Chapter D (2)

DASHWOOD, WILLIAM BATEMAN. _b._ 1 Sep. 1790; entered navy 3 Aug.
1799; lost his right arm in action 29 Nov. 1811; granted pension
for wounds 4 April 1816; captain 21 Oct. 1818, retired 1 Oct.
1846; retired admiral 22 April 1862. _d._ suddenly at Geneva 9 May
1869.

DAUBENY, CHARLES GILES BRIDLE (_3 son of Rev. James Daubeny, R. of
Stratton, Gloucs. who d. 9 Feb. 1817_). _b._ Stratton 11 Feb.
1795; ed. at Winchester and Magd. coll. Ox., demy 1810, lay fellow
1815 to death, bursar 1828, vice pres. 1830; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817,
B.M. 1818, M.D. 1821; M.D. Dublin 1835; Aldrichian professor of
chemistry at Oxford, Oct. 1822–1855, professor of botany there
1834 to death, professor of rural economy 1840 to death; physician
to Radcliffe infirmary 1826–30; pres. of British Association at
Cheltenham 1856; F.R.S. 19 Dec. 1822; author of _A description of
active and extinct volcanoes_ 1826, _2 ed._ 1848; _An introduction
to the atomic theory_ 1831, _2 ed._ 1850; _Lectures on Roman
husbandry_ 1857; _Lectures on Climate_ 1863; _Miscellanies on
scientific and literary subjects 2 vols._ 1867. _d._ Botanic
gardens, Oxford at 12.5 a._m._ 13 Dec. 1867. _Proc. of Royal
Society xvii_, 74–80 (1869); _Quarterly Journal of Geological
society xxiv_, 33–36 (1868).

DAUBENY, HENRY. Ensign 84 foot 8 July 1795, lieut. col. 11 Dec. 1813
to 21 Nov. 1822 when placed on h.p.; col. 80 foot 31 Jany. 1850 to
death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; K.H. 1832; edited C. Daubeny’s _Guide to
the Church_ 1830. _d._ Rome 10 April 1853.

DAUBENY, HENRY. _b._ 1820; M.R.C.S. 1843; M.D. St. Andrews 1845;
L.S.A. 1846; surgeon in London 1843–61, at San Remo, Italy 1861 to
death; author of _The climate of San Remo as adapted to invalids_
1865. _d._ Hôtel des Iles Britanniques, San Remo 26 Jany. 1887.

DAUGARS, JOHN WILLIAM GUSTAVUS LEO (_only son of Rev. Guillaume
Gustavus Daugars, pastor of French protestant church, St. Martin’s
le Grand, London_). _b._ Thurlow sq. Brompton, London 1849; ed. at
Harrow and Brasenose coll. Ox., migrated to St. Alban hall, B.A.
1873; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1875; contributed to _Temple Bar_,
_The Graphic_ and other publications under nom de plume of Claude
Templar. _d._ Hastings 20 Feb. 1885 in 36 year.

DAUGLISH, JOHN (_son of Wm. Dauglish of Bethnal Green, London, clerk
in a large East India house_). _b._ Bethnal Green 10 Feb. 1824;
ed. at Hackney; studied medicine at Univ. of Edin. 1852–55,
bracketed gold medallist for his M.D. degree 1855; took out a
patent for “An improved method of making bread” 1 Oct. 1856 and 4
other patents on same subject 1857–65, this unfermented bread
which he called aerated was first made in factory of Messrs. Carr
of Carlisle 1856; erected a model bakery at Islington 1859; silver
medallist of Society of Arts 1860; bread sold in special shops in
London and the provinces. _d._ Furze bank, Great Malvern 14 Jany.
1866. _On the healthy manufacture of bread by B. W. Richardson_
1884, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxvi_, 259–60 (1860).

DAUNT, VERY REV. ACHILLES (_eld. son of Achilles Daunt of Tracton
abbey, co. Cork, who d. 28 Aug. 1871_). _b._ Rincurran near
Kinsale 23 Aug. 1832; ed. at Kinsale and Univ. of Dublin, scholar
1852, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1866; V. of Rincurran 26 March 1856 to 11
Jany. 1867; R. of Ballymoney, co. Cork 1867; R. of Stackallen, co.
Meath 1867; V. of St. Matthias, Dublin, Aug. 1867; dean of Cork
and R. of St. Finbar, Cork 1875 to death; author of _The Church a
lesson book for angels_ 1872; _The person and offices of the Holy
Ghost_ 1879; _The morning of life and other gleanings from the
manuscripts of the late A. Daunt_ 1881. _d._ St. Anne’s, Blarney
near Cork 17 June 1878. _Spent in the service, a memoir of the
Very Rev. Achilles Daunt by Rev. F. R. Wynne_ 1879, _portrait_;
_Some account of the family of Daunt by John Daunt_ (1881) 25–28,
_portrait_.

