Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
DUNN, John. b. Aberdeen 1820; member of legislative council in Tasmania 1845–55; a merchant and shipowner in London; M.P. for Dartmouth 1859–60. d. Aden 10 Sep. 1860.
DUNN, John, stage name of John Benjamin Donoghue (son of Mr. Donoghue of City of London, merchant). b. Surrey 1812; clerk in a lawyer’s office; played at Sans Souci theatre, Leicester square, at the Coburg and Surrey 1836, at Sadler’s Wells; sang song of Jim Crow at Sadler’s Wells in imitation of T. D. Rice 1836; made a great hit as Newman Noggs in Nicholas Nickleby at City of London theatre 1838; acted at the Victoria; went to Australia 1842 where he played to his death. d. of heart disease in a cab in Melbourne on his way to the opera house to play 17 Aug. 1875. Actors by daylight (1838) i, 329–31, portrait; Era 31 Oct. 1875 p. 5, col. 2, p. 14, col. 1.
DUNN, Robert. b. East Brunton near Newcastle, Aug. 1799; apprentice to W. Davison at Alnwick; studied at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals 1824–25; L.S.A. 1825, M.R.C.S. 1828, F.R.C.S. 1852; surgeon 31 Norfolk st. Strand, London 1838; F.R.M.C. Soc. 1833 and member of council 1845; V.P. Westminster Medical Soc. 1845; V.P. of Anthropological Soc.; especially studied cerebral physiology and the statistics of midwifery; author of An essay on physiological psychology 1858; Medical Psychology 1863 and other books. d. 31 Norfolk st. Strand 4 Nov. 1877. Barker’s Photographs of medical men (1868) ii, 69–72, portrait.
DUNN, Rev. Samuel (son of James Dunn of Mevagissey, Cornwall, who d. 8 Aug. 1842 aged 88). b. Mevagissey 13 Feb. 1798; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1819; stationed in the Shetland islands 1822–25, then at Newcastle and 9 other places successively; accused with Rev. J. Everett and Rev. W. Griffith of publishing pamphlets called the ‘Fly Sheets’ advocating reforms in Wesleyan governing body 1848; expelled by Wesleyan conference 25 July 1849 for publishing Wesley Banner and Revival Record; ministered to Free church methodists at Camborne, Cornwall 1855–64; author of A dictionary of the Gospels 1846, 4 ed. 1846 and upwards of 70 other books. d. 2 St. James’s road, St. Mary Usk, Hastings 24 Jany. 1882.
DUNNE, Francis Plunkett (eld. son of general Edward Dunne of Brittas, Queen’s county 1763–1844). b. 1802; ed. at Sandhurst and Trin. coll. Dublin; cornet 7 dragoon guards 29 May 1823; captain 10 foot 5 March 1829 to 18 Sep. 1840 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. Queen’s co. militia 15 Feb. 1846, hon. col. 26 April 1873 to death; clerk of the Ordnance 5 March 1852; private sec. and aide-de-camp to Earl of Eglinton when lord lieut. of Ireland 1858–59; M.G. 26 Sep. 1865; M.P. for Portarlington 1847–57, for Queen’s co. 1859–68; P.C. Ireland 1866; author of The Pope and his infallibility 1871. d. 6 July 1874.
DUNNE, Very Rev. John. b. Ballinakill, Queen’s county, July 1816; ed. at Carlow college and Maynooth; professor of moral and mental philosophy at Carlow college about 1840, vice pres. 1850, pres. 1856; parish priest of Kildare, July 1864 to death. d. Kildare 25 July 1867.
DUNNE, John. b. York 1834; chorister in Worcester cath. 1850, in Cashel cath. 1854; member of Ch. Ch. St. Patrick’s cath. and Trinity college choirs, Dublin; Mus. Bac. Dublin 1866, Mus. Doc. 1870; composed Myra, a cantata; The Hanging of the Crane, a cantata, church services, anthems, glees and songs. d. Ashton, Killiney near Dublin 7 June 1883.
DUNPHY, Henry Michael (youngest son of Michael Dunphy of Fleet st. Dublin, merchant). b. 1821; on the staff of the Morning Post upwards of 40 years; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1861. d. Hillside, Willesden park, London 2 Jany. 1889 in 68 year.
