Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
DUFFY, John. Ensign 10 foot 21 Oct. 1795; major 43 foot 17 June 1813; lieut. col. 95 foot 21 Sep. 1815 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p., re-appointed lieut. col. of 95 foot 12 Aug. 1819; lieut. col. 8 foot 9 Sep. 1819 to 20 March 1828 when placed on h.p.; col. 28 foot 18 May 1849, col. 8 foot 10 Oct. 1854 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; rose by his own merit without purchasing a single step; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831. d. Jermyn st. Piccadilly, London 17 March 1855 aged 76.
DUFTON, William (younger son of John Dufton of Brigham, Cumberland). b. Cumberland; educ. Borough hospitals, London and at Jervis st. hospital, Dublin; surgeon at Birmingham 1831 to death; established Institution for relief of deafness and was its sole medical officer 1844 to decease; chief consulting practitioner in midland district for deafness; author of The nature and treatment of deafness and diseases of the ear, and the treatment of the deaf and dumb 1844, another ed. Philadelphia 1848. d. of heart disease at 39 Temple st. Birmingham 17 Oct. 1859 aged 53.
DUFTON, William. b. Northampton 13 March 1830; kept the Philharmonic billiard saloons, Islington, London; played many billiard matches with John Roberts senior; played Edward Green for £1000 at St. James’s hall, London 30 Jany. 1865 gaining by 1001 to 893; entertained at a banquet at Victoria club, London 1865 when presented with a testimonial and 200 guineas; taught the Prince of Wales and many of the nobility; the inventor of handicap billiards; author of Practical Billiards 1867, 3 ed. 1873; present at match between Wm. Cook and John Roberts junior at Gaiety restaurant, London 28 May 1877; poisoned himself with cyanide of potassium at Canterbury tavern, Brixton, London 29 May 1877. bur. Norwood cemetery 4 June. W. Dufton’s Practical billiards 1867, portrait; Illust. Sporting News iii, 356 (1864), portrait, iv, 633 (1865), portrait, and v, 108, 121 (1866), portrait; Bell’s Life in London 2 June 1877 pp. 3, 5.
DUGDALE, William Stratford. b. 1 April 1800; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Shaftesbury, Dorset 1830–1831, for Bramber, Sussex 1831–1832, for North Warwickshire 1832–1847. d. Blyth hall near Coleshill 15 Sep. 1871.
DUGGAN, Peter Paul. b. Ireland about 1810; went to the United States; Professor of Art New York Free Academy soon after its opening; devoted himself chiefly to crayon drawing. d. Paris 15 Oct. 1861.
DUGMORE, William (younger son of John Dugmore of Swaffham, Norfolk, comr. of inclosures, who d. 11 Feb. 1844 aged 87). b. 1800; barrister L.I. 24 June 1828; practised as conveyancer; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861. d. Cannes 1 July 1872.
DUIGAN, Daniel John. L.R.C.S. Ireland 1844, F.R.C.S. 1845; M.D. Aberdeen 1857; M.R.C.P. 1860; assistant surgeon R.N. 26 July 1844, surgeon 29 Aug. 1854, fleet surgeon 31 March 1867; retired deputy inspector general of hospitals and fleets 22 April 1876; C.B. 24 May 1881. d. 29 Edith road, West Kensington, London 2 Dec. 1884 in 63 year.
DUKE, Rev. Edward (2 son of Edward Duke of Lake house near Amesbury, Wilts.) b. 1779; ed. at Magd. hall, Ox., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1807; contributed to Gent. Mag. 1823–49; author of Prolusiones historicæ or essays illustrative of the Halle of John Halle citizen of Salisbury vol. i, 1837; The Druidical temples of the county of Wilts 1846. d. Lake house 28 Aug. 1852. G.M. xxxviii, 643–44 (1852).
DUKE, Sir James, 1 Baronet (3 son of John Duke of Montrose, merchant, who d. Aug. 1822 aged 63). b. Montrose 31 Jany. 1792; secretary to Admiral Sir John Gore 1814; coal factor and insurance broker in London 1819–48; pres. of Honourable Artillery company 1868 to death; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1836; knighted by the king at St. James’s palace 5 April 1837; alderman of ward of Farringdon without, city of London 1840 to death, lord mayor 1848–49; M.P. for Boston 1837–1849, for city of London 1849–1865; created a Baronet on opening of new coal exchange, London 30 Oct. 1849. d. Laughton lodge, Hawkhurst, Sussex 28 May 1873. I.L.N. xiii, 297 (1848), portrait, lxii, 541, 547, (1873), portrait.
