Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
Note.—A satire on him with a portrait was published in 1844 entitled D’Horsay or the follies of the day, By A Man of Fashion. Disraeli dedicated to him Henrietta Temple 1837, which contains a flattering portrait of him as Count Mirabel. His character and peculiarities furnished Eugene Sue with the idea of the hero of his novel Le Marquis de Létorière ou L’Art de plaire 1845. He was much satirized by Gilbert A’Beckett in Figaro in London 1832–34.
DOTTIN, Abel Rouse (son of Abel Dottin of Granada hall, Barbados, who d. 1782). Matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 24 May 1786 aged 17; M.P. for Gatton, Surrey 17 June 1818 to 29 June 1820; M.P. for Southampton 9 June 1826 to 23 April 1831, and 9 Jany. 1835 to 23 June 1841. d. 31 Argyll st. Oxford st. London 7 June 1852. Portraits of eminent conservatives, first series (1836), portrait.
DOUBLEDAY, Henry (elder son of Benjamin Doubleday of Epping, Essex, tradesman, who d. 1848). b. Epping 1 July 1808; grocer at Epping 1848–70; introduced the now familiar plan of ‘sugaring’ for moths 1842; an original member of Entomological Soc. of London 1833; published A nomenclature of British birds 1838, 4 ed. 1845; The Zoologists’ Synonymic list of British butterflies and moths 1847, 2 ed. 1859, 2 supplements 1865 and 1873; in a lunatic asylum 1871; the chief lepidopterist England has produced, his collections of lepidoptera have been at Bethnal Green museum since Feb. 1876. d. Epping 29 June 1875. Entomologist x, 53–61 (1877), portrait.
DOUBLEDAY, Thomas (son of George Doubleday of Newcastle, soap manufacturer). b. Newcastle, Feb. 1790; helped forward reform agitation 1832; sec. to Northern political union; junior partner in firm of Doubleday and Easterby, soapmakers, Newcastle; became insolvent; registrar of births, marriages and deaths in St. Andrew’s parish, Newcastle; secretary to the Coal trade to death; author of The true law of population shewn to be connected with the food of the people 1842, 3 ed. 1853; The eve of St. Mark, a romance of Venice 2 vols. 1857; A Financial, monetary and statistical history of England 1847; On mundane moral government 1852, and 10 other books. d. Bulman village (now Gosforth) near Newcastle 18 Dec. 1870. Monthly Chronicle of north country lore, Nov. 1888 pp. 485–88, portrait.
DOUDNEY, Rev. George David. b. 1811; a tailor at 97 Fleet st. London, retired 13 Nov. 1847; preached his first sermon at Clapham Asylum 21 Jany. 1848; matric. Corpus coll. Camb. 3 Feb. 1848; went to Ireland as a missionary and studied the Irish language; ordained by Bp. of Derry 23 Dec. 1848; Incumbent of Dunlewey, Donegal where he preached his first sermon in Irish 25 April 1849; Incumbent of Charles church, Plymouth 26 Jany. 1852 to death; preached 245 sermons 1852; author of Sermons preached in Charles’ Chapel, Plymouth 1866–67, 2 vols. d. Mannamead, Plymouth 19 May 1865. Recollections of Rev. G. D. Doudney 1866, portrait.
DOUGAL, Neil. b. Greenock 9 Dec. 1776; a sailor 1792 to 14 June 1794 when he lost his eyesight by an accident; kept a tavern in Greenock 1824 and then a boarding house; teacher of singing in Greenock 1799; composed about 100 psalm and hymn tunes of which ‘Kilmarnock’ is one of the standard melodies in Presbyterian church service; author of Poems and Songs 1854. d. Greenock 1 Dec. 1862.
DOUGLAS, Andrew Snape. Secretary of legation at Court of Palermo 1809; sec. of embassy at the Hague 1 Oct. 1824, minister plenipotentiary 6 Nov. to 6 Dec. 1824 and 22 Jany. to 25 April 1825; retired from the service 5 Jany. 1829, granted a pension 15 Sep. 1829. d. 7 Onslow sq. Brompton 19 Nov. 1869.
