Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
DOYLE, Rev. Thomas. b. 21 Dec. 1793; ed. at St. Edmund’s college, Ware, ordained priest 1819; priest at Royal Belgian chapel, London road, Southwark 1820, senior priest there 1829; St. George’s R.C. cathedral in St. George’s Fields was built owing to his exertions, consecrated 4 July 1848; Provost of cathedral chapter of Southwark 1850 to death; wrote letters in The Tablet and other periodicals under signature of ‘Father Thomas.’ d. St. George’s Cathedral, London 6 June 1879. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 103–5 (1885).
DOYLE, Sir William Henry (son of Edward Doyle). b. Nassau, Bahamas 1823; barrister M.T. 8 May 1846; registrar of court of bankruptcy for Bahamas 1847–58; assistant justice of general court of Bahamas 1858, chief justice and pres. of legislative council 14 Sep. 1865 to 31 March 1875; knighted at Windsor Castle 12 Dec. 1873; chief justice of Leeward Islands 31 March 1875; chief justice of Gibraltar, judge of vice admiralty court and court of requests 14 May 1877 to death. d. 8 Montpellier villas, Cheltenham 27 April 1879.
DOYLEY, Henry (youngest son of Ven. Matthias Doyley, archdeacon of Lewes, who d. 13 Nov. 1815 aged 71). b. 21 April 1780; ensign Grenadier guards 2 Aug. 1797, lieut. col. 10 Jany. 1837 to 28 June 1838; col. 33 foot 28 Sep. 1847 to death; general 30 Jany. 1855. d. Nevill park, Tunbridge Wells 26 Sep. 1855.
DOYLEY, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. London 16 Nov. 1774; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1795, B.C.L. 1800, D.C.L. 1804; fellow of All Souls’ college 1800–20; barrister M.T. 9 Nov. 1798; serjeant at law 9 Feb. 1819, received patent of precedence 1834; chairman of quarter sessions, West Sussex; edited with E. V. Williams Burn’s Justice of the Peace 5 vols. 1836. d. Rottingdean near Brighton 14 Jany. 1855.
DOYNE, William Thomas (2 son of Rev. J. Doyne, P.C. of Old Leighlin, co. Carlow). b. April 1823; articled to Edward Dixon, C.E. 1840; resident engineer of Rugby and Leamington railway 1847–50; in charge of the Army works corps consisting of about 2400 navvies and artificers, at Balaclava 1855–56; practised at Melbourne 1866 to death; consulting engineer to government of Western Australia 1869; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1849, M.I.C.E. 9 Nov. 1852; author of The causes which have retarded the construction of railways in India 1860; Report upon the plains and rivers of Canterbury, New Zealand 1864. d. Melbourne 29 Sep. 1877. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. li, 270–73 (1878).
DRAKARD, John. Printer and bookseller at Stamford; started a weekly paper called The Stamford News 15 Sep. 1809; sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment in Lincoln Castle and fined £200 at Lincoln 13 March 1811 for a seditious libel, an article in his paper of 24 Aug. 1810 entitled ‘One thousand lashes’; started a weekly paper called The Champion of the East 5 Jany. 1830, the name was changed to the Stamford Champion; both his papers ceased 1834; published Drakard’s Edition of the public and private life of Colonel Wardle, Stamford n.d.; author of The history of Stamford 1822. d. Ripon 25 Jany. 1854 aged 79. Howell’s State Trials xxxi, 495–544 (1823).
DRAKE, Charles Frederick Tyrwhitt (younger son of Col. Wm. Tyrwhitt Drake of the Royal horse guards, who d. 21 Dec. 1848). b. Amersham, Bucks. 2 Jany. 1846; ed. at Rugby, Wellington coll. and Trin. coll. Cam. but took no degree; spent winters of 1866 and 1867 in Morocco; visited Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Greece and Turkey 1868–70; engaged on survey of Palestine for Palestine exploration fund society 1870 to death; F.R.G.S.; author of Modern Jerusalem 1875; author with Sir R. F. Burton of Unexplored Syria 2 vols. 1872. d. Jerusalem 23 June 1874. Literary remains of C. F. T. Drake by W. Besant 1877; Modern Jerusalem by the late C. F. T. Drake with a memoir 1875; Palestine Fund Reports (1874) pp. 131–4.
