Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
DENT, John (eld. son of John Dent of Worcester, glover 1751–1811). b. 1777; glove manufacturer at Worcester with his brother Wm. Dent, who d. 11 Oct. 1854 aged 70; they purchased from Duke of Buckingham the ruined site of Sudeley castle and chapel, Gloucestershire which they restored; sheriff of Worcs. 1849. d. Sudeley Castle 8 Oct. 1855.
DENTON, Rev. William (eld. son of James Denton of Newport, Isle of Wight). Matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 28 May 1841 aged 26, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1848; C. of Shoreditch, London 1847–50; V. of St. Bartholomew, Cripplegate, London 1850 to death; author of A commentary on Gospels for the Sundays and other Holy Days 3 vols. 1861–63, 3 ed. 1875; A commentary on the Epistles 1869; Servia and the Servians 1862; Records of St. Giles’ Cripplegate 1882 and many other books. d. 22 Westbourne sq. Paddington, London 2 Jany. 1888.
DENYS, Sir George William, 1 Baronet (only son of Peter Denys of Hans place, Chelsea, who d. 27 June 1816). b. Easton Neston, Northamptonshire 20 May 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1814; equerry to Duke of Sussex; M.P. for Hull 6 Oct. 1812 to 10 June 1818; created Bart. 23 Nov. 1813. d. 42 Onslow sq. Brompton, London 26 April 1857.
DE PORQUET, Louis Philippe R. Fenwick (son of Capt. Fenwick). b. Paris 1796; taught English in France; adopted his mother’s name; came to England about 1823; author of educational works in the English, French, Italian and Spanish languages, upwards of 40 in number 1823 to death. d. 17 Camden st. Camden Town, London 26 Aug. 1873.
DE QUINCEY, Thomas (4 child of Thomas Quincey of Manchester, merchant, who d. 18 July 1793 aged 38). b. Manchester 15 Aug. 1785; ed. at Bath and Manchester gr. schs.; matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 17 Dec. 1803 where his name remained on the books till Dec. 1810; student of Middle Temple about 1808; edited Westmoreland Gazette 1819–20; wrote in the London Mag. 1821–24, Blackwood’s Mag. 1826–49 and Tait’s Mag. 1834–51; published Klosterheim, or the masque by the English opium eater 1832 which was dramatised for two of the London theatres; eat opium 1804–16, 1817–18, 1824–25 and 1841–44, in 1813 his dose had risen to 340 grains of opium or 8000 drops of laudanum per diem, about half what Coleridge was taking at that time; he is described in J. H. Burton’s The Book Hunter as Papaverius; author of Confessions of an English opium eater 1822 first published in the London Mag. 1821; The logic of political economy 1844; the first English edition of his collected works was published in 1853–60 as Selections grave and gay 14 vols., 4 ed. 16 vols. 1875–80, the most complete edition of his works is the American in 20 vols. 1852–55. d. 42 Lothian st. Edinburgh 8 Dec. 1859. T. De Quincey by H. A. Page 2 vols. (1877), portrait; D. Masson’s De Quincey (1881); S. Hodgson’s Outcast Essays (1881) 1–98; F. Espinasse’s Lancashire Worthies, second series (1877) 378–461; C. Mackay’s Forty years recollections (1877) i, 314–26; H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 409–17; John Bull Mag. July 1824 pp. 21–24.
DE RAMSEY, Edward Fellowes, 1 Baron (2 son of Wm. Henry Fellowes of Ramsey abbey, Hunts. 1769–1837). b. 14 April 1809; ed. at the Charterhouse; M.P. for Hunts. 10 Aug. 1837 to 24 March 1880; chairman of the Middle Level commission; created Baron De Ramsey 5 July 1887. d. 3 Belgrave sq. London 9 Aug. 1887.
DERBY, Edward Smith Stanley, 13 Earl of (only son of 12 Earl of Derby 1752–1834). b. 21 April 1775; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1795; M.P. for Preston 1796–1812 and for Lancashire 1812–32; colonel 2 Lancashire militia 1 March 1797; created Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe, co. palatine of Lancaster 22 Dec. 1832; succeeded his father 21 Oct. 1834; K.G. 2 April 1839; F.L.S. 1807, pres. 1828–34; pres. of Zoological Soc. 1831 to death; formed at Knowsley hall collections of living animals and birds, which far surpassed any menagerie or aviary previously attempted by a private person in this country, these collections were sold 6–11 Oct. 1851 for £7000; privately printed Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley hall 2 parts with 76 plates 1846–50. d. Knowsley hall 30 June 1851. P. Draper’s House of Stanley (1864) 275–82; Law Review xvi, 1–32 (1852); I.L.N. xix, 14, 405, 449 (1851).
