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DERRY, RIGHT REV. JOHN. Roman Catholic bishop of Clonfert, Ireland 9
July 1847 to death; consecrated 21 Sep. 1847. _d._ Cams, Fuerty,
co. Roscommon 28 June 1870 aged 59.

DERVILLE, ADOLPHUS. Entered Madras army 1816; col. 34 Madras light
infantry 20 Aug. 1853 to 1860; col. 42 light infantry 1860 to 12
Dec. 1862; col. 31 light infantry 12 Dec. 1862 to death; general
25 June 1870. _d._ 8 The Terrace, Kensington gardens sq. Bayswater
27 March 1874 aged 72.

DERWENTWATER, AMELIA MATILDA MARY TUDOR RADCLIFFE, calling herself
Countess of (_dau. of John James Radcliffe 1764–1833 by Amelia
Anna Charlotte, Princess Sobieski_). Came over to England and
commenced to agitate for her rights 1865; resided at Blaydon,
Northumberland 1865; took possession of the old ruined castle of
Dilston 29 Sep. 1868 and suspended portraits of her family on
walls of the principal hall; ejected by the agent of the Lords of
the Admiralty 1 Oct. 1868 who recovered £500 damages against her;
adjudicated bankrupt 24 March 1871; confined in Newcastle gaol 25
Nov. 1872 to July 1873 for contempt of court. _d._ of bronchitis
at 53, Cutler’s hall road, Benfieldside, Lanchester near Durham 26
Feb. 1880 aged 49. _The heirs of Dilston and Derwentwater by S. S.
Jones_ 1869; _Gillow’s English Catholics ii_, 49–50 (1885);
Monthly chronicle of north country lore and legend, _April 1888
pp. 165–70_, _May 1888 pp. 205–212_, _portrait_; _Saturday Review
17 Oct. 1868 pp. 520–21_; _Celebrated Claimants_ (1873) 246–55.

DE SALIS, RODOLPH. _b._ May 1811; cornet 8 Dragoons 17 Dec. 1830,
lieut.-col. 2 Oct. 1856 to 21 Feb. 1865; C.B. 1 March 1861; col. 8
Hussars 22 Sep. 1875 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 27 Ashley
place, Westminster 13 March 1880.

DESANGES, SIR FRANCIS (_son of Wm. Desanges_). Sheriff of London
1817–18; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 17 April 1818;
sheriff of Oxon 1825. _d._ in the Queen’s Bench prison, London
where he had been confined 4 years 20 Sep. 1860.

DESART, OTWAY O’CONNOR CUFFE, 3 Earl of (_only son of 2 Earl of
Desart 1788–1820_). _b._ Desart house, Kilkenny 12 Oct. 1818; ed.
at Ch. Ch. Ox.; elected M.P. for Ipswich 3 June 1842 but unseated
on petition Aug. 1842; a representative peer of Ireland 19 Jany.
1847 to death; under sec. of state for the Colonies March to Dec.
1852. _d._ Eaton sq. London 1 April 1865. _I.L.N. xx_, 321 (1852),
_portrait_.

DESBOROUGH, LAURENCE. Solicitor in City of London 1818 to 1884;
member of the Law Association 1823, president 1881 to death. _d._
46 Gloucester gardens, Hyde park, London 10 Sep. 1888 aged 92.

DE SLANE, WILLIAM MACGUCKIN, French Baron. _b._ Belfast 12 Aug.
1801; went to Paris 1830; on missions at Constantinople and in
Algeria for French government 1843–45; interpreter to the army of
Africa; professor of modern Arabic at Ecole de langues Orientales,
Paris to death; member of French institute 1862. _d._ Passy, Paris
4 Aug. 1878.

DE SOLA, REV. ABRAHAM (_son of the succeeding_). _b._ London 18 Sep.
1825; minister of Portuguese synagogue in Montreal 1847 to death;
professor of Hebrew and Oriental literature at McGill Univ. 1848;
LLD. 1858; pres. of Natural history soc. of Montreal; author of
_Scripture Zoology_; _The sanitary institutions of the Hebrews_;
_Mosaic Cosmogony_, and other books. _d._ New York 5 June 1882.
_H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 103–4.

DE SOLA, REV. DAVID AARON. _b._ Amsterdam 26 Dec. 1796; student in
the Medrash 1807–16; arrived in London and became Second Hazan or
minister of the Sephardi congregation London 1817; preacher in
English in the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, Bevis Marks,
March 1831 and senior minister; instrumental in organising an
Association for the promotion of Jewish Literature 1842; author
with M. J. Raphall of _A new edition of the sacred scriptures_
1844, only vol. 1 completed; author of _Eighteen treatises from
the Mishna_ 1845; _Ancient melodies of the liturgy of the Spanish
and Portuguese Jews_ and other works; Revised the Jewish library a
work issued at the expense of Mrs. Charlotte Montifiore. _d._
London 29 Oct. 1860. _Biography of Rev. D. A. De Sola by Rev. A.
De Sola_ (1865); _J. Picciotto’s Sketches of Anglo Jewish history_
(1875) 327, 359–61.

DESPARD, HENRY. Ensign 17 foot 25 Oct. 1799, lieut. col. 13 Aug.
1829 to 23 June 1838; lieut. col. 99 foot 27 Sep. 1842 to 20 June
1854; C.B. 2 July 1846; M.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Baring Crescent,
Heavitree, Exeter 30 April 1859 aged 74.

DE STERN, HERMAN STERN, Baron. _b._ Frankfort 1815; established with
his brother Viscount de Stern a foreign banking business in London
about 1848; launched many foreign loans; created a Baron by King
of Portugal 1864 having been much connected with Portuguese
finance. _d._ 4 Hyde park gate, London 20 Oct. 1887, personalty in
England sworn over £3,540,000, Jany. 1888.

DE TABLEY, GEORGE WARREN, 2 Baron (_son of 1 Baron De Tabley
1762–1827_). _b._ Tabley house, Knutsford, Cheshire 28 Oct. 1811;
ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; lieut.-col. commandant Cheshire
yeomanry cavalry 1847–69; a lord in waiting to the Queen, Jany.
1853 to Feb. 1858 and June 1859 to July 1866; treasurer of the
Queen’s household, Dec. 1868 to March 1872. _d._ Tabley house 19
Feb. 1887.

DE TRAFFORD, SIR THOMAS JOSEPH, 1 Baronet (_son of John Trafford of
Croston and Trafford, who d. 29 Oct. 1815_). _b._ 22 March 1778;
sheriff of Lancashire 1834; created Baronet by patent dated 7 Sep.
1841; received royal license to alter his name to De Trafford 2
Oct. 1841. _d._ Trafford park, Manchester 10 Nov. 1852.

DEUTSCH, EMANUEL OSCAR MENAHEM. _b._ Neisse, Prussian Silesia 28
Oct. 1829; assistant librarian British Museum 1855 to death;
author of an essay on the Talmud in _Quarterly Review_ Oct. 1867,
pp. 417–64 and of many articles in Smith’s _Dictionary of the
Bible, Chambers’s Cyclopædia_ and other books. _d._ of cancer of
the kidneys and bladder, Prussian Deaconesses hospital, Alexandria
12 May 1873. _Literary remains of the late Emanuel Deutsch with
memoir_ [_by Lady Strangford_] 1874; _Contemporary Review xxiii_,
779–98 (1874); _Macmillan’s Mag. xxviii_, 382–84 (1873).

DE VESCI, JOHN VESEY, 2 Viscount (_eld. child of 1 Viscount de
Vesci, who d. 13 Oct. 1804_). _b._ 15 Feb. 1771; M.P. for
Maryborough in Irish parliament 1796–97; succeeded 13 Oct. 1804; a
representative peer for Ireland 19 Jany. 1839 to death; lord
lieut. of Queen’s county 1831 to death. _d._ Portaferry, co. Down
19 Oct. 1855.