DUNRAVEN and MOUNTEARL, Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin, 3 Earl of. b. London 19 May 1812; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1833; M.P. for Glamorganshire 1837–51; succeeded his father 6 Aug. 1850; created baron Kenry of Kenry, co. Limerick in peerage of G.B. 12 June 1866; lord lieut. of Limerick 1864 to death; K.P. 1866; F.R.A.S. 1831; F.R.S. 10 April 1834; F.R.G.S. 1837; F.S.A. 1836; a great antiquarian and archæologist; author of Memorials of Adare manor 1865; Notes on Irish architecture edited by Margaret Stokes 2 vols. 1875–77. d. Imperial hotel, Great Malvern 6 Oct. 1871. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxii, 120–22 (1872); Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. second series v, 306; I.L.N. lix, 386 (1871).
DUNSANY, Randal Edward Plunkett, 15 Baron (elder son of 14 Baron Dunsany 1773–1848). b. Rome 5 Sep. 1804; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; a prominent leader of the Orange party; succeeded 11 Dec. 1848; a representative peer of Ireland 19 Nov. 1850 to death. d. Dunsany castle, co. Meath 7 April 1852.
DUNSANY, Edward Plunkett, 16 Baron (brother of the preceding). b. Ramsgate 29 Nov. 1808; entered navy 4 Oct. 1823; captain 9 Nov. 1846; admiral on h.p. 1 Aug. 1877; author of The past and future of the British navy, 2 ed. 1847; Gaul or Teuton, considerations as to our allies of the future 1873; translated Graviere’s Naval History 2 vols. 1848. d. Hastings 22 Feb. 1889.
DUNSFORD, Henry Frederick. b. 5 Nov. 1817; ensign 59 Bengal N.I. 28 June 1836, major 1 Jany. 1862; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 12 Sep. 1866; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 17 June 1858. d. St. Heliers, Jersey 31 Jany. 1887.
DUNSTERVILLE, Edward (son of Edward Dunsterville of Penryn, Cornwall, shipowner). b. Penryn 2 Dec. 1796; entered navy 17 July 1812, midshipman 1813–15, when discharged on reduction of the fleet; master in navy 9 Sep. 1824; hydrographer’s assistant at the Admiralty, Whitehall 19 April 1842 to 30 March 1870 when superannuated on £400 per annum; retired commander 14 Nov. 1855; author of Admiralty catalogue of charts, plans, views and sailing directions 7 ed. 2 vols. 1859, 8 ed. 2 vols. 1864; edited J. Horsburgh’s Indian directory 7 ed. 2 vols. 1859, 8 ed. 2 vols. 1864. d. 32 St. Augustine’s road, Camden sq. London 11 March 1873. The servitude of Commander E. Dunsterville 1870.
DUNSTERVILLE, James Henderson. Entered Bombay army 1803; col. 1 Bombay N.I. 29 Dec. 1846 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. d. 12 The Crescent, Plymouth 12 July 1858 aged 70.
DUNTZE, John Alexander (eld. child of James Nicholas Duntze, paymaster general of the forces in Sicily, who d. 22 Sep. 1846 aged 78). b. 26 Aug. 1805; entered navy 5 Aug. 1818; captain 24 Dec. 1829; admiral 2 Dec. 1865; retired 1 April 1870. d. 10 Nightingale terrace, Woolwich common 15 May 1882.
DU PLAT, George Gustavus Charles William. Second lieut. R.E. 1 Aug. 1841, lieut. col. 21 Sep. 1850 to death; consul at Warsaw 1841–51, consul general in Poland 1851; Queen’s comr. to Austrian army with rank of brigadier general 12 Aug. 1854 to death; K.H. 31 Oct. 1831. d. Vienna 21 Dec. 1854.
DUPPA, Baldwin Francis (eld. son of Baldwin Francis Duppa, barrister). b. Rouen, Normandy 18 Feb. 1828; ed. at Hofwyl near Berne, Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; entered royal college of chemistry 1855; fitted up a laboratory in his country seat at Hollingbourne near Maidstone; worked with Edward Frankland at Royal institution, London 1863–67; F.R.S. 1867. d. Budleigh Salterton, Devon 10 Nov. 1873. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxi, 6–9 (1873).
DU PRÉ, Caledon George (eld. son of the succeeding). b. 28 March 1803; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. and St. Mary hall, Ox., B.A. 1825; M.P. for Bucks. 18 Feb. 1839 to 26 Jany. 1874. d. 7 Oct. 1886.
