Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
DALYELL, Sir Robert Alexander Osborne, 8 Baronet (eld. son of the succeeding). b. 1821; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1847; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1849; employed in the consulate at Bucharest 1855–57; consul at Erzeroum 1859–65; consul for the Vilayet of the Danube 17 Oct. 1865 to 1 July 1874 when he retired on a pension. d. The Binns, Linlithgow 21 Jany. 1886.
DALYELL, Sir William Cunningham Cavendish, 7 Baronet. b. 27 April 1784; entered navy 1793; a prisoner in France 1805–14; commander of Greenwich hospital 27 Aug. 1840 to death; retired captain 1 July 1864; succeeded 7 June 1851. d. Royal hospital, Greenwich 16 Feb. 1865.
DALZELL, Nicol Alexander. b. Edinburgh 21 April 1817; ed. at high sch. and Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1837; assistant comr. of customs, Bombay 1841; forest ranger of Scinde; conservator of forests Bombay, retired on a pension 1870; F.R.S. Edin.; author of A review of Plowden’s Report on salt revenue of Bombay 1855; The Bombay Flora 1861. d. Edinburgh, Jany. 1878.
DAMES, William Longworth. Ensign 66 foot 26 July 1826, major 12 Oct. 1841 to 6 Nov. 1846 when placed on h.p.; col. 5 foot 12 Jany. 1865 to death; L.G. 4 Feb. 1867. d. 23 East Cliff, Dover 20 Feb. 1868 aged 61.
DAMPIER, John Lucius (2 son of Sir Henry Dampier 1758–1816, justice of Court of King’s Bench). b. 19 Bloomsbury sq. London 23 Dec. 1792; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fellow of his coll.; barrister L.I. 22 May 1819; recorder of Portsmouth 1837–38; a comr. to enquire into rights and claims connected with New Forest and Waltham forest 1849; a comr. for investigating state of Univ. of Ox. 1850; vice warden of Stannaries in county of Devon 16 Dec. 1850 to death. d. 33 Pulteney st. Bath 24 May 1853. G.M. xl, 94–5 (1853).
DANBY, Francis (3 son of James Danby of Common near Wexford, farmer). b. Common 16 Nov. 1793; landscape painter especially of sunsets; exhibited 48 pictures at R.A., 17 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1820–60; A.R.A. 7 Nov. 1825; lived in Paris and on the lake of Geneva 1829–41, at Lewisham, Kent 1841–47, and at Exmouth 1847 to death; his picture ‘The Deluge’ exhibited in London 1840 was chief artistic feature of Dublin Exhibition 1853. d. Shell house, Exmouth 17 Feb. 1861. Sandby’s History of the royal academy ii, 68–71 (1862); Redgrave’s Century of painters ii, 437–49 (1866); W. Stokes’s Life of George Petrie (1869) 7–10.
DANBY, James Francis (eld. son of the preceding). b. Bristol 1816; member of Soc. of British Artists; exhibited 35 landscapes at R.A., 42 at B.I. and 46 at Suffolk st. gallery 1842–76. d. 54 Park road, Haverstock hill, London 22 Oct. 1875. Graphic xii, 518 (1875), portrait.
DANBY, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. about 1817; copied pictures at the Louvre, Paris for his living 1830–41; exhibited 30 pictures at R.A. and 42 at B.I. 1842–76; associate of Soc. of Painters in Water-colours 1867, member 1870, his landscapes were among the chief ornaments of the Society’s exhibitions. d. 11 Park road, Haverstock hill, London 25 March 1886.
DANCE, Charles (son of George Dance of London, architect 1740–1825). b. about 1794; clerk in Court for relief of Insolvent Debtors, London, registrar and auditor 1851, taxing officer 1853, chief clerk May 1858 to Oct. 1861 when he retired on pension of £800 a year; wrote many extravaganzas alone and with J. R. Planché; called the founder of modern burlesque; of his 30 dramatic pieces the Bengal Tiger, Delicate Ground, A morning call, Who speaks first, and Naval Engagements are still sometimes played. d. Lowestoft 5 Jany. 1863. Planche’s Extravaganzas ii, (1879), portrait.