DUKE, Thomas Assheton. b. 1805; ensign Madras European regiment 13 Feb. 1821, major 2 Jany. 1843; brigadier general Madras 8 Dec. 1857 to 12 Sep. 1859; major general Madras 20 April 1864 to 19 April 1869; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. 7 Queen’s gardens, Hyde park, London 22 Feb. 1887.
DUKINFIELD, Rev. Thomas Jacob John, 7 Baronet (3 son of Sir Nathaniel Dukinfield, 5 Baronet, who d. 20 Oct. 1824). b. Sulham near Reading 1 Jany. 1791; ed. at Musselburgh, Rugby, Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1810; B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; P.C. of Ruscombe, Berkshire 1814–16; V. of Waltham, St. Lawrence, Berkshire 1816–34; V. of St. Giles, Reading 1816–34; Preb. of Salisbury 29 March 1832 to 1856; V. of St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster 1834–48; succeeded his brother 7 Dec. 1836. d. 33 Eaton place, London 24 Jany. 1858. A memoir of Rev. Sir H. R. Dukinfield, privately printed 1861.
DUMBRECK, Sir David (only son of Thomas Dumbreck, collector of inland, revenue at Glasgow). b. Aberdeenshire 1805; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1830; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1825; hospital assistant in the army 3 Nov. 1825, surgeon 2 July 1841, inspector general 19 July 1859; served with the army in the Crimea as senior deputy inspector general, placed on half pay 1 May 1860; hon. physician to the Queen 21 Nov. 1865; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 20 May 1871. d. 34 Via Montebello, Florence 24 Jany. 1876.
DUN, Charles Denis. Entered Madras army 1804; col. 41 Madras N.I. 1854 to death; L.G. 6 Jany. 1863. d. the Cloisters, Bath 16 Aug. 1864 aged 77.
DUN, Finlay. b. Aberdeen 24 Feb. 1795; ed. at Perth gr. sch. and Univ. of Edin.; studied the violin under Baillot in Paris; first viola player in orchestra of San Carlo theatre, Naples; teacher of the violin, composition and singing in Edin.; is best known by the collections of Scotch songs which he edited; composed glees, songs and dance music. d. suddenly at Edinburgh 28 Nov. 1853.
DUNBAR, Rev. Duncan. b. Northern Highlands of Scotland about 1791; in business in Aberdeen 1811–17; went to New Brunswick 1817; became a Baptist, immersed in the harbour of St. John 31 Oct. 1818; pastor of Mc Dougal st. Baptist chapel, New York. d. New York 28 July 1864. Life of Rev. D. Dunbar by Rev. Jeremiah Chaplin, New York 1878.
DUNBAR, George. b. Coldingham, Berwickshire 1774; published Herodotus cum annotationibus 7 vols. 1806–7; Elements of the Greek language 1834, 2 ed. 1846; A new Greek and English and English and Greek lexicon 1840, 3 ed. 1850; assistant professor of Greek literature in Univ. of Edin. 1805, professor 1806 to death; F.R.S. Edin., M.A. Edin. 1807. d. Rose park, Trinity, Edinburgh 6 Dec. 1851. G.M. xxxvii, 195–96 (1852).
DUNBAR, George (son of Alexander Orr of Landmore, co. Londonderry). b. 1810; assumed name of Dunbar instead of Orr 1833; M.P. for Belfast 1835–1837 and 1838–1841. d. 17 Aug. 1875.
DUNBAR, John. b. Cork 17 May 1827; fellow of Univ. of Bombay; M.P. for New Ross 9 Feb. 1874 to death. d. 19 Russell road, Kensington, London 3 Dec. 1878.
DUNBAR, Robert Nugent. Lived many years in the West Indies; author of the following poems The Cruise or a prospect of the West Indian archipelago 1835; The Caraguin, a tale of the Antilles 1837; Indian hours or passion and poetry of the Tropics 1839; Beauties of Tropical scenery, lyrical sketches and love songs 1862, 3 ed. 1866, and of a song entitled Garibaldi at the opera of ‘Masaniello’ 1864. d. Paris, July or August 1866.
DUNCAN, Alexander. Entered Bengal army 1795; col. 5 Bengal N.I. 1 May 1824 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Gattonside house, Melrose 14 May 1859.