DU PRÉ, James. b. 10 June 1778; M.P. for Gatton, Surrey 1800–1802, for Aylesbury 1802–1806, for Chichester 1807–12; sheriff of Bucks. 1825. d. 40 Portland place, London 13 June 1870, personalty sworn under £250,000, 13 Aug. 1870.
DUPUIS, Sir John Edward (son of Rev. George Dupuis, R. of Wendlebury near Bicester, who d. 5 March 1839 aged 82). b. 1800; ed. at military academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 13 Feb. 1825; colonel commandant 11 brigade 15 Dec. 1864 to death; general 10 Nov. 1868; commanded artillery in India, Oct. 1857 to Feb. 1859; C.B. 5 July 1855; K.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. George st. Hanover square, London 25 Nov. 1876.
DURAND, Sir Henry Marion. b. 6 Nov. 1812; ed. at Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 12 June 1828, col. 18 Feb. 1861 to 1867; comr. of Tenasserim provinces 1844–46; political agent at court of Scindia 1849–53, at Indore 1857; drove back Tantia Topee and saved Central India 1857; member of council of sec. of state of India 1859–61; foreign sec. at Calcutta 1861–65; military member of governor general’s council 10 April 1865 to 1870; L.G. 1 March 1867; lieut. governor of the Punjaub 5 May 1870 to death; C.B. 24 March 1858; K.C.S.I. 8 Feb. 1867; author of Notes on the field equipment of the Engineers 1844; The first Afghan war 1879. d. from a fall from an elephant in the camp at Tonk 135 miles west of Peshawur 1 Jany. 1871. bur. at Dera Ismail Khan 5 Jany. Life of Sir H. M. Durand by H. M. Durand 2 vols. 1873, portrait; C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age ii, 44–79 (1880); Good Words xiv, 575, 706 (1873).
D’URBAN, William James. Cornet 14 Dragoons 7 Oct. 1819; deputy quartermaster general North America 1 Dec. 1848 to 1 May 1857 when placed on half pay; col. 107 Foot 13 Aug. 1868 to death; L.G. 20 June 1870. d. Newport house near Exeter 5 Dec. 1873 aged 73.
DURDIN, Robert Garde (son of Robert Atkins Durdin of Cranemore house, co. Carlow, who d. 5 Jany. 1841). b. 1818; solicitor in Dublin; alderman of South Dockward; lord mayor of Dublin 1872. d. 93 Lower Bagot st. Dublin 19 Oct. 1878. bur. Clonegal 23 Oct.
DURHAM, George Frederick D’Arcy Lambton, 2 Earl of. b. Copse hill, Surrey 5 Sep. 1828; succeeded 28 July 1840; lord lieut. of Durham 11 Aug. 1854 to death; well known breeder of horses and owner of race horses. d. Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 27 Nov. 1879. bur. Bourn Moor church 3 Dec., personalty sworn under £500,000 Dec. 1879. Mrs. Fairlie’s Portraits of the children of the nobility 2 series 1839, portrait; Baily’s Mag. xii, 109–11 (1867), portrait; Athenæum ii, 247–49 (1876).
DURHAM, Joseph. b. London; pupil of E. H. Bailey; exhibited 126 pieces of sculpture at R.A. 1835–78; designed statues entitled Hermione and Alastor for the Mansion House 1856–57; designed statue of Prince Consort in gardens of the Horticultural Society, unveiled 10 June 1863; F.S.A. 12 May 1853; A.R.A. 8 May 1866. d. 21 Devonshire st. Portland place, London 27 Oct. 1877 in 64 year. I.L.N. xlviii, 560, 561 (1856), portrait.
DURING, Louis Alexander, Baron. b. 1783; cornet York Hussars 25 Nov. 1795; captain 98 foot 28 May 1829 to 13 Dec. 1833 when placed on h.p.; general 1 Oct. 1877; received the war medal with 7 clasps. d. near Horneburg, Hanover 7 Jany. 1880 in 97 year.
Note.—He served more than 84 years, being the longest service on record.
DURNFORD, Anthony William (eld. son of the succeeding). b. Manor-hamilton, co. Leitrim 24 May 1830; ed. at Düsseldorf and royal military academy; 2 lieut. R.E. 27 June 1848, lieut. col. 11 Dec. 1873 to death; served in South Africa 1871–76 and 1877 to death; killed by the Zulus at Isandhlwana 22 Jany. 1879. bur. in the camp cemetery at Pietermaritzburg 12 Oct. A. Wylde’s My Chief and I 1879, portrait; A soldier’s life and work in South Africa, edited by his brother lieut. col. E. Durnford 1882, portrait; Graphic xix, 212 (1879), portrait.