DANCER, John Benjamin. b. London 1812; optician at Manchester 1835 to death; suggested application of photography in connexion with the magic lantern; constructed the optical chromatic fountain since further developed at South Kensington exhibitions; constructed the first perfectly accurate thermometer in England; produced the first cheap good microscopes; member of Manchester literary and philosophical society; F.R.A.S. d. Manchester about 6 Dec. 1887.
DANELL, Right Rev. James (son of Mr. Danell of London). b. Fitzroy st. Fitzroy sq. London 14 July 1821; ed. at St. Edmund’s college near Ware and St. Sulpice, Paris; ordained priest 6 June 1846; served mission at St. George’s, Southwark 1846–70; canon of Southwark 27 Jany. 1857, vicar general 16 May 1862, vicar capitular 2 June 1870; bishop of Southwark 10 Jany. 1871 to death, consecrated by Abp. Manning at St. George’s cathedral 25 March 1871. d. The Bishop’s house, St. George’s cathedral, Southwark 14 June 1881. The Tablet 18 and 25 June 1881.
DANIEL, George. b. City of London 16 Sep. 1789; clerk to a stockbroker in Tokenhouse yard; contributed many poems to Ackerman’s Poetical Magazine 1808–11; author of The Times, a prophecy 1811 anon.; Miscellaneous poems 1812; Dick Distich 3 vols. 1812 anon.; published several squibs on royal scandals under pseud. of P– P–, poet laureate; author of The modern Dunciad a satire with notes, biographical and critical 1814, 2 ed. 1816; edited Chef d’Œuvres from French authors 2 vols. 1821; his interlude Doctor Bolus was acted at English opera house 21 July 1818, and his musical farce The disagreeable surprise at Drury lane 1 Dec. 1819; edited Cumberland’s British Theatre with remarks, biographical and critical 39 vols. 1823–31, for each of the plays (nearly 300) he wrote a preface under the initials D– G–; edited Cumberland’s Minor Theatre 14 vols. 1831–32; author of Remarks on Miss Mitford’s tragedy of Rienzi 1828; Ophelia Kean, a dramatic legendary tale 1829 anon., a scurrilous attack on Edmund Kean; Garrick in the green room 1829; Merrie England in the olden time 2 vols. 1842, reprinted 1874; The Missionary 1847 a religious poem; Democritus in London, to which are added Notes festivous and the Stranger Guest 1852; Love’s last labour not lost 1863. d. at his son’s house, The Grove, Stoke Newington, London 30 March 1864. Memoir of D– G– prefixed to Colman’s Blue Devils in Cumberland’s British theatre vol. xxxix (1838), pp. 3–8, portrait; G.M. 1864 pt. 2, pp. 450–5.
DANIEL, William Shand. Educated at Univ. of Glasgow; contributed poetical pieces to Glasgow college Albums; wrote part of a drama which appeared in Collections of miscellaneous poetical pieces Edin. 1843–44; sheriff clerk depute of Dumbarton 1844 to death; edited History of the abbey and palace of Holyrood by Duncan Anderson 1852. d. 2 Dec. 1858. R. Inglis’s Dramatic writers of Scotland 1868 p. 130.
DANIELL, Edmund Robert (son of George Daniell of London, barrister, who d. 1833). Barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1816; joint comr. with John Balguy of Birmingham court of bankruptcy 21 Oct. 1842 to death; F.R.S. 5 June 1828 to 1850; author of Reports of cases argued on the equity side of the Court of Exchequer 1824; The practice of the high Court of Chancery 3 vols. 1837–41, 6 ed., 3 vols. 1882–84; Practical observations on the new Chancery orders 1841, 2 ed. 1842. d. Meriden hall near Coventry 21 March 1854.
DANIELL, William Freeman. b. Liverpool 1818; M.R.C.S. 1841; assistant surgeon in the army 26 Nov. 1847; served on coast of West Africa; staff surgeon 11 March 1853; wrote a paper on the frankincense tree of West Africa which led to establishment of genus Daniellia, Benn. called after him; author of Medical topography and native diseases of the Gulf of Guinea 1849; On the Cascarilla plants of the West Indies 1862. d. Southampton 26 June 1865. bur. Kensal Green cemetery, London 3 July.
DANSEY, Charles Cornwallis. Second lieut. R.A. 19 July 1803, col. 9 Nov. 1846 to death; C.B. 19 July 1838. d. London 21 July 1853.