DERBY, Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14 Earl of (eld. son of the preceding). b. Knowsley 29 March 1799; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Stockbridge 1822–26, for Preston 1826–30, for Windsor 1830–32, for North Lancashire 1832–44; under sec. of state for Colonies, April 1827 to Jany. 1828; chief sec. to lord lieut. of Ireland 26 Nov. 1830 to March 1833; P.C. 22 Nov. 1830, P.C. Ireland 10 Jany. 1831; sec. of state for Colonies 28 March 1833 to 5 June 1834; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow 1834–36; sec. of state for Colonies 3 Sep. 1841 to Dec. 1845; created Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe 4 Nov. 1844; succeeded 30 June 1851; first lord of the Treasury 27 Feb. to 28 Dec. 1852, 1 March 1858 to 18 June 1859 and 13 June 1866 to 25 Feb. 1868; chancellor of Univ. of Oxford 12 Oct. 1852; K.G. 28 June 1859; won the One thousand guineas with Canezou 1848, Goodwood Cup with Canezou 1849 and 1850, the Oaks with Iris 1851, and the Two thousand guineas with Fazzolette 1856; sold greater part of his racing stud 1858 for over £5000; privately printed Translations of poems ancient and modern 1862; published The Iliad of Homer rendered into English blank verse 2 vols. 1864, 10 ed. 1876. d. Knowsley 23 Oct. 1869, personalty sworn under £250,000, 9 April 1870. P. Draper’s House of Stanley (1864) 282–97; The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 291–99; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery iv, 51 (1848), portrait; G. H. Francis’s Orators of the age (1847) 101–23; Baily’s Mag. i, 1–6 (1861), portrait, xvii, 227–37 (1870).
DERBY, Alfred Thomas (eld. son of William Derby, water-colour painter 1786–1847). b. London 21 Jany. 1821; painted portraits and scenes from Sir Walter Scott’s novels; produced many drawings from paintings of well-known masters; exhibited 22 pictures at R.A. 8 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1839–72. d. of jaundice 11 Hammersmith terrace, Hammersmith 19 April 1873.
DERINZY, Bartholomew Vigors. Ensign 81 foot 26 May 1806; lieut. col. 86 foot 7 Jany. 1842 to 30 April 1852; inspecting field officer 30 April 1852 to 7 Sep. 1855 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 7 Sep. 1855; K.H. 1834. d. 4 Beaufort villas, Cheltenham 22 Nov. 1861 aged 73.
DE ROBECK, John Michael Henry Fock, Swedish Baron. b. 14 July 1790; cornet 7 Hussars, July 1808, retired 1814; sheriff of co. Kildare 1834, of co. Dublin 1838, of co. Wicklow 1839; well known for his scientific attainments; found drowned in the fall of the salmon leap in the Liffey near Dublin 11 Oct. 1856. Annual Register 1856 p. 165.
DE ROS, William Lennox Lascelles Fitzgerald-de-ros, 23 Baron (3 son of hon. Henry Fitzgerald 1761–1829). b. Thames Ditton, Surrey 1 Sep. 1797 or 7 Sep. 1795, according to his memorial tablet in chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula in Tower of London; cornet 1 Life guards 1819, captain 1825–27 when placed on h.p.; succeeded his brother 29 March 1839; deputy lieut. of Tower of London 13 Feb. 1852 to death when the office was abolished; captain of Yeomen of the Guard 17 March 1852 to Dec. 1852 and March 1858 to June 1859; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; Q.M.G. to army in Turkey 1854–55; col. 4 Hussars 6 Feb. 1865 to death; general 10 Nov. 1868; author of Field movements for a division of cavalry 1844; Memorials of the Tower of London 1866; edited The young officer’s companion 1857. d. Old Court, Strangford, co. Down 6 Jany. 1874.