DOUGLAS, Sir Charles Eurwicke (natural son of Right Hon. Charles Philip Yorke 1764–1834). b. 12 May 1806; ed. at Harrow and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, private sec. to Viscount Goderich at Colonial office, Nov. 1830 to March 1833; king-at-arms of order of St. Michael and St. George 1832–59; M.P. for Warwick 1837–1852, for Banbury 1859–1865; contested Durham city 1853; comr. of Greenwich hospital 8 Aug. 1845 to July 1846; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 Oct. 1832; K.C.M.G. 1859. d. 27 Wilton crescent, London 21 Feb. 1887.
DOUGLAS, Claude. Ensign 10 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1819; major 14 N.I. 10 June 1842; col. 56 N.I. 1 May 1858, col. 65 N.I. 1859–70; general on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. d. Bognor 11 April 1883 in 84 year.
DOUGLAS, Francis William Bouverie (2 son of 7 Marquis of Queensberry 1818–58). b. Harleyford near Marlow 8 Feb. 1847; ed. at Eton; came out first in examination for direct commissions in the army 1865; killed by a fall whilst descending the Matterhorn, Switzerland 14 July 1865. E. Whymper’s Ascent of the Matterhorn (1880) 273–95.
DOUGLAS, Right Rev. Henry Alexander (5 son of Henry Alexander Douglas of Dryfesdale, co. Dumfries 1781–1857). b. Lockaby house 22 Feb. 1821; ed. at Glasgow Univ. and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848, D.D. 1868; C. of Alverstoke, Hants. 1846–48; minister of Abp. Tenison’s chapel, Regent st. London 1848–49; V. of Abbotsley, Hunts. 1849–52; dean of Capetown 1852–68; bishop of Bombay, Sep. 1868 to death; consecrated in chapel royal, Whitehall 3 Jany. 1869; author of Sermons 1862; Missions in India 1877. d. Clifton lodge, Clifton gardens, Maida Vale, London 13 Dec. 1875.
DOUGLAS, Sir Howard, 3 Baronet (3 son of Sir Charles Douglas, 1 Baronet, who d. Feb. 1789). b. Gosport, Hants. 23 Jany. 1776; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Jany. 1794; commandant of Military college senior department at High Wycombe 1804–8 and 1809, inspector general of instructions to 1820; succeeded his brother 23 May 1809; patented the reflecting circle or semicircle known by his name 2 July 1811; governor of New Brunswick 5 Sep. 1823 to 1831 where he founded University of Frederickton; lord high comr. of Ionian islands 13 March 1835 to 2 Dec. 1840; col. of 99 foot 15 March 1841, of 15 foot 6 Oct. 1851 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; M.P. for Liverpool 1842–46; F.R.S. 25 Jany. 1816; C.B. 3 Feb. 1817, K.C.B. 18 July 1840, G.C.B. 27 Aug. 1841; G.C.M.G. 18 March 1835; author of An Essay on the principles and construction of military bridges 1816, 3 ed. 1853; A Treatise on naval gunnery 1820, 5 ed. 1860; On naval warfare with steam 1858, 2 ed. 1860 and 9 other books. d. Tunbridge Wells 9 Nov. 1861. Life of Sir Howard Douglas by S. W. Fullom (1863), portrait.
DOUGLAS, Sir James (eld. son of John Douglas of Glasgow). b. Demerara 14 Aug. 1803; chief factor of the Hudson Bay company, chief agent for region west of the Rocky Mountains 1833; governor of Vancouver’s island 9 May 1851 to 1863, of British Columbia 3 Sep. 1858 to 1863 when he retired on a pension of £500; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858, K.C.B. 11 Aug. 1863. d. Victoria, Vancouver’s island 2 Aug. 1877.
DOUGLAS, James. b. Brechin 20 May 1800; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1820; M.R.C.S. London; went to New York 1824; practised in Quebec 1826–51; one of founders of lunatic asylum at Beauport near Quebec 1845, also manager; an enthusiastic traveller and antiquarian. d. New York 14 April 1886.
DOUGLAS, Sir James Dawes (elder son of James Sholto Douglas 1757–1830, major in the army). b. 14 Jany. 1785; D.A.Q.G. in South America 1806 and in Portugal 1807; lieut. col. 8th Portuguese regiment 1809–11; commanded 7th Portuguese brigade 1813–14; lost his leg at battle of Toulouse 10 April 1814; commanded south west district of Ireland 1825–30; governor of Guernsey 1830–38; col. of 93 foot 15 June 1840, of 42 foot 10 April 1850 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.T.S.; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Clifton 6 March 1862.