DUNCAN, David (son of James Duncan of Alyth, Perthshire). b. Perthshire 1831; a merchant in Chili 10 years, then at Liverpool; M.P. for Barrow in Furness, Nov. 1885, unseated on petition for illegal employment of voters 16 March 1886; M.P. for Exchange division of Liverpool, July 1886 to death. d. Gayton hall, Heswall, Cheshire 30 Dec. 1886.
DUNCAN, David. b. Perth 1823; printer at Cardiff 1858 to death; founded Cardiff Times 1857, South Wales Daily News 1872, South Wales Echo evening paper 1884. d. Penarth, Cardiff 14 Jany. 1888.
DUNCAN, Edward. b. London 1804; member of New Soc. of Painters in water colours 1831; member of Old Water colour Soc. 1848; landscape painter, etcher and lithographer; illustrated The life of Nelson 1849 and other works; his works were sold at Christie’s 11 March 1885. d. 36 Upper park road, Haverstock hill, London 11 April 1882. I.L.N. lxxx, 404 (1882), portrait.
DUNCAN, Francis (son of John Duncan of Aberdeen, advocate). b. Aberdeen 4 April 1836; ed. at Univ. of Aberdeen, M.A. 1855; lieut. R.A. 24 Sep. 1855, lieut. col. 1 Oct. 1882 to 1 Oct. 1887 when placed on h.p.; col. in army 15 June 1885; reorganized the Egyptian artillery 1883; in command at Wady Halfa during the Nile expedition 1885; contested Morpeth 6 Feb. 1874, Durham city 13 June 1874, and Finsbury April 1880; M.P. for Holborn division of Finsbury, Nov. 1885 to death; seconded address to Queen 9 Feb. 1888; C.B. 25 Aug. 1885; author of History of the Royal Artillery, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1872, 3 ed. 1879; The English in Spain, the war of succession 1877. d. The Common, Woolwich 16 Nov. 1888. Graphic 18 Feb. 1888 p. 132, portrait.
DUNCAN, George. b. 1791; a merchant in Dundee to 1831; M.P. for Dundee 1841–57; mainly instrumental in introducing steam navigation between Dundee and London. d. The Vine, Dundee 6 Jany. 1878.
DUNCAN, Rev. John (eld. child of John Duncan of Gilcomston, parish of Old Machar, city of Aberdeen, shoemaker). b. Gilcomston 1796; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Univ., B.A., M.A., LLD. 1840; licensed by the Presbytery 24 June 1825; min. of Persie chapel, parish of Bendochy, Sep. 1830 to July 1831; ordained in the Barony parish church, Glasgow 28 April 1836; min. of Milton church, Glasgow 1836–42; first missionary from the Church of Scotland to the Jews at Buda-Pesth 1840–1843; joined Free church 1843; professor of Hebrew and oriental languages New coll. Edinburgh 1843 to death; edited in 1838 a British edition of E. Robinson’s Greek and English Lexicon of the New Testament. d. 10 Dalrymple crescent, Edinburgh 26 Feb. 1870. David Brown’s Life of John Duncan, LLD. (1872); Recollections of John Duncan by A. M. Stuart (1872); Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 231–36, portrait.
DUNCAN, John (natural son of John Duncan of Drumlithie, Kincardineshire, weaver). b. Stonehaven, Kincardineshire 19 Dec. 1794; weaver at Aberdeen 1816–24, a country weaver at Longfolds 1826–32, at Netherton 1836–49, at Auchleven 1849–52, at Droughsburn 1852 to death; collected a very fine herbarium which he presented to the Univ. of Aberdeen 31 Dec. 1880. d. Droughsburn 9 Aug. 1881. Buried in Alford churchyard 15 Aug. The life of John Duncan by W. Jolly 1883, portrait; H. A. Page’s Leaders of men (1880) 220–63.
DUNCAN, Jonathan (son of Jonathan Duncan 1756–1811, governor of Bombay). b. Bombay; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1821; edited Guernsey and Jersey Mag. 4 vols. 1836–37; wrote and spoke frequently on financial matters and other questions of reform; started The Journal of Industry 1850, 16 numbers only; author of History of Russia 2 vols. 1854 and many other books. d. 33 Norland sq. Notting hill, London 20 Oct. 1865 aged 65.
DUNCAN, Right Rev. Patrick (son of John Duncan of parish of Kilmactiague, co. Sligo). b. parish of Kilmactiague 5 Feb. 1790; ed. at Ballaghadereen and Maynooth; ordained priest 1820; bishop of Achonry 1852 to death, elected 28 Sep. 1852, consecrated 30 Nov. 1852. d. Ballaghadereen 1 May 1875.
