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CUST, Charles Henry (2 son of 1 Earl Brownlow 1779–1853). b. 27 Sep. 1813; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1836; cornet royal horse guards 14 March 1834, captain 4 July 1845 to 1847 when he sold out; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1859; M.P. for North Shropshire 13 July 1865 to Aug. 1866. d. 19 May 1875.

CUST, Sir Edward, 1 Baronet (youngest son of 1 Baron Brownlow 1744–1807). b. 30 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 17 March 1794; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; cornet 16 dragoons 15 March 1810; major 55 foot 24 Oct. 1821 to 27 July 1822 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Grantham 1818–26, for Lostwithiel 1826–32; equerry to Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg for many years from 1816, master of his household to 1865; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 Aug. 1831; K.C.H. 1831; assistant master of ceremonies to the Queen 18 Dec. 1845, master 1 Jany. 1847 to Feb. 1876; colonel 16 lancers 9 April 1859 to death; general 12 Jany. 1866; created baronet 23 Feb. 1876; author of Noctes Dominicæ, or Sunday night readings 1848; Family reading, The New Testament narrative 1850; Annals of the wars of the eighteenth century 5 vols. 1857, 3 ed. 1862; Annals of the wars of the nineteenth century 4 vols. 1862–63; Warriors of the thirty years war 2 vols. 1865; Warriors of the civil wars of France and England 3 vols. 1867–69. d. 8 Jermyn st. Piccadilly, London 14 Jany. 1878. bur. at Belton near Grantham.

CUST, Henry Francis Cockayne (eld. son of hon. and Rev. Henry Cockayne Cust 1780–1861, canon of Windsor). b. Cockayne, Hatley, Beds. 15 Sep. 1819; ed. at Eton; ensign 25 foot 30 March 1838; captain 8 hussars 19 Feb. 1847 to 24 Feb. 1854 when he sold out; private sec. to Earl of Eglinton while lord lieut. of Ireland 1852; assumed additional name of Cockayne 14 Dec. 1861; sheriff of Beds. 1869; M.P. for Grantham 1874–80. d. 5 April 1884.

CUST, Peregrine Francis (5 son of 1 Baron Brownlow 1744–1807). b. 13 Aug. 1791; M.P. for Honiton 1818–26; M.P. for Clitheroe 1826–32. d. 15 Sep. 1873.

CUSTANCE, William Neville (2 son of Hambleton Thomas Custance of Weston house near Norwich 1779–1845). b. 24 Oct. 1811; ensign 95 foot 11 Oct. 1831; lieut.-col. 6 dragoon guards 1 Aug. 1856 to 27 July 1861 when placed on h.p.; commandant cavalry depot, Canterbury 1 Oct. 1862 to 9 July 1866 when placed on h.p.; col. 11 Hussars 8 March 1875 to death; general 7 Sep. 1880; placed on retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 21 Jany. 1858. d. Brookheath, Salisbury 7 Feb. 1886.

CUTTS, Maria. b. Loughborough, Leics. 1811; entered novitiate of Society of the Sacred Heart in Paris 1828; a professed nun 1836; superior of the convent at Grand Coteau, St. Landry parish, Mississippi; superior of all the convents of her order in the west of the United States. d. Grand Coteau 1853.

CUYLER, Jacob Glen. Ensign 69 foot 26 Oct. 1799; major Cape Regiment 26 Jany. 1806 to 25 May 1817 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. 14 April 1854.

CYPLES, William. b. Longton, Staffs. 31 Aug. 1831; edited several provincial newspapers; contributed to many leading periodicals; lived at Nottingham long time, lived in London 1877 to death; author of Pottery Poems; Satan restored, a poem 1859; Philip the Dreamer 3 vols. 1866; An inquiry into the process of human experience 1880; Hearts of gold 1883. d. Hammersmith 24 Aug. 1882. Church quarterly review xiii, 107–28 (1881); Mind v, 273, 390 (1880), viii, 150 (1882).