DRAKE, John Poad (son of Thomas Drake of Stoke Damerel, Devon, who d. 20 May 1835). Baptised at Stoke Damerel 20 July 1794; painted a picture of Napoleon on board the Bellerophon at Plymouth 1815 which he exhibited in New York; occupied with schemes for breechloading guns 1829–37; laid proposals before government for ironcased floating batteries and steam rams 1832–40; patented his diagonal system of shipbuilding and a screw trenail fastening 1837; failed to obtain adoption of any of his inventions. d. Fowey, Cornwall 26 Feb. 1883. Dict. of Nat. Biog. xv, 447 (1888).
DRAKE, Samuel, stage name of Samuel Bryant. b. England 15 Nov. 1768; apprenticed to a printer; ran away and became an actor; managed a theatre in West of England; acted at Boston theatre, U.S. 1809–13, and at Albany, New York 1813–15; managed theatres at Frankfort, Lexington and Louisville all in Kentucky 1815 to about 1827, afterwards managed theatres in Ohio, Tennessee, Missouri and Indiana; may properly be called the pioneer of the drama in the West. d. Oldham county, Kentucky 16 Oct. 1854.
DRAKE, Sir Thomas Trayton Fuller-Eliott, 1 Baronet (3 son of John Trayton Fuller of Ashdown house, Sussex, who d. 1812). b. Heathfield park, Sussex 8 Feb. 1785; lieut. 52 foot 5 Oct. 1804, major 26 May 1814 to 25 May 1815 when placed on h.p.; assumed additional surnames of Eliott and Drake by r.l. 31 March 1813; created baronet 22 Aug. 1821; sheriff of Devon 1822; edited Life of Sir F. Drake 1828. d. Nutwell court near Exeter 6 June 1870.
DRAKE, Thomas Tyrwhitt (eld. son of Thomas Drake of Shardeloes, Bucks., who d. 1810). b. 16 March 1783; M.P. for Amersham, Bucks. 31 Jany. 1805 to 3 Dec. 1832; sheriff of Bucks. 1836; master of hounds in the Bicester country many years. d. Bucknell, Oxfordshire 23 March 1852.
DRAKE, Sir William Henry (son of John Drake, deputy commissary general, who d. 24 June 1867 aged 84). b. 1812; deputy assistant commissary general 16 April 1835, commissary general 21 June 1859; controller in Ireland 1867, in Great Britain 1869; director of supplies and transports 3 Sep. 1871 to 29 Sep. 1872; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 20 May 1871. d. 10 Clanricarde gardens, Bayswater, London 28 Jany. 1882.
DRAPER, Rev. Daniel James. b. parish of Wickham, Hants. 28 Aug. 1810; became a Wesleyan Methodist 1830; minister of Chatteris circuit 1834; minister at Sydney, N.S.W. 1836–37, 1842–46, at Melbourne 1846–47 and 1855 to 1865, at Adelaide 1847–55; president of the Conference 1859; drowned with 244 other passengers in the wreck of the “London” steamship in the Bay of Biscay 11 Jany. 1866. F. J. Jobson’s Memorial tribute to D. J. Draper 1866, portrait.
DRAPER, John William (son of John C. Draper, Wesleyan minister, who d. 1829). b. St. Helen’s near Liverpool 5 May 1811; ed. at Woodhouse grove school, London Univ. and Univ. of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1836; professor of chemistry and natural philosophy in Hampden Sidney college, Virginia 1836–39; professor of medical department in Univ. of New York 1839, of chemistry 1840–81; pres. of New York medical college 1850–73; made first photographic portrait from life 1839 and first photograph of moon’s surface 1840; LLD. Princeton 1860; first pres. of American Chemical Soc. 1876; author of Text book of chemistry 1846; Text book of human physiology 1856; History of the intellectual development of Europe 2 vols. 1864; History of the American civil war 3 vols. 1871; History of the conflict between religion and science 1874, translated into 9 languages. d. Hastings on river Hudson 20 miles north of New York 4 Jany. 1882. Barker’s Memoir of J. W. Draper 1882, portrait; Appleton’s American Biog. ii, 226–27 (1887), portrait; Graphic xxv, 68, (1882), portrait.
