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DE HAMEL, Felix John (son of Comte Jean Baptiste Augustin Bruno de Hamel). b. Tamworth 1808; ed. at Repton; admitted solicitor 1835; assistant solicitor for the Customs 1845, chief solicitor for the Customs and Board of Trade 1848–78; consolidated the Acts relating to the Customs 1854 and 1876; facilitated Customs business by introducing a simpler form of bond. d. 70 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 31 July 1885 in 78 year.
DE HAVILLAND, Thomas Fioth (eld. son of Sir Peter De Havilland of Havilland hall, Guernsey, who d. 1821). b. Havilland 10 April 1775; entered Madras army 1791; superintending engineer and architect of Madras presidency 1814; constructed Madras bulwark and pier 1822; retired lieut. col. 20 April 1825; lived in Guernsey 1823 to death. d. De Beauvoir, Guernsey 23 Feb. 1866. Vibart’s Madras Engineers ii, 1–35 (1883).
DE JARNAC, Philippe Ferdinand Auguste de Rohan Chabot, Comte (eld. son of Viscount De Chabot 1780–1875). b. 2 June 1821; chief sec. of French embassy in London; lived in Kilkenny 20 years; French ambassador in London 28 Nov. 1874 to death; author of Rockingham or the younger brother 1849, anon.; Love and ambition 3 vols. 1851, anon.; Cécile or the pervert By Sir Charles Rockingham 1851; Electra, a story of modern times 3 vols. 1853, anon. d. French embassy, Albert Gate house, London 22 March 1875. I.L.N. lxvi, 321, 331 (1875), portrait.
DE JERSEY, Henry. b. 1804; solicitor in City of London 1826 to death; vestry clerk of parishes of St. Anne, St. Agnes and St. Mary Staining; common councilman for Aldersgate ward 1840–71; chairman of Commission of Sewers 1862–71; master of the Loriners’ Company 1871; secondary of City of London 1871 to Nov. 1884; under sheriff of London and Middlesex twice. d. 32 St. James’s road, Brixton, London 1 Dec. 1884 in 81 year.
DE LA BECHE, Sir Henry Thomas (son of Thomas De La Beche of Halse hall, Clarendon, Jamaica, a colonel in the army). b. London 10 Feb. 1796; ed. at Ottery St. Mary, Devon and Great Marlow; F.G.S. 1817; studied geology in Dorset, Devon, Pembroke, Switzerland and France; conducted the Geological Survey under the Ordnance in Cornwall and Devon 1832, director general of Ordnance Survey 1840 to death; sec. to Geological Society 1831, foreign Sec. 1835–46, Pres. 1847 and 1848, Wollaston medallist 1855; F.R.S. 23 Dec. 1819; F.L.S. 1821; Geological museum in Jermyn st. London founded on his recommendation 1851; received order of Leopold of Belgium; created a Knight of Danish order of Dannebrog; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 April 1842; C.B. 27 April 1848; author of Researches in theoretical geology 1834; How to observe geology 1835; Report on the geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset 1839 and other books. d. London 13 April 1855. Quarterly Journal of geological society xii, pp. xxxiv-viii (1856); Proceedings of royal society vii, 582–86 (1855); I.L.N. xviii, 422 (1851), portrait.
DELACOMB, Henry Isatt. Second lieut. R.M. 21 Oct. 1805; col. commandant 22 June 1855 to 1 April 1870; general 23 Aug. 1866; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. 19 Albion st. Hyde park, London 15 Nov. 1878 aged 89.
DELAGARDE, Philip Chilwell (son of a clergyman at Jersey). b. 1797; ed. at Exeter gr. sch.; apprenticed to Peppin and Barnes, surgeons, Exeter; house surgeon St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 25 Sep. 1818; M.R.C.S. Aug. 1819, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon Eye infirmary, Exeter 1836; surgeon Devon and Exeter hospital, Exeter 1841, afterwards senior surgeon; ophthalmic surgeon and after the retirement of Barnes, the most popular operator in the West of England; mayor of Exeter, Nov. 1834 to 1 Jany. 1836; sheriff of Exeter 1832–33; author of A treatise on Cataract 1821; A supplement to the account of the church of St. Andrew, Cullompton and its mural paintings in Spreate’s Sketches of churches in Devon 1842; A brief commentary on the construction of hospitals 1870, and Nursing Sisterhoods, a pamphlet. d. 23 Southernhay, Exeter 17 Nov. 1871 in 74 year. Medical Times and Gazette 2 Dec. 1871 p. 694; Lancet 16 Dec. 1871 p. 868.
