Chapter D (1)

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).