DRAPER, William Henry (son of Rev. Henry Draper, lecturer of St. George’s ch. Southwark). b. near London 11 March 1801; arrived in Cobourg, Canada 4 June 1820; called to bar in Canada 16 June 1828; reporter to the King’s Bench 18 Nov. 1829 to March 1837; solicitor general of Upper Canada 23 March 1837, member of executive council, Dec. 1837, the first attorney general for Upper Canada 13 Feb. 1841 to 28 May 1847; Q.C. 1842; a legislative councillor of Canada 10 April 1843 to Jany. 1845; member of legislative assembly Jany. 1845 to 28 May 1847; a puisne judge of Queen’s Bench 12 June 1847; chief justice of Common Pleas 5 Feb. 1856; chief justice of Upper Canada 22 July 1863 to 20 Oct. 1868; C.B. 23 June 1854; pres. of court of error and appeal Ontario 20 Oct. 1868; author of Upper Canada King’s Bench Reports 1729–31, 2 vols. 1861–62. d. Yorkville, Toronto 3 Nov. 1877. Law Magazine and law review xxvii, 362 (1869).
DRAYTON, Henri. b. Philadelphia 1822; ed. at Paris Conservatoire; primo basso in Italian opera in France and Belgium 1848–50; sang in English opera in London 1850–59; gave parlor opera entertainments with his wife in the United States 1859–61 when he returned to England; sang with Riching’s English Opera company in America 1867–70; author of dramas and operas. d. 57 East ninth st. New York 11 Aug. 1872. I.L.N. xxx, 411 (1856), portrait.
DREW, Andrew. b. 27 Nov. 1792; entered navy 4 May 1806; commodore of provincial marine of Upper Canada 1838–39; captain on h.p. 10 June 1843; agent victualler at Cape of Good Hope 16 Dec. 1850 to 30 Jany. 1863; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1875; discovered a dangerous shoal between Trinidad and Tobago 1842, afterwards called Drew’s Rock. d. Glenwood house, Peckham Rye, Surrey 19 Dec. 1878. A narrative of the capture of the Caroline 1844.
Note.—He successfully defended Cape Coast castle in 1824 with 160 sailors against an attack by 50,000 Ashantees. During the Canadian rebellion in 1838 with only about 35 men he captured the rebel steamer Caroline and sent it burning over the falls of Niagara, one of the most daring exploits recorded in naval history.
DREW, Rev. George Smith (son of George Drew of 11 Tottenham court road, London, tea dealer). b. Louth, Lincs. 1819; sizar at St. John’s coll. Cam. 22 Jany. 1839; 27 wrangler 1843; Inc. of St. John the Evangelist, St. Pancras, London 1850–54; V. of Pulloxhill, Beds. 1854–58; V. of St. Barnabas, South Kensington, London 1858–70; select preacher to Univ. of Cam. 1869–70; R. of Avington, Hants. 1870–72; Hulsean lecturer at Cam. 1877; V. of Holy Trinity, Lambeth, London 18 Sep. 1872 to death; F.R.G.S.; author of Scripture studies or readings in the Old Testament 1855, 2 ed. 1869; Scripture lands in connection with their history 1860, 2 ed. 1862; Reasons of faith or the Christian argument developed 1862, 2 ed. 1869 and 11 other books. d. Holy Trinity vicarage, Lambeth 21 Jany. 1880.
DREW, John. b. Bower Chalk, Wiltshire 1809; kept a school at Southampton 1826–42; built a small observatory there 1847; supplied the correct time to ships leaving Southampton many years; Ph.D. Univ. of Basle; F.R.A.S. 9 Jany. 1846; a founder of Meteorological Soc. 1850; author of A manual of Astronomy 1845, 2 ed. 1853; Practical meteorology 1855, re-edited by his son 1860 and other books and many papers. d. Surbiton, Surrey 17 Dec. 1857.
DREW, John. b. Dublin 3 Sep. 1825; appeared at Bowery theatre, New York 1845 as Dr. O’Toole in The Irish Tutor; lessee with Wm. Wheatley of Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 20 Aug. 1853 to 1855; acted in England 1855, California 1858 and Australia 1859; returned to New York from England 9 Jany. 1862; best Irish comedian on American stage; played for last time 9 May 1862. d. Philadelphia 21 May 1862. T. A. Brown’s History of the American stage (1870) p. 105, portrait.
DREW, Rev. William Henry. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., 8 wrangler 1849; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1856; mathematical master at Blackheath proprietary school 1856–73; C. of Crockenhill near Dartford 1866–73; professor of mathematics at King’s college, London June 1869 to death; author of A geometrical treatise on conic sections 1857, 6 ed. 1880. d. Park house, Maida hill west, London 14 July 1882 aged 55.
