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DOD, CHARLES ROGER PHIPPS (_only son of Rev. Roger Dodd, V. of
Drumlease, Leitrim_). _b._ Drumlease 8 May 1793; entered King’s
Inns, Dublin 30 July 1816; settled in London 1818; compiled
summary of parliamentary debates for the _Times_ and wrote nearly
all the memoirs of deceased celebrities; changed spelling of his
name from Dodd to Dod 1847; published _Parliamentary pocket
companion_ 1833–42; _Parliamentary Companion_ 1843–55; _Peerage,
baronetage and knightage_ 1841–55; _A manual of dignities,
privileges and precedents_ 1842; _The annual biography_ 1843;
_Electoral facts from 1832 to 1852 impartially stated_, 1852, _2
ed._ 1853. _d._ 5 Foxley road, North Brixton, London 21 Feb. 1855.

DOD, ROBERT PHIPPS (_only son of the preceding_). Educ. at King’s
coll. London; captain in Shropshire militia 26 Jany. 1858 to
death; privately printed _Birth and worth, an enquiry into the
practical use of a pedigree_ 1849; published _Parliamentary
Companion_ 1856 to death; _Peerage, baronetage and knightage_ 1856
to death. _d._ Nant Issa hall near Oswestry 9 Jany. 1865.

DODD, GEORGE. _b._ 1808; miscellaneous writer of books chiefly for
the publishers Charles Knight and Messrs. Chambers; edited and
wrote in _Cyclopædia of the industry of all nations_ 1851; some of
his papers were collected and published under titles of _Days at
the factories_ 1843 and _Curiosities of industry_ 1852; author of
_The textile manufactures of Great Britain 6 vols._ 1844–6; _The
food of London_ 1856 and many other books; contributed papers to
the _Companion to the British Almanac_ 30 years; found dead at
Torriano avenue, Kentish Town, London 21 Jany. 1881.

DODD, REV. PHILIP STANHOPE (_son of Rev. Richard Dodd, R. of Cowley,
Middlesex, who d. 17 June 1811 aged 73_). Educ. at Tunbridge and
Magd. coll. Cam., B.A. 1796, M.A. 1799; fellow of his college;
minister of Lambeth chapel, London 1803–7; R. of St. Mary at Hill,
London 1807–12; R. of Aldrington, Sussex 1812 to death; R. of
Penshurst, Kent 1819 to death; author of _Hints to Freshmen at the
University of Cambridge_ 1798, _3 ed._ 1807 both anon.; _A view of
the evidence afforded by the life and ministry of St. Peter to the
truth of the Christian revelation_ 1837. _d._ Penshurst rectory 22
March 1852 aged 77. _G.M. xxxvii_, 626–27 (1852).

DODDS, REV. GEORGE THEOPHILUS (_son of Rev. Mr. Dodds, minister of
free church of Lochee, a suburb of Dundee_). _b._ Lochee 2 June
1850; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews and New coll. Edin.; settled at
Paris as a missionary of the McAll Protestant mission, Nov. 1877;
went to the United States with Mr. Réveilland as a missionary
1880. _d._ Buisson Luzas, Salbrio near Orleans, France 9 Sep.
1882. _bur._ Passy cemetery near Paris 14 Sep. _Life and work of
Rev. G. T. Dodds, missionary, by H. Bonar, D.D._ 1884, _portrait_.

DODDS, ISAAC (_2 son of Thomas Dodds, viewer of the Felling
colliery, killed 21 Oct. 1805_). _b._ Felling hall, Heworth,
Durham 9 July 1801; apprenticed to George Stephenson at Newcastle;
invented double action air pump 1830 and machine for weighing
coals in carts 1832; engineer to the Horseley iron works,
Staffordshire 1832–36; built the Star locomotive for the Liverpool
and Manchester railway 1833; first maker of a locomotive to ascend
an incline; inventor of plan of prevention of boiler explosions by
using a plug of fusible metal, now in general use; locomotive
superintendent North Midland railway 1835; invented the turn
table, self-acting switches and spring buffers; took his son T. W.
Dodds into partnership and recommenced the Holmes engine and
railway works, Rotherham 1850, works closed 1866; introducer of
steel rails. _d._ 13 Townend st. Nether Hallam near Sheffield 1
Nov. 1882. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxv_, 308–14 (1884).

DODDS, JAMES. _b._ Softlaw near Kelso 6 Feb. 1813; ed. at Univ. of
Edin.; schoolmaster at Sandyknowe; articled to a lawyer at Melrose
1836–40; writer to the Signet; a solicitor in London 1846;
lectured in London and Scotland; published _The fifty years
struggle of the Covenanters_ 1860; _Thomas Chalmers, a
biographical study_ 1870. _d._ Lochee, Dundee 12 Sep. 1874. _Lays
of the Covenanters by James Dodds, edited by Rev. James Dodds_
(1880) _pp._ 1–140.

DODDS, REV. JAMES. _b._ Annan, Dumfriesshire 1812; ed. at Univ. of
Edin.; minister of the parish of Humbie, East Lothian 1841–43;
minister of free church, Dunbar 1843 to death; author of _A
century of Scottish church history_ 1846; _A memoir of Rev. Thomas
Rosie_ 1862 and other books. _d._ Free church manse, Dunbar 3 Sep.
1885.

DODGSON, VENERABLE CHARLES (_eld. son of Charles Dodgson of
Hamilton, Lanarkshire_). Matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 5 May 1818 aged
17, student 1818–28; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824; P.C. of Daresbury,
Cheshire 1827–43; R. of Croft near Darlington 20 Jany. 1843 to
death; canon res. of Ripon cathedral 1852 to death; archdeacon of
Richmond 1854 to death; chaplain to Abp. of Canterbury 1862 to
death; published 12 charges, sermons and letters 1837–68. _d._
Croft rectory 21 June 1868.

DODGSON, GEORGE HAYDOCK. _b._ Liverpool 16 Aug. 1811; apprenticed to
George Stephenson the engineer; prepared plans for Whitby and
Pickering railway; settled in London 1835 where he made drawings
for architects; assoc. of New Soc. of Painters in water-colours
1842, member 1844–47; assoc. of Soc. of Painters in water-colours
1848, member 1852; exhibited 1 landscape at B.I. and 9 at Suffolk
st. gallery 1835–41. _d._ 28 Clifton hill, St. John’s Wood, London
4 June 1880. _I.L.N. lxxvi_, 612 (1880), _portrait_.

DODSON, SIR JOHN (_eld. son of Rev. John Dodson, R. of
Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, who d. July 1807_). _b._ Hurstpierpoint 19
Jany. 1780; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. and Oriel coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804, D.C.L. 1808; advocate of college of Doctors
of law 3 Nov. 1808; commissary to dean and chapter of Westminster;
M.P. for Rye, July 1819 to March 1823; advocate to Admiralty Court
11 March 1829; advocate general 18 Oct. 1834; knighted at St.
James’s palace 29 Oct. 1834; barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1834, bencher
1835; master of the Faculties, Nov. 1841; Vicar-general to the
lord primate 1849; judge of Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Feb.
1852 to 9 Dec. 1857 when court was abolished; dean of the Arches
court, Feb. 1852 to 9 Dec. 1857; P.C. 5 April 1852; published
_Reports of cases in the high court of admiralty_ 1811–22, _2
vols._ 1815–28. _d._ 6 Seamore place, Mayfair, London 27 April
1858.

DODSWORTH, REV. WILLIAM (_3 son of John Dodsworth of Carlton hall,
Yorkshire_). _b._ 1798; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A.
1823; minister of Margaret st. chapel, Cavendish sq. London to
1837; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Regent’s park, London 1837 to Jany. 1851
when he joined Church of Rome; author of _Discourses on the Lord’s
Supper_ 1835; _The Priest’s Companion in the visitation of the
Sick_ 1843; _Sermons in Advent_ 1849; _Clarendon, a tale 3 vols._
1850, and about 25 other books. _d._ York terrace, Regent’s park
10 Dec. 1861.

DODWORTH, THOMAS. _b._ Sheffield 1790; went to New York 1826;
organised the “City Band” which became the National brass band and
was first independent military band in New York. _d._ Morrisania,
New York 30 April 1876.