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DACRE, Thomas Brand, 20 Baron. b. The Hoo, Kimpton, Herts. 15 March 1774; barrister L.I. 25 June 1800; M.P. for Herts. 11 May 1807 to 3 Oct. 1819 when he succeeded his mother. d. The Hoo 21 March 1851.

DACRE, Barbarina Brand, Baroness (3 dau. of Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle, who d. 27 Aug. 1816 aged 89). b. 9 May 1767; one of the most accomplished women of her time; an excellent amateur painter and sculptor; Ugo Foscolo dedicated to her his Essays on Petrarch 1823 the last 45 pages of which contain her translations from Petrarch; her tragedy in 5 acts entitled Ina was produced at Drury Lane theatre 22 April 1815; privately printed Dramas, translations and occasional poems 2 vols. 1821; Translations from the Italian 1836; edited Recollections of a Chaperon 1833 and Tales of the peerage and the peasantry 1835, both by her only dau. Mrs. Arabella Jane Sullivan who d. 27 Jany. 1839 aged 42. (m. (1) Valentine Henry Wilmot of Farnborough, Hants. m. (2) 4 Dec. 1819 Thomas Brand, baron Dacre 1774–1851). d. 2 Chesterfield st. May Fair, London 17 May 1854. G.M. xlii, 296–97 (1854).

DACRE, Henry Otway Brand-Trevor, 21 Baron (brother of 20 Baron Dacre 1774–1851). b. 17 July 1777; ensign Coldstream guards 27 April 1793, lieut.-col. 25 July 1814 to 19 July 1821; served in Flanders 1793–95; assumed additional name of Trevor 18 Nov. 1824; colonel 31 Foot 12 July 1847 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815; succeeded 21 March 1851. d. Great Cumberland place, London 2 June 1853.

DACRES, James Richard (son of Vice admiral James Richard Dacres 1749–1810). b. Lowestoft 22 Aug. 1788; entered navy 1796; captain 14 Jany. 1806; commander in chief at Cape of Good Hope 9 Aug. 1845 to 3 Aug. 1848; V.A. 20 March 1848. d. Catesfield lodge near Fareham, Hants. 3 Dec. 1853. bur. in family vault at Tetbury, Gloucs.

DACRES, Sir Richard James (son of Vice admiral Sir Richard Dacres 1761–1837). b. 1799; ed. at R.M.A. Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 15 Dec. 1817, lieut.-col. 23 Feb. 1852; served in Crimean war 1854–5; col. commandant 28 July 1864; commandant at Woolwich, May 1859 to 1865; general 2 Feb. 1868; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; constable of Tower of London 2 July 1881 to death; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 2 June 1869. d. Palmeira sq. Brighton 6 Dec. 1886. I.L.N. lxxix, 181 (1881), portrait.

DACRES, Sir Sidney Colpoys (brother of the preceding). b. Totnes, Devon 9 Jany. 1805; entered navy 8 Feb. 1817; captain 1 Aug. 1840; captain of the Sans Pareil 70 guns, 3 June 1852 to Nov. 1855; embarked the sick and wounded after battles of Alma and Inkerman; took charge of the port of Balaklava 27 Oct. 1854; superintendent of packet service at Southampton, Feb. to July 1856; superintendent of Royal Clarence victualling yard and Royal hospital, Haslar 7 July 1856 to 25 June 1858; granted good service pension 7 Feb. 1856; captain of the fleet in Mediterranean 25 Aug. 1859, second in command Dec. 1861 to April 1863; commanded channel fleet April 1863 to 17 Nov. 1865; a lord of the admiralty July 1865, first sea lord Dec. 1868 to Nov. 1872; admiral 1 April 1870; visitor and governor of Greenwich hospital 30 Nov. 1872 to death; K.L.H. 1828, K.T.S. 1865; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865, G.C.B. 20 May 1871. d. 47 Brunswick sq. Brighton 8 March 1884. I.L.N. lxii, 319, 321 (1873), portrait.