DRISCOLL, Henry. b. Dublin 1792; ensign 67 foot 13 June 1811; lieut. 100 foot 3 March 1814; lieut. 99 foot 1815 to 1817 when removed from the army; studied for the bar at Montreal; edited the Herald newspaper; edited the Courant newspaper; called to Canadian bar May 1823; Q.C.; police magistrate 1840. d. Montreal 28 Oct. 1869.
DROOP, Henry Richmond (son of John Abraham Droop of Stamford Hill, Middlesex). b. about 1831; ed. at Marlborough and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1853, 3 wrangler 1854; fellow of his coll. 1855, mathematical lecturer; B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1859; author of North side of the table, a criticism 1866; Proportional representation as applied to election of local governing bodies 1871; Relations between an invading army and the inhabitants 1871; The Edwardian vestments an investigation 1875. d. 11 Cleveland gardens, London 21 March 1884.
DROUGHT, Thomas Armstrong. b. 1798; Ensign 15 Foot 11 Nov. 1813, lieut. col. 21 March 1845 to 1 Oct. 1854; inspecting field officer 1 Oct. 1854 to 11 Jany. 1860; col. 45 Foot 25 June 1866 to 21 April 1868; col. 15 Foot 21 April 1868 to death; general 29 May 1875. d. Hill house, Winchester 22 Aug. 1877.
DRUCE, Charles Claridge (one of the 24 children of Charles Druce of city of London, solicitor 1791–1881). b. Billiter sq. London 1819; solicitor in Billiter sq. 1843 to death; vice pres. of Incorporated Law Society 1880–81, pres. 1881–82. d. Brighton 10 June 1885 in 66 year.
DRUCE, George (brother of the preceding). Educ. at Shrewsbury and St. Peter’s coll. Cam., senior classic 1843, 2 chancellor’s medallist 1843; B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; fellow of his college 1846; barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1846; Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; one of standing counsel to univ. of Cam. Nov. 1867 to death. d. Denmark hill, Camberwell, London 15 April 1869 aged 48 in consequence of an accident while riding the day before. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 470–71 (1869).
DRUITT, Robert. b. Wimborne, Dorset, Dec. 1814; studied at King’s college and Middlesex hospital; L.S.A. 1836; M.R.C.S. 1837, F.R.C.S. 1845; F.R.C.P. 1874; M.D. Lambeth, Sep. 1878; practised in London from 1837; on his retirement 370 subscribers presented him with a cheque for £1215 in a silver cup; edited The Medical Times and Gazette 1862–72; a medical officer of health for St. George’s, Hanover sq. 1856–67; pres. of Metropolitan Association of medical officers of health 1864–72; author of The Surgeon’s Vade Mecum 1839, 11 ed. 1878; Report on the cheap wines, their quality, wholesomeness and price 1865, 2 ed. 1873. d. 8 Strathmore gardens, Kensington, London 15 May 1883. W. T. Robertson’s Photographs of medical men (1868) ii, 109–13, portrait.
DRUMMOND, Berkeley. b. 27 May 1796; ensign 3 Foot guards 5 March 1812, lieut. col. 31 Dec. 1844 to 28 June 1850 when placed on h.p.; col. 3 Foot 12 Dec. 1857 to death; L.G. 9 April 1859. d. Eaglehurst, Hants. 3 May 1860.
DRUMMOND, George Harley. b. 23 Nov. 1783; M.P. for Kincardineshire 26 Feb. 1812 to 29 Feb. 1820. d. 23 July 1853.
DRUMMOND, Sir Gordon (4 son of Colin Drummond, paymaster general of the forces at Quebec). b. Quebec 27 Sep. 1772; ensign 1 foot 21 Sep. 1789; lieut. col. 8 foot 22 April 1794 to 28 July 1804; commanded a division in Jamaica 1805–1807; won battle of Niagara 25 July 1814; commanded forces in Canada 1814–16; col. of 97 foot 8 Feb. 1814 to 24 Nov. 1818 when regiment was disbanded; col. of 88 foot 10 March 1819, of 71 foot 16 Jany. 1824, of 49 foot 21 Sep. 1829, of 8 foot 24 April 1846 to death; general 27 May 1825; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 7 Jany. 1817. d. 25 Norfolk st. Park lane, London 10 Oct. 1854. Historical record of King’s Liverpool regiment of foot, 2 ed. (1883) 270–71.