DUNCAN, Philip Bury (son of Rev. John Duncan, R. of South Warnborough, Hants.) b. South Warnborough 1772; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow 1792; B.A. 1794, M.A. 1798, D.C.L. 1855; barrister L.I. 24 May 1800; lived much at Bath 1801 to death; keeper of Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1826 to 1855; author of Reliquiæ Romanæ 1836; Essays and Miscellanea 1840 and other books. d. Westfield lodge near Bath 12 Nov. 1863.
DUNCAN, Rev. Thomas. b. parish of Cameron, Scotland, Oct. 1777; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews; a preacher of the Established Church; rector of Dundee Academy 1802–20; professor of mathematics in Univ. of St. Andrews, Nov. 1820 to death; author of Elements of plane geometry 1848. d. St. Andrews 23 March 1858.
DUNCAN, William Augustine. b. Aberdeenshire 1811; publisher and bookseller at Aberdeen 5 years; went to New South Wales, July 1838; a publisher in Sydney 1838; edited the Australasian Chronicle 3 Sep. 1839 to 1843; issued Duncan’s Weekly Register of politics, facts, and general literature 1843; sub-collector of customs at Moreton Bay 1846; collector of customs for N.S.W. Jany. 1859 to 1881; C.M.G. 1881; author of A plea for New South Wales constitution 1856. d. Aug. 1885.
DUNCOMBE, Arthur (4 son of 1 Baron Feversham 1764–1841). b. 24 March 1806; entered navy 1 April 1819; captain 24 Oct. 1834; R.A. on h.p. 1 Dec. 1856; admiral on h.p. 18 Oct. 1867; M.P. for East Retford 1830–31 and 1835–51, M.P. for East Riding of Yorkshire 1851–68; groom in waiting to the Queen 1841–46; lord of the Admiralty Feb. to Dec. 1852; sheriff of Yorkshire 1874; chairman of East Riding quarter sessions. d. Kilnwick Percy near Pocklington, Yorkshire 6 Feb. 1889.
DUNCOMBE, Very Rev. Augustus (brother of the preceding). b. Helmsley near York 2 Nov. 1814; ed. at Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1852, B.D. and D.D. 1859; preb. of York cathedral 18 Oct. 1841 to 1858; dean of York 28 May 1858 to death; precentor of York 1862 to death; declined Scotch bishopric of Argyll and the Isles 1874; spent a large sum of money on the cathedral; restored St. Mary’s ch. Castlegate, York at cost of £4000; author of Manual of family devotions 1868. d. York 26 Jany. 1880. bur. in Helmsley church 30 Jany., personalty sworn under £500,000 March 1880. A memorial of A. Duncombe, Dean of York 1880; The Church of England photographic portrait gallery 1859 pt. 49, portrait; Church Portrait Journal iii, 41, (1879), portrait.
DUNCOMBE, Octavius (brother of the preceding). b. 24 Arlington st. Piccadilly, London 8 April 1817; cornet 1 Life guards 3 April 1835, lieut. 19 July 1839, retired 1839; M.P. for North Riding of Yorkshire 1841–65 and 1867–74; an original director of Great Northern railway company 1846, chairman July 1874 to death; col. of Cambridgeshire militia 2 Aug. 1852 to death; sheriff of Hunts. 1866. d. 84 Eaton sq. London 3 Dec. 1879.
Note.—It is a curious coincidence that his death should have occurred on the same day as that of Edward Shipley Ellis chairman of the Midland Railway company.
DUNCOMBE, Thomas Slingsby (eld. son of Thomas Duncombe of Copgrove, Yorkshire 1769–1847). b. 1796; ed. at Harrow 1808–11; ensign Coldstream guards 17 Oct. 1811, lieut. 1815–19 when he sold out; contested Pontefract 1821 and Hertford 1823; M.P. for Hertford 15 June 1826 to 3 Dec. 1832; M.P. for Finsbury 2 July 1834 to death having sat longer for a Metropolitan borough than any former member; reputed to be best dressed man in the House; presented people’s petition praying for the six points of the charter 2 May 1842; entertained by United Trades Association at the Crown and Anchor tavern, Arundel st. Strand 21 Jany. 1846; took part in plot which led to Louis Napoleon’s escape from Castle of Ham near Amiens 25 May 1846. d. Lancing, Sussex 13 Nov. 1861 in 66 year. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 21 Nov. The life of T. S. Duncombe edited by his son T. H. Duncombe 2 vols. 1868, portrait; Orators of the age by G. H. Francis (1847) 327–37; Fraser’s Mag. x, 494–504 (1834), xxxiv, 349–52 (1846); Illust. News of the world ii (1858), portrait, viii, 321 (1861), portrait; I.L.N. i, 180 (1842), portrait, v, 5 (1844), portrait.