DANSEY, Rev. William (son of John Dansey of Blandford, Dorset). b. Blandford 1792; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., Stapledon scholar 1811–12; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817, M.B. 1818; R. of Donhead, St. Andrew, Wilts. 1820 to death; preb. of Salisbury 10 Aug. 1841 to death; translated Arrian on Coursing 1831; edited A brief account of the office of Dean Rural by J. Priaulx 1832; author of Horæ Decanicæ Rurales being an attempt to illustrate the name, title and functions of rural deans with remarks on the rise and fall of rural bishops 2 vols. 1835, 2 ed. 1844. d. Weymouth 7 June 1856.
DANSON, George. b. Lancaster 4 June 1799; scene painter at theatres in London many years; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1823–48; the following pictures by him were shown at Surrey Zoological gardens, Mount Vesuvius 1837–8 reproduced 1846, Iceland and its volcanoes 1839, the City of Rome occupying 5 acres 1841 reproduced 1848, Temple of Ellora 1843, London and the great fire of 1666, 1844, Edinburgh 1845, storming of Badajoz 1849, Napoleon’s passage of the Alps 1850. d. 711 Wandsworth road, London 23 Jany. 1881. Daily Telegraph 1 Feb. 1881 p. 5, col. 3.
DARBY, George (4 son of John Darby of Markly, Sussex, who d. 1834). b. 1798; ed. at Westminster and St. Cath. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1821; M.P. for East Sussex 1 Aug. 1837 to Jany. 1846; an inclosure comr. for England and Wales 21 Aug. 1846 to 1852; a copyhold inclosure and tithe comr. 1852 to death. d. Down st. Piccadilly, London 16 Nov. 1877. bur. Markley 21 Nov.
DARBY, Rev. John Nelson (brother of the preceding). b. London 18 Nov. 1800; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Dublin, gold medallist 1819, B.A. 1819; called to Irish bar about 1825; C. in Wicklow 1826–27; joined the ‘Brethren’ at Dublin 1827; worked in Switzerland 1838–40, many congregations of Darbyites were founded in cantons Vaud, Geneva and Bern; started a separate assembly at Plymouth 28 Dec. 1845, this division spread to Bristol, London and other places and Darbyism became established in England; travelled in America, New Zealand and West Indies; a most voluminous writer under his own name, his initials J. N. D., and anonymously. d. Bournemouth 29 April 1882. Collected writings of J. N. Darby ed. by W. Kelly 32 vols. 1867–83; Herzog’s Religious Encyclopædia iii, 1856–9, 2592–3 (1884); Estéoule’s Le Plymouthisme d’autrefois et le Darbyisme d’aujoud’hui 1858; A. N. Grove’s Darbyism, its rise and development 1866; The close of 28 years association with J. N. D. by W. H. D. 1866.
DARBY, Jonathan George Norton (eld. son of George Darby 1798–1877). b. 1829; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; barrister L.I. 9 June 1854; author with F. A. Bosanquet of A practical treatise on the statutes of limitations in England and Ireland 1867. d. 29 Westbourne park road, London 17 March 1870 in 41 year.
DARBY, Joseph. Second lieut. R.A. 1 July 1802, lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837 to 1 April 1844 when placed on retired full pay; general 1 Jany. 1868. d. Clifton 21 May 1869 aged 83.
DARBY-GRIFFITH, Christopher. b. 1805; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1826; M.P. for Devizes 1857–68. d. Padworth house near Reading 19 March 1885.
D’ARCY, George Abbas Kooli. Ensign 94 foot 21 April 1837, adjutant 3 Aug. 1838 to 5 Jany. 1841, captain 9 Nov. 1846 to 6 July 1852; major 3 West India regiment 6 July 1852, lieut. col. 7 July 1854 to 7 May 1858 when he sold out; aide-de-camp to 5 successive governors of Bombay; governor and commander in chief of the Gambia, June 1859 to Jany. 1867 when presented with a sword of honour value £120; governor of the Falkland Islands 24 Feb. 1870 to 1876. d. 9 Leigham villas, Plymouth 22 Oct. 1885 aged 67.
DARELL, Sir Harry Francis Colville, 3 Baronet. b. Lucknow 17 Nov. 1814; succeeded 13 April 1828; ensign 18 foot 1 June 1832; major 7 dragoon guards 3 Sep. 1847 to 27 June 1851 when placed on h.p. d. Cagliari, Sardinia 6 Jany. 1853.