D’AETH, George William (only son of Wm. Hughes of Betshanger, Kent, who d. April 1786). b. April 1786; entered navy June 1799; assumed name of D’Aeth 4 June 1808; captain 13 June 1815; retired captain 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 4 Oct. 1862. d. Knowlton court, Kent 28 April 1873.

DAFFORNE, James. Contributed to the Art Journal 1845 to death; wrote 7 books 1872–77 on the pictures by C. R. Leslie, C. Stanfield, J. Phillip, Sir A. W. Callcott, Sir E. Landseer, W. Mulready and J. M. W. Turner; author of The pictorial table book 1873; The Albert memorial Hyde Park, its history and description 1877; The life and works of E. M. Ward, R.A. 1879. d. Brodrick road, Upper Tooting 8 June 1880.

DAFT, Thomas Barnabas. b. Birmingham 1816; an iron founder and manufacturer of metallic hot houses 1835; maker of philosophical apparatus 1839; manager of india rubber works of Charles Mackintosh and Co. at Manchester many years; took out 28 patents 1839–77; A.I.C.E. 7 Feb. 1860. d. 95 Clapham road, London 4 Dec. 1878.

DAGLISH, Robert. b. 21 Dec. 1779; engineer to Lord Balcarres at Wigan 1804; manager of Orrell colliery near Wigan; projected Bolton and Leigh railway 1825 which has no embankments or cuttings but undulates with natural surface of the land; invented best form of parallel rail and pedestals which gained premium of £100 given by London and Birmingham railway 1834 for which there were 72 competitors, this invention was generally adopted; projector of and partner in St. Helen’s foundry; M.I.C.E. 30 March 1830. d. Orrell near Wigan 28 Dec. 1865. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvi, 561–63 (1867).

DAGLISH, Robert (3 son of the preceding). b. Wigan 1809; partner in firm of Lee, Watson & Co. iron founders, St. Helens 1830; with John Smith worked the traffic of the St. Helen’s and Runcorn Gap railway 1839–48; erected his first cotton mill at Wigan 1845; built many railway bridges in Lancashire and Yorkshire 1846–49; constructed Preston extension of East Lancashire railway 1850; sole proprietor of the foundry from 1851 until 1869 when joined by his nephew George H. Daglish, M.I.C.E.; erected coal drops at Garston near Liverpool 1852; extended his foundry works so that they covered an area of 22,400 square yards in 1882; assoc. of Instit. of C.E. 1852 and member 1874. d. 6 May 1883. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiv, 283–5 (1883).

D’AGUILAR, Sir George Charles (son of Joseph D’Aguilar, captain 2 dragoon guards). b. Winchester, Jany. 1784; ensign 86 foot 24 Sep. 1799; major 1 Greek light infantry 1 April 1813 to 24 Feb. 1816 when regiment was disbanded and he was placed on h.p.; major Rifle brigade 6 March 1817 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p.; major 3 foot 22 June 1820 to 13 Sep. 1821 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general in Ireland 22 July 1830 to 23 Nov. 1841; commanded troops in China 1843–48; col. of 58 foot 5 Feb. 1848, col. of 23 foot 31 Jany. 1851 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 6 April 1852; author of The practice and forms of Courts Martial 1843, 5 ed. 1867. d. Lower Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 21 May 1855. United Service Mag. Aug. 1847 pp. 622–27.

DAINTREE, Richard. b. Hemingford Abbotts, Hunts. Dec. 1831; ed. at Bedford gr. sch. and Ch. coll. Cam.; went to Melbourne 1852; assistant geologist of colony of Victoria 1854–56; field geologist on geological survey of Victoria 1858–64; government geologist for North Queensland 1869–72; entrusted with collection sent to Exhibition at South Kensington 1871 but steamer “Queen of the Thames” containing collection was wrecked near Cape Agulhas about 200 miles from Cape Town 18 March 1871; agent general in London for colony of Queensland, March 1872 to 1876; C.M.G. 1875. d. Holyrood house, Beckenham, Kent 20 June 1878. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxv, 51–3 (1879); Geol. Mag. v, 336, 429–32 (1878).