DRUMMOND, Henry (eld. son of Henry Drummond of the Grange, Hants. 1762–94). b. 5 Dec. 1786; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; partner in Drummond’s bank, London; M.P. for Plympton Earle, Devon 1810–13; M.P. for West Surrey 1847 to death; founded professorship of political economy at Oxford 1825; F.R.S. 19 Dec. 1839; seceded from Church of England and was immersed by Rev. James Harrington Evans about 1817, for whom he built a chapel in John st. Bedford Row, London 1818; one of founders of Catholic Apostolic or Irvingite church 1832, pastor at Albury near Guildford 20 Oct. 1832, apostle at Albury 25 Sep. 1833; took charge of Scotland and Switzerland 1833 to death, built the C.A. church at Albury 1835 at cost of £16,000; erected new parish church of SS. Peter and Paul at Albury 1841; author of Dialogues on prophecy 3 vols. 1828–29; Social Duties 1830; Condition of Agricultural classes 2 vols. 1842; On Tracts for the Times 24 parts 1843; Histories of British families 8 parts 1844–49 and about 90 other books and pamphlets. d. Albury Park near Guildford 20 Feb. 1860. Miller’s History of Irvingism 2 vols. 1878; London quarterly review Oct. 1860 pp. 255–84; Speeches of Henry Drummond edited by Lord Lovaine 2 vols. 1860.
DRUMMOND, Henry. Second lieut. Bengal engineers 2 Dec. 1843, col. 23 July 1874 to 1 June 1878 when he retired on full pay with hon. rank of M.G.; sec. of government of India public works department 1874–78. d. at his residence near Bedford 28 March 1883.
DRUMMOND, Henry Home. b. 28 July 1783; M.P. for co. Stirling 1820–1831, for Perthshire 1840–1852. d. Blair Drummond near Stirling 12 Sep. 1867. Proc. of R. S. of Edin. vi, 191 (1869).
DRUMMOND, James. Botanical collector; in charge of Cork botanic garden to 1829; A.L.S. 1810; went to Swan River, Western Australia 1829; Lindley’s Sketch of the vegetation of the Swan River 1839 was drawn up from his collections; Drummondita a genus of Diosmeæ was founded by Dr. Harvey 1855. d. Western Australia 27 March 1863 aged 79.
DRUMMOND, James (son of Mr. Drummond of Edinburgh, merchant). b. 1810; studied in School of Design, Edin.; subject and history painter; A.R.S.A. 1846, R.S.A. 1852, librarian 1857; curator of National gallery, Edin. 1868; member of council of Royal Scottish Soc. of Antiquaries and curator of the museum; exhibited 11 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1839–72; author of Catalogue of national gallery of Scotland 1869 many editions. d. Edinburgh 12 Aug. 1877.
DRUMMOND, James Lawson (son of William Drummond, surgeon R.N.) b. Larne, co. Antrim 1783; surgeon in the navy 1807 to 21 May 1813; M.D. Edin. 24 June 1814; practised in Belfast from 1814; professor of anatomy Belfast Academical Institution 15 Dec. 1818 to Nov. 1849 when collegiate part of the Instit. was merged in Queen’s College; chief founder of Belfast natural history society 5 June 1821; author of Thoughts on the study of natural history 1820, anon.; First steps to botany 1823; Letters to a young naturalist 1831; First steps to anatomy 1845. d. 8 College sq. north, Belfast 17 May 1853. bur. Ahoghill, co. Antrim 19 May. Proc. of Belfast Nat. Hist. and Philos. Soc. (1882) 13.
DRUMMOND, John (only son of John Drummond of The Boyce Court near Ledbury, who d. 13 May 1835 aged 81). b. 5 Oct. 1793; ed. at Harrow; ensign Coldstream guards 22 Nov. 1810, captain 22 June 1826 to 13 April 1832 when placed on h.p.; general 10 Feb. 1865. d. The Boyce court 15 April 1875.
DRUMMOND, John Gavin. Entered Bengal army 1807; lieut. col. 30 Bengal N.I. 1847 to death; quartermaster general Bengal army 8 Feb. 1850 to death; C.B. 30 Oct. 1844. d. Ghelum, Bengal 11 Jany. 1852.