DELAMAINE, Charles Henry. Entered Bombay army 1820; retired colonel 24 April 1854; C.B. 4 July 1843. d. Dinan, France 19 June 1870.
DELAMERE, Thomas Cholmondeley, 1 Baron (eld. son of Thomas Cholmondeley of Vale Royal, Northwich, Cheshire 1726–79, M.P. for Cheshire). b. Beckenham, Kent 9 Aug. 1767; high sheriff of Cheshire 1792; M.P. for Cheshire 11 June 1796 to 29 Sep. 1812; created Baron Delamere on coronation of King George 4th, by patent dated 17 July 1821. d. 12 Hereford st. London 30 Sep. 1855.
DELAMERE, Hugh Cholmondeley, 2 Baron (eld. son of the preceding). b. Vale Royal 3 Oct. 1812; ed. at Eton; M.P. for Denbighshire 1840–41 and for Montgomery 1841–47; col. 1 Royal Cheshire militia 28 Aug. 1840 to death. d. Vale Royal 1 Aug. 1887.
DE LA MOTTE, Freeman Gage (son of Wm. De La Motte 1775–1863). Author of Examples of modern alphabets 1859; Embroiderer’s book of design 1860; Primer of the art of illumination 1860; Mediæval alphabets and initials for illuminators 1861; Book of ornamental alphabets 9th to 19th century 1858, 5 ed. 1863. d. of apoplexy 15 Beaufort buildings, Strand, London 16 July 1862 aged 48.
DE LA MOTTE, Peter. Entered Bombay army 1797; col. 3 Bombay light cavalry 27 April 1826 to death; general 16 June 1860; C.B. 28 July 1838. d. 15 Craven hill gardens, London 5 Feb. 1861 aged 79.
DE LA MOTTE, William Alfred (eld. son of Peter De La Motte of Weymouth, postal agent). b. Weymouth 2 Aug. 1775; pupil of Benjamin West, R.A.; drawing master at royal military colleges, Great Marlow and Sandhurst 1803–43; published Thirty etchings of rural subjects 1816; exhibited 53 pictures at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. gallery 1793–1850; author of Smoking and Smokers 1845, anon.; Historical sketch of priory and hospital of St. Bartholomew 1846. d. The lawn, St. Giles’s fields, Oxford 13 Feb. 1863.
DELANE, John Thadeus (2 son of the succeeding). b. South Molton st. London 11 Oct. 1817; ed. at King’s college, London and Magd. hall, Ox., B.A. 1839; barrister M.T. 28 May 1847; engaged upon the Times 1839, editor May 1841 to Nov. 1877; organised with aid of Lieut. Thomas Waghorn a special Times express from Alexandria to London 1845; exposed and stopped the railway mania 1845, at an immense cost by loss of advertisements. d. Ascot Heath house near Ascot 22 Nov. 1879. Macmillan’s Mag., Jany. 1880 pp. 267–72; Kinglake’s Crimean war, 6 ed. vol. vii, chapter ix, pp. 214–72; Hatton’s Journalistic London 1882 p. 81, portrait; Times 25 Nov. 1879 p. 7, cols. 3–5; I.L.N. lxxv, 548 (1879), portrait.
DELANE, William Frederick Augustus. Financial manager of Times newspaper; barrister G.I. 26 Jany. 1831; manager of Morning Chronicle to 1847; treasurer of county courts of Kent and part of Surrey (circuits 47, 48, 49 and 50), March 1847 to death; author of A collection of decisions in the courts for revising the lists of electors for the counties of Berks [and other counties, cities and boroughs] 1834, 2 ed. 1836; The present laws for regulating highways 1835. d. Hellesdon, Norwich 29 July 1857 aged 64.
DELANY, Most Rev. William. b. Bandon 25 Dec. 1803; ed. at Dunboyne; parish priest of Bandon 1845; R.C. bishop of Cork 1847 to death, during which period there was a great revival of church architecture and multiplication of religious institutions. d. Blackrock near Cork 14 Nov. 1886.