D’ALBERT, Charles (son of a captain of cavalry in French army). b. Nienstellen near Hamburg 1808 or 1809; pupil in London of F. W. M. Kalkbrenner the pianist; studied music and dancing at Académie Royale, Paris; maître de ballet and first dancer at Covent Garden theatre; teacher of music in London; wrote various musical albums 1848–53; an exceedingly popular composer of innumerable waltzes, polkas and galops. d. 14 Alexander sq. South Kensington, London 26 May 1886 in 78 year. Illust. news of the world viii (1861), portrait.

DALE, James. b. Brancepeth near Durham; succeeded his father as head gardener to 6 Viscount Boyne at Brancepeth Castle 1854; a great judge of fruit and flowers; kept a splendid stock of plants and fruit but never exhibited; known as “The King of Pine growers”; a clever naturalist and ornithologist; it is stated in Loudon’s Natural History that Mr. Dale was the only man in England who ever took a siskin’s nest, which he did in a pine tree; left a valuable collection of stuffed animals and preserved fish. d. Brancepeth 1 April 1882 aged 66.

DALE, James Murray (son of Very Rev. T. Dale 1797–1870). b. 20 July 1822; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; a solicitor in London 1843–73; author of Clergyman’s Legal handbook 1858, 6 ed. 1881; Church extension law 1864; Legal ritual, Judgments of privy council and dean of arches 1871. d. Cromer 2 March 1877.

DALE, John. b. Settle, Yorkshire 1 March 1803; articled to Reay and Collison, surgeons, Liverpool; played under Samuel Russell’s management in the provinces 1823; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre as Rob Roy 5 Oct. 1825; went to Paris with the Kean, Macready, Kemble company 1827; the original Adrastus in Talfourd’s tragedy Ion at Covent Garden, May 1836; played Cromwell to Macready’s Wolsey at Covent Garden; acted at Surrey and Victoria theatres; one of his best characters was Creve Cœur in The Bohemians. d. Manchester 25 Oct. 1872. Theatrical Times iii, 137, 146 (1848), portrait.

DALE, Joseph. Gardener to Society of the Middle Temple, London 1843 to decease, where he arranged annual exhibitions of chrysanthemums in November; greatly assisted and encouraged the plantation of trees in various parts of London; presented with a testimonial at the Salutation tavern, Newgate st. London 31 Jany. 1878; author of On the cultivation of the chrysanthemum 1856. d. Vicarage road, Leyton 31 Dec. 1878 aged 65. Gardener’s Magazine xxi, 59 (1878), xxii, 7, 80 (1879).

DALE, Very Rev. Thomas (son of William Dale of Pentonville, London). b. Pentonville 22 Aug. 1797; ed. at Christ hospital 1805–17 and C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1870; C. of St. Michael’s, Cornhill, London 1822–26; professor of English language and literature at London Univ. 1828–30, at King’s coll. London 1836–39; minister of St. Matthew’s chapel, Denmark hill 1830–35; V. of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London 3 Jany. 1835 to 1846; Golden lecturer at St. Margaret’s, Lothbury 1840–1849; preb. of St. Paul’s, March 1843 to Feb. 1846; canon of St. Paul’s 20 Oct. 1843 to 1870; V. of St. Pancras, July 1846 to March 1861 when that parish was subdivided into 20 incumbencies; R. of Therfield, Herts. 26 March 1861 to 1870; declined deanery of Ely 1869; dean of Rochester 23 Feb. 1870 to death, installed April 1870; author of The widow of Nain and other poems 1817; The outlaw of Taurus 1818; The tragedies of Sophocles translated into English verse 2 vols. 1824; Poetical works 1836; The sabbath companion being essays on first principles of Christian faith and practice 1844, 3 ed. 1853 and about 70 other books. d. 2 Amen corner, St. Paul’s, London 14 May 1870. Palmer’s St. Pancras (1870) 43, 142, 159–61; Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, fourth series (1860), portrait; Church of England photographic portrait gallery 1859, portrait 24; I.L.N. xxxv, 647 (1859), portrait, lvi, 563, 643 (1870).

