmen 1802; contributed much to bring sketching and shading of ordnance plans to degree of perfection afterwards attained; instructor in topographical drawing at Royal military college, also at H.E.I. Co.’s military seminary, Addiscombe 1810; pensioned by Board of Ordnance. d. Woodleigh rectory, South Devon 22 June 1860.

DAWSON, Robert Kearsley (eld. son of the preceding). b. 1798; second lieut. R.E. 1 March 1816, captain 18 Aug. 1837 to 1 Dec. 1853 when he retired on full pay as lieut.-col.; employed on the Scotch and Irish surveys; assistant comr. under the Tithe Act 1836; member of the first Metropolitan sewers commission 1849; A.I.C.E. 28 March 1838; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; compiled Plans of the cities and boroughs of England and Wales 1832. d. Blackheath, Kent 28 March 1861. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi, 582–4 (1862).

DAWSON, Robert Peel (eld. son of George Robert Dawson 1790–1856). b. London 2 June 1818; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; ensign Grenadier guards 8 Aug. 1837; captain 11 Hussars 9 June 1846 to 13 July 1847 when he sold out; sheriff of Londonderry 1850; M.P. for Londonderry 1859–74; lord lieut. of Londonderry 23 June 1870 to death; col. of Londonderry militia 12 April 1871 to death. d. Dover 2 Sep. 1877.

DAWSON, Thomas Vesey (2 son of 2 Baron Cremorne 1788–1877). Ensign Coldstream guards 11 Aug. 1837, captain 22 Aug. 1851 to death; M.P. for co. Louth 1841–1847, for co. Monaghan 1847–1852; killed at battle of Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854.

DAWSON-DAMER, George Lionel (3 son of 1 Earl of Portarlington 1744–98). b. Queen’s county 28 Oct. 1788; cornet 1 dragoon guards 4 Dec. 1806, captain 31 Dec. 1812; captain 22 light dragoons 22 Jany. 1818 to 17 Aug. 1820 when placed on h.p.; captain 65 foot 8 June 1826; major 89 foot 13 Dec. to 24 Dec. 1833 when he sold out; assumed additional surname of Damer by r.l. 14 March 1829; M.P. for Portarlington 9 Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847, for Dorchester 28 July 1847 to 1 July 1852; comptroller of H.M.’s household, Sep. 1841 to July 1846; C.B. 26 Nov. 1816; P.C. 14 Sep. 1841. d. 23 Wilton crescent, Belgravia, London 14 April 1856.

DAY, Alfred (son of John B. Day, horse trainer, who d. 21 March 1860). b. Danebury 3 Nov. 1830; rode in the Cesarewitch race 1843; won the One thousand guineas on Flea 1849 and on Kate 1852; won the Two thousand guineas on Pitsford 1850, Hermit 1854 and The Promised Land 1859; won the Derby on Andover 1854. d. Chilbolton near Stockbridge 4 Jany. 1868. Sporting Review xliv, 198–203 (1860), portrait, lix, 78 (1868); Baily’s Mag., May 1860, portrait.

DAY, Edward Derry. b. Kerry 1801; served in 46 foot 1820–34; police magistrate of Maitland, N.S.W. 1836–50 and at Maitland, Muswell-brook and Port Macquarie 1853–69; captured the ‘Jew Boy’s gang of bushrangers’ at Doughboy Hollow near Murrurundi, N.S.W. 20 Dec. 1840. d. Maitland 5 May 1876.

DAY, George Edward (son of George Day of Manorabon house, Swansea). b. Tenby 4 Aug. 1815; entered Trin. coll. Cam. 1833; scholar of Pemb. coll. 1833 or 1834, 29 wrangler 1837; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; physician in London 1843; M.R.C.P. 1844, F.R.C.P. 1847; phys. to Western general dispensary; lecturer on materia medica at Middlesex hospital; Chandos professor of anatomy and medicine at St. Andrews 1849–63; M.D. Giessen 1849; F.R.S. 6 June 1850; translated J. F. Simon’s Animal chemistry 2 vols. 1845; J. Vogel’s Pathological anatomy of the human body 1847; author of A practical treatise on the domestic management and most important diseases of advanced life 1849; Chemistry in its relations to physiology and medicine 1860, and of many articles in medical papers and Chambers’s Encyclopædia. d. Andersey, Torquay 31 Jany. 1872. Medical Circular iii, 241 (1853), portrait; Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. vii, 45–7 (1875).