DRUMMOND, Peter Robert. b. parish of Madderty, Perthshire 1802; kept a circulating library at 15 High st. Perth 1832; a bookseller at 32 High st. Perth and then at 46 George st.; built the Exchange hotel, Perth; a farmer at Balmblair, Perthshire; gained a medal for a churn at Great Exhibition 1851; author of The tenants and landlords versus the free traders, By Powdavie 1850; Perthshire in bygone days, one hundred biographical essays 1879; The life of Robert Nicoll poet, edited by James Drummond 1884. d. Ellengowen, Almond Bank near Perth 4 Sep. 1879 in 77 year.
DRUMMOND, Rev. William Hamilton (brother of James Lawson Drummond 1783–1853). b. Larne, co. Antrim, Aug. 1778; ed. at Belfast academy and Glasgow college; licensed by Unitarian presbytery of Antrim 9 April 1800; second minister of Belfast 26 Aug. 1800 to 1815; kept a boarding school at Mount college, Belfast; D.D. Marischal college, Aberdeen 29 Jany. 1810; minister at Strand st. Dublin from 15 Oct. 1815; M.R.I.A. librarian, retired 1861; author of Juvenile poems, By a Student of the University of Glasgow [1795]; The Man of Age 1797, 2 ed. 1798; The doctrine of the Trinity 1827, 3 ed. 1831; The life of Michael Servetus 1848 and 20 other books. d. Lower Gardiner st. Dublin 16 Oct. 1865. Sermons of Rev. W. H. Drummond with memoir by J. S. Porter 1867, 2 portraits.
DRURY, Byron (son of Rev. Henry Drury of Harrow school). b. 1815; entered navy 13 Aug. 1830; surveyed coast of New Zealand 1850–56; captain 8 Aug. 1857; retired 31 March 1866; retired admiral 7 April 1885; F.R.G.S. d. 4 Cambridge villas, Cheltenham 6 Nov. 1888.
DRURY, Venerable Henry (eld. son of Henry Joseph Thomas Drury 1778–1841). b. Harrow 11 May 1812; ed. at Harrow and Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; R. of Alderley, Gloucs. 1843; V. of Bremhill, Wilts. Jany. 1845 to death; exam. chaplain to bishop of Salisbury 1850 to death; preb. of Salisbury cath. 1855 to death; chaplain of House of Commons, Sep. 1857 to death; archdeacon of Wilts, July 1862 to death; published with some friends a collection of translations into Latin and Greek by Cambridge men entitled Arundines Cami 1841, 6 ed. 1865. d. Bremhill vicarage 25 Jany. 1863. G.M. xiv, 660–61 (1863).
DRURY, William Barker (eld. son of Rev. Richard Drury of Dublin). b. Dublin 1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1835; registrar of Irish Court of Chancery 1859 to death; published Reports of cases in the Court of Chancery tempore Sugden 1843–4, Dublin 1851; Select cases in the Court of Chancery tempore Napier 1858–9, Dublin 1860; published with F. W. Walsh Reports of cases in the Court of Chancery tempore Plunket 1837–40, 2 vols. Dublin 1839–42; with R. Warren Reports of cases in the Court of Chancery tempore Sugden 1841–43, 4 vols. Dublin 1843–46. d. Harcourt st. Dublin 9 Jany. 1885 in 73 year.
DRY, Sir Richard. b. Elphin near Launceston, Tasmania 15 June 1815; member of council of Tasmania, Feb. 1844; member for Launceston of legislative council 1851–62, for Tamar 1862 to death; speaker of council 30 Dec. 1851 to 1855; knighted by patent 12 March 1858; colonial secretary and premier 24 Nov. 1866 to death. d. Hobart Town 1 Aug. 1869. Fenton’s History of Tasmania (1884) 74, 338, 459.
DUANE, William John (son of William Duane of Philadelphia, journalist 1760–1835). b. Clonmel, Ireland 1780; a printer, afterwards a paper dealer; admitted to the bar 1815; represented Philadelphia in the legislature; assistant editor of the Aurora, Philadelphia paper to 1822; sec. of the U.S. treasury 1833, removed by Jackson 23 Sep. 1833, for declining to remove the deposits from the United States bank; author of The law of nations investigated 1809; Letters to the people of Pennsylvania, on internal improvements 1811; Narrative and correspondence concerning the removal of the deposits 1838. d. Philadelphia 27 Sep. 1865.