DE LA RUE, Thomas. b. Guernsey 24 March 1793; printer there 1815; manufacturer of straw hats in London; invented bonnets of embossed paper; founded house of De La Rue and Sons, card and ornamental paper makers; introduced several new printing inks; invented embossing of bookbinder’s cloths; patented fixing of iridescent films on paper; Chevalier of Legion of Honour 1855. d. 84 Westbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 7 June 1866.
DE LA SAUSSAYE, Sir Richard (son of Richard Sausse of Carrick-on-Suir, co. Tipperary). b. 1807; ed. at Stonyhurst and Trin. coll. Dublin; ensign in Spanish royal foot guards 1827; served with distinction during civil war 1833–40 attaining rank of brigadier general; sent on a special mission to Great Britain 1854; commanded a division in campaign to Africa against the Moors 1859–60 where he was made major general; chamberlain to Queen of Spain; military governor of fortress of Carthagena and of province of Murcia; knighted at Windsor Castle 21 Aug. 1841 for services performed while in command of British auxiliary brigade in north of Spain; received Grand Cross of order of Isabel the Catholic. d. Paris 27 Oct. 1872.
DE LASAUX, Thomas Thorpe. b. Canterbury 1797; solicitor there 1820 to death; coroner for East Kent 1820 to death being the oldest coroner in England; coroner for Canterbury many years; said to have held 4000 inquests. d. Canterbury 21 May 1884 in 87 year.
DELAWARR, George John Sackville West, 5 Earl (only son of 4 Earl Delawarr 1758–95). b. Savile row, London 26 Oct. 1791; succeeded 28 July 1795; ed. at Harrow and Brasenose coll. Ox.; chief friend of Lord Byron at Harrow; B.A. 1812, M.A. 1819; hon. D.C.L. Cam. 1828, hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1834; lord chamberlain 8 Sep. 1841 to 8 July 1846, and 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859; P.C. 14 Sep. 1841; took name of Sackville before West 6 Nov. 1843. d. Buckhurst park, Tunbridge Wells 23 Feb. 1869. Portraits of eminent conservatives, second series (1846), portrait.
DELAWARR, Charles Richard Sackville-West, 6 Earl (2 son of the preceding). b. Upper Grosvenor st. London 13 Nov. 1815; ensign 43 foot 26 July 1833; lieut.-col. 21 foot 9 March 1855 to 15 Aug. 1856 when placed on h.p.; commanded a brigade in expedition to Kinburn 1855 and a brigade at Shorncliffe 1856; M.G. 29 Oct. 1864; C.B. 5 July 1855; knight of the Medjidie 2 March 1858; K.C.B. 20 May 1871; a comr. for abolition of army purchase 30 Sep. 1871; drowned himself in the river Cam at Cambridge 22 April 1873. United Service Mag. 1873 part 3, 39–49; I.L.N. lx, 157, 158 (1872), portrait.
DELEPIERRE, Joseph Octave (son of Joseph Delepierre, receveur-général of province of West Flanders). b. Bruges, Belgium 12 March 1802; ed. at Univ. of Ghent; an avocat; archiviste de la Flandre Occidentale, Bruges; came to London 1843; sec. of Belgian legation, Aug. 1849 to 1874; Belgian consul in London 1 Oct. 1849 to 14 April 1875; hon. sec. of the Philobiblon Society 1853, contributed 22 papers to its privately printed Miscellanies; hon. F.S.A. 1 May 1845; author of Heures de loisir, essais poétiques 1829; Old Flanders, traditions and legends of Belgium 2 vols. 1845, and of 53 other books. d. 29 Upper Hamilton terrace, London 18 Aug. 1879. J. O. Delepierre In memoriam, by N. Trubner 1880, portrait; Le Livre, Paris, Jany. 1880 pp. 22–28, 291–92; R. Blakey’s Memoirs (1879) 208–12, 230, 239.
DELEVANTI, George, assumed name of George Crippin. b. London 29 July 1848; pupil of John Delevanti the clown 1854; entered the profession as an acrobat; champion somersault rider of the world at one time; performed in nearly every part of the globe; leading equestrian at Renz’s circus, Berlin. d. 34 Headland park, Plymouth 3 May 1887.