DUNCOMBE, William Reginald (eld. son of 1 Earl of Feversham b. 1829). b. London 1 Aug. 1852; ed. at Eton; M.P. for North Yorkshire 2 Feb. 1874 to death. d. Madeira 24 Dec. 1881. bur. Helmsley near York 12 Jany. 1882.
DUNCUFT, John. Sharebroker at Oldham 1824 to death; M.P. for Oldham 31 July 1847 to death. d. Frodsham, Cheshire 27 July 1852.
DUNDAS, Charles William Deans (elder son of Sir J. W. D. Dundas 1785–1862). Ensign 42 foot 25 Dec. 1828; ensign Coldstream guards 3 Aug. 1830, lieut. 24 Feb. to 21 April 1837; M.P. for Flint district 1837 to 1841. d. Edinburgh 11 April 1856 aged 45.
DUNDAS, Sir David (3 son of James Dundas of Ochtertyre, Perthshire). b. Edinburgh 1799; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1820, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1822; barrister I.T. 7 Feb. 1823, bencher 1840, reader 1852, treasurer 1853; Q.C. April 1840; M.P. for Sutherlandshire 1840–52 and 1861–67; solicitor general 10 July 1846 to 25 March 1848; knighted at St. James’s palace 24 Feb. 1847; judge advocate general 26 May 1849 to Feb. 1852; P.C. 29 June 1849; a trustee of British Museum 1861–67; F.R.S. d. 13 King’s Bench Walk Temple, London 30 March 1877.
DUNDAS, Frederick (only son of Charles Lawrence Dundas 1771–1810, M.P. for Malton). b. 14 June 1802; M.P. for Orkney and Shetland 1837–47 and 1852 to death. d. 24 Hanover sq. London 26 Oct. 1872.
DUNDAS, George (brother of Sir David Dundas 1799–1877). b. Edinburgh 19 Nov. 1802; ed. at high school Edin., Glasgow univ. and Ex. coll. Ox., LLD. Edin.; B.A. Ox. 1824; called to bar in Scotland 1826; vice dean of faculty of advocates; sheriff of co. Selkirk 4 Nov. 1844 to 1845; a judge of court of sessions with title of Lord Manor 14 Oct. 1868 to death. d. Charlotte sq. Edinburgh 7 Oct. 1869. Law magazine and law review xxix, 274–76 (1870).
DUNDAS, George (eld. son of James Dundas of Dundas, co. Linlithgow 1793–1881). b. Dundas castle 12 Nov. 1819; 1 lieut. rifle brigade 15 April 1842, retired Dec. 1844; M.P. for co. Linlithgow 1847–1858; lieut. governor of Prince Edward island Jany. 1859 to July 1870; lieut. governor of St. Vincent 31 Oct. 1874 to death. d. St. Vincent 18 March 1880.
DUNDAS, James (eld. son of George Dundas 1802–69). b. Edinburgh? 12 Sep. 1842; 1 lieut. Bengal engineers 8 June 1860, captain 3 Aug. 1872 to death; V.C. for bravery in Bhootan 1865; killed while attempting to blow up a fort at Sherpur near Cabul 23 Dec. 1879, monument to his memory erected in Edinburgh cathedral. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign, biog. division (1882) 72–4, portrait.
DUNDAS, Sir James Whitley Deans (son of James Deans, M.D. of Calcutta). b. Scotland 4 Dec. 1785; entered navy 19 March 1799; captain 13 Oct. 1807; assumed surname of Dundas 1808; naval aide-de-camp to Wm. iv, 5 Sep. 1831; M.P. for Greenwich 1832–35 and 1841–52; M.P. for Devizes 1836–38; a lord of the Admiralty 23 June 1841 to Sep. 1841 and July 1846 to Feb. 1852; commander in chief of Mediterranean fleet 17 Jany. 1852 to 31 Dec. 1854; admiral 8 Dec. 1857; C.B. 25 Oct. 1839, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; awarded good service pension 12 April 1862. d. Weymouth 3 Oct. 1862. E. H. Nolan’s History of Russian war i, 696 (1857), portrait; I.L.N. xxiii, 140 (1853), portrait.