DURNFORD, George. Second lieut. R.A. 1 Nov. 1805, lieut. col. 1 April 1844 to 5 April 1845 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 24 Aug. 1866. d. Turner’s hill, Cheshunt 23 Sep. 1870.
DURRANT, John Rowland. Member of stock exchange, City of London; member of Drury Lane theatre committee; founded the Garrick club in King st. Covent Garden 1831; purchased in June or July 1835 for sum of £1000 Charles Mathews’s gallery of theatrical portraits containing authentic likenesses of most of the theatrical celebrities of the past two centuries; he allowed the Garrick club use of pictures during his lifetime and bequeathed the collection by his will to the club. d. 96 Newgate st. London 13 July 1853 in 79 year. bur. Highgate cemetery 20 July. G.M. May 1877 pp. 561–83.
DU TERREAUX, Louis Henry French. Author of The last of the barons, burlesque produced at Strand theatre 18 April 1872; Vokins’s Vengeance, comic operetta, St. George’s 19 June 1872; A cabinet secret, comedy in 2 acts, Philharmonic 19 Oct. 1872; The broken branch, opera in 3 acts, Opera Comique 22 Aug. 1874; author with S. Clarke of Love wins, comedy in 3 acts produced at T.R. Cambridge 11 Aug. 1873. d. Liverpool 31 March 1878 aged 37.
DUTNALL, Martin. Served as a British volunteer officer under Garibaldi in Italy 1860; edited a Journal in United States for several years down to 1867; wrote many pieces chiefly for the Surrey theatre, London, among which were The Queen of Hearts; Harlequin King Pumpkin, or Richard ye Lion Hearte, pantomime played at Surrey theatre from 26 Dec. 1864 to 30 Jany. 1865 when theatre was burnt down; Mad Fred; Colleen drawn from an authentic source; author of an entertainment entitled Funny Cards in which he performed with the Vokes family. d. of disease of the lungs at Eastbourne 8 Sep. 1867 aged 29. bur. Woking cemetery with 5 of his brothers and sisters who all died young. The Era 15 Sep. 1867 p. 10.
DUTTON, Francis Stacker (son of Henry Hampden Dutton, British consul at Cuxhaven on the Elbe, who d. 30 March 1856). b. Cuxhaven 1818; went to South America 1833; discovered the Kapunda copper mine near Adelaide 1843 (the first discovery of copper in Australia) which he sold 1845; member of legislative council of South Australia 1851–57, member of house of assembly 1857–65; comr. of crown lands Sep. 1857 to June 1859 and in 1863; comr. of public works March to Sep. 1865; formed an administration in 1863 which lasted 11 days, another in 1865 which lasted 6 months; special comr. to international exhibition, London 1862; agent general in London for South Australia 1865 to death; brought out no less than 12 public loans amounting together to about £3,000,000 every loan except one being a great financial success; C.M.G. 30 Nov. 1872; K.C. Franz Joseph 1873; A.I.C.E. 6 Feb. 1866; author of South Australia and its mines 1846. d. 134 Inverness terrace, Hyde park, London 25 Jany. 1877. Minutes of proc. of instit. of C.E. xlix, 268–70 (1877).
DU VAL, Charles. b. Manchester; ed. for the law; Monologue entertainer; founded and edited a newspaper at Cape of Good Hope; served with D’Arcy’s Carabineers at siege of Pretoria during the Boer war, Dec. 1880; performed at St. James’s hall, London and toured in England and Ireland 1887; performed in South Africa, March-Dec. 1888; committed suicide by jumping overboard from steamship Oceana in the Red Sea 23 Feb. 1889. C. Du Val’s With a show through Southern Africa 2 vols. (1882), portrait.
DUVAL, Charles Allen. b. Ireland 1808; an artist at Liverpool, at Manchester about 1833 to death; exhibited 20 portraits and subject pictures at the R.A. 1836–72; exhibited ‘The Giaour’ 1842, ‘Columbus in chains’ 1855 and many others in local exhibitions; author of five pamphlets on American civil war 1863 and of papers in North of England Mag. d. Alderley, Cheshire 14 June 1872.