DELF, Thomas. b. London; a bookseller in Bow lane, afterwards at 168 New Bond st. 1853 to death; partner with Nicholas Trubner 1851–2; projected The Artist, The Children’s Journal 1863, The photographic art Journal 1862, The royal cook 1858; author under pseudonym of Charles Martel of The principles of colouring in painting 1855; The principles of form in ornamental art 1856; Love letters of eminent persons 1859; On the materials used in painting with remarks on varnishing and cleaning pictures 1859; The principles of harmony and contrast of colours by M. E. Chevreul, translated by C. Martel 1854, 3 ed. 1859. d. 23 July 1865 aged 55.
DE LIEFDE, Jacob. b. Holland; Daily News war correspondent outside Paris 1870–71; author of Six months among the charities of Europe 2 vols. 1865, new ed. 1872; Romance of charity 1867; Truth in Tales 1870; The great Dutch admirals 1873, new ed. 1880. d. Twickenham 6 Feb. 1878 aged 31.
DE L’ISLE and DUDLEY, Philip Charles Sidney, 1 Baron (only son of Sir John Shelley Sidney, 1 baronet 1771–1849). b. 11 March 1800; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; member of Sidney Sussex coll. Cam., D.C.L. Cam. 1835; M.P. for Eye, Suffolk 19 Oct. 1829 to Feb. 1831; K.C.H. 1830, G.C.H. 1831; surveyor general of Duchy of Cornwall, March 1832 to March 1849; created Baron De L’Isle and Dudley by patent dated 13 Jany. 1835; succeeded as 2 baronet 14 March 1849. (m. 13 Aug. 1825 Sophia eld. child of King Wm. iv, by Mrs. Jordan the actress, she d. 10 April 1837). d. Penshurst, Kent 4 March 1851.
DE LISLE, Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps (eld. son of Charles March Phillipps of Garendon park, Leics. 1779–1862). b. Garendon 17 March 1809; received into R.C. church 1824; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam. 1826–28; gave 230 acres of land in Charnwood Forest for re-establishment of Cistercian order 1835, exactly 3 centuries after its suppression; received the habit of third order of St. Dominic at Rome 1837; built R.C. church at Sheepshed 1842; a principal founder of Association for the promotion of the unity of Christendon 1857; assumed name of De Lisle 1862; sheriff of Leics. 1868; translated from the Italian The lamentations of England by Father Dominic, Passionist 1831; A vindication of Catholic morality by Count Alexander Manzoni 1836 and other books. d. Garendon 5 March 1878. Two sermons preached on the death of A. L. M. P. De Lisle, March 1878, preceded by a short sketch of his life, privately printed 1878; Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 38–47 (1885).
DE LISLE, Rudolph Edward Lisle March Phillipps (son of the preceding). b. Gracedieu manor 23 Nov. 1853; midshipman R.N. 28 July 1868; lieut. 24 May 1877; lieut. Alexandra 12 guns 9 Jany. 1883; served in naval brigade attached to the Upper Nile expedition, Aug. 1884 to death; killed at battle of Abu Klea 17 Jany. 1885. Memoir of Lieut. Rudolph De Lisle by Rev. H. N. Oxenham (1886), portrait.
DELLAGANA, Bartolomeo. b. Annigino canton Ticino, Switzerland; stereotyper at 61 Red Lion st. Clerkenwell, London 1855, moved to Shoe Lane 1857; effected great improvements in stereotyping by using papier mâché; stereotyped the Illustrated London News, Times, Daily Telegraph and other papers; naturalised in England 7 Jany. 1867. d. The Terrace, Kennington park, London 26 May 1882 in 50 year.
DEMAINBRAY, Rev. Stephen George Francis Triboudet (only son of Stephen Charles Triboudet Demainbray 1710–82, astronomer to royal observatory at Kew). b. Ealing, Middlesex 7 Aug. 1759; ed. at Harrow and Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1781, M.A. 1782, B.D. 1793; fell. of his coll. 30 June 1778 to 4 Feb. 1799; astronomer at Kew observatory 1782–1840 when it was given up; Whitehall preacher 1794; V. of Long Wittenham, Berks 9 Aug. 1794 to 4 Feb. 1799; R. of Broad Somerford, Wilts. 4 Feb. 1799 to death; one of His Majesty’s chaplains at Kew 1801; chaplain in ord. at St. James’s palace 1802; author of The poor man’s best friend 1831. d. Broad Somerford rectory 6 July 1854. G.M. xlii, 193–94 (1854).