DE VESCI, THOMAS VESEY, 3 Viscount (_son of the preceding_). _b._
Merrion sq. Dublin 21 Sep. 1803; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1825;
sheriff of Queen’s county 1827; M.P. for Queen’s county 1835–37
and 1841–52; a representative peer for Ireland 10 Jany. 1857 to
death; an ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland 1868. _d._ 4 Carlton
house terrace, London 23 Dec. 1875. _I.L.N. lxviii_, 43, 431
(1876).

DEVEY, GEORGE. _b._ London 1820; architect in London; exhibited 6
designs at the R.A. 1841–48; F.R.I.B.A. 1856; produced large
number of sketches; added to and altered many fine old English
mansions, including those of the Duke of Argyll, Lord Granville,
Lord Rosebery, Lord Wolverton and others. _d._ Hastings 5 Nov.
1886.

DE VINNE, REV. DANIEL. _b._ Londonderry 1 Feb. 1793; a minister of
Methodist Episcopal church 1819; minister in Louisiana and
Mississippi 1819–25, in state of New York 1825 to death; author of
_The Methodist Episcopal church and slavery_ 1844; _Recollections
of fifty years in the Ministry_ 1869; _History of the Irish
primitive church_ 1870. _d._ Morrisania, New York 10 Feb. 1883.

DEVLIN, ANNE (_niece of Michael Dwyer, Irish insurgent leader
1771–1815_). _b._ about 1780; servant of Robert Emmett at his
residence in Butterfield lane, Rathfarnham; messenger between him
and his friends in Dublin when he was hiding in the Dublin
mountains 1803; suffered more than two years imprisonment in
Kilmainham gaol; a washerwoman in Dublin. _d._ Dublin 18 Sep. 1851
aged 70. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery where there is a monument.

DEVON, WILLIAM COURTENAY, 10 Earl of (_eld. son of Right Rev. Henry
Reginald Courtenay 1741–1803, bishop of Exeter_). _b._ Lower
Grosvenor st. London 19 June 1777; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1798,
M.A. 1801, D.C.L. 1837; barrister L.I. 11 June 1799; patentee of
the Subpœna office 1800–52 when office was abolished; M.P. for
Exeter 1812–26; a master in Chancery 30 July 1817 to 23 March
1826; clerk assistant of the Parliaments 6 Feb. 1826 to 26 May
1835 when he succeeded his cousin as 10 Earl; high steward of
Univ. of Ox. Feb. 1838 to death; an ecclesiastical comr. for
England 21 Jany. 1842 to Aug. 1850. _d._ Shrivenham, Berkshire 19
March 1859. _Doyle’s Official baronage i_, 583 (1886), _portrait_;
_Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen_, _second
series_ (1846), _portrait_.

DEVONSHIRE, WILLIAM GEORGE SPENCER CAVENDISH, 6 Duke of (_only son
of 5 Duke of Devonshire 1748–1811_). _b._ Paris 21 May 1790; ed.
at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, LLD. 1811; succeeded 29
July 1811; lord lieut. of Derbyshire 19 Aug. 1811 to death; bought
library of Thomas Dampier, bishop of Ely for £10,000, 1812, and
John Kemble’s collection of plays for £2000, 1821; ambassador
extraordinary to Russia for coronation of Emperor Nicholas 25
April 1826; received Russian orders of St. Andrew and St.
Alexander Newski and St. Anne 18 Aug. 1828 for magnificence of his
embassy which cost him £50,000 beyond allowance for it made by
Government; P.C. 30 April 1827; K.G. 10 May 1827; lord chamberlain
of the household 5 May 1827 to 18 Feb. 1828 and 22 Nov. 1830 to 15
Dec. 1834; entertained Emperor of Russia, King of Saxony and
Prince Albert at Chiswick 8 June 1844. _d._ Hardwick hall,
Derbyshire 18 Jany. 1858. _G.M. iv_, 209–10 (1858); _I.L.N. 15
June 1844 pp._ 384–5, _23 Jany. 1858 p._ 75; _Waagen’s Treasures
of art in Great Britain ii_, 88–96 (1854), _iii_, 344–70 (1854);
_Catalogue of the library at Chatsworth 4 vols._ 1879.

DE WALDEN, THOMAS BLAIDES. _b._ London 1811; made his début on the
stage at Haymarket theatre 1841; first appeared in America at Park
theatre, New York 1844 as Belmour in _Is he jealous?_; engaged in
mercantile pursuits 1857; a chaplain in volunteer army of United
States during the civil war; author of _The upper ten and the
lower twenty_ played at Burton’s theatre, New York; _The Seven
Sisters_; _The Jesuit_ played at Bowery theatre, New York 1854;
_The Hypochondriac_; wrote more than 100 plays. _d._ New York 26
Sep. 1873.

DEWAR, FREDERICK CHARLES (_son of James Dewar 1793–1846, musical
director of theatre royal, Edinburgh_). Made his first appearance
in London at St. James’s theatre 29 Oct. 1860 as Tunstall in _Up
at the hills_; made his first success at same house as Dr. Bland
in _Friends or Foes_ the English version of Sardou’s _Nos Intimes_
8 March 1862; played Tom Stylus in Robertson’s comedy _Society_,
at Prince of Wales’s theatre 11 Nov. 1865 to Sep. 1866; played
Captain Crosstree in Burnand’s burlesque _The latest edition of
Black-eyed Susan, or the little Bill that was taken up_, at New
Royalty theatre 400 times from 29 Nov. 1866 to 20 March 1868;
played Bishopriggs in Wilkie Collins’s drama _Man and Wife_, at
Prince of Wales’s 22 Feb. 1873; played Angus McAlister in
Gilbert’s comedy _Engaged_, at Haymarket 3 Oct. 1877 to 4 Jany.
1878. _d._ Chelsea workhouse, London 8 Jany. 1878 aged 46. _bur._
Brompton cemetery. _The Universal Review 15 Oct. 1888 pp._ 162,
169, 177, _portrait_; _The Entr’ Acte 19 Jany. 1878 pp._ 6, 9,
_portrait_; _The Era 13 Jany. 1878 pp._ 6, 12.

DE WILDE, GEORGE JAMES (_son of Samuel De Wilde, portrait painter
1748–1832_). _b._ London 1804 or 1805; contributed many articles
to various periodicals; edited the _Northampton Mercury_ 1830 to
death; author of _Rambles round about, and Poems, edited by E.
Dicey_ 1872; his portrait by J. E. Williams was presented by his
friends to the Northampton Museum 1871. _d._ The Parade,
Northampton 16 Sep. 1871 in 67 year. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 22
Sep. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii_, 311 (1872); _The
Northampton Mercury 23 Sep. 1871 pp._ 3, 5, 8.

DIAMOND, HUGH WELCH (_eld. son of Wm. Batchelor Diamond, surgeon
H.E.I.Co.’s service_). _b._ 1809; ed. at Norwich gr. sch.; studied
at St. Bartholomew’s and Bethlehem hospitals; L.S.A. 1829;
M.R.C.S. 1834; practised in Soho, London; resident superintendent
of female patients at Surrey county lunatic asylum 1848–58; kept a
private asylum for female patients at Twickenham 1858 to death;
invented the paper or cardboard photographic _portrait_; sec. of
London Photographic Soc. 1883, edited its Journal vols. 5–8
(1859–64); contributed papers to first series of _Notes and
Queries_ on photography; F.S.A. 15 May 1834. _d._ Twickenham
house, Twickenham 21 June 1886.

DIAVOLO, JOEL IL, otherwise known as Joel Benedict. Wire walker,
pantomimist and ballet master; one of the original troupe of
Bedouin Arabs at Surrey theatre 1839; created a great sensation
under name of Joel il Diavolo at Vauxhall Gardens 1845 by
descending a single wire stretched across the gardens from a
platform 120 feet high to the ground at opposite end of the
gardens; adopted stage name of Joel Benedict about 1850; acting
manager to Charles Dillon several years from 1852 sustaining part
of clown in his pantomimes; travelled with Charles Harrison’s
company in the provinces 1862. _d._ 3 Feb. 1887. _I.L.N. vi_, 396
(1845), _with view_.