DUVAL, Claude. One of the French masters at Manchester gr. sch. 9 years; author of Fanny, Sonnets and Poems 1880. d. 48 Portsmouth st. Chorlton, Manchester 22 Jany. 1884 aged 40.
DUVARD, Primogene. Author of Poems 1842, 2 ed. 1843; Mary Tudor, a drama 1844; Devotional exercises for fourteen days 1846, 2 ed. 1855; The Angel of Death 1862; Poems and hymns 1864. d. Pond farm, Borden near Sittingbourne, Kent 25 Jany. 1877 aged 53.
DWARRIS, Sir Fortunatus William Lilley (eld. son of William Dwarris of Warwick). b. Jamaica 23 Oct. 1786; ed. at Rugby and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1808; barrister L.I. 28 June 1811; bencher of M.T. 1850, treasurer 1859 laid foundation stone of new library, opened 31 Oct. 1861; comr. to inquire into administration of civil and criminal justice in West Indies 1822–26; one of Municipal corporation comrs. 18 July 1834; knighted at St. James’s palace 2 May 1838; recorder of Newcastle under Lyne 1837–58; master of court of Queen’s Bench 1838 to death; F.R.S. 22 April 1847; author of A general treatise on statutes 2 parts 1830–31, 2 ed. 1848; Alberic, consul of Rome 1832 anon., an historical drama in 5 acts; Some new facts and a suggested new theory as to the authorship of Junius 1850 privately printed, and other books. d. 75 Eccleston sq. London 20 May 1860. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xvii, 182–3 (1861).
DWYER, Thomas Peard. 2 lieut. R.M.L.I. 19 Oct. 1812, second commandant at Plymouth 14 July 1855, commandant 1 April 1857 to 2 Dec. 1859; retired M.G. 2 Dec. 1859. d. Southsea 22 April 1863.
DYCE, Rev. Alexander (eld. son of Lieut. general Alexander Dyce). b. George st. Edinburgh 30 June 1798; ed. at Edin. high sch. and Exeter coll. Ox., B.A. 1819; C. of Lanteglos, Cornwall 1821–5; C. of Nayland, Suffolk 1825–7; lived at 9 Gray’s Inn square, London down to 1859, at 33 Oxford terrace 1859 to death; edited the works of Richard Bentley 3 vols. 1836–8, the works of Shakespeare 9 vols. 1857, 2 ed. 9 vols. 1864–7, the works of Beaumont and Fletcher 11 vols. 1843–6 and many other English classics. d. 33 Oxford terrace, Oxford st. London 15 May 1869. Fortnightly Review xviii, 731–46 (1875); Alexander Dyce, a biographical sketch by John Forster in A catalogue of the Dyce books in South Kensington museum (1875) pp. 7–24.
DYCE, Archibald Brown. b. Trichinopoly, Oct. 1800; ensign Madras army 26 June 1817; col. 2 European regiment 7 Sep. 1846 to 30 Sep. 1862; commanded Northern division of Madras army 16 Feb. 1847 to 16 Feb. 1852; L.G. 26 June 1860; col. 105 Foot 30 Sep. 1862 to death. d. Grosvenor house, Southampton 9 March 1866.
DYCE, William (son of William Dyce of Aberdeen, physician). b. Marischal st. Aberdeen 19 Sep. 1806; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1822; exhibited 41 pictures at the R.A. 1827–61; originated pre-Raphaelite movement in English school of painting 1828; portrait painter in Edinburgh 1830–37; F.R.S. Edin. 1832; A.R.S.A. 1835; head master of school of design Somerset House, London 1840–43; inspector of the provincial schools 1843–44; professor of fine arts in King’s coll. London 1844; A.R.A. 1845, R.A. 1848; painted cartoon ‘Baptism of Ethelbert’ for House of Lords 1845 and other works; founded the Motett Society; designed the florin declared to be current money 1852; author of The book of Common Prayer with the ancient Canto Fermo set to it at the Reformation 2 vols. 1842–3; Theory of the Fine Arts 1844; The National Gallery, its formation and management 1853. d. Streatham road, Streatham, Surrey 14 Feb. 1864. Redgrave’s Century of painters ii, 550–68 (1866); Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 183–88 (1862); I.L.N. xxx, 418, 420 (1857), portrait, xliv, 224 (1864).