DE MAULEY, William Francis Spencer Ponsonby, 1 Baron (3 son of 3 Earl of Bessborough 1758–1844). b. Cavendish sq. London 31 July 1787; M.P. for Poole 1826–31, for Knaresborough 1831–32 and for Dorset 1832–37; created baron De Mauley of Canford, Dorset 10 July 1838; chairman of Submarine electric telegraph company. d. 21 St. James’s place, London 16 May 1855.
DEMAUS, Rev. Robert. Educ. at Univ. of Edin., signet medallist, M.A. 1851; chaplain to bishop of Aberdeen 1860–65; C. of St. Luke, Chelsea 1865–72; principal of Whiteland’s training college, Chelsea 1872 to death; author of Class book of scripture history 1863; English literature and composition 1866; William Tyndale, a contribution to history of English Bible 1871; The Jesuits, a historical sketch 1873. d. of apoplexy 11 St. Leonard’s terrace, Chelsea 15 March 1874 aged 45.
DE MORGAN, Augustus (5 child of John De Morgan, col. in Madras army, who d. 1816). b. Madura, Madras 27 June 1806; lost his right eye soon afterwards; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; scholar 1825, fourth wrangler 1827, B.A. 1827; student at Lincoln’s Inn 1827; professor of mathematics in London University 23 Feb. 1828 to 24 July 1831; fellow of Astronomical Soc. May 1828, member of council 1830–61, hon. sec. 1831–38 and 1848–54; professor of mathematics in University college, London, Oct. 1836 to 10 Nov. 1866; pres. of Mathematical Soc. 7 Nov. 1864; granted civil list pension of £100, 21 Jany. 1870; author of Elements of arithmetic 1830, 6 ed. 1876; Formal Logic 1847; Trigonometry and double algebra 1849; Book of almanacs 1851, 2 ed. 1871; Budget of Paradoxes 1872, and nearly one sixth of articles in Penny Cyclopædia 1833–58. (m. 1837 Sophia Elizabeth dau. of Wm. Frend of London, she was granted civil list pension of £50, 25 July 1871). d. Merton road, Regent’s park, London 18 March 1871. Memoir of A. De Morgan by S. E. De Morgan 1882, portrait, with list of his writings at pp. 401–17; Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxx, 11, 112–18 (1872).
DE MORGAN, Campbell Greig (brother of the preceding). b. Clovelly, Devon 1811; ed. at Univ. coll. London; M.R.C.S. 1835, F.R.C.S. 1843; assistant surgeon Middlesex hospital 1842, surgeon 1848 to death; lectured on forensic medicine there 1841, afterwards on physiology and surgery to death; professor of anatomy 1845; F.R.S. 6 June 1861; author of The origin of Cancer 1872, and of the article Erysipelas in Holmes’s System of surgery 1860. d. 29 Seymour st. Portman sq. London 12 April 1876. Medical Circular iv, 67 (1854); Medical Times and Gazette i, 483–5 (1876).
DEMPSTER, William Richardson. b. Keith, Scotland 1809; went to the United States when young, and became naturalised; a successful composer and public singer; set Tennyson’s May Queen to music; composed music for most of the songs found in Tennyson’s longer poems. d. London 7 March 1871.
DENBIGH, William Basil Percy Fielding, 7 Earl of. b. Berwick house, Salop 25 March 1796; succeeded his grandfather as 7 Earl 14 July 1800; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; lord chamberlain to Queen Adelaide, Jany. 1833; P.C. 4 Feb. 1833; G.C.H. 1833; master of the Horse to Queen Adelaide 15 Dec. 1834 to 2 Dec. 1849 when she died. d. Hampstead 25 June 1865.
DENDY, Walter Cooper. b. at or near Horsham, Sussex 1794; M.R.C.S. 1814; practised in City of London; fellow of Medical Soc. of London, president; senior surgeon to Royal infirmary for children, Waterloo Road; author of Practical remarks on the diseases of the skin 1837, 2 ed. 1854; The philosophy of mystery 1841; Psyche, a discourse on the birth and pilgrimage of thought 1853; The beautiful islets of Britaine 1857, 2 ed. 1860, and other books. d. 25 Suffolk st. Haymarket, London 10 Dec. 1871. J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections (1874) 441–9; Medical Circular iv, 155–6 (1854).