DUNDAS, Sir John Burnet, 4 Baronet. b. Richmond, Surrey 17 Nov. 1794; entered navy 10 July 1807; captain 8 July 1828; R.A. on h.p. 7 Feb. 1855; admiral on h.p. 5 May 1865; succeeded 16 June 1848. d. Queensberry villa, Richmond 2 Sep. 1868.
DUNDAS, John Charles (2 son of 1 Earl of Zetland 1766–1839). b. Mask hall, Cleveland 21 Aug. 1808; M.P. for Richmond, Yorkshire 1830–35, 1841–47 and 1865 to death; M.P. for York 1835–37; lord lieut. of Orkney and Shetland 1839 to death. d. the Villa Cessole near Nice 14 Feb. 1866.
DUNDAS, Sir Richard Saunders (2 son of 2 Viscount Melville 1771–1851). b. Melville castle near Edinburgh 11 April 1802; ed. at Harrow; entered navy 15 June 1817; captain 17 July 1824; superintendent of Deptford dockyard 16 April 1851 to Dec. 1852; a lord of the Admiralty, Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855 and 21 Nov. 1857 to death; commander in chief of Baltic fleet 19 Feb. 1855 to Dec. 1855; employed on Mediterranean and Home stations Feb. 1856 to March 1857; V.A. 24 Feb. 1858; C.B. 29 June 1841, K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; grand officer of Legion of Honour. d. 13 New st. Spring Gardens, London 3 June 1861.
DUNDAS, William Bolden. 2 lieut. R.A. 8 Sep. 1803, col. 1 Nov. 1848 to 28 Nov. 1854; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; C.B. 19 July 1838. d. Inveresk, Edinburgh 8 Aug. 1858.
DUNDAS, William Pitt (youngest son of Robert Dundas 1753–1819, lord chief baron of court of exchequer in Scotland). b. Melville castle 6 March 1801; advocate 13 June 1823; deputy keeper of privy seal of Scotland 1852; registrar general of births, deaths and marriages in Scotland 13 Sep. 1855, deputy clerk registrar 1874–80; C.B. 10 May 1876. d. 14 Athole crescent, Edinburgh 17 May 1883.
DUNDONALD, Thomas Cochrane, 10 Earl of (eld. child of 9 Earl of Dundonald 1748–1831). b. Annsfield, Lanarkshire 14 Dec. 1775; midshipman R.N. 27 June 1793, captain 8 Aug. 1801; destroyed French shipping in road of Île d’Aix 11 April 1809; contested Honiton 1805, M.P. for Honiton 1806–1807; M.P. for Westminster 23 May 1807 to 5 July 1814 when expelled; M.P. again 16 July 1814 to 10 June 1818; lost his rank in navy 25 June 1814; sentenced to pay a fine of £1000 and to be imprisoned in King’s Bench prison for a year 21 June 1814 having been convicted unjustly of a stock-jobbing fraud 8 June 1814; commanded Chilian navy Dec. 1818 to Nov. 1822, Brazilian navy 21 March 1823 to 10 Nov. 1825, Greek navy Feb. 1827 to 1828; created Marquess of Maranham by Don Pedro of Brazil 1823; reinstated in his place in the navy by Wm. iv, 2 May 1832; R.A. 8 May 1832; commander in chief on North American and West Indian stations 12 Jany. 1848 to Jany. 1851; admiral 21 March 1851; R.A. of United Kingdom 29 Oct. 1854; K.B. 26 April 1809 to 5 July 1814 when expelled, reinstated 22 May 1847; G.C.B. 25 May 1847; author of Narrative of the liberation of Chili 2 vols. 1858. d. 12 Prince Albert road, Kensington, London 31 Oct. 1860. bur. centre of nave of Westminster Abbey 14 Nov. Autobiography of a Seaman 2 vols. 1860, portrait; Life of Lord Cochrane by T. B. Cochrane and H. R. F. Bourne 2 vols. 1869, portrait; W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials ii, 1–111 (1850); Army and navy mag. i, 113–29 (1881), portrait; Law mag. and law review x, 203–35 (1861), xi, 188–201; I.L.N. xxxvii, 471, 472 (1860), portrait.