DARGAN, William (son of Mr. Dargan of co. Carlow, farmer). b. co. Carlow 28 Feb. 1799; employed by Thomas Telford in constructing Holyhead road 1820; contractor of the first railway in Ireland, from Dublin to Kingstown 1831, of the Ulster canal, of the Dublin and Drogheda railway, of the Great southern and western, and the Midland Great western; found the capital nearly £100,000 for the Irish exhibition 1853 and bore the deficit of £20,000; declined a baronetcy offered him at close of exhibition; the Irish national gallery on Leinster Lawn was erected as a monument to Dargan with a fine bronze statue of him. d. 2 Fitzwilliam sq. east, Dublin 7 Feb. 1867. The Irish industrial exhibition of 1853 by J. Sproule (1854) ix-xiv, portrait; Irish tourist’s illustrated handbook (1853) pp. 12, 41, 148, portrait.
DARK, James Henry. b. Edgware road, London 24 May 1795; professional at Lord’s cricket ground, Marylebone 1809–36; umpire in many great matches; purchased remainder of lease of the ground from Wm. Ward 1836, proprietor and manager of the ground 1836 to 1864 when he sold the 29½ years remainder of the lease to Marylebone club for £12,500; built a house 31 St. John’s Wood road, overlooking the ground, and d. there 17 Oct. 1871. bur. Kensal Green 21 Oct. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i, 350–51 (1862), v, pp. xiii, xxii, (1876).
DARLEY, Edward. Ensign 49 foot 29 Nov. 1791; major 58 foot 18 Sep. 1817 to 5 July 1831 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 61 foot 24 Aug. 1832 to 28 June 1838; granted distinguished service reward 1 Jany. 1843; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. 24 North bank, Regent’s park, London 24 March 1854 aged 78.
DARLEY, Right Rev. John Richard (2 son of Richard Darley of Fairfield, co. Monaghan). b. Fairfield, Nov. 1799; ed. at Dungannon and Trin. coll. Dublin, foundation scholar 1819, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1827, B.D. and D.D. 1875; master of Dundalk gr. sch. 1826, of royal school of Dungannon 1831; R. of Drumgoon 1850; R. of Templemichael 1866; archdeacon of Ardagh 7 Nov. 1866; bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh 23 Sep. 1874 to death; consecrated in Armagh cathedral 25 Oct. 1874; author of The Grecian drama, a treatise on the dramatic literature of the Greeks 1840; A treatise on Homer with questions 1848. d. The Palace, Kilmore 20 Jany. 1884.
DARLEY, William Wallace. Second lieut. R.A. 16 Dec. 1816, lieut. col. 4 April 1851 to 22 April 1853 when retired on full pay; L.G. 7 Feb. 1870. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 23 Nov. 1874.
DARLING, Sir Charles Henry (eld. son of Henry Charles Darling, governor of Barbados, who d. 1845). b. Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia 1809; ensign 57 foot 27 April 1827, lieut. 29 Sep. 1830 to 30 Oct. 1838 when placed on h.p., retired 1841; lieut. governor of island of St. Lucia 21 Dec. 1847, of Cape of Good Hope 1851, of Newfoundland, May 1855; captain general and governor in chief of Jamaica, Feb. 1857; governor of Victoria 11 Sep. 1863 to April 1866; K.C.B. 23 July 1862. d. 7 Lansdowne terrace, Cheltenham 25 Jany. 1870.
DARLING, George. b. Stow near Galashiels; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.D. Aberdeen 1 April 1815; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1819; practised at Russell square, London 1820 to death; much employed by artists; author of An essay on medical economy 1814 anon.; Instructions for making unfermented bread 1846 anon. 17 ed. 1851. d. Russell sq. London 30 April 1862 in 80 year.
DARLING, James. b. Edinburgh 1797; apprenticed to Adam Black the publisher 1809–18; bookseller at 22 Little Queen st. Holborn, London 1825 to death, and at 81 Great Queen st. 1854 to death; commenced a library for use of theological students Jany. 1840 named at first the Clerical library, afterwards the Metropolitan library; compiled and published Bibliotheca Clericalis 1843; Cyclopædia Bibliographica or library of theological and general literature 2 vols. 1854–59. d. Fortess terrace west, Kentish Town, London 2 March 1862.