DOUGLAS, John. b. 1811; ensign 79 foot 25 June 1829; lieut. col. 11 Hussars 13 Aug. 1854 to 8 March 1859 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 5 July 1855; M.G. 6 March 1868. d. Aldershot 10 May 1871.
DOUGLAS, John. One of a family of 24 children; b. Lambeth Walk, Lambeth, London 17 March 1814; played in pantomime at Covent Garden theatre 1825; manager of Gravesend and other theatres 1833–45; manager of Douglas troupe at Sans Souci theatre, Leicester sq. London; lessee of Westminster theatre; lessee of Marylebone theatre; manager of Standard theatre, Shoreditch 1845, proprietor 1852, theatre burnt down 21 Oct. 1866, reopened it 18 Dec. 1867; manager of Pavilion theatre, Whitechapel 1857–71. d. Castle villa, Dalston, London 31 Jany. 1874. Theatrical Times iii, 399, 424 (1848), portrait.
DOUGLAS, Sir John (son of Sir James Dawes Douglas 1785–1862). b. 5 Dec. 1836; ed. at Rugby, Cheltenham and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1864; clerk in audit office, Mauritius, Feb. 1859, sec. to council 1867; poor law comr. June 1868; auditor general Ceylon, Dec. 1869 to 1876; colonial sec. Straits Settlements 1876–78; lieut. governor and colonial sec. Ceylon, July 1878 to death; K.C.M.G. 24 May 1883. d. Lyndhurst, Watford 23 Aug. 1885.
DOUGLAS, Sir John (son of Sir Neil Douglas 1780–1853). b. 7 July 1817; ensign 79 foot 6 Sep. 1833, lieut. col. 13 Aug. 1854 to 16 March 1860 when placed on h.p.; A.A.G. in Scotland 1860–65; commanded the forces in Scotland 1 Oct. 1870 to 30 Sep. 1875; col. 79 foot 1 Jany. 1879 to death; general 30 Jany. 1880; placed on retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 14 May 1859, G.C.B. 2 June 1877. d. Glenfinart, Argyllshire 8 Sep. 1887.
DOUGLAS, Sir Joseph Abraham (son of Joseph Douglas of Whitehaven, Cumberland). b. Chepstow 17 Jany. 1799; master in the navy 30 May 1823, retired 1851; knighted at St. James’s palace 24 March 1841 for having armed his ship the Cambridge and assisted the British in Hong Kong bay in June 1839 losing £10,000 for which the government would not compensate him. d. of epilepsy at 2 Apsley cottage, Moor terrace, Lower park road, Peckham, London 3 April 1866. A case of individual sacrifice and of national gratitude 1847.
DOUGLAS, Sir Neil (5 son of John Douglas of Glasgow, merchant). b. Glasgow 1780; 2 lieut. 21 foot 28 Jany. 1801; captain 79 foot 19 April 1804, lieut. col. 3 Dec. 1812 to 16 Aug. 1833 when placed on h.p.; aide-de-camp to George iv and William iv 27 May 1825 to 10 Jany. 1837; governor of Edinburgh Castle 1 April 1842 to 1 Jany. 1847; col. of 81 foot 11 July 1845, of 72 foot 12 July 1847, of 78 foot 29 Dec. 1851 to death; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; C.B. 22 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep. 1831. d. Brussels 1 Sep. 1853 in 74 year. W. B. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882), portrait; My adventures by Col. Montgomery Maxwell i, pp. v-vi (1845), portrait.
DOUGLAS, Robert. Second lieut. R.A. 1 Nov. 1796, lieut. col. 31 Dec. 1827 to 6 May 1835 when placed on retired full pay; general 25 Sep. 1859; C.B. 4 June 1815. d. Claygate near Esher 10 Feb. 1871 aged 93.
DOUGLAS, William. Second lieut. R.E. 1 July 1801, lieut. col. 23 March 1825 to 27 Jany. 1829 when placed on half pay; lieut. col. on full pay 11 Nov. 1851 to death; general 3 April 1862. d. Hastings 10 Feb. 1864 aged 77.
DOUGLAS, William Scott. b. Hawick 10 Jany. 1815; ed. in Heriot’s hospital, Edinburgh; sec. of Edinburgh Burns club 1877 to death; edited The Complete poetical works of Robert Burns 1871, revised ed. 1876; Picture of the county of Ayr 1874; The works of Robert Burns 6 vols. 1877–79; supplied letterpress for Crombie’s Modern Athenians 1882; found drowned near end of the East pier, Leith 23 June 1883.