NOTE.—There were about half a dozen performers who
successively bore the name of Joel il Diavolo at Vauxhall
Gardens; the last one in 1849 was John Delany who had been a
miner in the Dudley coal mines.

DIBB, JOHN EDWARD. _b._ Beeston near Leeds 24 May 1812; deputy
registrar of deeds and wills in West Riding of Yorkshire 1840 to
death; barrister G.I. 1869; author of _A practical guide to
registration of deeds and wills in the West Riding of Yorkshire_
1846; _Registries of deeds, suggestions for the improvement of the
Yorkshire offices_ 1851. _d._ Wakefield 17 Sep. 1872.

DIBDIN, HENRY EDWARD (_youngest son of Charles Isaac Mungo Pitt
known as Charles Dibdin, dramatist 1768–1833_). _b._ Sadler’s
Wells, London 8 Sep. 1813; pupil of Bochsa the harpist; made his
first appearance 3 Aug. 1832 at Covent Garden theatre when he
played the harp at Paganini’s last concert; organist of Trinity
chapel, Edinburgh 1833 to death; published _The Standard Psalm
tune book_ 1851, and about 40 songs, piano and harp pieces and
hymn tunes. _d._ Edinburgh 6 May 1866.

DICEY, THOMAS EDWARD (_only son of Thomas Dicey of Claybrook hall,
Leicestershire 1742–1807_). _b._ Claybrook hall, Leics. 11 Oct.
1789; matric. at Oriel coll. Ox. 17 Oct. 1806; migrated to Trin.
coll. Cam.; senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1811; B.A.
1811, M.A. 1814; chairman of Midland counties railway; a director
of North Staffordshire railway from its foundation 1846 to his
death; proprietor of _Northampton Mercury_. _d._ Princes terrace,
Hyde park, London 20 Feb. 1858.

DICK, ALEXANDER. Entered Bengal army 1803; col. 71 Bengal N.I. 8
Feb. 1843 to 1869; general 3 May 1866. _d._ Deyrah, North West
provinces of India 25 Nov. 1875 aged 86.

DICK, HOPE. Ensign 23 Bengal N.I. 28 Sep. 1808; major 56 Bengal N.I.
1839–45; colonel Bengal infantry 16 Jany. 1855; general 28 April
1875. _d._ Cheltenham 24 May 1885 aged 93.

DICK, JOHN (_son of James Dick of Rochester_). _b._ Rochester;
entered navy Sep. 1785; captain 28 April 1802; admiral 19 Jany.
1852; a knight of the Crescent (Turkish order) 8 Oct. 1801. _d._
Southampton 10 Sep. 1854.

DICK, ROBERT (_elder son of Thomas Dick, Excise officer, who d. May
1846_). _b._ Tullibody, Clackmannanshire, Jany. 1810 or 1811;
apprenticed to Aikman of Tullibody, baker 1824–28; journeyman
baker at Leith, Glasgow and Greenock 1828–30; baker at Thurso 1830
to death; accumulated an almost perfect collection of the British
flora and of fossil fishes; assisted Hugh Miller in his _Old red
sandstone_ 1841 and _Footprints of the Creator_ 1849; helped Sir
Roderick Murchison and other scientific men in their researches.
_d._ Thurso 24 Dec. 1866. _Robert Dick, baker of Thurso, geologist
and botanist by Samuel Smiles_ 1878, _portrait_; _H. A. Page’s
Leaders of men_ (1830) 94–139; _J. Copner’s Sketches of celibate
worthies_, _2 ed._ (1886), 351–72.

DICK, REV. THOMAS (_son of Mungo Dick of Dundee, linen
manufacturer_). _b._ the Hilltown, Dundee 24 Nov. 1774; ed. at
Univ. of Edin.; licensed to preach in the Secession church 1801;
teacher of Secession school at Methven 1807–17, taught at Perth
1817–27; lived at Broughty Ferry, Dundee 1827 to death; LLD. Union
college, Schenectady, State of New York 1832; F.R.A.S. 14 Jany.
1853; granted civil list pension of £50, 21 July 1855; author of
_The Christian philosopher or the connexion of science and
philosophy with religion_ 1823, _8 ed._ 1842; _Philosophy of a
future state_ 1828; _The mental illumination and moral improvement
of mankind_ 1836; _Celestial scenery or the wonders of the heavens
displayed_ 1837. _d._ Broughty Ferry 29 July 1857, monument in
churchyard of Chapel of Ease, Broughty Ferry, erected Jany. 1860.
_W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 167–72; _The sidereal
heavens by Rev. Thomas Dick, New York_ (1844), _portrait_.

DICK, WILLIAM (_2 child of John Dick of Edinburgh, blacksmith, who
d. 1844_). _b._ White Horse Close, Canongate, Edin. May 1793; ed.
at Univ. of Edinburgh and Veterinary coll. London, obtained his
diploma 27 Jany. 1818; practised as Vet. surgeon in Edin. 1818 to
death; founded Edinburgh Veterinary College 1818; professor of
veterinary surgery to Highland and Agricultural Society of
Scotland; vet. surgeon to the Queen for Scotland; Head inspector
of cattle for co. of Edin. 1865; published _Manual of veterinary
science_ 1862. _d._ Veterinary College, Clyde st. Edinburgh 4
April 1866. _Occasional papers on veterinary subjects by W. Dick
with a memoir by R. O. Pringle_ (1869).

DICKENS, CHARLES JOHN HUFFAM (_2 child of the succeeding_). _b._ 387
Mile End terrace, Commercial road, Landport, Portsea 7 Feb. 1812;
a reporter in Doctors Commons 1829–31, in the House of Commons
1831–36; lived at No. 13 Furnival’s Inn 1835, at No. 15, 1836 to
1837, at 48 Doughty st. 1837–39, at 1 Devonshire terrace, Regent’s
park 1839–51, at 1 Tavistock villas, Tavistock sq. 1851–60 and at
Gad’s hill place near Rochester 1860 to death; edited _Bentley’s
Miscellany_, Jany. 1837 to Jany. 1839; student at Middle Temple
1839; received freedom of Edinburgh 1841; visited U.S. of America
1842 and 1867–8; edited _Daily News_ 21 Jany. to 9 Feb. 1846;
started _Household Words_ 30 March 1850, edited it to 28 May 1859
when he merged it into _All the year round_ which he edited 30
April 1859 to his death; gave 4 series of public readings of his
own works 1858–9, 1861–3, 1866–7 and 1868–70 gave his last reading
5 March 1870 in St. James’s Hall, London; author of _Sketches by
Boz 2 vols._ 1835, _2nd series 1 vol._ 1836; _The Posthumous
Papers of the Pickwick Club_ 1837, and 32 other works. (_m._ at
St. Luke’s, Chelsea 2 April 1836 Catherine Thomson eld. dau. of
George Hogarth, musical and dramatic critic of the _Morning
Chronicle_, from whom he separated April or May 1858, she _d._ 70
Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 22 Nov. 1879 aged 64).
_d._ Gad’s Hill Place 9 June 1870. _bur._ in Westminster abbey 14
June. _J. Forster’s Life of C. Dickens 3 vols._ 1872–74,
_portrait_; _Letters of C. Dickens 3 vols._ 1880–82; _Charles
Dickens as I knew him by G. Dolby_ 1885; _J. T. Fields’s In and
out of doors with Charles Dickens_ 1876; _Charles Dickens by G. A.
Sala_ 1870; _P. Fitzgerald’s Recreations of a literary man, i_,
48–171 (1882); _C. Dickens as a reader by C. Kent_ 1872; _E.
Yates’s Recollections ii_, 91–128 (1884); _J. H. Friswell’s Modern
men of letters_ (1870) 1–48; _J. C. Jeaffreson’s Novels and
novelists ii_, 303–34 (1858), _portrait_; _R. H. Horne’s A new
spirit of the age i_, 1–76 (1844), _portrait_; _Bookseller, July
1870 pp._ 573–78, _and Christmas number 1879 pp._ 15–21; _Illust.
News of the world vol. ii_ (1858), _portrait_; _Graphic xx_, 556
(1879), _portrait of Mrs. Dickens_.