DARLING, John (younger son of George Darling, M.D. of Russell sq. London). b. 16 Aug. 1821; ed. at Univ. coll. London, Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Ox.; barrister I.T. 1 May 1846; author of An examination of the scriptural grounds on which the prohibition against marriage with a deceased wife’s sister is based 1849; A treatise on the administration of trust funds under the Trustee Relief Act 1855. d. Thornbury house, Ryde, Isle of Wight 27 Sep. 1858.
DARLING, Sir Ralph (son of Christopher Darling, adjutant 45 foot). b. 1775; ensign 45 foot 15 May 1793; lieut.-col. 69 foot 17 July 1801 to 8 May 1806; lieut.-col. 51 foot 8 May 1806 to 4 June 1813; deputy adjutant general at the Horse Guards 1814–18; commanded troops in Mauritius 1818–23; col. 90 foot 9 Oct. 1823 to 26 Sep. 1837; governor in chief of New South Wales 19 Dec. 1825 to 21 Oct. 1831; col. 41 foot 26 Sep. 1837 to 5 Feb. 1848; general 23 Nov. 1841; col. 69 foot 5 Feb. 1848 to death; G.C.H. 2 Sep. 1835. d. Brunswick sq. Brighton 2 April 1858. Braim’s History of New South Wales i, 53–74 (1876).
DARLING, William. b. Belford 7 Feb. 1786; lighthouse keeper at the Longstone or Outer Farn or Faroe island 1815 to Dec. 1860 when he retired on full pay; went out to the wreck of the steamboat Forfarshire (with his daughter Grace Darling 1815–43) and rescued the 9 survivors of the crew 7 Sep. 1838, the boat in which they went out was on view during the summer of 1883 at the Fisheries Exhibition, South Kensington, and on 9 Nov. it was carried through the streets of London in the Lord Mayor’s show. d. The Wynding house, Bamburgh 28 May 1865. Journal of W. Darling 1795–1860, (1886); I.L.N. xlvi, 553 (1865).
DARLING, William. b. Demse, Scotland; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; studied and taught anatomy in New York 1830–42; M.D. New York 1842; M.R.C.S. 1856, F.R.C.S. 1866; studied in London and Paris 1856–66; professor of anatomy in Univ. of New York 1867; censor of New York college of Veterinary surgeons 1868; professor of anatomy in Univ. of Vermont 1873; author of Anatomography or graphic anatomy 1879; author with A. L. Renney of Essentials of anatomy 1880. d. Univ. of New York 25 Dec. 1884 aged 82.
DARLING, William Lindsay. Ensign 99 foot 13 Dec. 1801; captain 51 foot 18 April 1811 to 1814; col. 98 foot 17 April 1854 to death; general 15 Dec. 1861. d. Strote house near Chepstow 8 Oct. 1863.
DARNELL, George. Established and conducted a large day school at Islington, London; started Darnell’s Copybooks about 1840 when he introduced plan of giving a line of copy in pale ink to be first written over by the pupil then to be imitated by him in the next line, the copy being thus always under his eye; author of Short and certain road to reading 1845; Grammar made intelligible to children 1846; Reading lessons 6 numbers 1855; Arithmetic made intelligible to children 1855, all of which had a great sale. d. 70 Gibson sq. Islington 26 Feb. 1857 aged 58.
DARNELL, Rev. William Nicholas (son of Wm. Darnell of Newcastle, wine merchant). b. Newcastle 14 March 1776; ed. at Newcastle gr. sch. and C.C. coll. Ox., Durham scholar, fellow, tutor; B.A. 1796, M.A. 1800, B.D. 1808; R. of St. Mary-le-bow, Durham 1809–15; V. of Stockton 1815–20; V. of Lastingham, Yorkshire 1815–28; preb. of ninth stall in Durham cath. 12 Jany. 1816, of sixth stall 12 Oct. 1820 to 1831; Inc. of St. Margaret’s, Durham 1820–27; V. of Norham, co. Durham 1827–31; R. of Stanhope, co. Durham 1831 to death, a living worth £6000 a year; author of Sermons 1816; The correspondence of Isaac Basire with a memoir 1831; An arrangement and classification of the Psalms, with a view to render them more useful for private devotion 1839, and of sermons, charges and other works. d. Stanhope rectory 19 June 1865. bur. Durham cathedral churchyard 24 June.