DAY, George Fiott. b. June 1820; entered navy Aug. 1833; captain 20 Aug. 1861; retired captain 14 Feb. 1867; C.B. 29 May 1875; V.C. 24 Feb. 1857. d. Weston-super-Mare 18 Dec. 1876. O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict. (1861) 289–90; I.L.N. lxx, 21 (1877), portrait.

DAY, Rev. Henry Thomas. Ed. at Clare coll. Cam., LL.B. 1836, LLD. 1841; V. of Mendlesham, Suffolk 1835 to death; author of Sermons at Mendlesham 1838; Algarsife and other poems 1848; An ode on the liberation of Abd-el-Kader, and letters and pamphlets in favour of the revision of the authorised version of the Scriptures. d. 27 Sep. 1861 aged 62.

DAY, John (son of the succeeding). Trainer of horses at Danebury; entered an action for libel against Admiral Rous which did not come into court; trained horses for Duke of Beaufort, Lord Hastings and many others. d. Danebury 3 Dec. 1882 aged 68. Baily’s Mag. xl, 64–72, 121–2 (1883); Illust. sp. and dr. news xviii, 345 (1882).

DAY, John Barham. b. Houghton Down 1794; won the Oaks on Turquoise 1828, Oxygen 1831, Pussy 1834, Deception 1839 and Crucifix 1840; trainer for Lord George Bentinck many years; trained many celebrated horses for Henry Padwick and John Gully, among them were Hermit winner of the Two thousand guineas, Andover winner of the Derby, and Virago who won 12 races out of 13 as a 3 year old; earned sobriquet of the “Lyndhurst of the Turf” by his habit of talking sound sense. d. Woodyates 21 March 1860. Rice’s British turf i, 274–8 (1879); Corbet’s Tales of sporting life (1864) 55–67; Baily’s Mag. i, 228–34 (1860).

DAY, Samuel (brother of the preceding). b. 1801; won the Derby on Gustavus 1821, on Priam 1830, on Mendicant 1846; won the Oaks on Pyrrhus the First 1846; kept livery stables in London. d. London 17 Feb. 1866. Bell’s Life in London 24 Feb. 1866 p. 4.

DAYMAN, Rev. John (eld. son of John Dayman of Padstow, Cornwall 1778–1859). b. St. Columb, Cornwall 1802; ed. at Tiverton and C.C. coll. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; scholar of his coll. 1819, fellow 1825–31; R. of Skelton, Cumberland 1831 to death; author of An essay concerning the nature of man 1837; The Inferno of Dante Alighieri translated in the terza rima of the original 1843; The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri translated in terza rima 1865. d. London 8 July 1871.

DEACON, Henry Colins. Entered navy 3 Nov. 1800; captain 2 April 1817, retired 1 Oct. 1846, retired admiral 10 Nov. 1862. d. 12 Leonard place, Kensington 9 Nov. 1869.

DEAKIN, James Henry. b. near Manchester, Feb. 1851; M.P. for Launceston 1874–77; barrister M.T. 1875. d. Werrington park near Launceston 8 Nov. 1881.

DEALTRY, Right Rev. Thomas (son of James Dealtry of Knottingley near Pontefract). b. Knottingley 1795; usher in a school at Doncaster; ed. at Cath. hall, Cam., LL.B. 1829; C. of St. Peter’s, Cam. 1828; chaplain in Bengal army 1829; hon. sec. to Church Missionary Soc. Calcutta; archdeacon of Calcutta 1835–48; Inc. of St. John’s, Bedford row, London 1848–49; bishop of Madras 9 Nov. 1849 to death, installed 2 Feb. 1850; author of The divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ proved from his own discourse 1830. d. Madras 4 March 1861. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known, 2 ed. (1874) 106–7; I.L.N. xv, 376 (1849), portrait.