NOTE.—He is drawn by Anthony Trollope in his novel _The
Warden_ under the name of Mr. Popular Sentiment. The portrait
of him painted by Ary Scheffer 1855 exhibited at the R.A. 1856
was purchased by trustees of National portrait gallery, July
1870.

DICKENS, JOHN. Clerk in the navy pay office at Portsmouth and
Chatham dockyards to 1822, at Somerset House 1822 to 9 March 1825
when he left the service; compounded with his creditors 1823;
confined in King’s Bench or Marshalsea prison 1824; became
insolvent, applied to be discharged 15 Dec. 1831; reporter to the
_Morning Chronicle_ to 1839; lived at Exeter; is drawn by Charles
Dickens in _David Copperfield_ as Micawber. _d._ Malvern 31 March
1851 aged 66. _bur._ in Highgate cemetery 5 April, where also lie
the remains of his wife Elizabeth Dickens who _d._ 12 Sep. 1863
aged 73.

DICKENSON, HENRY. Writer Madras civil service 1806; member of
council and chief judge of the Sudder Dewannee and Sudder
Foujdarry Adawlut 1846 to 16 Feb. 1850 when he resigned the
service. _d._ Schweizenhof, Lucerne, Switzerland 29 Nov. 1859.

DICKEY, EDWARD JOHN. Entered Bengal army 1822; superintendent of
Stud department 9 May 1853; lieut.-col. 57 N.I. 15 April 1854;
M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ Parklands, Guildford 19 Sep. 1883 aged 79.

DICKIE, GEORGE. _b._ Aberdeen 23 Nov. 1813; ed. at Marischal coll.
Aberdeen and Univs. of Aberdeen and Edinburgh; A.M. Aberdeen 1830,
M.D. 1842; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1834; lecturer on botany at King’s
college, Aberdeen 1839–49; professor of natural history at Belfast
1849–60 and of botany in Univ. of Aberdeen 1860–77; F.L.S. 1863;
F.R.S. 1881; author of _Flora Abredonensis_ 1838; _The Botanists
guide to Aberdeen, Banff and Kincardine_ 1860; _A Flora of Ulster_
1864; author with James Mc Cosh of _Typical forms and special ends
in creation_ 1856. _d._ 16 Albyn terrace, Aberdeen 16 July 1882.
_Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv, pp. xii-xiii_ (1883).

DICKINSON, SIR DRURY JONES (_2 son of Edgar Dickinson of Dublin_).
_b._ Dawson st. Dublin 1804; a wine merchant in Dublin; high
sheriff of city of Dublin 1833–34; knighted by Marquess Wellesley
the lord lieut. of Ireland 1833. _d._ 10 Mountjoy place, Dublin 8
May 1869.

DICKINSON, JOHN (_eld. son of Thomas Dickinson, superintendent of
shipping to Board of Ordnance 44 years, who d. 24 May 1828 aged
74_). _b._ 29 March 1782; paper manufacturer at Apsley hill, Hemel
Hempstead to 1857; F.R.S. 6 March 1845; master of the Stationers’
Company 1857 and 1858. _d._ 39 Upper Brook st. London 11 Jany.
1869.

DICKINSON, JOHN (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 28 Dec. 1815; chief
founder of the India Reform Society 12 March 1853, hon. sec.
1853–61, chairman 1861; author of _Letters on the cotton and roads
of Western India_ 1851; _India, its government under a
Bureaucracy_ 1853; _Dhar not restored_ 1864 and other books
chiefly pamphlets on subject of India; found dead in his study at
1 Upper Grosvenor st. London 23 Nov. 1876. _J. Dickinson’s Last
counsels of an unknown counsellor, edited by Evans Bell_ (1883),
_portrait_.

DICKINSON, SIR JOHN NODES (_son of Nodes Dickinson, F.R.C.S., staff
surgeon to H.M.’s forces_). _b._ Island of Grenada 1806; ed. at
Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister I.T. 20 Nov.
1840; judge in supreme court of New South Wales 23 April 1844,
chief justice there 1860 to 18 Feb. 1861 when he retired on
pension of £1050 per annum; knighted by patent 19 June 1860;
author of _A letter to the lord chancellor on law consolidation_
1861. _d._ Rome 16 March 1882 in 76 year. _Heads of the people
ii_, 41 (1848), _portrait_.

DICKINSON, JOSEPH. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.B. 1837, M.A. and
M.D. 1843; physician to Royal infirmary, Liverpool about 1839 and
subsequently to the Fever hospital, workhouse and South
Dispensary, Liverpool; lectured on medicine and botany at
Liverpool school of medicine; pres. of Liverpool Lit. and Phil.
Soc.; L.R.C.P. 1844, F.R.C.P. 1859; F.L.S.; M.R.I.A.; F.R.S. 1
June 1854; author of _The Flora of Liverpool 1851 and Supplement_
1855. _d._ 92 Bedford st. south, Liverpool 21 July 1865.

DICKINSON, SEBASTIAN STEWART. _b._ Bombay 25 March 1815; ed. at
Eton; barrister I.T. 7 June 1839; M.P. for Stroud 19 Nov. 1868 to
26 Jany. 1874, re-elected 5 Feb. 1874 but election declared void
April 1874. _d._ Brown’s hill, Stroud 23 Aug. 1878.

DICKINSON, THOMAS. _b._ Hampshire; entered navy Feb. 1796; captain
29 Nov. 1832; received gold Vulcan medal of Society of Arts 1825
for his mode of applying percussion powder to the discharge of
ships guns; author of _A narrative of the operation for the
recovery of the public stores and treasure sunk in H.M.S. Thetis_
1836. _d._ Greenwich hospital 30 July 1854 aged 68.

DICKINSON, THOMAS. Entered Bengal army 1805; col. 10 Bengal N.I. 10
May 1853 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Teignmouth 24 Oct.
1859.

DICKSON, ALEXANDER. _b._ Edinburgh 21 Feb. 1836; ed. at Univ. of
Edin., M.D. 1860; professor of botany in Univ. of Dublin 1866, in
Univ. of Glasgow 1868–79; professor of botany in Univ. of Edin.
and regius keeper of Royal botanic garden 1 April 1879 to death;
pres. of Botanical Soc. of Edin. twice; F.R.S. Edin.; author of
numerous papers on botany. _d._ suddenly of heart disease at
Thriepland pond near Hartree, Peebleshire 30 Dec. 1887.

DICKSON, ELIZABETH (_dau. of Archibald Dalzel, governor of Cape
Coast Castle_). _b._ probably at Cape Coast Castle 1793; wrote to
the English press about 1809 to entreat that immediate steps might
be taken to relieve the British captives in Barbary, the matter
roused public feeling and resulted in the despatch of an
expedition under Lord Exmouth 1816; received a gold medal from the
Anti-Piratical Society of Knights and Noble Ladies; resided in
Africa, chiefly at Tripoli. (_m._ John Dickson, surgeon to Lord
Nelson at battle of Copenhagen). _d._ Tripoli 30 April 1862 aged
about 70.

DICKSON, ELLEN (_3 dau. of general Sir Alexander Dickson_). _b._
Woolwich 1819; an invalid from her youth; resided chiefly at
Lyndhurst, New Forest; composed under pseudonym of Dolores upwards
of 50 drawing-room songs which were very popular and some of which
are still sung, the best known of them are _As I lay a thynkinge_
1857; _The Brook_ 1857; _The Fairies_; _Clear and cool_; _The land
of long ago_; _O my lost love_; _The racing river_; _Tell her not
when I am gone_. _d._ Lyndhurst 4 July 1878.

DICKSON, JAMES A. _b._ London 1774; made his first appearance on the
stage in Boston, United States 1794 as Saville in _The Belle’s
Stratagem_; became eminent as an actor of comic old men; manager
of Boston theatre for some years from 1806; retired from the stage
14 April 1817. _d._ Boston 1 April 1853.