DE NEMOURS, Victoire Auguste Antoinette, Duchesse (only dau. of Ferdinand George Augustus, Duke of Saxe Coburg 1785–1851). b. Vienna 16 Feb. 1822; lived at Claremont, Surrey 1848 to death. (m. 27 April 1840 Duc de Nemours 2 son of Louis Phillippe King of the French, he was b. 25 Oct. 1814). d. Claremont 10 Nov. 1857. bur. in the Taylor vault under R.C. church of St. Charles Borromeo, Weybridge, Nov.; body removed to a mortuary chapel adjoining above church 5 Oct. 1883.
DENHAM, Sir Henry Mangles (son of Henry Denham of Sherborne, Dorset). b. 28 Aug. 1800; entered navy April 1809; captain 17 Aug. 1846; F.R.S. 28 Feb. 1839; a younger brother of Trinity House 1841 to death; employed in the construction of charts 1822–52; inspector of steam-boat accidents; invented a valuable contrivance for steering a ship when disabled called Denham’s Jury Tiller, also Denham’s Rowlocks for rowing boats; knighted at Windsor Castle 26 March 1867; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877; A.I.C.E. 4 March 1851; author of Sailing directions for the British Channel 1839 and other works. d. 21 Carlton road, Maida vale, London 3 July 1887. Min. Proc. I.C.E. xci, 460–62 (1888).
DENHAM, Rev. Joshua Frederick. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; lecturer of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London 1828; R. of St. Mary-le Strand, London 1839 to death; F.R.S. 20 May 1841; author of Natural theology 1828; History of the old St. Dunstan’s church 1832; Letters on education 1832 and other books. d. 8 New Inn, Strand, London 26 Jany. 1861 aged 60.
DENHAM, Michael Aislabie. b. near Bowes, Yorkshire; in business at Hull; general merchant at Piercebridge, Durham; printed Folk Lore or a collection of local rhymes, proverbs, sayings, prophecies, slogans, &c. relating to Northumberland, Newcastle-on-Tyne and Berwick-upon-Tweed 1858, and other books on folk lore. d. Piercebridge 10 Sep. 1859.
DENIEHY, Daniel Henry. b. Kent st. Sydney 1828; attorney in Sydney and Goulburn; mem. for Argyle in Representative Assembly 1856–58, for East Macquarie 1858–59; published a series of obituary notices in the Southern Cross 1859–60; edited The Victorian Melbourne weekly paper 1862–64. d. in the hospital, Bathurst 22 Oct. 1865 in 37 year. G. B. Barton’s Poets and prose writers of New South Wales (1866) 94–148.
DENING, Emma Geraldine Henrietta Hamilton (dau. of Thomas Clarence Hooper). b. Paris 30 March 1841, ed. at Bath; converted by Rev. Wm. Haslam; commenced a prayer meeting at Avon st. Bath 1861; preached in Temperance hall, Widcombe, Bath to large congregations 1862; popular preacher in country districts and in tent services; preached about 4500 sermons. (m. 2 Oct. 1868 T. Henry Dening of Ottery St. Mary, Devon, farmer). Mr. and Mrs. Dening by their efforts built St. James’s hall, Bath 1871 where they preached, hall burnt down 1878. d. Green park, Bath 12 Aug. 1872. bur. Locksbrook cemetery 16 Aug. when 6000 people were present. Mrs. G. Guinness’ She spake of Him (1873), portrait; S. D. Major’s Notabilia of Bath (1879) 90, 194.
DENISON, Christopher Beckett (2 son of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4 baronet 1787–1874). b. 9 May 1825; in Bengal C.S. 1845–65; M.P. eastern division of West Riding of Yorkshire 25 Nov. 1868 to 24 March 1880; deputy chairman Great Northern railway, Jany. 1880 to death. d. Ireland 30 Oct. 1884. Catalogue of collection of pictures, &c. of C. B. Denison (1885).
DENISON, Right Rev. Edward (2 son of John Wilkinson, who took name of Denison, of Ossington, co. Nottingham, M.P. for Chichester, who d. 6 May 1820). b. 34 Harley st. London 13 March 1801; ed. at Esher, Eton and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1837; fell. of Merton coll. 1826; V. of St. Peters in the East, Oxford to 1837; select preacher before Univ. of Ox. 1834; bishop of Salisbury 13 March 1837 to death, consecrated at Lambeth 16 April 1837; author of Sermons and charges. d. The Close, Salisbury 6 March 1854. The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 157–62; G.M. April 1854 pp. 418–20.