DOHERTY, HENRY EDWARD. _b._ 20 April 1817; cornet 14 light dragoons
31 Dec. 1833, lieut.-col. 23 Nov. 1848 to 25 Aug. 1857 when placed
on h.p.; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 9 June 1849. _d._ Vernon house,
Weston park, Bath 15 Sep. 1885.

DOHERTY, SIR RICHARD (_son of Leonard O’Dogherty of Coolmoyne, co.
Tipperary_). _b._ Garculea house near Golden, co. Tipperary 1785;
lieut. 90 foot 22 Nov. 1804; major 21 foot 16 Sep. 1824;
lieut.-col. 1 West India regt. 6 Dec. 1827 to 4 Sep. 1835;
lieut.-col. 89 foot 4 Sep. 1835 to 10 Aug. 1838; lieut.-col. royal
African colonial corps 10 Aug. 1838 to Oct. 1840; lieut.-col. 3
West India regt. Oct. 1840 to 1 Aug. 1845 when placed on h.p.;
knighted by patent 27 Nov. 1841; inspecting field officer 1 Jany.
1847 to 11 Nov. 1851; col. 11 foot 5 Sep. 1857 to death; L.G. 26
Oct. 1858; governor of Sierra Leone 27 March 1837 to 1840;
commander in chief at Jamaica 1853–55. _d._ Charles st. St.
James’s, London 2 Sep. 1862.

DOLBY, ANASTASIA MARICE. Embroideress to the Queen; author of
_Church embroidery, ancient and modern_ 1867; _Church vestments,
their origin, use and ornament_ 1868. (_m._ Edwin Thomas Dolby of
London, artist). _d._ 12 Southwood terrace, Highgate 18 Feb. 1873
aged 49.

DOLBY, THOMAS (_son of Thomas Dolby of Sawtry, Hunts., ploughman_).
_b._ Sawtry 6 July 1782; a woodcutter and thatcher; attendant on
Brigadier General Charles William Este, April 1804 to 1808;
bookseller at 34 Wardour st. London 1808, at 299 Strand 1819, and
at 17 Catharine st. Strand 1824–25 when he became bankrupt; edited
_Dolby’s Parliamentary Register_, 67 numbers Jany. to June 1819;
imprisoned for selling _Sherwin’s Register_ 1819; tried 21 Oct.
1822 for publishing _Political Dictionary_, required to enter into
recognizances, Nov. 1823; published _Dolby’s British Theatre_ 84
numbers, which became _Cumberland’s British Theatre_ in 1823;
author of _A letter to the friends of liberty_ 1819; _The
Shaksperian Dictionary_ 1832; _The literary cyclopædia_ 1834; _The
school of reform in church and state_ 1835; _Floreston, or the new
Lord of the manor, a tale of humanity_ 1839, anon. _d._ Edward st.
Portman sq. London 24 June 1856. _Memoirs of T. Dolby 5 parts_
1827.

DOLLOND, GEORGE. _b._ London 25 Jany. 1774; apprenticed to his uncle
Peter Dollond of St. Paul’s churchyard, optician 1788, partner
with him Nov. 1804 to 1819, carried business on alone 1819 to
death; assumed by royal permission surname of Dollond instead of
Huggins 1804; F.R.S. 23 Dec. 1819; an active founder of
Astronomical Soc. 1820; F.R.G.S. 1830; invented the Atmospheric
recorder for which he received council medal of Great Exhibition
1851. _d._ Camberwell terrace north, London 13 May 1852.

DOLMAN, CHARLES (_only son of Charles Dolman of Monmouth, who d.
1807_). _b._ Monmouth 20 Sep. 1807; R.C. publisher at 61 New Bond
st. London 1837–58 when he formed his business into the Catholic
Bookselling and publishing company which failed; published the
_Catholic Mag._ April 1838 to June 1844; _Dolman’s Mag._, March
1845 to 1849; _Lingard’s History of England_, _5 ed. 10 vols._
1849 and other books. _d._ 64 Rue du Faubourg, St. Honoré, Paris
31 Dec. 1863. _Gillow’s English Catholics ii_, 87–90 (1885).

DOMBRAIN, SIR JAMES (_son of Abraham Dombrain of Canterbury_). _b._
Canterbury 1793; entered navy 1808; deputy comptroller general of
coast guard in England 1816; comptroller general of coast guard in
Ireland 1819–49, introduced and organised that force; knighted by
Earl De Grey, lord lieut. of Ireland at Kingstown, Dublin 1844
after an inspection of the Irish squadron of revenue cruisers.
_d._ Woodstock, Sandford near Dublin 24 Sep. 1871.

DOMETT, ALFRED (_son of Nathaniel Domett of Camberwell Grove,
Surrey_). _b._ Camberwell Grove 20 May 1811; ed. at St. John’s
coll. Cam.; barrister M.T. 19 Nov. 1841; went to New Zealand 1842;
colonial sec. for New Munster (the Middle island of New Zealand)
1848; sec. for New Zealand 1851; comr. of crown lands, and
resident magistrate of Hawke’s Bay 1853–6; M.P. for Nelson 1855;
prime minister 1862–3; registrar general of lands 1865;
administrator of confiscated lands 1870–71; author of _Venice_
1839 a poem; _Narrative of the Wairoan massacre_ 1843; _Ordinances
of New Zealand classified_ 1850; _Ranolf and Amohia, a South Sea
day dream_ 1872, _2 ed._ 1883; _Flotsam and Jetsam, rhymes old and
new_ 1877. _d._ 32 St. Charles sq. North Kensington, London 2 Nov.
1887. _W. Gisborne’s New Zealand Rulers_ (1886) 134, _portrait_.

DOMVILE, SIR JOHN COMPTON, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Charles
Pocklington, M.P. for co. Dublin, who assumed surname of Domvile
and d. April 1810_). Ensign 6 foot 23 May 1800; captain 5 garrison
battalion 8 Oct. 1807; captain 68 foot 1 Dec. 1808 to 1809 or
1810; assumed name of Domvile by r.l. 25 March 1815; created
baronet 22 May 1815; M.P. for Bossiney, Cornwall 18 June 1818 to 2
June 1826, for Oakhampton 10 June 1826 to 24 July 1830, for
Plympton 23 Dec. 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832; custos rotulorum of co.
Dublin 1823 to death. _d._ 5 Grosvenor sq. London 23 Feb. 1857.

DOMVILLE, HENRY JONES (_3 son of James Domville, M.D. of Greenwich,
who d. 28 June 1846_). Assistant surgeon R.N. 18 May 1839; surgeon
9 Nov. 1846; M.R.C.S. 1844; M.D. St. Andrews 1862; deputy
inspector general of hospitals 1864, inspector general 13 Feb.
1875 to 17 Dec. 1878; C.B. 13 March 1867; granted good service
pension 7 Oct. 1882. _d._ South Hill, Paignton, Devon 8 July 1888.

DOMVILLE, WILLIAM THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). Assistant
surgeon R.N. 3 May 1842; surgeon 7 Feb. 1852; served in Resolute
in Arctic regions in search of Sir John Franklin 1852–54;
inspector general of hospitals and fleets 18 Feb. 1875; in chief
control of Haslar hospital 13 Nov. 1877 to death; C.B. 2 June
1877. _d._ royal naval hospital, Haslar 21 Oct. 1879.

DON, EMILY ELIZA (_eld. dau. of John Saunders of Adelphi theatre,
London, actor_). Acted in comedy and farce at Adelphi, Haymarket,
Surrey and other theatres. (_m._ at Marylebone 17 Oct. 1857 Sir
Wm. Henry Don 1825–62). acted in Australia 1861–2, in England
1862–7, in New York 1867; lessee of T.R. Nottingham short time;
sang at music halls latterly. _d._ Edinburgh 20 Sep. 1875.