DE ROS, John Frederick Fitzgerald. b. Boyle farm, co. Surrey 6 March 1804; entered navy 20 March 1818; captain 7 Feb. 1834; R.A. on half pay 14 Feb. 1857; F.R.S. 9 June 1831; author of Narrative of travels in the United States and Canada 1827. d. 122 Piccadilly, London 19 June 1861.
DE ROSAS, Juan Manuel. b. Buenos Ayres 30 March 1793; captain general of Buenos Ayres 1831; united all the Plate River States into the Argentine Confederation 1835; his government was overthrown Feb. 1852 when he came to England; lived in Rockstone place, Carlton crescent, Southampton several years, then at Burgess street farm, Swathling near Southampton to death; corresponded with Lord Palmerston many years. d. Burgess st. farm, Swathling 14 March 1877.
DE ROSAZ, Le Chevalier François. b. Savoy; a great supporter of the Orleans dynasty; settled in England after the revolution 1848; F.R.A.S. 8 May 1874; bequeathed his astronomical instruments to the Museum at Brighton. d. Upper Bedford place, Russell sq. London 21 Sep. 1876 in 76 year.
DERRY, Right Rev. John. Roman Catholic bishop of Clonfert, Ireland 9 July 1847 to death; consecrated 21 Sep. 1847. d. Cams, Fuerty, co. Roscommon 28 June 1870 aged 59.
DERVILLE, Adolphus. Entered Madras army 1816; col. 34 Madras light infantry 20 Aug. 1853 to 1860; col. 42 light infantry 1860 to 12 Dec. 1862; col. 31 light infantry 12 Dec. 1862 to death; general 25 June 1870. d. 8 The Terrace, Kensington gardens sq. Bayswater 27 March 1874 aged 72.
DERWENTWATER, Amelia Matilda Mary Tudor Radcliffe, calling herself Countess of (dau. of John James Radcliffe 1764–1833 by Amelia Anna Charlotte, Princess Sobieski). Came over to England and commenced to agitate for her rights 1865; resided at Blaydon, Northumberland 1865; took possession of the old ruined castle of Dilston 29 Sep. 1868 and suspended portraits of her family on walls of the principal hall; ejected by the agent of the Lords of the Admiralty 1 Oct. 1868 who recovered £500 damages against her; adjudicated bankrupt 24 March 1871; confined in Newcastle gaol 25 Nov. 1872 to July 1873 for contempt of court. d. of bronchitis at 53, Cutler’s hall road, Benfieldside, Lanchester near Durham 26 Feb. 1880 aged 49. The heirs of Dilston and Derwentwater by S. S. Jones 1869; Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 49–50 (1885); Monthly chronicle of north country lore and legend, April 1888 pp. 165–70, May 1888 pp. 205–212, portrait; Saturday Review 17 Oct. 1868 pp. 520–21; Celebrated Claimants (1873) 246–55.
DE SALIS, Rodolph. b. May 1811; cornet 8 Dragoons 17 Dec. 1830, lieut.-col. 2 Oct. 1856 to 21 Feb. 1865; C.B. 1 March 1861; col. 8 Hussars 22 Sep. 1875 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. 27 Ashley place, Westminster 13 March 1880.
DESANGES, Sir Francis (son of Wm. Desanges). Sheriff of London 1817–18; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 17 April 1818; sheriff of Oxon 1825. d. in the Queen’s Bench prison, London where he had been confined 4 years 20 Sep. 1860.
DESART, Otway O’Connor Cuffe, 3 Earl of (only son of 2 Earl of Desart 1788–1820). b. Desart house, Kilkenny 12 Oct. 1818; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; elected M.P. for Ipswich 3 June 1842 but unseated on petition Aug. 1842; a representative peer of Ireland 19 Jany. 1847 to death; under sec. of state for the Colonies March to Dec. 1852. d. Eaton sq. London 1 April 1865. I.L.N. xx, 321 (1852), portrait.
DESBOROUGH, Laurence. Solicitor in City of London 1818 to 1884; member of the Law Association 1823, president 1881 to death. d. 46 Gloucester gardens, Hyde park, London 10 Sep. 1888 aged 92.