DUBOURG, George (grandson of Matthew Dubourg, violinist 1703–1767). b. 1799; contributed to various newspapers especially at Brighton; author of the words of many songs, best known of which is John Parry’s ‘Wanted a Governess’; published The Violin, being an account of that leading instrument and its most eminent professors 1836, 5 ed. 1856. d. Maidenhead 17 April 1882.
DUCIE, Henry George Francis Reynolds-Moreton, 2 Earl of (eld. son of 1 Earl of Ducie 1775–1840). b. Conduit st. London 8 May 1802; M.P. for Gloucs. 1831–32, for East Gloucs. 1832–1834; succeeded as 2 Earl 22 June 1840; a lord in waiting to the Queen 1846–1852; a charity estates comr. 1849; pres. of Royal Agricultural Society; invented the Ducie cultivator and many other agricultural implements; master of Vale of White Horse hounds 1830–42. d. Tortworth court, Gloucs. 2 June 1853. Sporting Review xxviii, 64 (1852), portrait, xxx, 140 (1853); I.L.N. xxi, 41 (1852), portrait; Cecil’s Records of the Chase (1877) 199–201.
DUCKETT, Sir George (younger son of Sir George Jackson, 1 baronet, who took name of Duckett 1797 and d. 15 Dec. 1822 aged 97). b. Old palace yard, Westminster 17 July 1777; M.P. for Lymington 1807–1812; F.R.S. 8 Dec. 1808. d. Gloucester gardens, Hyde park, London 15 June 1856.
DUCKWORTH, Sir John Thomas Buller, 2 Baronet. b. Downes, Crediton, Devon 17 March 1809; succeeded his father 31 Aug. 1817; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1829; M.P. for Exeter 1845–1857; sheriff of Devon 1861; one of referees of House of Commons for private bills 1868. d. Wear house near Exeter 29 Nov. 1887.
DUDLEY, William Ward, 1 Earl of. b. 27 March 1817; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox.; succeeded his father as 11 Baron Ward 6 Dec. 1835; created Viscount Ednam of Ednam and Earl of Dudley 17 Feb. 1860; chairman of Worcestershire quarter sessions 1858 to 28 June 1880; gave £900,000 for the Foley estate Worcs. largest sum ever paid for purchase of an estate; his life was insured for £300,000. d. Dudley house, Park lane, London 7 May 1885, personalty sworn upwards of £1,026,000 18 July. Waagen’s Treasures of Art ii, 229–38 (1854); I.L.N. xlii, 181 (1862), portrait.
DUDLEY, Howard (only son of George Dudley of Tipperary, who d. at Ghent 1827). Engraver on wood in Edinburgh 1845–52, in London 1852 to death; printed Juvenile researches, or a description of some of the principal towns in the west of Sussex and the borders of Hants. 1835, 2 ed. 1835; The history and antiquities of Horsham 1836; The history and antiquities of Midhurst 1836. d. Holford square, Pentonville, London 4 July 1864 aged 44.
DUDLEY, Rev. John (eld. son of Rev. John Dudley, V. of Humberstone, Leics., who d. 17 May 1794 aged 74). b. 1762; ed. at Uppingham sch. and Clare hall, Cam., 2 wrangler 1785; B.A. 1785, M.A. 1788; Fellow of his coll. 1787–94, tutor 1788–94; V. of Humberstone 1794 to death; V. of Sileby, Leics. 1795 to death; author of The metamorphosis of Sona, a Hindu tale in verse 1810, and 4 other books. d. Sileby 7 Jany. 1856. G.M. xlv, 197–98 (1856).
DUDLEY, William Henry. b. Roscrea, Tipperary, Ireland 7 Oct. 1811; M.R.C.S. Ireland 1833; practised in Jamaica 1834–1841 in Brooklyn, New York 1841 to death; curator of New York Medical college 1851; a founder of Long Island college hospital, treasurer, president; a member of New York Academy of Medicine 1848, of King’s county Medical and other societies. d. Brooklyn 9 Oct. 1886.