DON, GEORGE (_eld. son of George Don, curator of royal botanic
garden, Edinburgh_). _b._ Doo Hillock, Forfarshire 17 May 1798;
assistant in Botanic garden, Chelsea 1818–21; travelled as
collector of Horticultural Society in Brazil, West Indies and
Sierra Leone, Dec. 1821 to Feb. 1823; F.L.S. 1831; published _A
general system of gardening and botany 4 vols._ 1832–38. _d._
Bedford place, Kensington, London 25 Feb. 1856. _Proc. of Linnæan
Soc._ (1856) 39–41.

DON, SIR WILLIAM HENRY, 7 Baronet (_only son of Sir Alexander Don, 6
bart. of Newtondon, Berwickshire, who d. 11 April 1826 aged 47_).
_b._ 4 May 1825; ed. at Eton 1838–41; page to Lady Montgomerie at
Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839; cornet 5 dragoon guards 3
June 1842, lieut. 14 March 1845 to 28 Nov. 1845 when he sold out;
owner of steeple chase horses; sold Newtondon for £85,000; acted
in America 1850–55, in Great Britain 1855–61, in Australia 1861 to
death; played Queen Elizabeth in burlesque of _Kenilworth_ at
Hobart Town 15 March 1862. _d._ Webb’s hotel, Hobart Town 19 March
1862. _N. P. Willis’s Hurry-graphs_, _2 ed._ (1851) 230–33.

DONALDSON, JOHN. Called to Scottish bar 1826; a teacher of music in
Edinburgh; Reid professor of music in Univ. of Edin. 1845 to
death; contributed largely to means of carrying out concerts by
erection of music room and organ 1860; got rights of the professor
established by process at law 1855 after 5 years litigation;
granted civil list pension of £75, 19 April 1861. _d._ Marchfield
near Edin. 12 Aug. 1865. _Sir A. Grant’s Story of the Univ. of
Edinburgh ii_, 232–3, 459–61 (1884).

DONALDSON, REV. JOHN WILLIAM (_2 son of Stuart Donaldson of London,
merchant_). _b._ London 7 June 1811; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1834, M.A. 1837, B.D. 1844, D.D. 1849; fellow of his college
1835–40; head master of Bury St. Edmunds school 1841–55; a tutor
at Cambridge 1855 to death; author of _The New Cratylus, or
contributions towards a more accurate knowledge of the Greek
language_ 1839, _3 ed._ 1859; _Complete Greek grammar_ 1848;
_Complete Latin grammar_ 1852; _Jashar, fragmenta archetypa
carminum Hebraicorum_ 1854, _2 ed._ 1860; _Christian orthodoxy
reconciled with the conclusions of modern Biblical learning_ 1857
and about 20 other books. _d._ 21 Craven hill, Hyde park, London
10 Feb. 1861.

DONALDSON, SIR STUART ALEXANDER (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
London 26 Dec. 1815; partner in mercantile firm of Donaldson and
Co. of Sydney, N.S.W. 1836–56; a territorial magistrate 1838–59;
member of council and assembly 1848–59; colonial sec. 6 June to 25
Aug. 1856; colonial treasurer 3 Oct. 1856 to 7 Sep. 1857; fought a
duel with Sir Thomas Mitchell 27 Sep. 1851; returned to England
1859; contested Harwich 24 April 1860; knighted by patent 23 Aug.
1860. _d._ Carleton hall, Cumberland 11 Jany. 1867.

DONALDSON, THOMAS LEVERTON (_eld. son of James Donaldson of London,
architect_). _b._ 8 Bloomsbury sq. London 19 Oct. 1795; studied
architecture in Italy and Greece; member of Academy of St. Luke at
Rome 1822; architect in London; an active founder of Royal
Institute of British Architects 1834, gold medallist 1851, pres.
1864; professor of architecture at Univ. coll. London 1841–65,
emeritus professor July 1865 to death; district surveyor for South
Kensington; exhibited 27 works at R.A. 1816–54; author of _Pompeii
2 vols._ 1827; _A collection of the most approved examples of
doorways from ancient buildings in Greece and Italy_ 1833 and 10
other books. _d._ 21 Upper Bedford place, Bloomsbury, London 1
Aug. 1885. _Builder 24 July 1869 p. 586_, _portrait_, _8 Aug. 1885
p. 179_.

DONALDSON, WALTER ALEXANDER. Actor at Dublin; in Scotland; first
appeared in London at Royal Coburg theatre 11 May 1818 as Second
Smuggler in _Trial by Battle_; appeared at Bristol 1826; retired
about 1852; author of _Recollections of an actor_ 1865; reprinted
under title of _Fifty years of green-room gossip_ 1881,
_Theatrical portraits or the days of Shakespeare, Betterton,
Garrick and Kemble_ 1870 _with portrait of Donaldson_. _d._ Putney
near London 19 Dec. 1877 aged 84.

DONEGALL, GEORGE HAMILTON CHICHESTER, 3 Marquis of (_eld. child of 2
Marquis of Donegall 1769–1844_). _b._ Great Cumberland place,
London 10 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; lieut. 7 hussars
4 Oct. 1821 to 16 April 1823 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for
Carrickfergus 1818–20, for Belfast 1820–30, for Antrim 1830–37,
for Belfast again 1837–38; vice chamberlain of the household
1830–34; P.C. 19 July 1830; G.C.H. 1831; lord lieut. of co. Antrim
24 April 1841 to death; col. of Antrim militia 3 April 1841 to 17
Aug. 1881; created a peer of the U.K. by titles of baron
Ennishowen of Ennishowen, co. Donegal and Carrickfergus of
Carrickfergus, co. Antrim 18 Aug. 1841; succeeded 5 Oct. 1844;
militia aide de camp to the Queen 15 April 1847 to death; captain
of yeomen of the guard 16 Feb. 1848 to 1852; K.P. 1857; lieut.
col. commandant of London Irish volunteers 15 May 1860 to death;
col. of 4 battalion Royal Irish rifles 17 Aug. 1881 to death. _d._
Brighton 20 Oct. 1883.

DONERAILE, HAYES ST. Leger, 3 Viscount (_elder son of 2 Viscount
Doneraile 1755–1819_). _b._ Doneraile house, co. Cork 9 May 1786;
succeeded 8 Nov. 1819; a representative peer of Ireland 15 March
1830 to death; colonel of South Cork militia to death. _d._
Doneraile, co. Cork 27 March 1854.

DONKIN, BRYAN. _b._ Sandoe, Northumberland 22 March 1768;
apprenticed to Mr. Hall of Dartford, Kent, paper maker;
practically developed paper making machines of which he
constructed 191, 1802–51; introduced improvements in printing
machinery; invented and first used the composition printing roller
1816; a civil engineer in London 1815 to death; received 2 gold
medals from Society of Arts; a founder of Institution of Civil
Engineers 1818; F.R.S. 18 Jany. 1838. _d._ 6 The Paragon, New Kent
road, London 27 Feb. 1855. _W. Walker’s Memoirs of distinguished
men of science of Great Britain_ (1862) 75–7, _portrait_; _Proc.
of Royal Soc. vii_, 586–89 (1855).

DONKIN, WILLIAM FISHBURN. _b._ Bishop Burton, Yorkshire 15 Feb.
1814; ed. at St. Peter’s sch. York and St. Edmund hall, Ox.;
classical scholar Univ. coll. 1834, fellow 1836; double first
class 1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; Savilian professor of astronomy
in Univ. of Ox. 1842 to death; F.R.S. 13 Jany. 1842; F.R.A.S.;
author of _A defence of voting against propositions to be
submitted to convocation_ 1845; _Acoustics_ 1866. _d._ from
phthisis 34 Broad st. Oxford 15 Nov. 1869.

DONKIN, WILLIAM FREDERICK (_eld. son of the preceding_). Educ. at
Eton; matric. from Magd. coll. Ox. 17 Oct. 1864 aged 18, demy
1864; B.A. 1868, M.A. 1872; lecturer on natural science at Keble
coll. 1875–77, tutor 1877–80; professor of practical chemistry at
St. George’s hospital, London 1880 to death; sec. of the Alpine
Club, London to death; sec. of Photographic Soc. of Great Britain
to death; his photographs of the higher Alps were quite unique in
their character; went to the Caucasus on an exploring expedition,
July 1888, started from Balkar in the vale of the Terch with Mr.
Harry Fox and two Swiss guides 30 Aug.; all the party probably
lost their lives by an accident on the mountain known as Shkara
about 1 Sep. 1888.