DE SLANE, William Macguckin, French Baron. b. Belfast 12 Aug. 1801; went to Paris 1830; on missions at Constantinople and in Algeria for French government 1843–45; interpreter to the army of Africa; professor of modern Arabic at Ecole de langues Orientales, Paris to death; member of French institute 1862. d. Passy, Paris 4 Aug. 1878.
DE SOLA, Rev. Abraham (son of the succeeding). b. London 18 Sep. 1825; minister of Portuguese synagogue in Montreal 1847 to death; professor of Hebrew and Oriental literature at McGill Univ. 1848; LLD. 1858; pres. of Natural history soc. of Montreal; author of Scripture Zoology; The sanitary institutions of the Hebrews; Mosaic Cosmogony, and other books. d. New York 5 June 1882. H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 103–4.
DE SOLA, Rev. David Aaron. b. Amsterdam 26 Dec. 1796; student in the Medrash 1807–16; arrived in London and became Second Hazan or minister of the Sephardi congregation London 1817; preacher in English in the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, Bevis Marks, March 1831 and senior minister; instrumental in organising an Association for the promotion of Jewish Literature 1842; author with M. J. Raphall of A new edition of the sacred scriptures 1844, only vol. 1 completed; author of Eighteen treatises from the Mishna 1845; Ancient melodies of the liturgy of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews and other works; Revised the Jewish library a work issued at the expense of Mrs. Charlotte Montifiore. d. London 29 Oct. 1860. Biography of Rev. D. A. De Sola by Rev. A. De Sola (1865); J. Picciotto’s Sketches of Anglo Jewish history (1875) 327, 359–61.
DESPARD, Henry. Ensign 17 foot 25 Oct. 1799, lieut. col. 13 Aug. 1829 to 23 June 1838; lieut. col. 99 foot 27 Sep. 1842 to 20 June 1854; C.B. 2 July 1846; M.G. 20 June 1854. d. Baring Crescent, Heavitree, Exeter 30 April 1859 aged 74.
DE STERN, Herman Stern, Baron. b. Frankfort 1815; established with his brother Viscount de Stern a foreign banking business in London about 1848; launched many foreign loans; created a Baron by King of Portugal 1864 having been much connected with Portuguese finance. d. 4 Hyde park gate, London 20 Oct. 1887, personalty in England sworn over £3,540,000, Jany. 1888.
DE TABLEY, George Warren, 2 Baron (son of 1 Baron De Tabley 1762–1827). b. Tabley house, Knutsford, Cheshire 28 Oct. 1811; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; lieut.-col. commandant Cheshire yeomanry cavalry 1847–69; a lord in waiting to the Queen, Jany. 1853 to Feb. 1858 and June 1859 to July 1866; treasurer of the Queen’s household, Dec. 1868 to March 1872. d. Tabley house 19 Feb. 1887.
DE TRAFFORD, Sir Thomas Joseph, 1 Baronet (son of John Trafford of Croston and Trafford, who d. 29 Oct. 1815). b. 22 March 1778; sheriff of Lancashire 1834; created Baronet by patent dated 7 Sep. 1841; received royal license to alter his name to De Trafford 2 Oct. 1841. d. Trafford park, Manchester 10 Nov. 1852.
DEUTSCH, Emanuel Oscar Menahem. b. Neisse, Prussian Silesia 28 Oct. 1829; assistant librarian British Museum 1855 to death; author of an essay on the Talmud in Quarterly Review Oct. 1867, pp. 417–64 and of many articles in Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible, Chambers’s Cyclopædia and other books. d. of cancer of the kidneys and bladder, Prussian Deaconesses hospital, Alexandria 12 May 1873. Literary remains of the late Emanuel Deutsch with memoir [by Lady Strangford] 1874; Contemporary Review xxiii, 779–98 (1874); Macmillan’s Mag. xxviii, 382–84 (1873).
DE VESCI, John Vesey, 2 Viscount (eld. child of 1 Viscount de Vesci, who d. 13 Oct. 1804). b. 15 Feb. 1771; M.P. for Maryborough in Irish parliament 1796–97; succeeded 13 Oct. 1804; a representative peer for Ireland 19 Jany. 1839 to death; lord lieut. of Queen’s county 1831 to death. d. Portaferry, co. Down 19 Oct. 1855.