DEALTRY, Venerable Thomas (only son of the preceding). b. 1825; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; assistant chaplain Madras army 1850–71; archdeacon of Madras 1861–71; R. of Swillington, Yorkshire 1872–78; V. of Maidstone 1878 to death. d. Maidstone 29 Nov. 1882.

DEANE, Bonar Millett. b. 30 Sep. 1834; ensign 96 foot 12 March 1853; lieut.-col. 19 foot 14 April 1875 to 15 Jany. 1879 when placed on h.p.; D.A.G. and Q.M.G. Cape of Good Hope 2 Aug. 1880 to death; killed by the Boers at Laing’s Neck, Natal 28 Jany. 1881. I.L.N. lxxviii, 149 (1881), portrait.

DEANE, Charles (elder son of Charles Meredith Deane, captain 24 light dragoons). b. Southampton 6 June 1791; cornet 24 light dragoons 5 Sep. 1805, captain 5 Dec. 1818 to 25 July 1819 when regiment was disbanded; captain 1 foot 14 Nov. 1822, major 19 June 1835 to death; K.H. 1836. d. Newport, co. Monmouth 18 March 1853.

DEANE, Rev. John Bathurst (brother of the preceding). b. Cape of Good Hope 27 Aug. 1797; ed. at Merchant Taylors; Parkin’s exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Cam. 1816, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; second classical and head mathematical master at Merchant Taylors 1836–55; V. of St. Helen, Bishopsgate 1855 to death; R. of St. Martin, Outwich 1855 to death; author of The worship of the Serpent traced throughout the world and its traditions referred to the events in Paradise 1830; The life of Richard Deane general at sea in the service of the Commonwealth 1870. d. Sion hill, Bath 12 July 1887.

DEANE, John Connellan (eld. son of the succeeding). b. 1816; called to Irish bar; poor law inspector 1846; associated with Wm. Dargan, Sir Joseph Paxton and others in the Great Exhibitions at Cork 1852, Dublin 1853, and the Crystal palace and Alexandra palace, London; originator of Great Exhibition at Manchester; closely associated with early promoters of submarine telegraphy. d. Naples 24 Feb. 1887.

DEANE, Sir Thomas (eld. son of Alexander Dean of Cork, builder). b. Cork 1792; a builder at Cork to 1830, an architect there 1830 to death; designed Commercial buildings, old and new Savings’ banks, Bank of Ireland and Queen’s college, Cork; joint designer of The University Museum at Oxford 1855; mayor of Cork 1830; knighted by Duke of Northumberland at Cork 1830; pres. of Institute of Irish architects many years. d. 26 Longford terrace, Monkstown, Dublin 2 Oct. 1871. I.L.N. lix, 338 (1871).

DEANE, William Wood (3 son of John Wood Deane, cashier in Bank of England, who. d. 5 Dec. 1854 aged 68). b. Liverpool road, Islington, London 22 March 1825; assoc. R.I.B.A. 1848; acted at Miss Kelly’s theatre, London which he subsequently decorated; architect in London 1853; made designs and perspectives for architects; assoc. of Instit. of painters in water colours 1862, member 1867; assoc. of Society of painters in water colours 1870; exhibited 23 pictures at R.A., 4 at B.I. and 13 at Suffolk st. gallery 1844–72. d. of cancer of the liver at 64 King Henry’s road, Hampstead 18 Jany. 1873.

DEARDEN, Thomas Ferrand. Solicitor at Rochdale 1823 to death; coroner for co. of Lancaster, March 1835 to death. d. The Elms, Rochdale 1 Jany. 1870 aged 68.

DEAS, Sir David (son of Francis Deas, provost of Falkland, who d. 1857). b. Falkland, Sep. 1807; assistant surgeon R.N. 7 June 1828; chief medical officer of naval forces engaged during Russian war, and Chinese war up to peace of Tientsin 1859; inspector general of hospitals and fleets 1 March 1855 to March 1872 when placed on retired list; granted good service pension 11 April 1869; C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. 32 Heriot row, Edinburgh 15 Jany. 1876.

