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DOCHARTY, James b. Bonhill, Dumbartonshire 1829; a pattern designer in Glasgow to about 1862; a landscape painter about 1862 to death; A.R.S.A. 14 Nov. 1877; exhibited many pictures in Glasgow and Edinburgh; exhibited 13 landscapes at the R.A. 1865–77. d. Pollokshields, Glasgow 5 April 1878.
DOCKRAY, Robert Benson. b. 13 Nov. 1811; resident engineer at Birmingham of the London and Birmingham railway 7 March 1838, engineer for the entire line 12 June 1840 to 18 Sep. 1852; M.I.C.E. 13 June 1834, Telford medallist 1849. d. Dalton square, Lancaster 8 Sep. 1871. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii, 213–15 (1872).
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.