DE VESCI, Thomas Vesey, 3 Viscount (son of the preceding). b. Merrion sq. Dublin 21 Sep. 1803; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1825; sheriff of Queen’s county 1827; M.P. for Queen’s county 1835–37 and 1841–52; a representative peer for Ireland 10 Jany. 1857 to death; an ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland 1868. d. 4 Carlton house terrace, London 23 Dec. 1875. I.L.N. lxviii, 43, 431 (1876).
DEVEY, George. b. London 1820; architect in London; exhibited 6 designs at the R.A. 1841–48; F.R.I.B.A. 1856; produced large number of sketches; added to and altered many fine old English mansions, including those of the Duke of Argyll, Lord Granville, Lord Rosebery, Lord Wolverton and others. d. Hastings 5 Nov. 1886.
DE VINNE, Rev. Daniel. b. Londonderry 1 Feb. 1793; a minister of Methodist Episcopal church 1819; minister in Louisiana and Mississippi 1819–25, in state of New York 1825 to death; author of The Methodist Episcopal church and slavery 1844; Recollections of fifty years in the Ministry 1869; History of the Irish primitive church 1870. d. Morrisania, New York 10 Feb. 1883.
DEVLIN, Anne (niece of Michael Dwyer, Irish insurgent leader 1771–1815). b. about 1780; servant of Robert Emmett at his residence in Butterfield lane, Rathfarnham; messenger between him and his friends in Dublin when he was hiding in the Dublin mountains 1803; suffered more than two years imprisonment in Kilmainham gaol; a washerwoman in Dublin. d. Dublin 18 Sep. 1851 aged 70. bur. Glasnevin cemetery where there is a monument.
DEVON, William Courtenay, 10 Earl of (eld. son of Right Rev. Henry Reginald Courtenay 1741–1803, bishop of Exeter). b. Lower Grosvenor st. London 19 June 1777; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1798, M.A. 1801, D.C.L. 1837; barrister L.I. 11 June 1799; patentee of the Subpœna office 1800–52 when office was abolished; M.P. for Exeter 1812–26; a master in Chancery 30 July 1817 to 23 March 1826; clerk assistant of the Parliaments 6 Feb. 1826 to 26 May 1835 when he succeeded his cousin as 10 Earl; high steward of Univ. of Ox. Feb. 1838 to death; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 21 Jany. 1842 to Aug. 1850. d. Shrivenham, Berkshire 19 March 1859. Doyle’s Official baronage i, 583 (1886), portrait; Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen, second series (1846), portrait.
DEVONSHIRE, William George Spencer Cavendish, 6 Duke of (only son of 5 Duke of Devonshire 1748–1811). b. Paris 21 May 1790; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, LLD. 1811; succeeded 29 July 1811; lord lieut. of Derbyshire 19 Aug. 1811 to death; bought library of Thomas Dampier, bishop of Ely for £10,000, 1812, and John Kemble’s collection of plays for £2000, 1821; ambassador extraordinary to Russia for coronation of Emperor Nicholas 25 April 1826; received Russian orders of St. Andrew and St. Alexander Newski and St. Anne 18 Aug. 1828 for magnificence of his embassy which cost him £50,000 beyond allowance for it made by Government; P.C. 30 April 1827; K.G. 10 May 1827; lord chamberlain of the household 5 May 1827 to 18 Feb. 1828 and 22 Nov. 1830 to 15 Dec. 1834; entertained Emperor of Russia, King of Saxony and Prince Albert at Chiswick 8 June 1844. d. Hardwick hall, Derbyshire 18 Jany. 1858. G.M. iv, 209–10 (1858); I.L.N. 15 June 1844 pp. 384–5, 23 Jany. 1858 p. 75; Waagen’s Treasures of art in Great Britain ii, 88–96 (1854), iii, 344–70 (1854); Catalogue of the library at Chatsworth 4 vols. 1879.
DE WALDEN, Thomas Blaides. b. London 1811; made his début on the stage at Haymarket theatre 1841; first appeared in America at Park theatre, New York 1844 as Belmour in Is he jealous?; engaged in mercantile pursuits 1857; a chaplain in volunteer army of United States during the civil war; author of The upper ten and the lower twenty played at Burton’s theatre, New York; The Seven Sisters; The Jesuit played at Bowery theatre, New York 1854; The Hypochondriac; wrote more than 100 plays. d. New York 26 Sep. 1873.