DICKSON, JOHN BOURMASTER. _b._ 29 April 1815; entered navy 1834;
captain 17 May 1854; retired R.A. 1 April 1870; C.B. 20 May 1871.
_d._ Thornborough, Ryde 11 Feb. 1876.

DICKSON, JOHN ROBINSON. _b._ Dungannon, co. Tyrone 15 Nov. 1819;
went to Canada 1838; graduated at Univ. of New York 1842; visiting
physician to general hospital at Kingston, Canada 1846–54,
visiting surgeon 1854–56, clinical lecturer 1856–60; dean of the
medical faculty and professor of surgery in Univ. of Queen’s
college, Kingston 1854, the name was altered in 1866 to Royal
College of physicians and surgeons, of which he was pres. 1866 to
death. _d._ Wolfe island, St. Lawrence river, Canada 23 Nov. 1882.

DICKSON, SIR JOSEPH RITCHIE LYON (_2 son of Elizabeth Dickson
1793–1862_). _b._ 1820; physician to British legation at Teheran,
Persia 11 Sep. 1847 to death; attended the Shah for typhus fever
1849 for which he received the Commander’s Star of the Lion and
Sun; accompanied the Shah to England 1873; knighted at Windsor
Castle 30 June 1873. _d._ St. Juliens, Malta on his way home from
Persia 7 Aug. 1887.

DICKSON, ROBERT. _b._ Dumfries 1804; ed. at high sch. and univ. of
Edin., M.D. 1826; a physician in London to 1866; L.R.C.P. 1831,
F.R.C.P. 1855; lectured on botany at medical school in Webb st.
London and afterwards at St. George’s hospital; author of _A
lecture on the dry rot_ 1837; wrote all the articles on Materia
Medica in the _Penny Cyclopædia_ 1833–58 and several articles on
popular science in _Church of England Mag._ _d._ Cambridge lodge,
Harmondsworth near Slough 13 Oct. 1875. _Medical times and gazette
ii_, 509–10, 669 (1875); _Proc. of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc.
viii_, 73 (1875).

DICKSON, SAMUEL. Educ. at Univ. of Edin. and in Paris; M.R.C.S.
Edin. 1825; M.D. Glasgow 1833; assistant surgeon in army in India
1828–33; practised at Cheltenham 1833, then in London to his
death; started _The Chrono-thermalist, or People’s Medical
Inquirer_ 1850 all of which he wrote himself, it ceased 1852; the
Penn Medical College of Philadelphia was founded to teach his
doctrines; he is drawn from life by Charles Reade in his novel
_Hard Cash_ 1863 as Dr. Sampson; author of _The fallacy of the art
of physic as taught in the schools_ 1836; _Fallacies of the
faculty being the spirit of the Chrono-thermal system_ 1839; _What
killed Mr. Drummond, the lead or the lancet?_ 1843, and 6 other
books. _d._ 12 Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 12 Oct. 1869 aged 67.
_S. Dickson’s Memorable events in the life of a London physician_
(1863).

DICKSON, THOMAS, _b._ Lauder, Berwickshire 26 March 1822; went to
Canada 1835; established the Dickson Manufacturing Co. for
building steam engines 1856 which became one of most important
locomotive works in United States; general superintendent of
Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. 1864, pres. 1869 to death; organised
a company for purchase of a large tract of iron land on shores of
Lake Champlain 1873; a director in 20 other companies, _d._
Morristown, New Jersey 31 July 1884.

DICKSON, WILLIAM GILLESPIE (_2 son of Henry Gordon Dickson of
Edinburgh, writer to the signet_). _b._ Edinburgh 9 April 1823;
ed. at academy and univ. of Edin.; member of Faculty of Advocates
9 March 1847; procureur and advocate general of Mauritius, July
1856 to March 1868; senior sheriff substitute at Glasgow, March
1868; sheriff of Lanarkshire 21 Jany. 1874 to death; LLD. Edin. 22
April 1874; published _A treatise on the law of evidence in
Scotland 2 vols._ 1855, _2 ed._ 1864. _d._ Glasgow 19 Oct. 1876.

DIGBY, GEORGE STEPHEN, _b._ 7 July 1821; second lieut. R.M.A. 16
Aug. 1842, col. 23 March 1865, col. commandant 3 May 1876 to
death; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. _d._ London 19 March 1877.

DIGBY, JANE ELIZABETH (_only dau. of Admiral Sir Henry Digby, G.C.B.
1770–1842_). _b._ 3 April 1807. _m._ (1) 15 Sep. 1824 Edward Law 1
Earl of Ellenborough, they separated 22 May 1829, he obtained a
divorce in Consistory Court of Bishop of London 20 Feb. 1830 for
her adultery with Felix, Prince Swartzenburgh, marriage was
dissolved by private act of parliament 11 Geo. iv, cap. 51, 8
April 1830; _m._ (2) 10 Nov. 1832 Charles Theodore Herbert, Baron
Venningen of Bavaria; _m._ (3) Hadji-Petros a general in the Greek
army; _m._ (4) a Bedouin Arab called Midjouel. She is sketched by
About under the name of Ianthe, in his _Grèce Contemporaine_
(1854) _pp._ 99–111. _d._ Damascus 11 Aug. 1881.

DIGBY, JOSEPH. _b._ 15 July 1786; entered navy 12 June 1800; captain
8 Sep. 1815; retired V.A. 9 July 1857. _d._ 5 March 1860.

DIGBY, KENELM HENRY (_younger son of Very Rev. Wm. Digby 1730–1812,
dean of Clonfert_). _b._ 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1823;
joined Church of Rome 1823; author of _The broad stone of honour,
or rules for the gentlemen of England_ 1822 anon., which he
rewrote and published in _4 vols._ 1826–27 omitting the second
title, an edition de luxe _5 vols._ 1876–7; _Mores Catholici or
ages of faith 11 vols._ 1831–40, and 16 other books. _d._ 7 The
Terrace Kensington 22 March 1880. _Gillow’s English Catholics_,
_ii_, 81–3 (1885).

DIGGLE, CHARLES. Ensign 52 foot 31 Aug. 1804; captain of companies
of gentlemen cadets at Royal military college 10 Aug. 1820 to 23
June 1843 when placed on h.p. with rank of major; M.G. 31 Aug.
1855; K.H. 1831. _d._ Cheltenham 18 Sep. 1862 aged 74.

DILKE, ASHTON WENTWORTH (_younger son of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke
1810–69_). _b._ London 11 Aug. 1850; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam.,
scholar; bought _Weekly Dispatch_ for £14,000 Jany. 1875, edited
it to his death; M.P. for Newcastle, April 1880 to Feb. 1883;
author of _I. S. Turgenev’s Virgin Soil translated by A. W. Dilke_
1878. _d._ Algiers 12 March 1883. _Graphic xxvii_, 469 (1883),
_portrait_.

DILKE, CHARLES WENTWORTH (_eld. son of Charles Wentworth Dilke
1742–1826, clerk in the Civil Service_). _b._ 8 Dec. 1789; in the
Navy Pay Office to 1836 when office was abolished and he retired
on a pension; edited the _London Mag._; edited the _Athenæum_ 5
June 1830 to 23 May 1846; managed the _Daily News_, April 1846 to
April 1849. _d._ Alice Holt near Farnham, Hants. 10 Aug. 1864.
_bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 16 Aug. _The Papers of a Critic
edited by Sir C. W. Dilke_ (1875) _i_, 1–91.

DILKE, SIR CHARLES WENTWORTH (_only son of the preceding_). _b._
London 18 Feb. 1810; ed. at Westminster and Trin. hall, Cam., LLB.
1834, LLM. 1860; founded with John Lindley the _Gardener’s
Chronicle_ 1841; chairman of council of Society of Arts several
years; commissioner of Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862; unpaid comr.
to New York exhibition 1853 and Paris Exposition 1855; created a
baronet for services as comr. 22 Jany. 1862; M.P. for Wallingford
13 July 1865 to 11 Nov. 1868; F.S.A.; F.R.G.S. _d._ Hotel de
France, St. Petersburgh 10 May 1869. _The Queen, vol._ 1 (1862),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xix_, 487, 509 (1851), _xl_, 215, 225 (1862),
_portrait_.