DUFF, Sir Alexander (second son of 3 Earl of Fife 1731–1811). Ensign 66 foot 23 May 1793; lieut. col. 88 foot 14 April 1798 to 1809 when placed on h.p.; col. 92 foot 6 Sep. 1823 to 20 July 1831; col. 37 foot 20 July 1831 to death; G.C.H. 27 May 1834; general 28 June 1838; M.P. for Elginburghs 1826–1831; lord lieut. of Elginshire 17 Feb. 1848 to death. d. Percy cross, Walham Green, Middlesex 21 March 1851 aged 77. bur. in family vault, Banff.
DUFF, Rev. Alexander. b. Auchnahyle farm, parish of Moulin, Perthshire 26 April 1806; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews, D.D. 1837; ordained Aug. 1829; sent by general assembly of Church of Scotland as their first missionary to India, reached Calcutta 27 May 1830 where he opened an English school 1830; edited the Calcutta Review 1845–49; moderator or pres. general assembly of Free church of Scotland 1851 and 1873; LLD. New York 1854; the virtual governor of Univ. of Calcutta 1857–63 where 4 Duff scholarships were instituted; convener of the foreign missions committee 1864; missionary professor in New college, Edin. 1867; author of India and India missions 1840; The Jesuits 1845 and 12 other books. d. Sidmouth, Devon 12 Feb. 1878. Life of A. Duff by George Smith 2 vols. (1879), 2 portraits; Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 215–22, portrait; Hogg’s Instructor viii, 369 (1852), portrait; Graphic xvii, 320 (1878), portrait.
DUFF, Archibald. Entered navy 29 June 1788; captain 22 Jany. 1806; R.A. 17 Aug. 1840, V.A. 3 March 1849, admiral on half pay 4 July 1855. d. Braemoriston 9 Feb. 1858 aged 83.
DUFF, Henrietta Anne (dau. of Norwich Duff, V.A.) Author of Virginia, a Roman sketch 1877; Fragments of verse 1880; Honor Carmichael, a study 2 vols. 1880; My imperialist neighbour and other tales 1880. d. of heart disease at 9 Holland road, Hove, Brighton 14 Nov. 1879 aged 37.
DUFF, James. b. Innes house, Elgin 29 July 1831; ed. at Rugby; 2 lieut. 23 foot 15 May 1851, captain 29 Dec. 1854 to 4 Nov. 1859 when he sold out; taken prisoner at battle of Inkerman; M.P. for North Norfolk 21 April 1876 to death. d. 36 Upper Brook st. London 22 Dec. 1878.
DUFF, James Cuninghame Grant (eld. son of John Grant of Kincardine, who d. about 1799). b. Banff 8 July 1789; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; entered Bombay army 1805; fought against the Mahrattas 1817–18; resident of Sattara 1818–1823; lived at Eden near Banff 1825 to death; author of History of the Mahrattas 1826. d. Eden 23 Sep. 1858.
DUFF, Mary Ann (dau. of Mr. Dyke of Kilkenny). b. London 1795; learnt dancing from D’Egville; first appeared as an actress at Boston theatre U.S. Nov. 1810; first appeared in London at Drury Lane 3 March 1828 as Isabella in The fatal marriage; played leading Shakesperean parts with Edmund Kean in the United States 1821; retired from the stage at New York 1835. (m. (1) 1810 John Duff of Dublin, actor 1787–1831, m. (2) 1833 Charles Young, marriage dissolved 1833, m. (3) Joel G. Seaver of New Orleans, lawyer). d. New York 5 Sep. 1857. Ireland’s Mrs. Duff 1883, 2 portraits; Ireland’s Records of the New York stage i, 419–21 (1866).
DUFF, Norwich. b. about 1793; entered navy June 1805; captain 23 April 1822; naval aide-de-camp to the Queen, May 1849 to 7 Oct. 1852; V.A. on half pay 28 Nov. 1857. d. Bath 20 April 1862 aged 68.
DUFFY, Edward. b. Ballaghadareen, co. Mayo 1840; devoted himself to spreading Fenian principles in Connaught 1863; arrested at Fairfield house, Sandymount 11 Nov. 1865, sentenced to a term of imprisonment, liberated on bail in consequence of ill health Jany. 1866; again applied himself to the organisation; re-arrested at Boyle 11 March 1867, tried 21 May 1867 and sentenced to 15 years penal servitude; found dead in his cell at Millbank prison, London 17 Jany. 1868. T. D. Sullivan’s Speeches from the Dock, 23 ed. part i, pp. 208–10.