DUNFERMLINE, James Abercromby, 1 Baron (3 son of Sir Ralph Abercromby 1738–1801). b. 7 Nov. 1776; barrister L.I. 8 Feb. 1800; a comr. of bankrupts 1802–27; M.P. for Midhurst 1807–12, for Calne 1812–30, for Edinburgh 1832–39; judge advocate general 12 May 1827 to Jany. 1828; lord chief baron of exchequer in Scotland 20 Feb. 1830 to 1832 when office was abolished under statute 2 Wm. iv, cap. 54 and he was granted pension of £2000 a year; master of the Mint 1 July 1834 to Nov. 1834; speaker of House of Commons 19 Feb. 1835 elected by a majority of 10 votes, closest contest on record, retired 15 May 1839; created Baron Dunfermline of Dunfermline, co. Fife 7 June 1839; dean of faculty in Univ. of Glasgow 1841; author of Lieutenant general Sir Ralph Abercromby, K.B. 1793–1801, a memoir 1861. d. Colinton near Edinburgh 17 April 1858. T. Murray’s Biographical annals of parish of Colinton (1863) 107–12; J. A. Manning’s Lives of the speakers (1850) 489–93; J. Burke’s Commoners iv, (1838), portrait.
DUNFERMLINE, Ralph Abercromby, 2 Baron (eld. son of the preceding). b. 6 April 1803; ed. at Eton and Peterhouse coll. Cam.; précis writer in Foreign Office 1827; min. plenipo. to Germanic confederation 2 Jany. 1839 to 17 March 1840; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to King of Sardinia 17 March 1840 to 28 Nov. 1849, to King of the Netherlands 26 Nov. 1851 to 13 Oct. 1858; K.C.B. 1 March 1851; succeeded 17 April 1858. d. Colinton house near Edinburgh 12 July 1868.
DUNGANNON, Arthur Hill Trevor, 3 Viscount (elder son of 2 Viscount Dungannon 1763–1837). b. London 9 Nov. 1798; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1825; M.P. for New Romney 1830–31; M.P. for city of Durham 1831–32 and 1835–41; succeeded his father 14 Dec. 1837; a representative peer for Ireland 11 Sep. 1855 to death; high sheriff of Flintshire 1855; published The life and times of William the third king of England 2 vols. 1835–36 and other works. d. 3 Grafton st., Bond st. London 11 Aug. 1862.
DUNGLISON, Robley (son of William Dunglison of Keswick, Cumberland). b. Keswick 4 Jany. 1798; a surgeon apothecary in London 1819; M.D. Erlangen 1823, LLD. Yale 1825; edited the London Medical Repository 1823–24, and American Medical Intelligencer 1837–42; professor of medicine in Univ. of Virginia, U.S. 1824–33; professor of Materia medica in Univ. of Maryland 1833–36; professor of medicine in Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia 1836 to 1868; author of A new Dictionary of medical science and literature Boston 1833, 15 ed. 1858; General Therapeutics 1836, 6 ed. 1857 and upwards of 30 other books. d. Girard st. Philadelphia 1 April 1869. Gross’s Memoir of R. Dunglison 1869; H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland vi, 262–79 (1875); The College and clinical record, Philadelphia 1881 vol. 2, No. 11, portrait.
DUNHAM, Samuel Astley. Author of The history of Poland 1831; History of Spain and Portugal 5 vols. 1832–33 which obtained for him membership of Royal Spanish Academy, it was translated into Spanish by Alcala Galliano 1844; A history of Europe during the Middle Ages 4 vols. 1833–34; Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of Great Britain 3 vols. 1836–37; History of Denmark, Sweden and Norway 3 vols. 1839–40; History of the Germanic empire 3 vols. 1844–45, these 19 vols. are all in Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopædia. d. suddenly of paralysis at 22 Murray st. Camden New Town, London 17 July 1858 aged 62.
DUNKIN, Alfred John (only son of John Dunkin, topographer 1782–1846). b. Islington, London 9 Aug. 1812; entered his father’s printing business at Bromley, Kent 1831; a printer at Dartford, Kent 1837 to death; opened a branch at 140 Queen Victoria st. London; an original member of British Archæological Association 1844; author of History of the county of Kent 3 vols. 1856–55 and 6 other books. d. 110 Stamford st. Blackfriars road, London 30 Jany. 1879. Printing Times and Lithographer 15 April 1879 p. 89.