DAVENPORT, EDWARD GERSHOM. _b._ 1838; M.P. for St. Ives, Cornwall 5
Feb. 1874 to death. _d._ 28 Lancaster gate, Hyde park, London 4
Dec. 1874.

DAVENPORT, JOHN MARRIOTT. _b._ Shirburn, Oxon, Sep. 1809; solicitor
at Oxford 1831 to death; clerk of the peace for co. Oxon 1831–81,
undersheriff 1853–75; F.S.A. 9 March 1854; privilegiatus Univ. of
Ox. 3 Nov. 1866; author of _Lords lieutenant and high sheriffs of
Oxfordshire 1086–1868_, 1868; _Oxfordshire Annals_ 1869; _Lord
lieutenant and high sheriff, correspondence upon the question of
precedence_ 1871; _Notes upon the jurisdiction of the county
justices within the city of Oxford_ 1872; _Notes as to Oxford
Castle_ 1877. _d._ 62 St. Giles’s, Oxford 31 Jany. 1882.

DAVENPORT, RICHARD ALFRED. _b._ about 1777; author of _New elegant
extracts_, _2nd series 12 vols._ 1823–7; wrote some of the
biographical notices and critical prefaces to Whittingham’s
_British poets 100 vols._ 1822; edited more than _100 vols._ of
miscellaneous works including the _Poetical Register 8 vols._
1802–11. _d._ from inadvertently taking an overdose of opium at
Brunswick cottage, Park st. Camberwell, London 25 Jany. 1852.

DAVENPORT, SAMUEL (_son of Mr. Davenport of Bedford, architect_).
_b._ Bedford 10 Dec. 1783; articled to Charles Warren of London,
line engraver; engraved in outline a large number of portraits for
biographical works; engraved _The works of W. Hogarth_ 1821; his
best plates are in the _Forget-me-not_ 1828–42; one of the
earliest engravers on steel. _d._ 15 July 1867.

DAVEY, RICHARD (_youngest son of Wm. Davey of Redruth, Cornwall,
solicitor, who d. 16 April 1849_). _b._ Redruth 11 Dec. 1799; ed.
at Tiverton and Univ. of Edin.; M.P. for West Cornwall 1857–68.
_d._ Bochym near Helston 24 June 1884. _I.L.N. xxxiii_, 92, 94
(1858), _portrait_.

DAVIDS, REV. THOMAS WILLIAM (_only child of William Saunders Davids
of Swansea, Congregational minister, who d. Dec. 1816_). _b._
Swansea 11 Sep. 1816; minister of Congregational church, Lion
walk, Colchester 3 Feb. 1841 to 1874; secretary of Essex
congregational union 20 years; author of _Annals of Evangelical
Nonconformity in the county of Essex from the time of Wycliffe to
the restoration_ 1863, and of a number of historical articles and
reviews. (_m._ 1841 Louisa eld. dau. of Robert Winter of Clapham
Common, London, solicitor, she was widely known by her _Essay on
Sunday schools_ 1847 and _Sunday school hymn book_, she _d._
Colchester 18 Nov. 1853 aged 37), he _d._ Forest Gate, Essex 11
April 1884. _Congregational year book_ (1885) 187–8.

DAVIDSON, REV. ALEXANDER DYCE. _b._ Aberdeen 8 May 1807; ed. at
Aberdeen Univ.; minister of the South ch. Aberdeen 3 Aug. 1832, of
the West ch. 5 May 1836, of Free ch. Belmont st. 28 Jany. 1844, of
a new Free ch. in Union st. 14 Feb. 1869 to death; author of
_Lectures on the book of Esther_ 1859; _Lectures and sermons
edited by F. Edmond_ 1872. _d._ Aberdeen 27 April 1872. _Wylies’
Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 211–14.

DAVIDSON, ARCHIBALD (_son of Rev. T. Davidson of the Tolbooth
church, Edinburgh_). _b._ 1805; ed. at high sch. Edin. and Univs.
of Glasgow and St. Andrews; called to Scotch bar 1827; senior
advocate depute 1846; sheriff of Kincardine 1847, of Aberdeen 10
Jany. 1848, of Edinburgh 10 Oct. 1865, of the Lothians and Peebles
to Feb. 1886; arranged for publication Lord Cockburn’s _Memorials
of his time_ 1856. _d._ Edinburgh 27 March 1886.