DOULTON, Frederick (3 son of John Doulton of Lambeth). b. Lambeth 1824; manufacturer of earthenware goods; member of Metropolitan board of works for Lambeth 1856 to death; contested Reigate 6 Feb. 1858; M.P. for Lambeth 5 May 1862 to 11 Nov. 1868. d. of apoplexy at Summerhill house, Tunbridge Wells 21 May 1872. Affaire Doulton Bruxelles 1868.
DOVASTON, John Freeman Milward (only son of John Dovaston of Westfelton near Oswestry 1740–1808). b. 30 Dec. 1782; ed. at Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; barrister M.T. 12 June 1807; author of Fitz Gwarine with other rhymes 1812, 3 ed. called Poems, legendary, incidental and humorous 1825; A selection of British melodies 1817; The Dove 1822 a selection of old poems; Lectures on natural history and national melody 1839. d. Nursery villa, Westfelton 8 Aug. 1854. G.M. xlii, 395–6 (1854).
DOVE, Patrick Edward (son of Henry Dove, lieutenant R.N.) b. Lasswade near Edinburgh 31 July 1815, lived at the Craig near Ballantrae, Ayrshire 1841–48 when he lost most of his fortune; captain of Midlothian rifle club April 1853; edited the Witness for 6 months in 1854; edited the Commonwealth newspaper at Glasgow 1858; edited first 20 numbers of Imperial dictionary of biography 1857; edited with M. Rankine Imperial Journal of the arts and sciences; invented a rifled cannon with ratchet grooves which had great range and accuracy; commanded 91st Lanarkshire rifle volunteers 1859; won several prizes at Wimbledon 1860; author of The theory of human progression and natural probability of a reign of justice 1850, anon.; The Elements of political science 1854; Romanism, Rationalism and Protestantism 1855; The logic of the Christian faith 1856; The Revolver, its description and use 1858. d. Edinburgh 28 April 1873.
DOVE, Thomas. A house painter; a marine artist of great ability; his best pictures were produced at Liverpool. d. in the Whitby workhouse 27 Dec. 1886.
DOVE, William (son of Mr. Dove of Leeds, leather manufacturer, who d. 24 Dec. 1854). A farmer at Bramham near Tadcaster to 1855; poisoned his wife Harriet by strychnia 1 March 1856, tried at the Assizes at York 16–18 July 1856, hanged at York 9 Aug. 1856 aged 30. G. L. Browne and C. G. Stewart’s Trials for poisoning (1883) 233–68; Sir J. F. Stephen’s History of the criminal law of England iii, 426–37 (1883); Observations on the trials of J. Hill and W. Dove 1856.
DOVETON, Frederick Larkins. Entered Madras army 1806; col. 8 Madras light cavalry 18 Feb. 1845 to death; L.G. 13 March 1859. d. Cheltenham 20 Dec. 1859 aged 68.
DOVETON, Sir John (son of Sir Wm. Webber Doveton, knt., of the H.E.I.Co.’s civil service, who d. 13 Oct. 1843 in 90 year). b. St. Helena 1783; cavalry cadet in H.E.I.Co.’s army, 31 Oct. 1798; aide-de-camp to Marquis Wellesley; commanded a division of the Nizam’s army; commanded centre division of Madras army; lieut. col. 4 Madras Native Cavalry 19 Aug. 1813, col. 9 Nov. 1821; col. 5 Madras light cavalry 1847 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Vichy, France 23 Sep. 1857.
DOW, Rev. William (youngest son of Rev. Anthony Dow, D.D., minister of Kirkpatrick, Irongray, Perthshire, who d. 17 July 1834). Educ. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 17 April 1839; licensed by Presbytery of Dumfries 6 Nov. 1821; presented by George iv to Tongland, Kirkcudbright 13 June and ordained 21 Sep. 1826; withdrew his adherence to the confession of faith, deposed by the General Assembly 23 May 1832; called to be an Apostle of the Catholic Apostolic church when at Kirkcudbright, June 1835; made a tour of the continent 1839 as the Apostle to Russia; a writer in the Morning Watch; author of A series of discourses on practical and doctrinal subjects 1847, second series 1850; Sermons and Homilies 1856; First principles of the doctrine of Christ 1856. d. Albury, Surrey 3 Nov. 1855 aged 56. Miller’s Irvingism i, 157, 166, 181, 271 (1878); Scott’s Fasti, vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 725.