DEAS, Sir George (brother of the preceding). b. 7 Jany. 1804; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1826; called to Scotch bar 1828; advocate depute 1840–41 and 1846–50; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty 1850–51; solicitor general 1851–52; lord ordinary of court of session with courtesy title of Lord Deas and a judge of Exchequer 25 May 1853; a lord comr. of justiciary April 1854 to Feb. 1885; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 Feb. 1858; edited The Scottish Jurist 1829; edited with James Anderson, Cases in the Court of Session, Jury Court, and the High Court of Justiciary 1829–33, 4 vols. d. 32 Heriot row, Edinburgh 7 Feb. 1887.

DEASE, Matthew O’Reilly (son of Richard Dease, M.D. of Dublin, who d. 1819). b. 1819; ed. at Univ. of Paris; sheriff of Louth 1857 and of Cavan 1861; contested co. Cavan 1867; M.P. for co. Louth 1868–74; gave by his will remainder of his real and personal property (equal to £40,000) to be applied towards extinguishing National Debt. d. 17 Aug. 1887.

DEASY, Rickard (2 son of Richard Deasy of Clonakilty, Cork). b. Clonakilty 1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1849; bencher of King’s Inns 1858; third serjeant at law 1858–59; M.P. for co. Cork 1855–61; solicitor general for Ireland, June 1859 to Feb. 1860; attorney general Feb. 1860 to Jany. 1861; P.C. 1860; baron of court of Exchequer, Jany. 1861; a judge of Court of Appeal 1 Jany. 1878 to death. d. 41 Merrion sq. east, Dublin 6 May 1883. O’Flanagan’s Munster circuit (1880) 254, 376–80.

DE BAR, Benedict. b. London 5 Nov. 1812; made his début at T.R. Margate 1832; went to United States 1834; opened old National theatre, New York 1837; played in London 1840; proprietor of Chatham theatre, N.Y. 1849–52, of St. Charles’ theatre, New Orleans 1853, of St. Louis theatre 1855; the best Falstaff in America 1872 to death. d. St. Louis 14 Aug. 1877. Era 14 Oct. 1877 p. 4.

DE-BEAUVOIR, Sir John Edmond, 2 Baronet (eld. son of Sir John Edmond Browne, 1 baronet 1748–1835). b. 10 Dec. 1794; ed. at Westminster; assumed name of De-Beauvoir in lieu of Browne 1825; claimed as eldest son of a baronet, honour of knighthood which was conferred on him 1827; contested Windsor, Dec. 1832, July 1837 and June 1841; M.P. for Windsor 7 Jany. 1835 to 6 April 1835 when unseated on petition; presented coat of arms over doorway of Westminster school to replace the former escutcheon which he helped to destroy when at school; author of Miscellaneous poetry and scraps written for ladies’ albums 1837. d. Upper Gloucester st. Dorset sq. London 29 April 1869.

DE BEAUVOISIN, Auguste Mariot. Professor of French in King William st. city of London 1844 to death; also taught French at St. George’s and St. James’s halls, London; chevalier de la Toison d’Or; author of How to read and translate French 1847; French acquired in four months 1852; Confabulateur Français 1855; French reading for self instruction 1861; Anecdotes in French 1866; French verbs at a glance 1873. d. 53 Carlton hill, St. John’s Wood, London 30 Oct. 1879.

DE BERG, Alexander. Russian attaché chamberlain and consul general in London 16 April 1862 to death. d. London 14 March 1884.

DE BERGUE, Charles Louis Aimé. b. Kensington, London 24 Sep. 1807; went to Paris 1819, returned to England 1834; civil engineer at Manchester 1850, at Cardiff 1861; invented several valuable machine tools; invented a new iron permanent way for the Barcelona and Tarragona line which he constructed; invented a new construction of lattice bridge uniting lightness with great strength; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1849. d. 17 Kensington palace gardens, London 10 April 1873.