DYCE-SOMBRE, David Ochterlony (only son of George Dyce, commandant of the forces of Zerbonissa, begum of Sirdhana, Bengal). b. Sirdhana 1808; inherited half a million sterling on death of his grandmother the Begum Sumroo 27 Jany. 1836; took additional name of Sombre 1836; came to England Aug. 1838 where he became the lion of London season; M.P. for Sudbury 29 June 1841, unseated on petition for bribery 14 April 1842; put under restraint as a lunatic at Clarendon hotel 169 New Bond st. March 1843, a commission de lunatico inquirendo was held at Hanover lodge, Regent’s Park 31 July 1843 when a verdict of unsound mind from 27 Oct. 1842 was returned; escaped from his attendant Dr. Grant at Liverpool, Sep. 1843, arrived in Paris 22 Sep.; author of Mr. Dyce-Sombre’s Refutation of the charges brought against him in the Court of Chancery 1849, and of The Memoir published in English, French and Italian. d. Davies st. Berkeley sq. London 1 July 1851. bur. in catacombs of Kensal Green cemetery 8 July. G. B. Malleson’s Recreations of an Indian official (1872) 438–59; W. H. Sleeman’s Rambles of an Indian official ii, 377–99 (1844); Law mag. and law review i, 356–68 (1856); Macnaghten and Gordon’s Reports i, 116–37 (1850); Deane’s Reports i, 22–120 (1858).
DYER, Joseph Chessborough (son of Nathaniel Dyer, captain Rhode island navy). b. Stonnington Point, Connecticut 15 Nov. 1780; machine maker at Camden Town, London 1811–16, at Manchester 1816–42 where he introduced inventions which gave a great impulse to the cotton manufacture 1817; an original director of Bank of Manchester 1828 which stopped payment 31 Dec. 1842 when he lost £96,000; established machine-making works at Gamaches, Somme, France 1832 gave them up 1848 after losing £120,000; author of Remarks on Education 1850, and 5 other pamphlets. d. at house of his son Frederick Dyer near Manchester 3 May 1871. R. A. Smith’s Centenary of science in Manchester (1883) 298–325.
DYER, Thomas Henry. b. St. Dunstan-in-the-East, London 4 May 1804; LLD. St. Andrews 1865; author of Tentamina Æschylea 1841; Life of Calvin 1850; History of Modern Europe 4 vols. 1861–64, 2 ed. 5 vols. 1877; A history of the City of Rome 1865; The history of the Kings of Rome 1868; Pompeii, its history, buildings and antiquities 1867; Ancient Athens, its history, topography and remains 1873; On imitative beauty 1882. d. Bath 30 Jany. 1888. Academy 11 Feb. 1888, p. 97.
DYKE, Francis Hart (4 son of Sir Percival Hart Dyke, 5 baronet 1767–1846). b. 28 Nov. 1803; admitted a proctor 1825; partner with James Bush in Doctors’ Commons to 1830; deputy registrar of Dean and chapter of St. Paul’s cathedral 1838 to 1845; member of firm of Jenner, Dyke & Jenner of Doctors’ Commons; Queen’s proctor 25 Jany. 1845 to death; thrown from his horse at Egham near Windsor 15 July 1876. d. from the injuries Luddington house, Egham 17 July 1876.
DYKES, Rev. John Bacchus (son of William Hey Dykes of Hull). b. Hull 10 March 1823; ed. at Wakefield and St. Cath. coll. Cam.; a founder of Cambridge university musical soc.; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1851; Mus. Doc. Durham 1861; C. of Malton 1847; minor canon of Durham 1849 to death, precentor of Durham 1849–62; V. of St. Oswald’s, Durham 1862 to death; author of many sermons and letters; composed many hymn tunes most of which appeared first in Hymns ancient and modern 1862, of which collection they are the most popular; wrote several services and anthems. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 22 Jany. 1876. bur. St. Oswald’s churchyard, Durham 28 Jany. In Memoriam J. B. Dykes 1876.
DYMOKE, Sir Henry, 1 Baronet (elder son of Rev. John Dymoke 1764–1828, R. of Scrivelsby, Lincs.) b. Scrivelsby 5 March 1801; in the navy; officiated as deputy for his father the King’s Champion at coronation of George the 4th, 19 July 1821; created a baronet 23 Aug. 1841; vice lieut. of co. Lincoln 1857 and 1859; grand prior of order of St. John of Jerusalem. d. Portman square, London 28 April 1865. W. Jones’s Crowns and Coronations (1883) 128–40, 318 (1883); Once a Week xii, 593–98 (1865); Gent. Mag. xci, pt. 2, 109, 395 (1821), portrait.