Note.—His elder brother Rev. David Dow, assistant minister of Kirkpatrick, Irongray, was called to be an Apostle of the Catholic Apostolic church when at Irongray, June 1835 but declined to accept the call; he went to the Cape of Good Hope and became a farmer.
DOWBIGGIN, Montagu Hamilton (son of Wm. Henry Dowbiggin 1780–1849, lieut. 12 Lancers, by Georgina 5 dau. of 1 Baron Panmure). b. 15 Jany. 1832; ensign 71 foot 30 June 1848; major 99 foot 22 July 1859, lieut. col. 3 March 1863 to 10 Dec. 1863 when placed on h.p.; served in Crimean war 1854–55; the object of Lord Panmure’s celebrated telegram to Lord Raglan “Take care of Dowb”; retired from army June 1865; knight of the Legion of Honour 1856. d. Portland place, Brighton 3 Feb. 1866. bur. Haversham, Bucks.
DOWDESWELL, George (youngest son of George Dowdeswell, M.D. of Gloucester, who d. 1776). Writer Bengal civil service 7 Aug. 1783; sec. to Board of Revenue 25 Aug. 1794; sec. in judicial and revenue departments 16 March 1801; superintendent general of police 1805; chief sec. to Government 30 Oct. 1812; member of supreme council 28 Dec. 1814 to 1823 when he resigned. d. Down house, Redmarley, Worcs. 6 Feb. 1852 aged 86.
DOWDESWELL, John Edmund (youngest child of Wm. Dowdeswell, M.P. for Worcs. who d. 1775). b. 3 March 1772; ed. at Westminster 1779–89 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1795; pupil of Sir Samuel Romilly; barrister I.T. 6 May 1796, bencher 1834, reader 1841, treasurer 1842; recorder for Tewkesbury 1798–1833; M.P. for Tewkesbury 1812–1832; comr. of bankrupts 1806–1820; master in Chancery 8 Feb. 1820 to 1851. d. Pull court near Tewkesbury 11 Nov. 1851.
DOWDESWELL, William (elder son of the preceding). b. Oct. 1804; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; contested Tewkesbury 12 Dec. 1832; M.P. for Tewkesbury 1835 to 1847; sheriff of Worcs. 1855. d. Pull court 6 Feb. 1887.
DOWKER, Howard. Entered Madras army 1813; col. 40 Madras N.I. 3 March 1848 to 1853, col. 2 Madras N.I. 1853–1869; L.G. 21 April 1863. d. 5 Feb. 1870.
DOWLING, Alfred Septimus (son of Vincent Dowling of 30 Lincolns Inn Fields, London, bookseller). Barrister G.I. 18 June 1828; serjeant at law 12 Nov. 1842; judge of county courts circuit No. 15 Yorkshire 9 Nov. 1849 to death; a comr. for inquiring into state of county courts 20 Aug. 1853; author of A collection of statutes passed 1830–2, 2 vols. 1832; A collection of statutes passed 2 Wm. iv and 3 Wm. iv, 1833; Reports of cases in King’s Bench practice courts with the points of pleading and practice decided in the Courts of Common Pleas and Exchequer 1830–41, 7 vols. 1833–42, new series (with Vincent Dowling) 1841–43, 2 vols. 1843–44; Reports of cases in continuation of the above (with J. J. Lowndes) 1844–49, 7 vols. 1845–51; The practice of the superior courts 1848. d. 34 Acacia road, St. John’s Wood, London 3 March 1868 aged 63.
DOWLING, Frank Lewis (son of Vincent George Dowling 1785–1852). b. 18 Oct. 1823; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1848; edited Bell’s Life in London 1852 to death; edited and published annual issues of Fistiana, or the Oracle of the Ring 1853–64, prepared another ed. published 1868; managed the fight between Heenan and Sayers at Farnborough, Hants. 17 April 1860. d. Norfolk st. Strand, London 10 Oct. 1867. Illustrated Sporting News 19 Oct. 1867 p. 657, portrait.