DONNADIEU, ALEXANDER. _b._ France; served in Napoleon Bonaparte’s
army; decorated with the legion of honour; came to England about
1829; gained his living as a talented musician and singer;
collected autographs which he sold; lived for many years in
chambers at 8 Duke st. Piccadilly where he _d._ 8 Jany. 1861 aged
about 70.

DONNE, WILLIAM BODHAM (_only son of Edward Charles Donne of
Mattishall, East Dereham, Norfolk, who d. 1819_). _b._ 29 July
1807; ed. at Bury St. Edmunds’ gr. sch. and Caius coll. Cam.;
lived at Mattishall to 1846 and at Bury St. Edmunds 1846–52;
declined editorship of _Edinburgh Review_ 1852; librarian of the
London library, London 1852–57; deputy examiner of stage plays,
Aug. 1849, examiner 27 March 1857 to June or July 1874; author of
_Old roads and new roads_ 1852; _Essays on the Drama_ 1858, _2
ed._ 1863; edited _The correspondence of George III with Lord
North_ 1867; contributed the _Euripides_ and _Tacitus_ to Lucas
Collins’s _Classics for English readers_. _d._ 25 Weymouth st.
Portland place, London 20 June 1882.

DONNELLY, THOMAS LESTER. _b._ London 31 Dec. 1832; became an actor
1854; appeared at Wood’s theatre, Cincinnati 1855 under stage name
of Thomas Lester; managed a company in the Western States; lessee
of Brooklyn Olympic, New York 1867–75; joint lessee with John F.
Poole of the Grand Opera house, New York 1876 to death; one of
best actors of Irish characters in America. _d._ 224 West
Twenty-fourth st. New York 5 July 1880.

DONNELLY, WILLIAM. _b._ 1804; called to Irish bar 1833; registrar
general of marriages in Ireland 1844, of births, deaths and
marriages to 1876; superintendent of agricultural and emigration
statistics 1851–1876; C.B. 13 June 1857. _d._ Auburn, Malahide,
co. Dublin 25 Oct. 1879.

DONOUGHMORE, JOHN HELY-HUTCHINSON, 3 Earl of (_eld. son of Francis
Hely-Hutchinson 1759–1824, collector of customs, Dublin_). _b._
1787; ensign Grenadier guards 25 Sep. 1807, lieut. 19 Nov. 1812 to
27 May 1819 when placed on h.p.; assisted in the escape of Comte
Antoine de Lavalette (who had been sentenced to death as an
accomplice of Napoleon Bonaparte) by secreting him in his rooms in
Paris during the night of 20 Dec. 1815; tried 22 April 1816 and
sentenced to 3 months imprisonment, struck off British army list
but afterwards restored; M.P. for co. Tipperary 1826–30 and
1831–32; succeeded his uncle as 3 Earl 29 June 1832; lord lieut.
of Tipperary 14 Aug. 1832 to death; K.P. 8 April 1834; P.C.
Ireland 17 Nov. 1834; a comr. of charitable donations and bequests
in Ireland 18 Dec. 1844 to 17 Feb. 1851; known by the sobriquet of
Lavalette Hutchinson. _d._ Palmerston house near Dublin 12 Sep.
1851. _P. Burke’s Celebrated naval and military trials_ (1866)
376–99; _G.M. xxxvi_, 539–40 (1851); _The trial of Sir R. T.
Wilson and captain J. H. Hutchinson for aiding the escape of
general Lavalette_ 1816.

DONOUGHMORE, RICHARD JOHN HELY-HUTCHINSON, 4 Earl of (_only son of
the preceding_). _b._ Dublin 4 April 1823; ed. at Harrow; ensign
98 foot 18 June 1841, lieut. 1843–45; lieut. col. South Tipperary
artillery 24 July 1849 to death; paymaster general and vice pres.
of Board of Trade 6 April 1858, pres. 3 March 1859 to 18 June
1859; P.C. 6 April 1858. _d._ 52 South Audley st. London 22 Feb.
1856. _bur._ Knocklofty near Clonmel 2 March. _I.L.N. xxi_, 402
(1852), _portrait_, _xxxii_, 385 (1858), _portrait_.

DONOVAN, SIR HENRY (_son of John Donovan of Tralee, co. Kerry_).
_b._ 1822; sheriff of Kerry 1873–4; knighted by Earl Spencer lord
lieutenant of Ireland, at Dublin Castle 25 Feb. 1874; chairman of
Tralee town commission. _d._ Seafield, Tralee 16 July 1886.

DONOVAN, MICHAEL. Chemist; invented Donovan’s Solution the liquor
arsenici et hydrargyri hydriodalis of the Dublin pharmacopœia
1839; author of _Observations and experiments concerning Mr.
Davy’s hypothesis of Electrochemical affinity_ 1811; _A treatise
on chemistry_ 1832 (Cabinet cyclop. vol. 106); _On the
extemporaneous preparation of hydrocyanic acid from cyanide of
potassium, in Pharmaceutical Journal, March 1843 pp._ 573–83. _d._
April 1876. _Pharmaceutical Journal 29 April 1876 p._ 879.

DOO, GEORGE THOMAS. _b._ 6 Jany. 1800; produced his first published
engraving “The Duke of York” 1824; opened an academy for study of
the antique, and of the life in the Savoy, London 1826; historical
engraver in ordinary to William iv 1836–37, to Queen Victoria
1842; a member of many foreign academies; A.R.A. 1855, R.A. 1856;
published many plates; pres. of Artists’ Annuity fund 1861;
chairman of committee of class 40 (engravings and etchings) at
International Exhibition 1862; F.R.S. 5 June 1851 to 1860; granted
civil list pension of £70, 19 June 1868. _d._ Sutton, Surrey 13
Nov. 1886. _Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii_, 324 (1862).

DORAN, JOHN (_only son of John Doran of London, contractor, who d.
1824_). _b._ London 11 March 1807; writer on the _Literary
Chronicle_ 1826–28; author of _The Wandering Jew_ produced at
Surrey theatre 2 Sep. 1832; Ph.D. Univ. of Marburg, Prussia;
literary editor of _The Church and State Gazette_ 1841–52; wrote
for the _Athenæum_ 1854 to death, edited it several times during
Hepworth Dixon’s absence; edited _Notes and Queries_ 1 Oct. 1872
to death; F.S.A. 19 May 1859; author of _Lives of the Queens of
England of the house of Hanover 2 vols._ 1855, _4 ed._ 1874;
_Monarchs retired from business 2 vols._ 1857; _“Their Majesties
Servants,” Annals of the English stage from T. Betterton to E.
Kean 2 vols._ 1864, _2 ed._ 1865, _new ed. by R. W. Lowe 3 vols._
1888 and 15 other works. _d._ 33 Lansdowne road, Notting hill,
London 25 Jany. 1878. _J. Doran’s New pictures and old panels_
1849, _portrait_; _London Society xlii_, 29–37 (1882), _portrait_;
_Temple Bar lii_, 460–94 (1878); _I.L.N. lxxii_, 133 (1878),
_portrait_.

DORATT, SIR JOHN. _b._ about 1779; ed. at Westminster school and
Univ. of Leyden, M.D. 1805; physician to British embassy at St.
Petersburgh 1835–37; physician to Earl of Durham, governor general
of British North America 1838–40; knighted at St. James’s palace
14 Feb. 1838. _d._ 9 North terrace, Alexander sq. Brompton, London
4 Sep. 1863.

DORIN, JOSEPH ALEXANDER. _b._ Edmonton near London 15 Sep. 1802;
assistant to accountant general at Calcutta 1821; secretary to
Bank of Bengal; deputy accountant general; first financial sec.
Jany. 1843; a member of supreme council of India 1853 to May 1858.
_d._ St. Lawrence, Isle of Wight 22 Dec. 1862.