DILLON, CHARLES. _b._ Diss, Norfolk 24 May 1819; wrote magazine
articles and melodramas 1836–38; acted Hamlet at City of London
theatre 1840; stage manager, leading actor and dramatic author at
Marylebone theatre 1842; starred in every city and important town
in Great Britain and Ireland 1845–56; played at Sadlers Wells,
April to Sep. 1856; lessee and manager of Lyceum, Sep. 1856 to 2
April 1857 and 20 Jany. to 22 March 1858; played at Drury Lane
1860, in the United States 1861–63 and 1866–68, in Australia
1863–66, at Sadler’s Wells 1868 and Drury Lane 1869; last appeared
in London at Drury Lane, when he played Belphegor for his benefit
7 Dec. 1878; last appeared on the stage at Hawick town hall as
Othello 23 June 1881; dropped dead in High st. Hawick 24 June
1881. _bur._ Brompton cemetery, London 29 June. _Time, Feb. 1883
pp._ 213–17; _C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1880) 119–26; _The
Players i_, 161 (1860), _portrait_; _Touchstone 28 Sep. 1878_,
_portrait_; _The Era 25 June 1881 p. 5 col. 4_, _2 July p. 9 col.
4_, _and 9 July p. 14 col. 1_.

DILLON, JOHN BLAKE (_3 son of Luke Dillon_). _b._ Ballyhadenan, co.
Mayo 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1841;
agitated for the repeal of the Union; one of founders and
proprietors of the _Nation_ newspaper 1842; attached himself to
political fortunes of Smith O’Brien 1848; escaped to France 1848;
went to the United States where he practised in the New York
courts 1848; returned to Ireland 1855; a leader of the National
party; M.P. for co. Tipperary 24 July 1865 to death; alderman of
city of Dublin; one of founders of National Association 1865 and
secretary; author of _The history of Indiana 1 vol._ 1843, no more
published. _d._ Druid lodge, Killiney 15 Sep. 1866. _O. J. Burke’s
Anecdotes of Connaught circuit_ (1885) 323–5; _Sullivan’s New
Ireland_ (1877) _i_, 148–53; _Nation 6 Oct. 1866_, _portrait_.

DILLON, MR. _b._ about 1830; clerk in general post office, London;
went to France about 1850; on the staff of Paris paper _Le Sport_;
killed by Duc de Gramont-Caderousse in a duel with swords in
Forest of St. Germain near Paris 21 Oct. 1862; his widow obtained
an order in the Court of Versailles, Nov. 1862 obliging the Duke
to pay her an annuity of 3600 francs. _Larouse’s Grand
Dictionaire_ (1870) _vi_, 855–56.

DILLON, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (_son of Sir John Talbot Dillon, a baron
of the Holy Roman empire_). _b._ Birmingham 8 Aug. 1779; entered
navy May 1790; a prisoner in France 1803–6; captain 21 March 1808;
naval equerry to Duke of Sussex; K.C.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted at
St. James’s palace 24 June 1835; V.A. 5 March 1853. _d._ Monaco 9
Sep. 1857. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xiv_, 191 (1858).

DILLWYN, LEWIS WESTON (_son of Wm. Dillwyn of Higham Lodge,
Walthamstow, minister of Society of Friends, who d. Sep. 1824 aged
81_). _b._ Ipswich 21 Aug. 1778; head of the Cambrian pottery,
Swansea 1802; published _Natural history of British Confervæ_ in
parts 1802–1809, and other works on natural history; wrote with
Dawson Turner _The Botanists Guide 2 vols._ 1805; pres. of Royal
Institution of South Wales from its foundation 1835 to his death;
sheriff of Glamorganshire 1818; alderman of Swansea 1835–40, mayor
1839; M.P. for Glamorganshire 17 Dec. 1832 to July 1837; F.L.S.
1800, F.R.S. 1804. _d._ Sketty hall near Swansea 31 Aug. 1855.
_Proc. of Linnæan society_ (1856) 36–39.

DIMOCK, REV. JAMES FRANCIS. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., Bell’s
scholar 1830; 29 wrangler 1833; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; minor canon
of Southwell 1846–63; R. of Barnborough, Yorkshire 1863 to death;
preb. of Lincoln 1869 to death; author of _Explanation of the
Thirty-nine articles 2 vols._ 1845; _Southwell church, views with
architectural description_ 1854; edited _A metrical life of St.
Hugh of Lincoln_ 1860; _Magna vita S. Hugonis_ 1864; _Giraldi
Cambrensis Opera_, _vols. 5 and 6_, 1867–69. _d._ Barnborough 21
April 1876 aged 65.

DINNEFORD, WILLIAM. _b._ London; first appeared in America at
Chestnut st. theatre, Philadelphia 1823, leading actor there; made
his début in New York at Lafayette theatre 1826; became manager of
the Bowery theatre and of the Franklin theatre, New York;
travelled with strolling companies all over the United States from
Maine to California; an actor, author, manager, auctioneer, broker
and merchant; opened a lodging and eating house at 157 Broadway,
New York called the Byron 1845. _d._ Panama 8 Dec. 1852.
_Ireland’s Records of the New York stage i_, 405 (1866).

DINORBEN, WILLIAM LEWIS HUGHES, 1 Baron (_eld. son of Rev. Edward
Hughes of Kinmel park near St. Asaph, who d. 1815_). _b._ 10 Nov.
1767; M.P. for Wallingford 5 July 1802 to 10 Sep. 1831 when
created Baron Dinorben of Kinmel park, co. Denbigh; militia
aide-de-camp to the Queen 7 Feb. 1840 to death. _d._ Kinmel park
10 Feb. 1852.

DINSDALE, FREDERICK. Educ. at Chr. coll. Cam., LLB. 1829, LLD. 1835;
barrister M.T. 23 May 1834; judge of Court of Requests at Oldham
1843 to March 1847; judge of county courts, circuit No. 22
(Warwickshire), March 1847 to death; changed his name from Trotter
to Dinsdale 1847; author of _A glossary of provincial words used
in Teesdale_ 1849, anon. _d._ Tachbrooke house, Leamington 8 July
1872.

DIPROSE, JOHN (_eld. son of John Diprose of London, bookbinder_).
_b._ Bell Alley, Temple Bar, London 1814; bookseller at Newington
Butts 1837, at 312 Strand 1841, at 16 Portugal st. Lincoln’s Inn
Fields, at 9 Sheffield st. 1876 to death; began his career as a
publisher by issuing _The royal song book_ 1840; wrote or edited
upwards of 30 minor works which he styled books for the
non-reading public; author of _Some account of the parish of St.
Clement Danes past and present 2 vols._ 1868–76, vol. 2 has the
date 1876 on the title page but was not published till 1880. _d._
131 Kennington park road, London 20 June 1879. _Diprose’s St.
Clements ii, v-xxiii_ (1876).

DIRCKS, HENRY. _b._ Liverpool 26 Aug. 1806; a practical engineer
conducting railway canal and mining works to 1842, a consulting
engineer 1842–58; patented several inventions 1840–57; invented
optical delusion exhibited at Polytechnic, London under name of
Pepper’s Ghost, July 1863; author of _Jordantype, otherwise called
Electrotype_ 1852; _Perpetuum mobile or search for self-motive
power_ 1861, _second series_ 1870; _Joseph Anstey or the patron
and protégé_ 1863, a novel published under pseud. of D. S. Henry;
_The life of the Second Marquis of Worcester_ 1865 and other
books. _d._ Brighton 17 Sep. 1873. _H. Dircks’s Inventors and
Inventions_ 1867, _portrait_; _H. Dircks’s Nature-Study_ 1869,
_portrait_; _H. Dircks’s Naturalistic poetry_ 1872, _portrait_;
_Notes and Queries 6 S. xii_, 309, 477 (1885).