DART, Joseph. Deputy sec. H.E.I. Co. 1814, sec. 1818–29. d. Budleigh Salterton, Devon 29 Nov. 1866 aged 93.
DART, Joseph Henry (eld. son of the preceding). b. India house, Leadenhall st. London 1817; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., Newdigate prizeman for his poem The Exile of St. Helena 1838; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; barrister L.I. 28 Jany. 1841, bencher Feb. 1885; one of the six conveyancing counsel to Court of Chancery 1860; senior conveyancing counsel to high court of justice 1875–86; a verderer of New Forest 1877; author of A compendium of the law and practice of vendors and purchasers of real estate 1851, 6 ed. 2 vols. 1888; The Iliad of Homer in English hexameter verse 1862. d. Beech house, Ringwood, Hants. 27 June 1887. Law Journal xxii, 373, 381 (1887).
DARTMOUTH, William Legge, 4 Earl of (eld. son of 3 Earl of Dartmouth 1755–1810). b. in parish of St. George, Hanover sq. London 29 Nov. 1784; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1805, D.C.L. 1834; succeeded his father 1 Nov. 1810; colonel of Staffordshire militia 15 April 1812 to death; F.R.S. 7 Nov. 1822. d. Patshull near Wolverhampton 22 Nov. 1853.
DARUSMONT, Frances, known as Fanny Wright (dau. of Mr. Wright of Dundee, merchant, who d. 1798). b. Miln’s buildings, Nethergate, Dundee 6 Sep. 1795; brought up in England by her aunt; spent two years in the U.S. 1818–20; produced a tragedy ‘Altorf’ in New York 19 Feb. 1819; lived in Paris 1821–24; purchased 2000 acres of land on the river Nashoba in Tennessee and settled negro slaves upon it 1824, this experiment failed and the slaves were liberated and sent to Hayti; joined Robert D. Owen in his socialistic scheme at New Harmony, Indiana and edited the New Harmony Gazette; lectured in chief cities of U.S. on social questions 1829–30 and 1833–36, these lectures led to the formation of Fanny Wright Societies; one of the first advocates of female suffrage; author of Views of society and manners in America 1821; A few days in Athens 1822. (m. 1838 Phiquepal-Darusmont a French reformer, from whom she separated). d. Cincinnati, Ohio 14 Dec. 1852. R. D. Owen’s Threading my way (1873) 264–72; Mrs. Trollope’s Domestic manners of the Americans (1831) i, 96–100, ii, 76–77; S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record, 2 ed. (1855) p. 842.
DARVALL, Edward. Ensign 57 Bengal N.I. 1 May 1823; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 12 Sep. 1866 to 1 Oct. 1877 when placed on retired list; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Acton place, Suffolk 20 Oct. 1885 in 80 year.
DARVALL, Sir John Bayley (son of Edward Darvall, captain 9 dragoons). Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1838, admitted to bar of N.S.W. 16 Sep. 1839; practised at Sydney, N.S.W. 1839–67; Q.C. 1853, member of senate of Univ. of Sydney 1850–67; solicitor general N.S.W. 1856–7, attorney general 1857–67; C.M.G. 23 June 1869, K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877. d. 23 Upper Wimpole st. Cavendish sq. London 28 Dec. 1883.
DARVILL, Sir Henry (eld. son of John Darvill). b. 1812; solicitor at Windsor 1834 to death; mayor of Windsor 1853, town clerk 1854 to death; registrar of Windsor county court; knighted at Osborne 20 April 1883. d. Chirbury, Shropshire 30 Sep. 1883. bur. Windsor cemetery 5 Oct.