DE BLAQUIÈRE, William De Blaquière, 3 Baron (2 son of 1 Baron De Blaquière 1735–1822). b. 27 Jany. 1778; ensign 56 foot 31 Aug. 1791; major 25 light dragoons 1 Feb. 1798 to 22 Jany. 1801; lieut.-col. 22 light dragoons 22 Jany. 1801 to 22 Aug. 1805; lieut.-col. 2 dragoon guards 22 Aug. 1805 to 30 July 1807; lieut.-col. 71 foot 30 July 1807 to 1808; general 23 Nov. 1841; succeeded his brother as 3 Baron 7 April 1844; great alnager of Ireland; F.R.S. 21 Feb. 1805; shot himself at Beulah hill, Norwood 12 Nov. 1851.

DE BLAQUIÈRE, Peter Boyle (brother of the preceding). b. Dublin 27 April 1784; served as a midshipman at battle of Camperdown; emigrated to Canada 1837; a member of Canadian legislative council 1838 to death; chancellor of Toronto University; a member of the Anglican synod. d. Yorkville (now part of Toronto) 23 Oct. 1860.

DE BURGH, Ulick Canning (elder son of 1 Marquis of Clanricarde 1802–74). b. St. James’s sq. London 12 July 1827; ed. at Eton; ensign Coldstream guards 27 March 1846, captain 3 Nov. 1854 to 1860; aide-de-camp to lord lieut. of Ireland 1846–52, state steward of his household Jany. 1853; served in Crimean war, taken prisoner by the Russians 22 Oct. 1854; military sec. to Lord Canning governor general of India 1856–57; M.P. for Galway 1857–65, for co. Galway 1865 to death. d. 17 Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 16 Aug. 1867.

DE BURGH, Rev. William (3 son of Thomas Burgh of Oldtown, co. Kildare, who d. 1832). Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1847, B.D. 1851, D.D. 1857; Incumbent of St. John’s, Sandymount, Dublin 1852–65; R. of Ardboe, Armagh 1865 to death; author of Lectures on the Second Advent, 3 ed. 1841; Discourses on the life of Christ 1849; The Christian Sabbath 1856; An exposition of the Book of Revelations, 5 ed. 1857; Commentary on Book of Psalms, 2 vols. 1860. d. Ardboe 15 Oct. 1866.

DE BUTTS, Sir Augustus (son of Elias De Butts of Wicklow). b. 1770; second lieut. R.E. 22 Aug. 1787, col. 30 Dec. 1814, col. commandant 20 March 1827 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; K.C.H. 1837; knighted by Wm. iv at St. James’s palace 1 March 1837. d. 14 Cambridge sq. London 27 Nov. 1853.

DE CETTO, Baron. Bavarian minister in London to 1872. d. 6 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 7 Aug. 1879 aged 84.

DE CHABOT, Sir Louis William De Rohan Chabot, Viscount (eld. son of Comte de Jarnac). b. 1780; cornet 18 light dragoons 30 April 1793; major 9 light dragoons 16 March 1809; deputy adjutant general in Canada 1807–8; served in expedition to Walcheren and in Portugal 1809–10; M.G. 19 July 1821; K.C.H. 1822. d. 10 July 1875.

DE CHAUMONT, Francis Stephen Bennett François. b. Edinburgh 1833; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1853; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1853, F.R.C.S. Edin. 1804; assistant surgeon in the army 28 April 1854; served with Rifle brigade in Crimean war; surgeon 20 June 1865; surgeon major on h.p. 11 Oct. 1876; assistant professor of hygiene at army medical school Netley hospital 1863–76, professor 1876 to death; F.R.S. 12 June 1879; author of Different families of the human race 1865; Hygiene in civil and military life, 5 ed. 1878. d. Woolston Lawn, Southampton 18 April 1888.

DE CLIFFORD, Edward Southwell Russell, 23 Baron. b. Upton Warws. 30 April 1824; M.P. for Tavistock 2 Aug. 1847 to 1 July 1852; succeeded 3 Jany. 1874. d. Kirkby Mallory, Leics. 1877.