DISBROWE, SIR EDWARD CROMWELL (_son of Col. Edward Disbrowe of
Walton, Derbyshire, who d. 30 Nov. 1818_). Educ. at Eton; matric.
from Ch. Ch. Ox. 21 Oct. 1808 aged 18; M.P. for Windsor 11 Feb.
1823 to 2 June 1826; entered diplomatic service 1826; envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at the Hague 28 Oct.
1835 to death; G.C.H. 1831. _d._ The Hague 29 Oct. 1851. _The Eton
portrait gallery_ (1876) 406–8.

DISNEY, JOHN (_eld. son of Rev. John Disney, Unitarian clergyman
1746–1816_). _b._ Flintham hall, Notts. 29 May 1779; inherited
from his father the collection of antiquities formed by Hollis and
Brand in Italy 1748–53 to which he made additions; barrister I.T.
13 May 1803; recorder of Bridport 14 Sep. 1807 to Oct. 1823;
contested Harwich, Dec. 1832 and North Essex, May 1835; F.R.S. 7
June 1832; F.S.A.; presented to Univ. of Cam. a collection of 83
ancient marbles 16 April 1850; founded Disney professorship of
archæology in Univ. of Cam. 1851, endowed it with sum of £1000
which he increased to £3250 by a bequest in his will 1857;
published _A collection of acts of parliament relative to
elections_ 1811; _Outlines of a penal code_ 1826; _Museum
Disneianum 3 parts_ 1846–9. _d._ The Hyde, Ingatestone, Essex 6
May 1857.

DISSTON, HENRY. _b._ Tewkesbury 21 May 1819; went to United States
1833; manufacturer of saws in Philadelphia about 1840 to death,
employed 400 workmen; invented more than 20 improvements in saw
manufacture, among them the movable or inserted teeth; inventor
and manufacturer of the Disston saw. _d._ Philadelphia 16 March
1878.

DISTIN, JOHN. _b._ 1793; trumpet player in Her Majesty’s theatre,
London; bandmaster to Marquis of Breadalbane; formed a Quintet
band of wind instruments, composed of himself and his sons 1833,
travelled with it in England 1833–36 and abroad 1836–44; made an
improvement in the sax horn 1844; first played at Jullien’s
concerts, Covent Garden 3 Nov. 1844. _d._ Great Newport st. St.
Martin’s lane, London 8 July 1863. _I.L.N. v_, 384 (1844),
_portraits of John Distin and his 4 sons_.

DITCHER, REV. JOSEPH. Educ. at Queen’s coll. Cam.; P.C. of Holy
Trinity, Bitton, Gloucs. 1821–35; M.A. by Abp. of Canterbury 3
Feb. 1837; judge of consistorial episcopal court of Bath and Wells
1836–41; V. of South Brent, Somerset 1841 to death; prosecuted
Archdeacon G. A. Denison for his sermons on the doctrine of the
Real Presence 1856; author of _A statement of the proceedings in
the case of Ditcher v. Denison_ 1858. _d._ South Brent 28 Nov.
1875. _S. Ditcher’s Memorials of Rev. J. Ditcher_ 1876.

DIVETT, EDWARD. _b._ 1797; ed. at Eton; M.P. for Exeter 12 Dec. 1832
to death. _d._ Bystock near Exmouth 25 July 1864.

DIXON, GEORGE (_3 son of John Dixon of Gledhow hall, Yorkshire
1753–1825_). _b._ 5 Aug. 1801; ensign 3 Foot guards 20 Jany. 1820,
major 25 March 1853 to 20 June 1854; col. 104 Foot 2 Feb. 1867 to
death; general 1 April 1870. _d._ 97 Mount st. London 15 May 1874.

DIXON, HENRY HALL (_2 son of Peter Dixon of Warwick bridge,
Carlisle, cotton manufacturer_). _b._ Carlisle 16 May 1822; ed. at
Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1846; articled to a solicitor at
Doncaster; contributed to the _Sporting Review_ about 1850–60;
barrister M.T. 7 May 1852; wrote _The herds of Great Britain_ in
the _Mark Lane Express_ 1859–60; wrote the article entitled _The
Farm_ in the _Illustrated London News_ some years; author of _The
law of the farm_ 1858, _4 ed._ 1879; _Field and Fern 2 vols._
1865; published under pseudonym of The Druid _Post and Paddock_
1856; _Silk and Scarlet_ 1859; _Scott and Sebright_ 1862; _Saddle
and Sirloin_ 1870. _d._ Warwick gardens, Kensington, London 16
March 1870. _Sporting Review lxiii_, 294–97 (1870); _Illust.
sporting and dramatic news i_, 65–6 (1874), _portrait_; _Sporting
Times 6 Feb. 1886 pp._ 2–3.

DIXON, REV. JAMES. _b._ King’s Mills near Castle Donington, Leics.
29 Oct. 1788; joined Methodist Society 1808, licensed at quarter
sessions to preach 14 Jany. 1812; appointed to Cardiff circuit
1816; pres. of the Conference 1841; D.D. of Univ. of Pennsylvania,
July 1843; appointed to South London circuit 1844; pres. of
Conference of Upper Canada 1848; retired from full ministry 1862;
a great preacher and orator; author of _Methodism in its origin,
economy and present position_ 1841; _Methodism in America_ 1849
and other books. _d._ Bradford 28 Dec. 1871. _R. W. Dixon’s Life
of James Dixon, D.D._ 1874; _Methodist Quarterly ix_, 9, (1849),
_portrait_.

DIXON, HIS GRACE THE MOST REV. JOSEPH. _b._ Cole Island near
Dungannon, co. Tyrone 2 Feb. 1806; entered Royal college of St.
Patrick, Maynooth 1822, dean there 5 years, professor of Sacred
Scripture and Hebrew 1828; R.C. archbishop of Armagh and primate
of all Ireland 28 Sep. 1852 to death, consecrated 21 Nov.; author
of _A general introduction to the Sacred Scriptures in a series of
dissertations 2 vols._ 1852; _The blessed Cornelius, or some
tidings of an archbishop of Armagh who went to Rome in the twelfth
century_ 1855. _d._ Armagh 29 April 1866. _Catholic Directory_,
_Dublin_ 1867 _pp._ 421–28.

DIXON, MANLEY HALL. _b._ Stoke Damarel, Devon 8 June 1786; entered
navy June 1794; captain 28 June 1811; R.A. 27 Dec. 1847; V.A. 7
Feb. 1855; pensioned 28 Dec. 1855; admiral on half pay 1 Nov.
1860. _d._ Stoke, Devonport 3 March 1864.

DIXON, REV. RICHARD (_son of Joshua Dixon of Whitehaven_). Matric.
from Queen’s coll. Ox. 3 May 1796 aged 16; B.A. 1799, M.A. 1803;
fellow of his college to 1829, tutor 1822; F.R.S. 21 March 1811;
R. of Niton, Isle of Wight 1828 to death. _d._ Niton rectory 13
May 1858.

DIXON, VENERABLE ROBERT VICKERS. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A.
1833, M.A. 1840, B.D. and D.D. 1862, fellow 1839; R. of
Clogherney, co. Tyrone 1853 to death; archdeacon of Armagh 1883 to
death. _d._ Clogherney rectory 14 May 1885.

DIXON, REV. WILLIAM HENRY (_son of Rev. Henry Dixon, V. of Wadworth
near Doncaster_). _b._ Wadworth 2 Nov. 1783; ed. at Pemb. coll.
Cam., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1809; V. of Bishopthorpe near York 1824 to
death; chaplain to Abp. of York to death; preb. of York 1825–31,
canon residentiary 1831 to death; canon of Ripon 1836; R. of Etton
near Beverley, Yorkshire 1837 to death; F.S.A. 31 May 1821; author
of _Synodus Eboracensis, or a short account of the convocation of
the province of York_ 1848. _d._ Minster yard, York 17 Feb. 1854.
_Memoir of Rev. W. H. Dixon by Rev. C. B. Norcliffe, privately
printed_ 1860; _Rev. W. H. Dixon’s Fasti Eboracenses_, _edited by
Rev. James Raine vol. 1_, 1863, _preface_.