DORNFORD, REV. JOSEPH (_only son of Josiah Dornford of Deptford,
Kent_). _b._ Deptford 9 Jany. 1794; ed. at Wadham coll. Ox.,
commoner 4 Dec. 1813, scholar; B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820; Michel fellow
of Queen’s coll. 1817–19; fellow of Oriel 1819–36, tutor 1823,
dean 1828, classical examiner in the schools 1826–28; proctor 1830
when nicknamed the University Corporal; ascended Mont Blanc with
Dr. Joseph Von Hamel 18–20 Aug. 1820 when three of the guides were
lost in a crevasse and he narrowly escaped same fate; R. of
Plymtree, Devon 1832 to death; hon. canon in Exeter cath. 1844 to
death. _d._ Plymtree 18 Jany. 1868. _Mozley’s Reminiscences ii_,
55–77 (1882); _G.M. Sep. 1820 p._ 365.

DORNIN, THOMAS ALOYSIUS. _b._ Ireland about 1800; midshipman United
States navy 2 May 1815; sailed round the world 1829–30; commanded
the “Portsmouth” 1851; prevented invasion of Nicaragua by Wm.
Walker the filibuster 1851; captain 1855; commodore on the retired
list 16 July 1862; in charge of the fifth light house district
1865 to death. _d._ Norfolk, Virginia 22 April 1874.

DORRIAN, MOST REV. PATRICK. _b._ Downpatrick, co. Down 29 March
1814; ed. at Downpatrick; entered Maynooth college 23 Aug. 1833;
ordained priest 23 Sep. 1837; C. at Belfast 1837–47; parish priest
of Loughlin island 1847–60; coadjutor bishop of Down and Connor 4
June 1860, bishop 1865 to death; consecrated in St. Malachy’s ch.
Belfast 19 Aug. 1860. _d._ Dublin 3 Nov. 1885.

D’ORSAY, GILLION GASPARD ALFRED DE GRIMAUD, Comte (_younger son of
Albert D’Orsay, Comte D’Orsay, general in French army_). _b._
Paris 4 Sep. 1798; in the Garde du corps of Charles x, 1815–23;
became acquainted with the Earl and Countess of Blessington 1822,
travelled with them in South of Europe. _m._ at Naples 1 Dec. 1827
Harriett Anne Frances dau. of 1 Earl of Blessington, they
separated 1829, she was _b._ 5 Aug. 1812, _m._ (2) 1 Sep. 1852
hon. Charles Spencer Cowper and _d._ 17 Dec. 1869; the leader of
fashion in London 1830–49; lived at 22 Curzon st. Mayfair 1833–36,
at 4 Upper Gore, Kensington 1836–45; most intimately associated
with Lady Blessington, they fled to Paris to escape imprisonment
for debt April 1849, where she _d._ 4 June 1849 aged 60; 120
profile sketches by him of celebrities of the day were
lithographed by R. J. Lane and published by Mitchell of Bond st;
the handsomest man of his time. _d._ at house of his sister
Duchesse de Gramont in Paris 4 Aug. 1852. _bur._ at Chambourcy
near Paris 7 Aug. next to Lady Blessington. _R. R. Madden’s
Literary life of the Countess of Blessington i_, 318–72 (1855),
_portrait_, _ii_, 406–72; _J. Grant’s Portraits of public
characters ii_, 191–204 (1841); _Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I
have known_, _second series ii_, 198–224; _W. Bates’s Maclise
portrait gallery_ (1883) 284–90, _portrait_; _Gore House,
Bentley’s New Monthly Mag. June 1849 pp._ 135–51; _H. Melton’s
Hints on hats_ (1875) 33–8, _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. xli_, 153–55
(1883); _Colburn’s New Monthly Mag. xcvi_, 112–26 (1852);
_Grantley Berkeley’s My Life_ (1866) _iii_, 201–31; _S. Sidney’s
Book of the horse_ 1886 _p._ 257, _portrait_.

NOTE.—A satire on him with a portrait was published in 1844
entitled D’Horsay or the follies of the day, By A Man of
Fashion. Disraeli dedicated to him Henrietta Temple 1837,
which contains a flattering portrait of him as Count Mirabel.
His character and peculiarities furnished Eugene Sue with the
idea of the hero of his novel Le Marquis de Létorière ou L’Art
de plaire 1845. He was much satirized by Gilbert A’Beckett in
Figaro in London 1832–34.

DOTTIN, ABEL ROUSE (_son of Abel Dottin of Granada hall, Barbados,
who d. 1782_). Matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 24 May 1786 aged 17;
M.P. for Gatton, Surrey 17 June 1818 to 29 June 1820; M.P. for
Southampton 9 June 1826 to 23 April 1831, and 9 Jany. 1835 to 23
June 1841. _d._ 31 Argyll st. Oxford st. London 7 June 1852.
_Portraits of eminent conservatives_, _first series_ (1836),
_portrait_.

DOUBLEDAY, HENRY (_elder son of Benjamin Doubleday of Epping, Essex,
tradesman, who d. 1848_). _b._ Epping 1 July 1808; grocer at
Epping 1848–70; introduced the now familiar plan of ‘sugaring’ for
moths 1842; an original member of Entomological Soc. of London
1833; published _A nomenclature of British birds_ 1838, _4 ed._
1845; _The Zoologists’ Synonymic list of British butterflies and
moths_ 1847, _2 ed._ 1859, _2 supplements_ 1865 _and_ 1873; in a
lunatic asylum 1871; the chief lepidopterist England has produced,
his collections of lepidoptera have been at Bethnal Green museum
since Feb. 1876. _d._ Epping 29 June 1875. _Entomologist x_, 53–61
(1877), _portrait_.

DOUBLEDAY, THOMAS (_son of George Doubleday of Newcastle, soap
manufacturer_). _b._ Newcastle, Feb. 1790; helped forward reform
agitation 1832; sec. to Northern political union; junior partner
in firm of Doubleday and Easterby, soapmakers, Newcastle; became
insolvent; registrar of births, marriages and deaths in St.
Andrew’s parish, Newcastle; secretary to the Coal trade to death;
author of _The true law of population shewn to be connected with
the food of the people_ 1842, _3 ed._ 1853; _The eve of St. Mark,
a romance of Venice 2 vols._ 1857; _A Financial, monetary and
statistical history of England_ 1847; _On mundane moral
government_ 1852, and 10 other books. _d._ Bulman village (now
Gosforth) near Newcastle 18 Dec. 1870. _Monthly Chronicle of north
country lore, Nov. 1888 pp._ 485–88, _portrait_.

DOUDNEY, REV. GEORGE DAVID. _b._ 1811; a tailor at 97 Fleet st.
London, retired 13 Nov. 1847; preached his first sermon at Clapham
Asylum 21 Jany. 1848; matric. Corpus coll. Camb. 3 Feb. 1848; went
to Ireland as a missionary and studied the Irish language;
ordained by Bp. of Derry 23 Dec. 1848; Incumbent of Dunlewey,
Donegal where he preached his first sermon in Irish 25 April 1849;
Incumbent of Charles church, Plymouth 26 Jany. 1852 to death;
preached 245 sermons 1852; author of _Sermons preached in Charles’
Chapel_, _Plymouth_ 1866–67, _2 vols._ _d._ Mannamead, Plymouth 19
May 1865. _Recollections of Rev. G. D. Doudney_ 1866, _portrait_.

DOUGAL, NEIL. _b._ Greenock 9 Dec. 1776; a sailor 1792 to 14 June
1794 when he lost his eyesight by an accident; kept a tavern in
Greenock 1824 and then a boarding house; teacher of singing in
Greenock 1799; composed about 100 psalm and hymn tunes of which
‘Kilmarnock’ is one of the standard melodies in Presbyterian
church service; author of _Poems and Songs_ 1854. _d._ Greenock 1
Dec. 1862.

DOUGLAS, ANDREW SNAPE. Secretary of legation at Court of Palermo
1809; sec. of embassy at the Hague 1 Oct. 1824, minister
plenipotentiary 6 Nov. to 6 Dec. 1824 and 22 Jany. to 25 April
1825; retired from the service 5 Jany. 1829, granted a pension 15
Sep. 1829. _d._ 7 Onslow sq. Brompton 19 Nov. 1869.