DEWAR, Frederick Charles (son of James Dewar 1793–1846, musical director of theatre royal, Edinburgh). Made his first appearance in London at St. James’s theatre 29 Oct. 1860 as Tunstall in Up at the hills; made his first success at same house as Dr. Bland in Friends or Foes the English version of Sardou’s Nos Intimes 8 March 1862; played Tom Stylus in Robertson’s comedy Society, at Prince of Wales’s theatre 11 Nov. 1865 to Sep. 1866; played Captain Crosstree in Burnand’s burlesque The latest edition of Black-eyed Susan, or the little Bill that was taken up, at New Royalty theatre 400 times from 29 Nov. 1866 to 20 March 1868; played Bishopriggs in Wilkie Collins’s drama Man and Wife, at Prince of Wales’s 22 Feb. 1873; played Angus McAlister in Gilbert’s comedy Engaged, at Haymarket 3 Oct. 1877 to 4 Jany. 1878. d. Chelsea workhouse, London 8 Jany. 1878 aged 46. bur. Brompton cemetery. The Universal Review 15 Oct. 1888 pp. 162, 169, 177, portrait; The Entr’ Acte 19 Jany. 1878 pp. 6, 9, portrait; The Era 13 Jany. 1878 pp. 6, 12.
DE WILDE, George James (son of Samuel De Wilde, portrait painter 1748–1832). b. London 1804 or 1805; contributed many articles to various periodicals; edited the Northampton Mercury 1830 to death; author of Rambles round about, and Poems, edited by E. Dicey 1872; his portrait by J. E. Williams was presented by his friends to the Northampton Museum 1871. d. The Parade, Northampton 16 Sep. 1871 in 67 year. bur. Highgate cemetery 22 Sep. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii, 311 (1872); The Northampton Mercury 23 Sep. 1871 pp. 3, 5, 8.
DIAMOND, Hugh Welch (eld. son of Wm. Batchelor Diamond, surgeon H.E.I.Co.’s service). b. 1809; ed. at Norwich gr. sch.; studied at St. Bartholomew’s and Bethlehem hospitals; L.S.A. 1829; M.R.C.S. 1834; practised in Soho, London; resident superintendent of female patients at Surrey county lunatic asylum 1848–58; kept a private asylum for female patients at Twickenham 1858 to death; invented the paper or cardboard photographic portrait; sec. of London Photographic Soc. 1883, edited its Journal vols. 5–8 (1859–64); contributed papers to first series of Notes and Queries on photography; F.S.A. 15 May 1834. d. Twickenham house, Twickenham 21 June 1886.
DIAVOLO, Joel Il, otherwise known as Joel Benedict. Wire walker, pantomimist and ballet master; one of the original troupe of Bedouin Arabs at Surrey theatre 1839; created a great sensation under name of Joel il Diavolo at Vauxhall Gardens 1845 by descending a single wire stretched across the gardens from a platform 120 feet high to the ground at opposite end of the gardens; adopted stage name of Joel Benedict about 1850; acting manager to Charles Dillon several years from 1852 sustaining part of clown in his pantomimes; travelled with Charles Harrison’s company in the provinces 1862. d. 3 Feb. 1887. I.L.N. vi, 396 (1845), with view.
Note.—There were about half a dozen performers who successively bore the name of Joel il Diavolo at Vauxhall Gardens; the last one in 1849 was John Delany who had been a miner in the Dudley coal mines.
DIBB, John Edward. b. Beeston near Leeds 24 May 1812; deputy registrar of deeds and wills in West Riding of Yorkshire 1840 to death; barrister G.I. 1869; author of A practical guide to registration of deeds and wills in the West Riding of Yorkshire 1846; Registries of deeds, suggestions for the improvement of the Yorkshire offices 1851. d. Wakefield 17 Sep. 1872.
DIBDIN, Henry Edward (youngest son of Charles Isaac Mungo Pitt known as Charles Dibdin, dramatist 1768–1833). b. Sadler’s Wells, London 8 Sep. 1813; pupil of Bochsa the harpist; made his first appearance 3 Aug. 1832 at Covent Garden theatre when he played the harp at Paganini’s last concert; organist of Trinity chapel, Edinburgh 1833 to death; published The Standard Psalm tune book 1851, and about 40 songs, piano and harp pieces and hymn tunes. d. Edinburgh 6 May 1866.