DUNKIN, Christopher. b. London 24 Sep. 1811; ed. at Univs. of London and Glasgow; a teacher of Greek at Harvard Univ. 1834–35; went to Canada 1835; edited Morning Chronicle at Montreal 1837–38; admitted to Lower Canadian bar 1846; Q.C. 1867; M.P. for Drummond and Arthabaska 1857–61, for Brome 1862 to death; provincial treasurer for Canada 1867–69; minister of agriculture and statistics 1869–71; puisne judge of superior court of Quebec 1871; introduced the “Dunkin Temperance Act of 1864.” d. Lakeside, Knowlton 6 Jany. 1880.
DUNLOP, Alexander Colquhoun-Stirling-Murray- (5 son of Alexander Dunlop of Keppoch, co. Dumbarton). b. Greenock 27 Dec. 1798; ed. at Greenock gr. sch. and Univ. of Edin.; advocate 1820; edited Presbyterian Review 1834; assumed name of Murray-Dunlop 1849 and name of Colquhoun-Stirling-Murray-Dunlop 1866; contested Greenock 1845 and 1847, M.P. for Greenock 1852–68; legal adviser to the free church party, ‘The Claim of Right 1842 and Protest and Deed of Demission 1843’ were chiefly his work; author of The Poor laws, 4 ed. 1834. d. 1 Sep. 1870. Notice of the late Mr. Dunlop by D. Maclagan; Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 237–44, portrait.
DUNLOP, Andrew Vans. Educ. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1826; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1826; a surgeon in Edin.; left residue of his estate, about £70,000 to Univ. of Edinburgh to found scholarships of £100 a year each tenable for 3 years, in all main departments of study except theology. d. 18 Rutland sq. Edinburgh 27 Feb. 1880. Sir A. Grant’s Story of the Univ. of Edinburgh ii, 42–45 (1884).
DUNLOP, Durham. Volunteer surgeon in Crimean war; proprietor and editor of the Dublin university gazette; M.R.I.A.; author of The philosophy of the bath, or air and water 1868, 3 ed. 1873; The Church under the Tudors 1869, 3 ed. 1872. d. Norfolk hotel, Brighton 30 March 1882 aged 70.
DUNLOP, Henry. b. Linwood, Renfrewshire 1799; merchant at Craigton, Glasgow; director of Chamber of commerce, Glasgow 1837 to death, chairman 1841, 1859 and 1862; lord provost of Glasgow 1837–40; pres. of Glasgow Bible Society 1850–61; author of The Cotton Trade 1862. d. Edinburgh 10 May 1867. bur. at Govan.
DUNLOP, Hugh (2 son of general James Dunlop, who d. March 1832). Naval cadet 5 April 1821; captain 3 Aug. 1850; commodore at Jamaica 1859; R.A. 6 April 1866, retired 1 April 1870, retired admiral 21 March 1878; C.B. 14 Sep. 1861. d. 106 St. George’s sq. London 15 April 1887.
DUNLOP, Robert Henry Wallace. b. 1823; ed. at Haileybury; entered Bengal civil service 1843; captured the outlaw Rundheer Singh, on the borders of Rewah 1852; magistrate and collector at Meerut 1856–62; officiating judge of Bareilly 1862–65; C.B. 18 May 1860; author of Service with the Meerut volunteer horse 1858; Hunting in the Himalaya 1860; Plate swimming with notes on the science of natation 1877. d. Ellerslie tower, Ealing 15 Nov. 1887.
DUNMAN, Thomas. b. 16 Dec. 1849; taught himself Latin and Greek; clerk and book keeper to a harness maker and currier in London 1871; physical science lecturer at Working Men’s coll. 1874; lecturer on physiology at Birkbeck institution 1877 and professor of animal morphology 1879; lecturer on staff of Soc. for Extension of University teaching 1879; lectured on scientific subjects in London, Chester, Rotherham and other places 1879; author of A glossary of Biological, Anatomical and Physiological Terms 1879; Practical notes for students of Physiology 1880; contributed to Popular Science Lectures, Cassell’s Science for All, Ward & Lock’s Universal Instructor, Amateur Work and other publications. d. 9 May 1882. bur. Ilford cemetery. T. Dunman’s Talks about science (1882) with biographical sketch by C. Welsh; Nature xxvi, 67, 418 (1882).
DUNN, Sir David. Entered navy 30 April 1800; captain 7 June 1814; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 Aug. 1835; K.C.H. 1 Jany. 1837; V.A. on half pay 12 Nov. 1856. d. Rocklands, Chudleigh, Devon 16 June 1859 aged 73.