DOUGLAS, SIR CHARLES EURWICKE (_natural son of Right Hon. Charles
Philip Yorke 1764–1834_). _b._ 12 May 1806; ed. at Harrow and St.
John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, private sec. to Viscount
Goderich at Colonial office, Nov. 1830 to March 1833; king-at-arms
of order of St. Michael and St. George 1832–59; M.P. for Warwick
1837–1852, for Banbury 1859–1865; contested Durham city 1853;
comr. of Greenwich hospital 8 Aug. 1845 to July 1846; knighted at
St. James’s palace 12 Oct. 1832; K.C.M.G. 1859. _d._ 27 Wilton
crescent, London 21 Feb. 1887.

DOUGLAS, CLAUDE. Ensign 10 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1819; major 14 N.I.
10 June 1842; col. 56 N.I. 1 May 1858, col. 65 N.I. 1859–70;
general on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Bognor 11 April 1883 in
84 year.

DOUGLAS, FRANCIS WILLIAM BOUVERIE (_2 son of 7 Marquis of
Queensberry 1818–58_). _b._ Harleyford near Marlow 8 Feb. 1847;
ed. at Eton; came out first in examination for direct commissions
in the army 1865; killed by a fall whilst descending the
Matterhorn, Switzerland 14 July 1865. _E. Whymper’s Ascent of the
Matterhorn_ (1880) 273–95.

DOUGLAS, RIGHT REV. HENRY ALEXANDER (_5 son of Henry Alexander
Douglas of Dryfesdale, co. Dumfries 1781–1857_). _b._ Lockaby
house 22 Feb. 1821; ed. at Glasgow Univ. and Balliol coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848, D.D. 1868; C. of Alverstoke, Hants. 1846–48;
minister of Abp. Tenison’s chapel, Regent st. London 1848–49; V.
of Abbotsley, Hunts. 1849–52; dean of Capetown 1852–68; bishop of
Bombay, Sep. 1868 to death; consecrated in chapel royal, Whitehall
3 Jany. 1869; author of _Sermons_ 1862; _Missions in India_ 1877.
_d._ Clifton lodge, Clifton gardens, Maida Vale, London 13 Dec.
1875.

DOUGLAS, SIR HOWARD, 3 Baronet (_3 son of Sir Charles Douglas, 1
Baronet, who d. Feb. 1789_). _b._ Gosport, Hants. 23 Jany. 1776; 2
lieut. R.A. 1 Jany. 1794; commandant of Military college senior
department at High Wycombe 1804–8 and 1809, inspector general of
instructions to 1820; succeeded his brother 23 May 1809; patented
the reflecting circle or semicircle known by his name 2 July 1811;
governor of New Brunswick 5 Sep. 1823 to 1831 where he founded
University of Frederickton; lord high comr. of Ionian islands 13
March 1835 to 2 Dec. 1840; col. of 99 foot 15 March 1841, of 15
foot 6 Oct. 1851 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; M.P. for
Liverpool 1842–46; F.R.S. 25 Jany. 1816; C.B. 3 Feb. 1817, K.C.B.
18 July 1840, G.C.B. 27 Aug. 1841; G.C.M.G. 18 March 1835; author
of _An Essay on the principles and construction of military
bridges_ 1816, _3 ed._ 1853; _A Treatise on naval gunnery_ 1820,
_5 ed._ 1860; _On naval warfare with steam_ 1858, _2 ed._ 1860 and
9 other books. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 9 Nov. 1861. _Life of Sir
Howard Douglas by S. W. Fullom_ (1863), _portrait_.

DOUGLAS, SIR JAMES (_eld. son of John Douglas of Glasgow_). _b._
Demerara 14 Aug. 1803; chief factor of the Hudson Bay company,
chief agent for region west of the Rocky Mountains 1833; governor
of Vancouver’s island 9 May 1851 to 1863, of British Columbia 3
Sep. 1858 to 1863 when he retired on a pension of £500; C.B. 30
Nov. 1858, K.C.B. 11 Aug. 1863. _d._ Victoria, Vancouver’s island
2 Aug. 1877.

DOUGLAS, JAMES. _b._ Brechin 20 May 1800; ed. at Univ. of Edin.;
M.R.C.S. Edin. 1820; M.R.C.S. London; went to New York 1824;
practised in Quebec 1826–51; one of founders of lunatic asylum at
Beauport near Quebec 1845, also manager; an enthusiastic traveller
and antiquarian. _d._ New York 14 April 1886.

DOUGLAS, SIR JAMES DAWES (_elder son of James Sholto Douglas
1757–1830, major in the army_). _b._ 14 Jany. 1785; D.A.Q.G. in
South America 1806 and in Portugal 1807; lieut. col. 8th
Portuguese regiment 1809–11; commanded 7th Portuguese brigade
1813–14; lost his leg at battle of Toulouse 10 April 1814;
commanded south west district of Ireland 1825–30; governor of
Guernsey 1830–38; col. of 93 foot 15 June 1840, of 42 foot 10
April 1850 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.T.S.; K.C.B. 2 Jany.
1815, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Clifton 6 March 1862.

DOUGLAS, JOHN. _b._ 1811; ensign 79 foot 25 June 1829; lieut. col.
11 Hussars 13 Aug. 1854 to 8 March 1859 when placed on h.p.; C.B.
5 July 1855; M.G. 6 March 1868. _d._ Aldershot 10 May 1871.

DOUGLAS, JOHN. One of a family of 24 children; _b._ Lambeth Walk,
Lambeth, London 17 March 1814; played in pantomime at Covent
Garden theatre 1825; manager of Gravesend and other theatres
1833–45; manager of Douglas troupe at Sans Souci theatre,
Leicester sq. London; lessee of Westminster theatre; lessee of
Marylebone theatre; manager of Standard theatre, Shoreditch 1845,
proprietor 1852, theatre burnt down 21 Oct. 1866, reopened it 18
Dec. 1867; manager of Pavilion theatre, Whitechapel 1857–71. _d._
Castle villa, Dalston, London 31 Jany. 1874. _Theatrical Times
iii_, 399, 424 (1848), _portrait_.

DOUGLAS, SIR JOHN (_son of Sir James Dawes Douglas 1785–1862_). _b._
5 Dec. 1836; ed. at Rugby, Cheltenham and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A.
1864; clerk in audit office, Mauritius, Feb. 1859, sec. to council
1867; poor law comr. June 1868; auditor general Ceylon, Dec. 1869
to 1876; colonial sec. Straits Settlements 1876–78; lieut.
governor and colonial sec. Ceylon, July 1878 to death; K.C.M.G. 24
May 1883. _d._ Lyndhurst, Watford 23 Aug. 1885.

DOUGLAS, SIR JOHN (_son of Sir Neil Douglas 1780–1853_). _b._ 7 July
1817; ensign 79 foot 6 Sep. 1833, lieut. col. 13 Aug. 1854 to 16
March 1860 when placed on h.p.; A.A.G. in Scotland 1860–65;
commanded the forces in Scotland 1 Oct. 1870 to 30 Sep. 1875; col.
79 foot 1 Jany. 1879 to death; general 30 Jany. 1880; placed on
retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 14 May 1859,
G.C.B. 2 June 1877. _d._ Glenfinart, Argyllshire 8 Sep. 1887.

DOUGLAS, SIR JOSEPH ABRAHAM (_son of Joseph Douglas of Whitehaven,
Cumberland_). _b._ Chepstow 17 Jany. 1799; master in the navy 30
May 1823, retired 1851; knighted at St. James’s palace 24 March
1841 for having armed his ship the Cambridge and assisted the
British in Hong Kong bay in June 1839 losing £10,000 for which the
government would not compensate him. _d._ of epilepsy at 2 Apsley
cottage, Moor terrace, Lower park road, Peckham, London 3 April
1866. _A case of individual sacrifice and of national gratitude_
1847.