DICEY, Thomas Edward (only son of Thomas Dicey of Claybrook hall, Leicestershire 1742–1807). b. Claybrook hall, Leics. 11 Oct. 1789; matric. at Oriel coll. Ox. 17 Oct. 1806; migrated to Trin. coll. Cam.; senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1811; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814; chairman of Midland counties railway; a director of North Staffordshire railway from its foundation 1846 to his death; proprietor of Northampton Mercury. d. Princes terrace, Hyde park, London 20 Feb. 1858.
DICK, Alexander. Entered Bengal army 1803; col. 71 Bengal N.I. 8 Feb. 1843 to 1869; general 3 May 1866. d. Deyrah, North West provinces of India 25 Nov. 1875 aged 86.
DICK, Hope. Ensign 23 Bengal N.I. 28 Sep. 1808; major 56 Bengal N.I. 1839–45; colonel Bengal infantry 16 Jany. 1855; general 28 April 1875. d. Cheltenham 24 May 1885 aged 93.
DICK, John (son of James Dick of Rochester). b. Rochester; entered navy Sep. 1785; captain 28 April 1802; admiral 19 Jany. 1852; a knight of the Crescent (Turkish order) 8 Oct. 1801. d. Southampton 10 Sep. 1854.
DICK, Robert (elder son of Thomas Dick, Excise officer, who d. May 1846). b. Tullibody, Clackmannanshire, Jany. 1810 or 1811; apprenticed to Aikman of Tullibody, baker 1824–28; journeyman baker at Leith, Glasgow and Greenock 1828–30; baker at Thurso 1830 to death; accumulated an almost perfect collection of the British flora and of fossil fishes; assisted Hugh Miller in his Old red sandstone 1841 and Footprints of the Creator 1849; helped Sir Roderick Murchison and other scientific men in their researches. d. Thurso 24 Dec. 1866. Robert Dick, baker of Thurso, geologist and botanist by Samuel Smiles 1878, portrait; H. A. Page’s Leaders of men (1830) 94–139; J. Copner’s Sketches of celibate worthies, 2 ed. (1886), 351–72.
DICK, Rev. Thomas (son of Mungo Dick of Dundee, linen manufacturer). b. the Hilltown, Dundee 24 Nov. 1774; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; licensed to preach in the Secession church 1801; teacher of Secession school at Methven 1807–17, taught at Perth 1817–27; lived at Broughty Ferry, Dundee 1827 to death; LLD. Union college, Schenectady, State of New York 1832; F.R.A.S. 14 Jany. 1853; granted civil list pension of £50, 21 July 1855; author of The Christian philosopher or the connexion of science and philosophy with religion 1823, 8 ed. 1842; Philosophy of a future state 1828; The mental illumination and moral improvement of mankind 1836; Celestial scenery or the wonders of the heavens displayed 1837. d. Broughty Ferry 29 July 1857, monument in churchyard of Chapel of Ease, Broughty Ferry, erected Jany. 1860. W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 167–72; The sidereal heavens by Rev. Thomas Dick, New York (1844), portrait.
DICK, William (2 child of John Dick of Edinburgh, blacksmith, who d. 1844). b. White Horse Close, Canongate, Edin. May 1793; ed. at Univ. of Edinburgh and Veterinary coll. London, obtained his diploma 27 Jany. 1818; practised as Vet. surgeon in Edin. 1818 to death; founded Edinburgh Veterinary College 1818; professor of veterinary surgery to Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland; vet. surgeon to the Queen for Scotland; Head inspector of cattle for co. of Edin. 1865; published Manual of veterinary science 1862. d. Veterinary College, Clyde st. Edinburgh 4 April 1866. Occasional papers on veterinary subjects by W. Dick with a memoir by R. O. Pringle (1869).