DE COLQUHOUN, James (only son of Patrick Colquhoun, lord provost of Glasgow). b. Kelvin grove, Lanarkshire 7 June 1780; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; consul general in London for Saxony 1827 to death; chargé d’affaires in London for grand duke of Oldenburg 1848 to death; assumed designation of Chevalier; fellow of univ. of Glasgow. d. Stratford place, London 23 July 1855.

DE COURCY, Michael (eld. child of Nevinson De Courcy, captain R.N. 1789–1844). b. 8 May 1811; entered navy 1 Feb. 1824; captain 6 Sep. 1852; R.A. 18 Oct. 1867; retired admiral 15 June 1879; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Milburn, Newton Abbot, Devon 22 Oct. 1881.

DE COURCY, Nevinson Willoughby (brother of the preceding). b. 27 Sep. 1823; 2 lieut. R.M. 17 Aug. 1841; captain 24 Feb. 1854; lieut. col. 30 Oct. 1872 to 8 Oct. 1877 when he retired on full-pay; C.B. 2 June 1877. d. Clapham near London 30 March 1885.

DEEDES, John (5 son of Wm. Deedes of Sandling park, Kent, M.P. for Hythe). b. 1803; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1826; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1829, bencher 1863, treasurer 1877; a revising barrister many years; recorder of Queenborough 1834, of Deal, Sandwich, and Canterbury 1845–72; assessor to the liberty of Romney, March 1858. d. 26 Chapel st. Belgrave sq. London 11 Jany. 1885.

DEEDES, William (brother of the preceding). b. Sandling park, Kent 17 Oct. 1796; ed. at Winchester and C.C. coll. Ox., B.A. 1818; Fellow of All Souls coll. 1818–33; M.P. for East Kent 1845–57 and Dec. 1857 to death; a comr. of church estates 30 April 1858 to death; chairman of Kent general sessions; major commandant of East Kent yeomanry cavalry. d. Eaton terrace, London 30 Nov. 1862.

DEEDES, William (eld. son of the preceding). b. 11 Oct. 1834; ed. at Harrow; second lieut. Rifle brigade 1852; served in Crimean war and Indian mutiny; lieut.-col. commandant of East Kent militia 1865–69; M.P. for East Kent 1876–80. d. Saltwood Castle, Hythe, Kent 27 May 1887.

DE FOULON, James Foulon, Marquis. b. England 1795; ed. under his godfather John Nash the architect; lived some time at Hastings where he taught the Princess Victoria perspective drawing; architect to sir Henry Meux of Oxford st. London, brewer 1831–41; his only son was killed at Lucknow during the Indian mutiny. d. Fulham road, London 22 Jany. 1887. London Figaro 5 Feb. 1887, portrait.

DE FREYNE, Arthur French, 1 Baron (eld. son of Arthur French, M.P. for co. Roscommon, who d. 24 Nov. 1820). b. 1795; called to Irish bar 1825; M.P. for co. Roscommon 1821–32; created baron de Freyne of Artagh 16 May 1839, and baron De Freyne of Coolavin 5 April 1851. d. 71 Connaught terrace, Hyde park, London 29 Sep. 1856.

DE GEX, Sir John Peter (eld. son of John De Gex of Leicester place, Leicester sq. London). b. 1809; ed. at Jesus coll. Cam., fellow, hon. fellow; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. 30 Jany. 1835; published with Basil Montagu and Edward Deacon Cases in bankruptcy argued in the Court of Review and on appeal before the lord chancellor 3 vols. 1842–5, with John Smale Reports of cases decided in Chancery by Knight-Bruce, V.C. and Parker, V.C. 5 vols. 1849–53, with Macnaghten and Gordon Cases in the Court of appeal in Chancery 8 vols. 1851–7; Q.C. 28 March 1865; bencher of his inn 19 April 1865, treasurer 1882; knighted at Windsor Castle 7 Dec. 1882 on occasion of opening new law courts in the Strand; author with R. H. Smith of Arrangements between debtors and creditors under the bankruptcy act 1861, and 2 supplements 3 vols. 1867–69. d. 20 Hyde park sq. London 14 May 1887. I.L.N. lxxxi, 656 (1882), portrait.