DENISON, Edward (eld. child of the preceding). b. The Palace, Salisbury 8 Sep. 1840; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; read law 1862–66; lived in Philpot st. Mile end road, London where he built and endowed a school 1867–68; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1868; M.P. for Newark 18 Nov. 1868 to death; left England for Australia, Oct. 1869. d. Melbourne 26 Jany. 1870. Letters and other writings of the late Edward Denison, edited by Sir Baldwyn Leighton 1872; Stray studies by J. R. Green (1876) 3–28.
DENISON, Sir William Thomas (brother of Right Rev. Edward Denison 1801–54). b. Portland place, London 3 May 1804; ed. at Eton and R.M.A. Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 15 March 1826; lieut. governor of Tasmania 26 Jany. 1847 to 8 Jany. 1855; governor of New South Wales with title of governor general of Australia 20 Jany. 1855 to 22 Jany. 1861; col. R.E. 20 Sep. 1860 to 7 Nov. 1868; governor of Madras, March 1861 to March 1866; acted as governor general of India 20 Nov. 1863 to Jany. 1864; chairman of commission to inquire into best means of preventing pollution of rivers 6 April 1868 to death; L.G. 23 Nov. 1870; knighted at Buckingham palace 1 Aug. 1846; K.C.B. 19 July 1856; F.R.A.S. 1834; A.I.C.E. 14 March 1837, Telford medallist; F.R.S. 22 Feb. 1838; author of Varieties of viceregal life 2 vols. 1870, and many other works. d. The Observatory, East Sheen 19 Jany. 1871. Papers on subjects connected with duties of Corps of Royal Engineers n.s. xx, pp. ix-xlii, (1872); Therry’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1863) 449–69; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii, 251–59 (1872); Dunkin’s Obituary notices of Astronomers (1879) 32–34.
DENMAN, Thomas Denman, 1 Baron (only son of Thomas Denman of London, physician 1733–1815). b. Queen st. Golden sq. London 23 Feb. 1779; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1800, M.A. 1803; a special pleader 1803; barrister L.I. 9 May 1806, bencher 1820; M.P. for Wareham, Dorset 1818; M.P. for Nottingham 1820–26 and 1830–32; solicitor general to Queen Caroline 8 Feb. 1820 to her death 7 Aug. 1821; received freedom of city of London 7 June 1821; common serjeant of city of London 26 April 1822 to Nov. 1830; K.C. Nov. 1828; attorney general 19 Nov. 1830 to 4 Nov. 1832; knighted by Wm. 4 at St. James’s palace 24 Nov. 1830; lord chief justice of King’s Bench 4 Nov. 1832 to 28 Feb. 1850; P.C. 9 Nov. 1832; created Baron Denman of Dovedale, Derbyshire 22 March 1834; the first chief justice of England who sat in House of Lords without his judicial robes. d. Stoke Albany near Rockingham, Northamptonshire 22 Sep. 1854. Arnould’s Memoir of Lord Denman 2 vols. 1873, portrait; The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 436–45; J. Whiteside’s Early sketches of eminent persons (1870) 21–45; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 238–46.
DENMAN, Joseph (3 son of the preceding). b. 23 June 1810; entered navy 7 April 1823; captain 23 Aug. 1841; captain of H.M.’s yacht Victoria and Albert 19 Oct. 1853 to 15 Jany. 1862; naval aide-de-camp to the Queen 20 March 1858; R.A. 15 Jany. 1862; commander in chief in the Pacific 10 May 1864 to 21 Nov. 1866; V.A. 20 Nov. 1866; granted Greenwich hospital pension 9 Jany. 1869; contested Manchester 2 May 1859; author of The African squadron and Mr. Hutt’s committee 1850. d. 17 Eaton terrace, London 26 Nov. 1874.
DENNETT, John. b. 1790; invented Dennett’s life-saving rocket apparatus for conveying a rope from the shore to a shipwrecked crew 1832, these rockets were sent to all parts of the world, they were superseded by Boxer’s rocket 1865; custodian of Carisbrook Castle, Newport, Isle of Wight to death; contributed to Journal of British Archeol. Assoc. vols. 1–5 accounts of various antiquities in England. d. Carisbrook Castle 10 July 1852.