DICKENS, Charles John Huffam (2 child of the succeeding). b. 387 Mile End terrace, Commercial road, Landport, Portsea 7 Feb. 1812; a reporter in Doctors Commons 1829–31, in the House of Commons 1831–36; lived at No. 13 Furnival’s Inn 1835, at No. 15, 1836 to 1837, at 48 Doughty st. 1837–39, at 1 Devonshire terrace, Regent’s park 1839–51, at 1 Tavistock villas, Tavistock sq. 1851–60 and at Gad’s hill place near Rochester 1860 to death; edited Bentley’s Miscellany, Jany. 1837 to Jany. 1839; student at Middle Temple 1839; received freedom of Edinburgh 1841; visited U.S. of America 1842 and 1867–8; edited Daily News 21 Jany. to 9 Feb. 1846; started Household Words 30 March 1850, edited it to 28 May 1859 when he merged it into All the year round which he edited 30 April 1859 to his death; gave 4 series of public readings of his own works 1858–9, 1861–3, 1866–7 and 1868–70 gave his last reading 5 March 1870 in St. James’s Hall, London; author of Sketches by Boz 2 vols. 1835, 2nd series 1 vol. 1836; The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 1837, and 32 other works. (m. at St. Luke’s, Chelsea 2 April 1836 Catherine Thomson eld. dau. of George Hogarth, musical and dramatic critic of the Morning Chronicle, from whom he separated April or May 1858, she d. 70 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 22 Nov. 1879 aged 64). d. Gad’s Hill Place 9 June 1870. bur. in Westminster abbey 14 June. J. Forster’s Life of C. Dickens 3 vols. 1872–74, portrait; Letters of C. Dickens 3 vols. 1880–82; Charles Dickens as I knew him by G. Dolby 1885; J. T. Fields’s In and out of doors with Charles Dickens 1876; Charles Dickens by G. A. Sala 1870; P. Fitzgerald’s Recreations of a literary man, i, 48–171 (1882); C. Dickens as a reader by C. Kent 1872; E. Yates’s Recollections ii, 91–128 (1884); J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters (1870) 1–48; J. C. Jeaffreson’s Novels and novelists ii, 303–34 (1858), portrait; R. H. Horne’s A new spirit of the age i, 1–76 (1844), portrait; Bookseller, July 1870 pp. 573–78, and Christmas number 1879 pp. 15–21; Illust. News of the world vol. ii (1858), portrait; Graphic xx, 556 (1879), portrait of Mrs. Dickens.
Note.—He is drawn by Anthony Trollope in his novel The Warden under the name of Mr. Popular Sentiment. The portrait of him painted by Ary Scheffer 1855 exhibited at the R.A. 1856 was purchased by trustees of National portrait gallery, July 1870.
DICKENS, John. Clerk in the navy pay office at Portsmouth and Chatham dockyards to 1822, at Somerset House 1822 to 9 March 1825 when he left the service; compounded with his creditors 1823; confined in King’s Bench or Marshalsea prison 1824; became insolvent, applied to be discharged 15 Dec. 1831; reporter to the Morning Chronicle to 1839; lived at Exeter; is drawn by Charles Dickens in David Copperfield as Micawber. d. Malvern 31 March 1851 aged 66. bur. in Highgate cemetery 5 April, where also lie the remains of his wife Elizabeth Dickens who d. 12 Sep. 1863 aged 73.
DICKENSON, Henry. Writer Madras civil service 1806; member of council and chief judge of the Sudder Dewannee and Sudder Foujdarry Adawlut 1846 to 16 Feb. 1850 when he resigned the service. d. Schweizenhof, Lucerne, Switzerland 29 Nov. 1859.
DICKEY, Edward John. Entered Bengal army 1822; superintendent of Stud department 9 May 1853; lieut.-col. 57 N.I. 15 April 1854; M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. Parklands, Guildford 19 Sep. 1883 aged 79.
DICKIE, George. b. Aberdeen 23 Nov. 1813; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen and Univs. of Aberdeen and Edinburgh; A.M. Aberdeen 1830, M.D. 1842; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1834; lecturer on botany at King’s college, Aberdeen 1839–49; professor of natural history at Belfast 1849–60 and of botany in Univ. of Aberdeen 1860–77; F.L.S. 1863; F.R.S. 1881; author of Flora Abredonensis 1838; The Botanists guide to Aberdeen, Banff and Kincardine 1860; A Flora of Ulster 1864; author with James Mc Cosh of Typical forms and special ends in creation 1856. d. 16 Albyn terrace, Aberdeen 16 July 1882. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv, pp. xii-xiii (1883).