DE GREY, Thomas Philip De Grey, 2 Earl (eld. son of Thomas Robinson, 2 baron Grantham 1738–86). b. Whitehall, London 8 Dec. 1781; succeeded as 3 baron Grantham 20 July 1786; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1801; assumed surname of Weddell 7 May 1803; lord lieut. of Bedford 13 Feb. 1818; succeeded as 2 Earl De Grey 4 May 1833; assumed surname of De Grey in lieu of Weddell 24 June 1833; first lord of the admiralty 22 Dec. 1834 to 25 April 1835; P.C. 29 Dec. 1834; lord lieut. of Ireland 3 Sep. 1841 to 2 July 1844; grand master of order of St. Patrick 1841–44; K.G. 12 Dec. 1844; pres. of Instit. of British Architects 1834 to death; F.R.S. 29 April 1841; author of Memoir of the life of Sir C. Lucas 1845; Characteristics of the Duke of Wellington apart from his military talents 1853. d. 4 St. James’s sq. London 14 Nov. 1859. I.L.N. 25 Feb. 1842 p. 146, portrait, 13 Jany. 1844, 22, 24, portrait.

DE HAMEL, Felix John (son of Comte Jean Baptiste Augustin Bruno de Hamel). b. Tamworth 1808; ed. at Repton; admitted solicitor 1835; assistant solicitor for the Customs 1845, chief solicitor for the Customs and Board of Trade 1848–78; consolidated the Acts relating to the Customs 1854 and 1876; facilitated Customs business by introducing a simpler form of bond. d. 70 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 31 July 1885 in 78 year.

DE HAVILLAND, Thomas Fioth (eld. son of Sir Peter De Havilland of Havilland hall, Guernsey, who d. 1821). b. Havilland 10 April 1775; entered Madras army 1791; superintending engineer and architect of Madras presidency 1814; constructed Madras bulwark and pier 1822; retired lieut. col. 20 April 1825; lived in Guernsey 1823 to death. d. De Beauvoir, Guernsey 23 Feb. 1866. Vibart’s Madras Engineers ii, 1–35 (1883).

DE JARNAC, Philippe Ferdinand Auguste de Rohan Chabot, Comte (eld. son of Viscount De Chabot 1780–1875). b. 2 June 1821; chief sec. of French embassy in London; lived in Kilkenny 20 years; French ambassador in London 28 Nov. 1874 to death; author of Rockingham or the younger brother 1849, anon.; Love and ambition 3 vols. 1851, anon.; Cécile or the pervert By Sir Charles Rockingham 1851; Electra, a story of modern times 3 vols. 1853, anon. d. French embassy, Albert Gate house, London 22 March 1875. I.L.N. lxvi, 321, 331 (1875), portrait.

DE JERSEY, Henry. b. 1804; solicitor in City of London 1826 to death; vestry clerk of parishes of St. Anne, St. Agnes and St. Mary Staining; common councilman for Aldersgate ward 1840–71; chairman of Commission of Sewers 1862–71; master of the Loriners’ Company 1871; secondary of City of London 1871 to Nov. 1884; under sheriff of London and Middlesex twice. d. 32 St. James’s road, Brixton, London 1 Dec. 1884 in 81 year.

DE LA BECHE, Sir Henry Thomas (son of Thomas De La Beche of Halse hall, Clarendon, Jamaica, a colonel in the army). b. London 10 Feb. 1796; ed. at Ottery St. Mary, Devon and Great Marlow; F.G.S. 1817; studied geology in Dorset, Devon, Pembroke, Switzerland and France; conducted the Geological Survey under the Ordnance in Cornwall and Devon 1832, director general of Ordnance Survey 1840 to death; sec. to Geological Society 1831, foreign Sec. 1835–46, Pres. 1847 and 1848, Wollaston medallist 1855; F.R.S. 23 Dec. 1819; F.L.S. 1821; Geological museum in Jermyn st. London founded on his recommendation 1851; received order of Leopold of Belgium; created a Knight of Danish order of Dannebrog; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 April 1842; C.B. 27 April 1848; author of Researches in theoretical geology 1834; How to observe geology 1835; Report on the geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset 1839 and other books. d. London 13 April 1855. Quarterly Journal of geological society xii, pp. xxxiv-viii (1856); Proceedings of royal society vii, 582–86 (1855); I.L.N. xviii, 422 (1851), portrait.