DOWLING, Rev. John. b. Pevensey, Sussex 12 May 1807; kept a boarding school near Oxford 1829–32; ordained Baptist minister in Catskill, New York 1832; minister at Newport, Rhode Island 1834–36, in New York 1836; preached in Providence, Philadelphia, Newark and other places; D.D. Transylvania University; author of Exposition of the prophecies 1840; Defence of the Protestant Scriptures 1843; The History of Romanism 1845 and other books. d. Middletown, New York 4 July 1878. M. H. Smith’s Sunshine and shadow in New York (1868) 589–92.
DOWLING, Vincent George (brother of Alfred Septimus Dowling, who d. 1868). b. London 1785; contributed to the Observer from 1804; employed on the Day newspaper 1809; edited Bell’s Life in London, Aug. 1824 to death, a service of plate value 100 guineas voted him 18 July 1833; one of the first persons to seize Bellingham when he shot Spencer Perceval in lobby of House of Commons 11 May 1812; claimed to be the author of the plan on which new police system was organised; edited and published Fistiana or the Oracle of the Ring, 14 editions 1840–52. d. Stanmore lodge, Kilburn, London 25 Oct. 1852. I.L.N. 13 Nov. 1852 pp. 406, 408, portrait.
DOWN, James Somers. Entered Bombay army 1819; col. 1 Bombay N.I. 13 July 1858 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. d. Kilburn, London 25 Sep. 1871.
DOWNALL, Venerable John (only son of James Downall of Liverpool). Matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 3 July 1822 aged 19, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; P.C. of St. George’s, Kidderminster 1843–49; V. of Okehampton, Devon 1850 to death; preb. of Exeter cath. 1855 to death; archdeacon of Totnes, April 1859 to death; author of Laying on of hands or Letters on confirmation 1848; An address after confirmation 1848, 5 ed. 1858 and 7 charges and sermons. d. Bournemouth 7 April 1872.
DOWNE, William Henry Dawnay, 7 Viscount. b. 15 May 1812; M.P. for Rutland 12 July 1841 to Jany. 1846; succeeded 23 May 1846. d. Torquay 26 Jany. 1857.
DOWNES, Ulysses De Burgh, 2 Baron (only son of Thomas Burgh of Bert house, Athy, co. Kildare, who d. 1810). b. Dublin 15 Aug. 1788; ensign 54 foot 31 March 1804; captain 92 foot 25 Nov. 1808; captain Grenadier guards 25 July 1814 to 5 July 1827 when placed on h.p.; surveyor general of the ordnance 18 March 1820 to 14 May 1827, clerk of the ordnance 1828–30; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign 27 May 1825 to 10 Jany. 1837; col. of 54 foot 4 April 1845, of 29 foot 15 Aug. 1850 to death; general 20 June 1854; succeeded his cousin 2 March 1826; Irish representative peer 4 April 1833 to death; reassumed ancient name of De Burgh 1848; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Bert house, Athy 26 July 1863.
DOWNIE, Sir Alexander Mackenzie (youngest son of Rev. Alexander Downie, minister of Lochalsh, Rosshire). b. 1811; physician to Princess Elizabeth, landgravine of Hesse Homburg; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840 for his attention to the Princess; phys. to British legation at Frankfort 1834–49; phys. in ordinary to Duke of Cambridge 30 Nov. 1840; phys. extraordinary in household of Duchess of Kent 1846; author of A short description of Kissingen 1841; A practical treatise on mineral waters in the cure of chronic disease 1841. d. Frankfort 3 Feb. 1852.
DOWNING, David. Ensign 6 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1819; colonel Bengal infantry 7 May 1855; general 23 Aug. 1875. d. The Grange, Plaxtole, Kent 18 Dec. 1888 aged 88.
DOWNING, M’Carthy (2 son of Eugene Downing of Kenmare, co. Kerry). b. 11 May 1814; took an active part in formation of Irish parliamentary party of 1852; M.P. for county Cork 30 Nov. 1868 to death. d. Prospect house, Skibbereen, co. Cork 9 Jany. 1879.
DOWNING, Samuel (son of Rev. Samuel Downing, R. of Fenagh, Leighlin). b. Bagenalstown, Carlow 19 June 1811; ed. at Kilkenny coll. and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1834; educ. in engineering at Edin.; employed in construction of viaduct from Portland island to mainland, and on the Coed-re-Coed curved viaduct on Taff Vale railway; assistant professor of engineering Trinity coll. 1847, professor 1852 to death; Assoc. I.C.E. 2 March 1852; author of The elements of practical hydraulics for the use of students 1855, 3 ed. 1875; Elements of practical construction in engineering and architecture 1875; Selections and specifications of public works. d. 21 April 1882. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxii, 310–11 (1883).