DYMOND, Robert (eld. son of Robert Dymond of Exeter, estate agent, who d. 1866). b. St. Edmund’s, Exeter 8 Sep. 1824; estate agent at Exeter; hon. sec. of Devon and Exeter Institution 1875 to death; F.S.A. 27 March 1873; author of many pamphlets, and papers on antiquarian and historical subjects in the Herald and Genealogist, Transactions of the Devonshire Association, and Bath and West of England Journal. d. Blackslade, Widecombe-in-the-Moor near Ashburton 31 Aug. 1888. Notes and Gleanings 15 Sep. 1888 pp. 129–31.
DYNELY, Thomas. Second lieut. R.A. 1 Dec. 1801, col. 9 Nov. 1846 to 20 June 1854, col. commandant 4 Feb. 1857 to death; L.G. 16 Dec. 1856; C.B. 19 July 1838. d. 78 Upper Berkeley st. London 21 June 1860 aged 78.
DYNEVOR, George Talbot Rice, 3 Baron. b. 8 Oct. 1765; M.P. for Carmarthenshire 28 June 1790 to 14 March 1793 when he succeeded to the peerage; lord lieut. of Carmarthenshire 1804 to death; col. of Carmarthenshire militia to death. d. Barrington park, Gloucs. 9 April 1852.
DYNEVOR, George Rice, 4 Baron (eld. child of the preceding). b. 5 Aug. 1795; ed. at Westminster; M.P. for Carmarthenshire 1830–31 and 1832 to 9 April 1852 when he succeeded; lieut. col. of Carmarthen militia 28 Jany. 1831, col. 12 Aug. 1861 to death; militia aide-de-camp to the Queen 24 April 1852 to death. d. Great Malvern 7 Oct. 1869. I.L.N. xxviii, 72 (1856), portrait.
DYOTT, John. b. Dublin 1812; acted at T.R. York and other country theatres 1834–44; first appeared in America at Park theatre, New York as Iago 2 Sep. 1844; a leading actor in New York to about 1866; edited a newspaper at New Rochelle, New York to death. d. New Rochelle 22 Nov. 1876.
DYSART, Lionel William John Tollemache, 7 Earl of. b. 18 Nov. 1794; M.P. for Ilchester 22 Feb. 1827 to 24 July 1830; succeeded 22 Sep. 1840. d. 34 Norfolk st. Strand, London 23 Sep. 1878, personalty sworn under £1,700,000, 14 Dec. 1878.
DYSON, Rev. Charles (son of Jeremiah Dyson, clerk of House of Commons, who d. 14 Sep. 1835 aged 78). Educ. at Southampton; matric. from C.C. coll. Ox. 6 Dec. 1804 aged 17, scholar of his coll.; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1812; R. of Nunburnholme, Yorkshire 1818–28; V. of Nazing, Essex 1828–36; R. of Dogmersfield, Hants. 1836 to death; Rawlinsonian professor of Anglo-Saxon at Ox. 1812–1816, delivered one lecture only; contributed 4 poems under signature of D to the volume entitled Days and Seasons 1845. d. Dogmersfield rectory 24 April 1860 aged 73. Sir J. T. Coleridge’s Memoir of Rev. John Keble, 3 ed. (1869) i, 19, 35–46, 74, 99, 146, 245, 464.
DYSON, David. A weaver; went to the United States about 1843, crossed the country from New York to St. Louis; returned to England with upwards of 18,000 specimens of insects, birds, shells and plants 1844; twice explored Central America and made another very large collection; curator of the Museum of Earl of Derby; left a private collection of 20,000 shells. d. Rusholme near Manchester 10 Dec. 1856 aged 33.
DYSON, Rev. Francis (brother of Rev. Charles Dyson). Matric. from Merton coll. Ox. 13 Dec. 1802 aged 17, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; fellow of his college to 1817; R. of South Tedworth, Hants. 1816 to death; R. of North Tedworth 1829 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the sovereign 1819 to death; preb. of Salisbury 6 April 1847 to death. d. Cheltenham 30 Nov. 1858 aged 73.
DYSON, Jerry Francis. Entered Bombay army 1797; col. 18 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. 5 Lower Berkeley st. Portman sq. London 20 Feb. 1861.