DENNIS, Sir James (son of John Dennis, an attorney). b. 1778; midshipman in navy; ensign 49 foot 2 Sep. 1796, major 25 April 1828 to 4 June 1833; lieut. col. 3 foot 4 June 1833 to 11 Nov. 1851; commanded a division of infantry at battle of Maharajpore 29 Dec. 1843; K.C.B. 30 Oct. 1844; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Pall Mall, London 14 Jany. 1855.
DENNIS, Rev. James Blatch Piggot (son of Philip Piggot Dennis). Matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 28 May 1835 aged 19, B.A. 1839; C. of Maxey, Northants. 1842–54; C. of St. James, Bury St. Edmunds; F.G.S., an authority on fossil bones; his collection of hawks and owls is in Bury St. Edmunds’ museum; author of An answer to the parishioners of Lawshall, telling them why he became a Catholic 1859. d. Garland st. Bury St. Edmunds 12 Jany. 1861. Bury and Norwich Post 15 Jany. 1861 p. 2.
DENNIS, James Samuel Aked. b. 1809; entered navy 24 Oct. 1822; captain 18 July 1857; retired V.A. 2 Aug. 1879. d. rectory cottage, Hanwell 9 Feb. 1881.
DENNISTOUN, Alexander. b. Glasgow 1790; a merchant at Glasgow; M.P. for co. Dunbarton 1835 to 1837. d. Lagarie row, Dennistoun, Glasgow 15 July 1874.
DENNISTOUN, James (eld. son of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, co. Dumbarton, who d. 1 June 1834). b. Dumbartonshire 17 March 1803; ed. at Univs. of Edin. and Glasgow; mem. of faculty of advocates 1824; edited several publications for the Bannatyne and Maitland clubs; contributed many articles chiefly on Art to Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews; published Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino 3 vols. 1851, and Memoirs of Sir Robert Strange, knt., engraver, and of his brother in law Andrew Lumisden, private secretary to the Stuart Princes 2 vols. 1855. d. 119 George st. Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1855. G.M. xliii, 647–8 (1855); Fraser’s Mag. li, 643–4 (1855).
DENNISTOUN, John. b. 1803; M.P. for Glasgow 1837 to 1847. d. Armadale Row, Dumbartonshire 9 Sep. 1870.
DENNY, Henry. Curator of museum of Literary and Philosophical Society, Leeds 1826 to death; author of Monographia Pselaphidarum et Scydmænidarum Britanniæ, or an essay on the British species of the genera Pselaphus of Herbst and Scydmænus of Latreille 1825, er; Monographia Anoplurorum Britanniæ, or an essay on the British species of parasite insects belonging to the order Anoplura of Leach 1842. d. Leeds 7 March 1871 aged 68.
DENNY, William. b. Dumbarton 25 May 1847; educ. Edinburgh high school; Apprentice to his father a shipbuilder at Dumbarton 1864 and partner 1868; partner in engineering firm of Denny & Co., Leven shipyard on the Clyde, increased size of works from 19 to 42 acres in 1881; made great improvements in the construction and building of steam ships 1869–82; founded an Award scheme for inventions and improvements made by his workmen 1880; read papers on ships, etc. before Lit. and Philos. Soc. of Dumbarton, Instit. of Civil engineers, Instit. of Naval Architects and other Societies 1869–82; served on the Load Line Committee 1884–5; M.I.C.E. 7 March 1876; his-residence Bellfield with a valuable library burnt down 1882. d. Buenos Ayres 17 March 1887. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix, 457–66 (1887).
DENT, Charles Calmady. b. 26 Sep. 1793; entered navy 9 Aug. 1810; captain 16 Feb. 1852; retired R.A. 1 April 1870. d. 37 Nelson road, Great Yarmouth 3 Jany. 1872.
DENT, Edward John. b. London 19 Aug. 1790; employed by Vulliamy and son, and Barrauds and son, chronometer makers 1815–29; partner with John Roger Arnold at 84 Strand 1830–40; kept a shop at 82 Strand 1840; opened branch depôts at 33 Cockspur st. and 34 Royal Exchange; began manufacture of turret clocks 1843; A.I.C.E. 1833; received order for great clock at Westminster 1852, lived only to see commencement of it; author of On the construction and management of chronometers, watches and clocks 1846, and other works. d. The Mall, Kensington Gravel Pits, London 8 March 1853. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiii, 156–61 (1854); Sir E. Beckett’s Clocks, watches and bells (1883) pp. 181, 238, 266–68, 300, 310, 313.