DELACOMB, Henry Isatt. Second lieut. R.M. 21 Oct. 1805; col. commandant 22 June 1855 to 1 April 1870; general 23 Aug. 1866; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. 19 Albion st. Hyde park, London 15 Nov. 1878 aged 89.

DELAGARDE, Philip Chilwell (son of a clergyman at Jersey). b. 1797; ed. at Exeter gr. sch.; apprenticed to Peppin and Barnes, surgeons, Exeter; house surgeon St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 25 Sep. 1818; M.R.C.S. Aug. 1819, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon Eye infirmary, Exeter 1836; surgeon Devon and Exeter hospital, Exeter 1841, afterwards senior surgeon; ophthalmic surgeon and after the retirement of Barnes, the most popular operator in the West of England; mayor of Exeter, Nov. 1834 to 1 Jany. 1836; sheriff of Exeter 1832–33; author of A treatise on Cataract 1821; A supplement to the account of the church of St. Andrew, Cullompton and its mural paintings in Spreate’s Sketches of churches in Devon 1842; A brief commentary on the construction of hospitals 1870, and Nursing Sisterhoods, a pamphlet. d. 23 Southernhay, Exeter 17 Nov. 1871 in 74 year. Medical Times and Gazette 2 Dec. 1871 p. 694; Lancet 16 Dec. 1871 p. 868.

DELAMAINE, Charles Henry. Entered Bombay army 1820; retired colonel 24 April 1854; C.B. 4 July 1843. d. Dinan, France 19 June 1870.

DELAMERE, Thomas Cholmondeley, 1 Baron (eld. son of Thomas Cholmondeley of Vale Royal, Northwich, Cheshire 1726–79, M.P. for Cheshire). b. Beckenham, Kent 9 Aug. 1767; high sheriff of Cheshire 1792; M.P. for Cheshire 11 June 1796 to 29 Sep. 1812; created Baron Delamere on coronation of King George 4th, by patent dated 17 July 1821. d. 12 Hereford st. London 30 Sep. 1855.

DELAMERE, Hugh Cholmondeley, 2 Baron (eld. son of the preceding). b. Vale Royal 3 Oct. 1812; ed. at Eton; M.P. for Denbighshire 1840–41 and for Montgomery 1841–47; col. 1 Royal Cheshire militia 28 Aug. 1840 to death. d. Vale Royal 1 Aug. 1887.

DE LA MOTTE, Freeman Gage (son of Wm. De La Motte 1775–1863). Author of Examples of modern alphabets 1859; Embroiderer’s book of design 1860; Primer of the art of illumination 1860; Mediæval alphabets and initials for illuminators 1861; Book of ornamental alphabets 9th to 19th century 1858, 5 ed. 1863. d. of apoplexy 15 Beaufort buildings, Strand, London 16 July 1862 aged 48.

DE LA MOTTE, Peter. Entered Bombay army 1797; col. 3 Bombay light cavalry 27 April 1826 to death; general 16 June 1860; C.B. 28 July 1838. d. 15 Craven hill gardens, London 5 Feb. 1861 aged 79.

DE LA MOTTE, William Alfred (eld. son of Peter De La Motte of Weymouth, postal agent). b. Weymouth 2 Aug. 1775; pupil of Benjamin West, R.A.; drawing master at royal military colleges, Great Marlow and Sandhurst 1803–43; published Thirty etchings of rural subjects 1816; exhibited 53 pictures at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. gallery 1793–1850; author of Smoking and Smokers 1845, anon.; Historical sketch of priory and hospital of St. Bartholomew 1846. d. The lawn, St. Giles’s fields, Oxford 13 Feb. 1863.