DARWIN, Charles Robert (5 child of Robert Waring Darwin of Shrewsbury, physician 1766–1848). b. The Mount, Shrewsbury 12 Feb. 1809; ed. at Shrewsbury, Univ. of Edin. and Christ’s coll. Cam.; B.A. Cam. 1832, M.A. 1837, hon. LLD. 1877; naturalist to the Beagle on her surveying voyage round the world Dec. 1831 to Oct. 1836; F.G.S., sec. 1838–41; lived at 12 Gower st. London 1839–42, at Down near Beckenham, Kent 1842 to death; F.R.S. 24 Jany. 1839, royal medallist 1853, Copley medallist 1864; author of Narrative of the surveying voyages of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle, vol. 3, entitled Journal and Remarks; Geology of the voyage of the Beagle 3 parts 1842–46; On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life 1859; The descent of man and selection in relation to sex 1871, and other books. d. Down 19 April 1882. bur. Westminster Abbey 26 April, statue of him by J. Boehm, R.A. placed in Natural history museum, South Kensington 1885. Life and letters of C. Darwin edited by his son F. Darwin 3 vols. 1887, portrait; Charles Darwin, Nature series 1882; Illust. Review ii, 289–91 (1871), portrait; Nature x, 79 (1874), portrait; The Examiner 11 Oct. and 12 Nov. 1879, 2 portraits.
DARWIN, Sir Francis Sacheverell (2 son of Erasmus Darwin of Derby, M.D., F.R.S. 1731–1802). b. parish of All Saints, Derby 17 June 1786; ed. at Repton and Emm. coll. Cam.; M.D. Edin.; physician at Lichfield; knighted by George iv at Carlton house 10 May 1820 on presenting an address from city of Lichfield. d. Breadsall priory near Derby 6 Nov. 1859. Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iii, 195 (1861).
DASENT, John Bury (eld. son of John Roche Dasent, attorney general of St. Vincent). b. 22 Dec. 1806; ed. at Westminster school and Trin. hall, Cam., LL.B. 1830; barrister M.T. 19 April 1833; judge of Bow and Shoreditch county courts (circuit No. 40) 2 Oct. 1858 to Jany. 1884 when he retired on a pension. d. 15 Warwick road, Maida hill, London 7 April 1888.
DASHWOOD, Rev. George Henry (son of Rev. James Dashwood, R. of Doddington, Isle of Ely). b. Downham Market, Norfolk 21 Oct. 1801; ed. at Linc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1825; C. of Stow Bardolph, Norfolk 1840, Vicar 1852 to death; F.S.A. 6 June 1844; printed at his private press Vice-Comites Norfolciæ, or sheriffs of Norfolk from the first year of Henry the Second to the fourth of Queen Victoria 1844; author of Sigilla Antiqua 1847, and of many papers in the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society’s Norfolk Archæology vols. 1–5. d. Quebec house, East Dereham, Norfolk 9 Feb. 1869. Register and mag. of biog. i, 310–12 (1869).
DASHWOOD, William Bateman. b. 1 Sep. 1790; entered navy 3 Aug. 1799; lost his right arm in action 29 Nov. 1811; granted pension for wounds 4 April 1816; captain 21 Oct. 1818, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 22 April 1862. d. suddenly at Geneva 9 May 1869.
DAUBENY, Charles Giles Bridle (3 son of Rev. James Daubeny, R. of Stratton, Gloucs. who d. 9 Feb. 1817). b. Stratton 11 Feb. 1795; ed. at Winchester and Magd. coll. Ox., demy 1810, lay fellow 1815 to death, bursar 1828, vice pres. 1830; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817, B.M. 1818, M.D. 1821; M.D. Dublin 1835; Aldrichian professor of chemistry at Oxford, Oct. 1822–1855, professor of botany there 1834 to death, professor of rural economy 1840 to death; physician to Radcliffe infirmary 1826–30; pres. of British Association at Cheltenham 1856; F.R.S. 19 Dec. 1822; author of A description of active and extinct volcanoes 1826, 2 ed. 1848; An introduction to the atomic theory 1831, 2 ed. 1850; Lectures on Roman husbandry 1857; Lectures on Climate 1863; Miscellanies on scientific and literary subjects 2 vols. 1867. d. Botanic gardens, Oxford at 12.5 a.m. 13 Dec. 1867. Proc. of Royal Society xvii, 74–80 (1869); Quarterly Journal of Geological society xxiv, 33–36 (1868).
DAUBENY, Henry. Ensign 84 foot 8 July 1795, lieut. col. 11 Dec. 1813 to 21 Nov. 1822 when placed on h.p.; col. 80 foot 31 Jany. 1850 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; K.H. 1832; edited C. Daubeny’s Guide to the Church 1830. d. Rome 10 April 1853.