DOUGLAS, SIR NEIL (_5 son of John Douglas of Glasgow, merchant_).
_b._ Glasgow 1780; 2 lieut. 21 foot 28 Jany. 1801; captain 79 foot
19 April 1804, lieut. col. 3 Dec. 1812 to 16 Aug. 1833 when placed
on h.p.; aide-de-camp to George iv and William iv 27 May 1825 to
10 Jany. 1837; governor of Edinburgh Castle 1 April 1842 to 1
Jany. 1847; col. of 81 foot 11 July 1845, of 72 foot 12 July 1847,
of 78 foot 29 Dec. 1851 to death; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; C.B. 22 June
1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep.
1831. _d._ Brussels 1 Sep. 1853 in 74 year. _W. B. Crombie’s
Modern Athenians_ (1882), _portrait_; _My adventures by Col.
Montgomery Maxwell i_, _pp. v-vi_ (1845), _portrait_.

DOUGLAS, ROBERT. Second lieut. R.A. 1 Nov. 1796, lieut. col. 31 Dec.
1827 to 6 May 1835 when placed on retired full pay; general 25
Sep. 1859; C.B. 4 June 1815. _d._ Claygate near Esher 10 Feb. 1871
aged 93.

DOUGLAS, WILLIAM. Second lieut. R.E. 1 July 1801, lieut. col. 23
March 1825 to 27 Jany. 1829 when placed on half pay; lieut. col.
on full pay 11 Nov. 1851 to death; general 3 April 1862. _d._
Hastings 10 Feb. 1864 aged 77.

DOUGLAS, WILLIAM SCOTT. _b._ Hawick 10 Jany. 1815; ed. in Heriot’s
hospital, Edinburgh; sec. of Edinburgh Burns club 1877 to death;
edited _The Complete poetical works of Robert Burns_ 1871,
_revised ed._ 1876; _Picture of the county of Ayr_ 1874; _The
works of Robert Burns 6 vols._ 1877–79; supplied letterpress for
_Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ 1882; found drowned near end of the
East pier, Leith 23 June 1883.

DOULTON, FREDERICK (_3 son of John Doulton of Lambeth_). _b._
Lambeth 1824; manufacturer of earthenware goods; member of
Metropolitan board of works for Lambeth 1856 to death; contested
Reigate 6 Feb. 1858; M.P. for Lambeth 5 May 1862 to 11 Nov. 1868.
_d._ of apoplexy at Summerhill house, Tunbridge Wells 21 May 1872.
_Affaire Doulton Bruxelles_ 1868.

DOVASTON, JOHN FREEMAN MILWARD (_only son of John Dovaston of
Westfelton near Oswestry 1740–1808_). _b._ 30 Dec. 1782; ed. at
Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807;
barrister M.T. 12 June 1807; author of _Fitz Gwarine with other
rhymes_ 1812, _3 ed._ called _Poems, legendary, incidental and
humorous_ 1825; _A selection of British melodies_ 1817; _The Dove_
1822 a selection of old poems; _Lectures on natural history and
national melody_ 1839. _d._ Nursery villa, Westfelton 8 Aug. 1854.
_G.M. xlii_, 395–6 (1854).

DOVE, PATRICK EDWARD (_son of Henry Dove, lieutenant R.N._) _b._
Lasswade near Edinburgh 31 July 1815, lived at the Craig near
Ballantrae, Ayrshire 1841–48 when he lost most of his fortune;
captain of Midlothian rifle club April 1853; edited the _Witness_
for 6 months in 1854; edited the _Commonwealth_ newspaper at
Glasgow 1858; edited first 20 numbers of _Imperial dictionary of
biography_ 1857; edited with M. Rankine _Imperial Journal of the
arts and sciences_; invented a rifled cannon with ratchet grooves
which had great range and accuracy; commanded 91st Lanarkshire
rifle volunteers 1859; won several prizes at Wimbledon 1860;
author of _The theory of human progression and natural probability
of a reign of justice_ 1850, anon.; _The Elements of political
science_ 1854; _Romanism, Rationalism and Protestantism_ 1855;
_The logic of the Christian faith_ 1856; _The Revolver, its
description and use_ 1858. _d._ Edinburgh 28 April 1873.

DOVE, THOMAS. A house painter; a marine artist of great ability; his
best pictures were produced at Liverpool. _d._ in the Whitby
workhouse 27 Dec. 1886.

DOVE, WILLIAM (_son of Mr. Dove of Leeds, leather manufacturer, who
d. 24 Dec. 1854_). A farmer at Bramham near Tadcaster to 1855;
poisoned his wife Harriet by strychnia 1 March 1856, tried at the
Assizes at York 16–18 July 1856, hanged at York 9 Aug. 1856 aged
30. _G. L. Browne and C. G. Stewart’s Trials for poisoning_ (1883)
233–68; _Sir J. F. Stephen’s History of the criminal law of
England iii_, 426–37 (1883); _Observations on the trials of J.
Hill and W. Dove_ 1856.

DOVETON, FREDERICK LARKINS. Entered Madras army 1806; col. 8 Madras
light cavalry 18 Feb. 1845 to death; L.G. 13 March 1859. _d._
Cheltenham 20 Dec. 1859 aged 68.

DOVETON, SIR JOHN (_son of Sir Wm. Webber Doveton, knt., of the
H.E.I.Co.’s civil service, who d. 13 Oct. 1843 in 90 year_). _b._
St. Helena 1783; cavalry cadet in H.E.I.Co.’s army, 31 Oct. 1798;
aide-de-camp to Marquis Wellesley; commanded a division of the
Nizam’s army; commanded centre division of Madras army; lieut.
col. 4 Madras Native Cavalry 19 Aug. 1813, col. 9 Nov. 1821; col.
5 Madras light cavalry 1847 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B.
26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 20 July 1838. _d._ Vichy, France 23 Sep.
1857.

DOW, REV. WILLIAM (_youngest son of Rev. Anthony Dow, D.D., minister
of Kirkpatrick, Irongray, Perthshire, who d. 17 July 1834_). Educ.
at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 17 April 1839; licensed by Presbytery of
Dumfries 6 Nov. 1821; presented by George iv to Tongland,
Kirkcudbright 13 June and ordained 21 Sep. 1826; withdrew his
adherence to the confession of faith, deposed by the General
Assembly 23 May 1832; called to be an Apostle of the Catholic
Apostolic church when at Kirkcudbright, June 1835; made a tour of
the continent 1839 as the Apostle to Russia; a writer in the
_Morning Watch_; author of _A series of discourses on practical
and doctrinal subjects_ 1847, _second series_ 1850; _Sermons and
Homilies_ 1856; _First principles of the doctrine of Christ_ 1856.
_d._ Albury, Surrey 3 Nov. 1855 aged 56. _Miller’s Irvingism i_,
157, 166, 181, 271 (1878); _Scott’s Fasti, vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 725_.

NOTE.—His elder brother Rev. David Dow, assistant minister of
Kirkpatrick, Irongray, was called to be an Apostle of the
Catholic Apostolic church when at Irongray, June 1835 but
declined to accept the call; he went to the Cape of Good Hope
and became a farmer.

DOWBIGGIN, MONTAGU HAMILTON (_son of Wm. Henry Dowbiggin 1780–1849,
lieut. 12 Lancers, by Georgina 5 dau. of 1 Baron Panmure_). _b._
15 Jany. 1832; ensign 71 foot 30 June 1848; major 99 foot 22 July
1859, lieut. col. 3 March 1863 to 10 Dec. 1863 when placed on
h.p.; served in Crimean war 1854–55; the object of Lord Panmure’s
celebrated telegram to Lord Raglan “Take care of Dowb”; retired
from army June 1865; knight of the Legion of Honour 1856. _d._
Portland place, Brighton 3 Feb. 1866. _bur._ Haversham, Bucks.

DOWDESWELL, GEORGE (_youngest son of George Dowdeswell, M.D. of
Gloucester, who d. 1776_). Writer Bengal civil service 7 Aug.
1783; sec. to Board of Revenue 25 Aug. 1794; sec. in judicial and
revenue departments 16 March 1801; superintendent general of
police 1805; chief sec. to Government 30 Oct. 1812; member of
supreme council 28 Dec. 1814 to 1823 when he resigned. _d._ Down
house, Redmarley, Worcs. 6 Feb. 1852 aged 86.