DOWNMAN, Hugh. b. Plymouth 29 Oct. 1765; entered navy 10 Oct. 1776; captain 26 Dec. 1798; admiral 24 April 1847; awarded pension 1 July 1851. d. Hambledon, Hants. 4 Jany. 1858.
DOWNMAN, Sir Thomas Charles Francis (eld. son of Col. Francis Downman, Royal artillery). b. St. Neots, Hunts. 1776; 2 lieut. R.A. 24 April 1793; lieut. col. R.H.A. 20 Dec. 1814, col. commandant 28 Sep. 1843 to death; commanded Woolwich district and garrison 1848 to death; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign 27 May 1825 to 10 Jany. 1837; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; K.C.B. 6 April 1852; K.C.H. 1831; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep. 1831. d. Royal arsenal, Woolwich 11 Aug. 1852.
DOWNSHIRE, Arthur Wills Blundell Sandys Trumbull Windsor Hill, 4 Marquis of (eld. child of 3 Marquis of Downshire 1788–1845). b. Hillsborough castle, co. Down 6 Aug. 1812; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; ensign Royal South Down militia 4 June 1833, col. 30 July 1845 to death; M.P. for co. Down 30 Aug. 1836 to 12 April 1845 when he succeeded; K.P. 24 May 1859. d. Dolphin hotel, Herne Bay 6 Aug. 1868.
DOWTON, John. b. Uxbridge 1820; tutor at Haileybury; professor of Hindustani at University college, London and at Staff college, Sandhurst 1855–77; author of Grammar of the Urdu or Hindustani language 1862; Classical dictionary of Hindu mythology and religion, history and literature 1879; edited from the papers of Sir H. M. Elliott History of India as told by its own historians 8 vols. 1867–77. d. Sandhurst lodge, East Worthing 23 Aug. 1881.
DOWTON, William (son of Mr. Dowton of Exeter, Innkeeper). b. Exeter 25 April 1764; joined a company of strolling players at Ashburton 1781; acted with Mrs. Baker’s company in Kent 1791–96; made his first appearance in London at Drury Lane as Sheva in The Jew 11 Oct. 1796, continued at Drury Lane 36 years playing at the Haymarket in the summer; manager of theatres at Canterbury and Maidstone; acted in New York, June to Nov. 1836; one of the most versatile actors of his time. d. Brighton terrace, Brixton 19 April 1851. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iv, 253–62 (1826), portrait; Bentley’s Miscellany xli, 318–30 (1857); Cumberland’s British Theatre xxvii, 7–8, portrait; British Stage, Nov. 1819 pp. 25–6, portrait; Tallis’s Dramatic Mag. June 1851 pp. 235–6, portrait; Illust. sporting and dramatic news 30 Oct. 1880 pp. 160, 162, portrait.
DOWTON, William (eld. son of the preceding). b. 1793; manager of the Kent circuit 1815–35; made his first appearance in London at Drury Lane theatre 3 Dec. 1832 as Tangent; a brother of the Charterhouse 1846 to death. d. the Charterhouse, London 19 Sep. 1883.
DOXAT, Lewis. b. British West Indies 1773; employed on the Morning Chronicle in London 25 years; manager of the Observer 1804–57; manager of the Morning Chronicle 1821–34. d. 13 Queen’s crescent, Haverstock hill, London 4 March 1871 aged 98.
DOYLE, Andrew (3 son of Andrew Doyle of Dublin, merchant). b. 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister L.I. 10 June 1842; inspector of poor law board, Feb. 1848 to 1871, of local government board 1871–76, his district included nearly all Wales; prepared elaborate reports on vagrancy 1849 and 1865, on pauper education 1850 and 1862, and a detailed report on sanitary state of his district on passing of first Public Health act 1872; assistant comr. on agricultural depression in England for Western district 1879–80. d. Pendarren, Crickhowell, Breconshire 14 Dec. 1888.