DAVIDSON, CUTHBERT. Entered Bengal army 1827; lieut. col. 49 Bengal
N.I. 31 May 1857 to 1860; lieut. col. 51 Bengal N.I. 1860 to
death; C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ 2 Aug. 1862.

DAVIDSON, DUNCAN. _b._ 1800; M.P. for co. Cromarty 30 June 1826 to
24 July 1830 and 20 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; lord lieutenant of
co. Ross 18 Feb. 1879 to death; married five times. _d._ Edinburgh
18 Sep. 1881.

DAVIDSON, ELLIS A. Author of _Linear Drawing_ 1868; _Drawing and
design without instruments_ 1869; _Elements of practical
perspective_ 1870; _Model drawing from solid forms_ 1871; _Boy
joiner and model maker_ 1874; _House painting and graining_ 1875,
_3 ed._ 1880; _Amateur house carpenter_ 1875 and many other books.
_d._ 29 Clarendon gardens, Maida hill, London 9 March 1878.

DAVIDSON, GEORGE HENRY. Music publisher at 19 Peters hill, Doctors
Commons, London; published _Universal Melodist 2 vols._ 1847–9;
_Instrumental Gems 4 vols._ 1851; _Davidson’s Recitations and
Comic songs_ 1854; sold his business to the Music publishing
company limited for £20,000, 1860; author of _The Thames and
Thanet Guide_ 1838, _6 ed._ 1850. _d._ 26 Clifton road, Peckham 4
July 1875 in 75 year.

DAVIDSON, HARRIET (_2 child of Hugh Miller the geologist 1802–56_).
_b._ Cromarty, Scotland 25 Nov. 1839; ed. at Edin. and London;
author of _Isabel Jardine’s History_ 1867; _Christian Osborne’s
Friends_ 1869; contributed poems and stories to the Adelaide
newspapers and to _Chambers’s Journal_. (_m._ 1863 Rev. John
Davidson, minister of Chalmer’s church, Adelaide, who _d._ 1881).
_d._ Adelaide 23 Dec. 1883.

DAVIDSON, JAMES (_eld. son of James Davidson of Tower Hill, London,
stationer_). _b._ Tower Hill 15 Aug. 1793; lived at Secktor near
Axminster, Devon 1822 to death; author of _The British and Roman
remains in the vicinity of Axminster_ 1833; _History of Axminster
church_ 1835; _History of Newenham Abbey, Devon_ 1843; _Axminster
during the civil war_ 1851; _A glossary to the obsolete and unused
words and phrases of the Holy Scriptures in the authorised English
version_ 1850; _Bibliotheca Devoniensis, a catalogue of printed
books relating to the county of Devon_ 1852 _and Supplement_ 1862;
_Notes on the antiquities of Devonshire_ 1861. _d._ Secktor house,
Axminster 29 Feb. 1864. _G. P. R. Pulman’s book of the Axe_ (1875)
12, 47, 677.

DAVIDSON, JOHN. _b._ Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire 29 March 1804; ed.
at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; transcriber for the Spalding Club 20
years; arranged the Burgh records of Dundee 1865; wrote a number
of pamphlets on various political subjects; a small vol.
containing many poems and prose pieces by him was published at
Aberdeen 1872. _d._ 28 Sep. 1871.

DAVIDSON, JOHN. L.R.C.S. Edin. 1838; surgeon in the navy 29 July
1839; M.D. St. Andrews 1845; M.R.C.P. 1860; inspector general of
hospitals 4 July 1866 to 26 Oct. 1874 when he retired; C.B. 13
March 1867. _d._ Bosworth lodge, Willesden lane, London 31 Jany.
1881 aged 63.

DAVIDSON, THOMAS (_son of Jonah Davidson of Oxnam Row farm near
Jedburgh, shepherd_). _b._ Oxnam Row 7 July 1838; entered Univ. of
Edin. 1855; schoolmaster at Forres 1860–61, in Edinburgh 1861;
licensed as a preacher in united presbyterian church 2 Feb. 1864;
obtained second prize in rhetoric class for a poem on ‘Ariadne at
Naxos’ 1859, one of his friends sent this poem to Thackeray who
inserted it in _Cornhill Mag._ Dec. 1860; sent songs and short
poems to the ‘_Scotsman_.’ _d._ Bankend, Jedburgh 29 April 1870.
_The life of a Scottish probationer, being a memoir of Thomas
Davidson by James Brown_ (1878), _portrait_.

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.