DOWDESWELL, JOHN EDMUND (_youngest child of Wm. Dowdeswell, M.P. for
Worcs. who d. 1775_). _b._ 3 March 1772; ed. at Westminster
1779–89 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1795; pupil of Sir Samuel
Romilly; barrister I.T. 6 May 1796, bencher 1834, reader 1841,
treasurer 1842; recorder for Tewkesbury 1798–1833; M.P. for
Tewkesbury 1812–1832; comr. of bankrupts 1806–1820; master in
Chancery 8 Feb. 1820 to 1851. _d._ Pull court near Tewkesbury 11
Nov. 1851.

DOWDESWELL, WILLIAM (_elder son of the preceding_). _b._ Oct. 1804;
ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829;
contested Tewkesbury 12 Dec. 1832; M.P. for Tewkesbury 1835 to
1847; sheriff of Worcs. 1855. _d._ Pull court 6 Feb. 1887.

DOWKER, HOWARD. Entered Madras army 1813; col. 40 Madras N.I. 3
March 1848 to 1853, col. 2 Madras N.I. 1853–1869; L.G. 21 April
1863. _d._ 5 Feb. 1870.

DOWLING, ALFRED SEPTIMUS (_son of Vincent Dowling of 30 Lincolns Inn
Fields, London, bookseller_). Barrister G.I. 18 June 1828;
serjeant at law 12 Nov. 1842; judge of county courts circuit No.
15 Yorkshire 9 Nov. 1849 to death; a comr. for inquiring into
state of county courts 20 Aug. 1853; author of _A collection of
statutes passed 1830–2_, _2 vols._ 1832; _A collection of statutes
passed 2 Wm. iv and 3 Wm. iv_, 1833; _Reports of cases in King’s
Bench practice courts with the points of pleading and practice
decided in the Courts of Common Pleas and Exchequer 1830–41_, _7
vols._ 1833–42, _new series (with Vincent Dowling) 1841–43_, _2
vols._ 1843–44; _Reports of cases in continuation of the above
(with J. J. Lowndes) 1844–49_, _7 vols._ 1845–51; _The practice of
the superior courts_ 1848. _d._ 34 Acacia road, St. John’s Wood,
London 3 March 1868 aged 63.

DOWLING, FRANK LEWIS (_son of Vincent George Dowling 1785–1852_).
_b._ 18 Oct. 1823; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1848; edited _Bell’s
Life in London_ 1852 to death; edited and published annual issues
of _Fistiana, or the Oracle of the Ring_ 1853–64, prepared another
ed. published 1868; managed the fight between Heenan and Sayers at
Farnborough, Hants. 17 April 1860. _d._ Norfolk st. Strand, London
10 Oct. 1867. _Illustrated Sporting News 19 Oct. 1867 p._ 657,
_portrait_.

DOWLING, REV. JOHN. _b._ Pevensey, Sussex 12 May 1807; kept a
boarding school near Oxford 1829–32; ordained Baptist minister in
Catskill, New York 1832; minister at Newport, Rhode Island
1834–36, in New York 1836; preached in Providence, Philadelphia,
Newark and other places; D.D. Transylvania University; author of
_Exposition of the prophecies_ 1840; _Defence of the Protestant
Scriptures_ 1843; _The History of Romanism_ 1845 and other books.
_d._ Middletown, New York 4 July 1878. _M. H. Smith’s Sunshine and
shadow in New York_ (1868) 589–92.

DOWLING, VINCENT GEORGE (_brother of Alfred Septimus Dowling, who d.
1868_). _b._ London 1785; contributed to the _Observer_ from 1804;
employed on the _Day_ newspaper 1809; edited _Bell’s Life in
London_, Aug. 1824 to death, a service of plate value 100 guineas
voted him 18 July 1833; one of the first persons to seize
Bellingham when he shot Spencer Perceval in lobby of House of
Commons 11 May 1812; claimed to be the author of the plan on which
new police system was organised; edited and published _Fistiana or
the Oracle of the Ring_, 14 editions 1840–52. _d._ Stanmore lodge,
Kilburn, London 25 Oct. 1852. _I.L.N. 13 Nov. 1852 pp._ 406, 408,
_portrait_.

DOWN, JAMES SOMERS. Entered Bombay army 1819; col. 1 Bombay N.I. 13
July 1858 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. _d._ Kilburn, London 25 Sep.
1871.

DOWNALL, VENERABLE JOHN (_only son of James Downall of Liverpool_).
Matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 3 July 1822 aged 19, B.A. 1826, M.A.
1829; P.C. of St. George’s, Kidderminster 1843–49; V. of
Okehampton, Devon 1850 to death; preb. of Exeter cath. 1855 to
death; archdeacon of Totnes, April 1859 to death; author of
_Laying on of hands or Letters on confirmation_ 1848; _An address
after confirmation_ 1848, _5 ed._ 1858 and 7 charges and sermons.
_d._ Bournemouth 7 April 1872.

DOWNE, WILLIAM HENRY DAWNAY, 7 Viscount. _b._ 15 May 1812; M.P. for
Rutland 12 July 1841 to Jany. 1846; succeeded 23 May 1846. _d._
Torquay 26 Jany. 1857.

DOWNES, ULYSSES DE BURGH, 2 Baron (_only son of Thomas Burgh of Bert
house, Athy, co. Kildare, who d. 1810_). _b._ Dublin 15 Aug. 1788;
ensign 54 foot 31 March 1804; captain 92 foot 25 Nov. 1808;
captain Grenadier guards 25 July 1814 to 5 July 1827 when placed
on h.p.; surveyor general of the ordnance 18 March 1820 to 14 May
1827, clerk of the ordnance 1828–30; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign
27 May 1825 to 10 Jany. 1837; col. of 54 foot 4 April 1845, of 29
foot 15 Aug. 1850 to death; general 20 June 1854; succeeded his
cousin 2 March 1826; Irish representative peer 4 April 1833 to
death; reassumed ancient name of De Burgh 1848; K.C.B. 2 Jany.
1815, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Bert house, Athy 26 July 1863.

DOWNIE, SIR ALEXANDER MACKENZIE (_youngest son of Rev. Alexander
Downie, minister of Lochalsh, Rosshire_). _b._ 1811; physician to
Princess Elizabeth, landgravine of Hesse Homburg; knighted at St.
James’s palace 1 July 1840 for his attention to the Princess;
phys. to British legation at Frankfort 1834–49; phys. in ordinary
to Duke of Cambridge 30 Nov. 1840; phys. extraordinary in
household of Duchess of Kent 1846; author of _A short description
of Kissingen_ 1841; _A practical treatise on mineral waters in the
cure of chronic disease_ 1841. _d._ Frankfort 3 Feb. 1852.

DOWNING, DAVID. Ensign 6 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1819; colonel Bengal
infantry 7 May 1855; general 23 Aug. 1875. _d._ The Grange,
Plaxtole, Kent 18 Dec. 1888 aged 88.

DOWNING, M’CARTHY (_2 son of Eugene Downing of Kenmare, co. Kerry_).
_b._ 11 May 1814; took an active part in formation of Irish
parliamentary party of 1852; M.P. for county Cork 30 Nov. 1868 to
death. _d._ Prospect house, Skibbereen, co. Cork 9 Jany. 1879.

DOWNING, SAMUEL (_son of Rev. Samuel Downing, R. of Fenagh,
Leighlin_). _b._ Bagenalstown, Carlow 19 June 1811; ed. at
Kilkenny coll. and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1834; educ. in
engineering at Edin.; employed in construction of viaduct from
Portland island to mainland, and on the Coed-re-Coed curved
viaduct on Taff Vale railway; assistant professor of engineering
Trinity coll. 1847, professor 1852 to death; Assoc. I.C.E. 2 March
1852; author of _The elements of practical hydraulics for the use
of students_ 1855, _3 ed._ 1875; _Elements of practical
construction in engineering and architecture_ 1875; _Selections
and specifications of public works_. _d._ 21 April 1882. _Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxii_, 310–11 (1883).

DOWNMAN, HUGH. _b._ Plymouth 29 Oct. 1765; entered navy 10 Oct.
1776; captain 26 Dec. 1798; admiral 24 April 1847; awarded pension
1 July 1851. _d._ Hambledon, Hants. 4 Jany. 1858.