DAUBENY, Henry. b. 1820; M.R.C.S. 1843; M.D. St. Andrews 1845; L.S.A. 1846; surgeon in London 1843–61, at San Remo, Italy 1861 to death; author of The climate of San Remo as adapted to invalids 1865. d. Hôtel des Iles Britanniques, San Remo 26 Jany. 1887.
DAUGARS, John William Gustavus Leo (only son of Rev. Guillaume Gustavus Daugars, pastor of French protestant church, St. Martin’s le Grand, London). b. Thurlow sq. Brompton, London 1849; ed. at Harrow and Brasenose coll. Ox., migrated to St. Alban hall, B.A. 1873; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1875; contributed to Temple Bar, The Graphic and other publications under nom de plume of Claude Templar. d. Hastings 20 Feb. 1885 in 36 year.
DAUGLISH, John (son of Wm. Dauglish of Bethnal Green, London, clerk in a large East India house). b. Bethnal Green 10 Feb. 1824; ed. at Hackney; studied medicine at Univ. of Edin. 1852–55, bracketed gold medallist for his M.D. degree 1855; took out a patent for “An improved method of making bread” 1 Oct. 1856 and 4 other patents on same subject 1857–65, this unfermented bread which he called aerated was first made in factory of Messrs. Carr of Carlisle 1856; erected a model bakery at Islington 1859; silver medallist of Society of Arts 1860; bread sold in special shops in London and the provinces. d. Furze bank, Great Malvern 14 Jany. 1866. On the healthy manufacture of bread by B. W. Richardson 1884, portrait; I.L.N. xxxvi, 259–60 (1860).
DAUNT, Very Rev. Achilles (eld. son of Achilles Daunt of Tracton abbey, co. Cork, who d. 28 Aug. 1871). b. Rincurran near Kinsale 23 Aug. 1832; ed. at Kinsale and Univ. of Dublin, scholar 1852, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1866; V. of Rincurran 26 March 1856 to 11 Jany. 1867; R. of Ballymoney, co. Cork 1867; R. of Stackallen, co. Meath 1867; V. of St. Matthias, Dublin, Aug. 1867; dean of Cork and R. of St. Finbar, Cork 1875 to death; author of The Church a lesson book for angels 1872; The person and offices of the Holy Ghost 1879; The morning of life and other gleanings from the manuscripts of the late A. Daunt 1881. d. St. Anne’s, Blarney near Cork 17 June 1878. Spent in the service, a memoir of the Very Rev. Achilles Daunt by Rev. F. R. Wynne 1879, portrait; Some account of the family of Daunt by John Daunt (1881) 25–28, portrait.
DAVENPORT, Edward Gershom. b. 1838; M.P. for St. Ives, Cornwall 5 Feb. 1874 to death. d. 28 Lancaster gate, Hyde park, London 4 Dec. 1874.
DAVENPORT, John Marriott. b. Shirburn, Oxon, Sep. 1809; solicitor at Oxford 1831 to death; clerk of the peace for co. Oxon 1831–81, undersheriff 1853–75; F.S.A. 9 March 1854; privilegiatus Univ. of Ox. 3 Nov. 1866; author of Lords lieutenant and high sheriffs of Oxfordshire 1086–1868, 1868; Oxfordshire Annals 1869; Lord lieutenant and high sheriff, correspondence upon the question of precedence 1871; Notes upon the jurisdiction of the county justices within the city of Oxford 1872; Notes as to Oxford Castle 1877. d. 62 St. Giles’s, Oxford 31 Jany. 1882.
DAVENPORT, Richard Alfred. b. about 1777; author of New elegant extracts, 2nd series 12 vols. 1823–7; wrote some of the biographical notices and critical prefaces to Whittingham’s British poets 100 vols. 1822; edited more than 100 vols. of miscellaneous works including the Poetical Register 8 vols. 1802–11. d. from inadvertently taking an overdose of opium at Brunswick cottage, Park st. Camberwell, London 25 Jany. 1852.
DAVENPORT, Samuel (son of Mr. Davenport of Bedford, architect). b. Bedford 10 Dec. 1783; articled to Charles Warren of London, line engraver; engraved in outline a large number of portraits for biographical works; engraved The works of W. Hogarth 1821; his best plates are in the Forget-me-not 1828–42; one of the earliest engravers on steel. d. 15 July 1867.