DOYLE, Sir Charles Hastings (eld. son of Sir Charles Wm. Doyle, C.B. 1770–1842). b. 10 April 1803; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 87 foot 23 Dec. 1819; A.A.G. in Ireland 1847; inspector general of militia in Ireland 1856–61; commanded the troops in Nova Scotia 1861–68; lieut. governor of New Brunswick Oct. 1866 to Oct. 1867; lieut. governor of Nova Scotia, Oct. 1867 to May 1873; col. of 70 foot May 1868, of 87 foot 10 Oct. 1870 to death; commanded forces in British North America 1870–74, and Southern district of England 1874–77; general 15 March 1877, placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.M.G. 23 June 1869. d. at his lodgings 18 Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 19 March 1883.
DOYLE, Sir Francis Hastings Charles, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, 1 baronet 1783–1839). b. Nun Appleton, Yorkshire 22 Aug. 1810; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1832, B.C.L. 1843, hon. D.C.L. 1877; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1835–45 and 1872–77; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1837; assistant solicitor of the Excise 1845–46; receiver general of Customs 1846 to Nov. 1869; comr. of Customs, Nov. 1869 to 1883; professor of poetry at Oxford 20 June 1867 to June 1877; author of Miscellaneous Verses 1834; Two Destinies, a poem 1844; Return of the guards and other poems 1866; Lectures delivered before the University of Oxford 1868, second series 1877; Reminiscences and opinions 1886. d. 46 Davies st. Berkeley sq. London 8 Feb. 1888.
DOYLE, John. b. Dublin 1797; portrait painter in London 1821; published 6 plates entitled The life of a racehorse 1822; issued under initials of H. B. a series of lithographed caricatures entitled Political sketches of H. B., Nos. 1–917 a series of coloured lithographic prints 9 vols. 1829–51, there was a key to them entitled A Key to the political sketches Nos. 1–600 of H. B. 11 vols. 1831–43; paid £300 by the War Office for an improved Tent 1856. d. 54 Clifton gardens, Maida Vale, London 2 Jany. 1868. Everitt’s English caricaturists (1886) 238–86; J. Paget’s Paradoxes and puzzles (1874) 461–3; The Month viii, 392–411 (1868).
DOYLE, Sir John Milley (2 son of Rev. Nicholas Milley Doyle, R. of Newcastle, co. Tipperary). b. 1781; ensign 107 foot 31 May 1794; lieut. col. Portuguese army March 1809; commanded sixth Portuguese brigade 1813–14; lieut. col. on half pay 11 May 1820; retired from service as col. 27 May 1825; M.P. for co. Carlow 1831–32; served in Portuguese army 1832 to May 1834; military knight of Windsor, July 1853; serjeant at arms to the Queen, June 1854 to death; nominated K.T.S. 12 Oct. 1812, gazetted 20 March 1813; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 28 July 1814; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; published pamphlets and petitions 1829–46 by which he got the mixed commission appointed to liquidate claims of English officers who served in Portuguese army. d. Lower ward, Windsor castle 9 Aug. 1856.
DOYLE, Percy William (brother of Sir Charles Hastings Doyle 1803–83). b. 1806; attached to British mission at Washington 2 June 1825; sec. of legation to Mexican republic 6 Dec. 1842, minister plenipotentiary 24 Dec. 1851 to 19 Feb. 1858 when he retired on pension; C.B. 4 March 1858. d. 5 Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 21 Feb. 1888.
DOYLE, Richard (2 son of John Doyle 1797–1868). b. London, Sep. 1824; published The Eglinton Tournament or the days of chivalry revived 1839; kept a manuscript ‘Journal’ 1840, issued in facsimile 1885; contributed sketches and cartoons to Punch 1843–50; designed the cover for Punch now used; his Manners and customs of ye Englyshe appeared in Punch 1849; published The foreign tour of Brown, Jones and Robinson 1854; illustrated The Newcomes by Thackeray 1854 and other books; contributed Birds’-eye views of society to Cornhill Mag. 1861–63; many water-colours by him were exhibited at Grosvenor gallery, London 1885; drawn by Leech in his cartoon entitled “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch vol. xii, p. 14, Jany. 1847, as the clarionet player in the orchestra. d. 7 Finborough road, South Kensington, London 11 Dec. 1883. Everitt’s English caricaturists (1886) 381–94; Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 101–3 (1885); W. M. Rossetti’s Fine Art (1867) 289–91; Blackwood’s Mag. April 1885 pp. 485–91; Graphic xxviii, 608 (1883), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 13 (1884), portrait.