DIXON, WILLIAM HEPWORTH (_son of Abner Dixon of Holmfirth,
Yorkshire_). _b._ Newton st. Ancoats, Manchester 30 June 1821;
wrote a series of articles on the literature of the lower classes
and on London prisons in the _Daily News_ 1846; barrister I.T. 1
May 1854; contributed to the _Athenæum_ 1846, editor Jany. 1853 to
Aug. 1869; F.S.A. 15 Jany. 1852; helped to found Palestine
exploration fund 1865, chairman of executive committee; knight
commander of German order of the Crown 4 Oct. 1872; member for
Marylebone of London school board 29 Nov. 1870 to Nov. 1873;
author of _William Penn, an historical biography_ 1851; _The Holy
Land 2 vols._ 1865; _New America 2 vols._ 1867 of which there were
8 editions in England, 3 in America and several in France, Russia,
Holland, Italy and Germany, and about 20 other books. _d._ 6 St.
James’s terrace, Regent’s park, London 27 Dec. 1879. _In Memoriam
Hepworth Dixon_ 1880; _Illustrated Review vi_, 225–28 (1873),
_portrait_; _Cartoon Portraits_ (1873) 227–38, _portrait_;
_Graphic xxi_, 69 (1880), _portrait_.

DIXON, WILLIAM JERROLD (_elder son of the preceding_). _b._ 1848;
ed. at Westminster and Trin. hall, Cam., B.A. 1871; in saving
lives in the skating accident in Regent’s Park 15 Jany. 1867
caught a cold which rendered him an invalid and cripple for life;
barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1870; hon. sec. of the Savage club,
London; sec. to Dublin sanitary commission 1879; author of
articles in periodicals; adapted Molière’s _Le Médecin malgré lui_
under title of _The Doctor in spite of himself_, comedy in 3 acts
produced at Globe theatre 23 June 1877; wrote _Married another_, a
comedietta; wrote in _The Theatre_ and _London Society_, in
Belgravia under name of Gerald Dixon. _d._ Dublin 20 Oct. 1879 in
31 year. _Belgravia xl_, 193–97 (1880); _Theatre iii_, 277–79
(1879).

DIXON, WILLIAM MANLEY HALL. _b._ 1817; second lieut. R.A. 18 June
1835, col. 27 Feb. 1866 to 23 Dec. 1871 when he retired on full
pay; prepared plans for attack on Bomarsund and other places
during Russian war; superintendent of Royal small arms factories
at Enfield 1855 to 1871; C.B. 20 May 1871; M.G. 23 Dec. 1871. _d._
Tharp lodge, Hornchurch, Essex 19 March 1888.

DOBBS, CONWAY RICHARD. _b._ 1796; ed. at Eton; entered navy 4 Sep.
1810; fought at battle of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816; lieut. 16 Oct.
1821; placed on reserved list July 1851; retired commander 1 July
1864; M.P. for Carrickfergus 19 Dec. 1832 to March 1833 when
unseated on petition; sheriff of Antrim 1841. _d._ 28 Feb. 1886.

DOBBS, WILLIAM CARY (_only son of Rev. Robert Conway Dobbs, who d. 9
Dec. 1809 aged 38_). _b._ 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A.
1827, M.A. 1830; called to bar in Ireland 1833; crown prosecutor
on North East circuit 1851–59; Q.C. 26 May 1858; a judge of Landed
Estates Court, April 1859 to death; M.P. for Carrickfergus 2 April
1857 to 23 April 1859. _d._ Wimpole st, London 17 April 1869.

DOBELL, SYDNEY THOMPSON (_eld. son of John Dobell of Cranbrook,
Kent, hide merchant_). _b._ Cranbrook 5 April 1824; a wine
merchant at Cheltenham 1848 to death; author of _The Roman, a
dramatic poem by Sydney Yendys_ 1850; _Balder, part the first, By
the author of the Roman_ 1854; _England in time of war_ 1856; a
complete edition of his works was published in 3 vols. 1875–6.
_d._ Barton end house, Nailsworth near Stroud 22 Aug. 1874. _The
life of Sydney Dobell edited by E. J. [Miss E. Jolly] 2 vols._
1878; _The golden decade of a favored town, by Contem Ignotus_
(1884) 154–93; _T. H. Ward’s English poets_, _2 ed. iv_, 615–20
(1883); _Temple Bar lvi_, 80–91 (1879); _Graphic x_, 264 (1874),
_portrait_.

DOBSON, GEORGE (_son of John Dobson of Mortimer, Berkshire_). _b._
1795; entered navy 14 Dec. 1807; captain 5 Jany. 1844; admiral on
h.p. 11 Dec. 1875. _d._ 52 Pulteney st. Bath 13 June 1877.

DOBSON, JOHN. _b._ Chirton, North Shields 1788; executed designs for
damasks 1800; pupil of David Stephenson, architect, Newcastle
1803–10; architect at Newcastle 1811 to death; became most noted
architect in North of England; said to be real author of modern
Gothic revival in actual practice; restored many churches;
designed or erected greatest part of the public buildings and
finest new streets in Newcastle; pres. of Northern Architectural
Assoc. 1859. _d._ New Bridge st. Newcastle 8 Jany. 1865 in 77
year. _Memoirs of John Dobson_ (1885), _portrait_.

DOBSON, THOMAS. Assistant sec. of Excise, Somerset House, London
1856–60; joint sec. to Board of inland revenue 1860–63 when his
services were acknowledged in a special treasury minute laid
before Parliament; granted a pension of £1010 a year 1863;
presented with a service of plate by 2489 officers of excise
surveying department 1863; discovered with Mr. Phillips the method
of testing gravities of beer, and substitution of duty free malt
in distilleries in room of malt drawback; invented method of
levying duties on spirits. _d._ Yarrow lodge, Sydenham 19 June
1885 in 88 year. _I.L.N. 17 Oct. 1863 p. 401._

DOBSON, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ 1809; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll.
Cam., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; fellow of his coll. 1834–41; V. of
Tuxford, Notts 1840–48; principal of Cheltenham college 1841–61.
_d._ Cheltenham 31 Dec. 1867. _Rev. T. Mozley’s Reminiscences i_,
170–74 (1882).

DOBSON, WILLIAM (_son of Lawrence Dobson of Preston, stationer_).
_b._ Preston 1820; stationer at Preston; edited the _Preston
Chronicle_ to March 1868; member of Preston town council 1862–72
and 1874–83; member of Chetham Society; author of _History of the
parliamentary representation of Preston during the last hundred
years_ 1856, _2 ed._ 1868; _Rambles by the Ribble 3 series_
1864–83 and other books. _d._ Churton road, Chester 8 Aug. 1884.

DOBSON, WILLIAM BURDETT. Entered navy 11 Dec. 1806; inspecting
commander in coast guard 5 May 1834 to July 1837; captain on half
pay 23 Nov. 1841; V.A. on half pay 24 May 1867. _d._ Lyde house,
Bath 22 March 1872 aged 79.

DOCHARTY, JAMES _b._ Bonhill, Dumbartonshire 1829; a pattern
designer in Glasgow to about 1862; a landscape painter about 1862
to death; A.R.S.A. 14 Nov. 1877; exhibited many pictures in
Glasgow and Edinburgh; exhibited 13 landscapes at the R.A.
1865–77. _d._ Pollokshields, Glasgow 5 April 1878.

DOCKRAY, ROBERT BENSON. _b._ 13 Nov. 1811; resident engineer at
Birmingham of the London and Birmingham railway 7 March 1838,
engineer for the entire line 12 June 1840 to 18 Sep. 1852;
M.I.C.E. 13 June 1834, Telford medallist 1849. _d._ Dalton square,
Lancaster 8 Sep. 1871. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii_,
213–15 (1872).