DALGAIRNS, Rev. John Dobree (son of Wm. Dalgairns). b. Guernsey 21 Oct. 1818; ed. at Elizabeth coll. Guernsey and Ex. coll. Ox., scholar 27 May 1837; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; joined J. H. Newman’s band of disciples at Littlemore; received into R.C. church 29 Sep. 1845, ordained at Langres in France 1846; a preacher and confessor at the London Oratory King William st. Strand 1849 to 1853 and 1856 to 1863, at Birmingham Oratory 1853–56; superior of London Oratory, Brompton 1863–65; wrote some of the lives in J. H. Newman’s Lives of the English saints; author of The devotion to the heart of Jesus with an introduction on the history of Jansenism 1853, 2 ed. 1854; The German mystics of the fourteenth century 1858; The Holy Communion, its philosophy, theology and practice 1861 frequently reprinted, and of many articles in the British Critic, Dublin Review and Contemporary Review. d. in monastery of the Cistercians at Burgess hill, near Brighton 6 April 1876. bur. in private cemetery of the Fathers of the Brompton oratory at Sydenham. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 3–5 (1885).

DALGLISH, Robert (son of Robert Dalglish, provost of Glasgow). b. Glasgow 1808; a calico printer at Glasgow; M.P. for Glasgow 1 April 1857 to 26 Jany. 1874. d. Lennox-mill cottage, Lennoxtown near Glasgow 20 June 1880.

DALHOUSIE, James Andrew Brown-Ramsay, 1 Marquis of (youngest child of 9 Earl of Dalhousie 1770–1838). b. Dalhousie castle, co. Edinburgh 22 April 1812; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1838; contested city of Edin. Jany. 1835; M.P. for East Lothian 1837–38; succeeded as 10 Earl of Dalhousie 21 March 1838; P.C. 10 June 1843; vice pres. of Board of Trade 10 June 1843, pres. 5 Feb. 1845 to 6 July 1846; lord clerk register of Scotland 12 Dec. 1845; an elder brother of Trinity house 1846; governor general of India 4 Aug. 1847, arrived at Calcutta 19 Jany. 1848, left there 6 March 1856; annexed the Punjaub 1849, Pegu 1852, Nagpore 1853 and Oudh 1856; K.T. 12 May 1848; created Marquis of Dalhousie of Dalhousie castle and of the Punjaub 25 Aug. 1849; constable of Dover castle and lord warden of the Cinque Ports 13 Jany. 1853. d. Dalhousie Castle 19 Dec. 1860. Sir C. Jackson’s Vindication of the policy of Dalhousie’s Indian administration; J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known (1874) 98–104; I.L.N. xiv, 36 (1849), portrait, xxii, 61 (1853), portrait.

DALHOUSIE, Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11 Earl of (eld. son of 1 Baron Panmure 1771–1852). b. Brechin castle, Forfarshire 22 April 1801; ed. at the Charterhouse; ensign 79 foot 3 June 1819, captain 31 Oct. 1826, sold out 1831; M.P. for Perthshire 1835–37, for Elgin district of burghs 1838–41, for Perth 1841–52; under sec. of state for home department 18 April 1835 to 15 June 1841; vice pres. of board of trade 28 June to 3 Sep. 1841; P.C. 28 June 1841; sec. of state for war 6 July 1846 to Feb. 1852 and 8 Feb. 1855 to Feb. 1858; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1842; lord lieut. of Forfarshire 16 June 1849; keeper of privy seal of Scotland 25 May 1853; K.T. 28 Oct. 1853; G.C.B. 29 Oct. 1855; succeeded as 2 baron Panmure 13 April 1852 and as 11 Earl of Dalhousie 19 Dec. 1860. d. Brechin castle, Forfarshire 6 July 1874. The statesmen of England (1862), portrait; Illust. news of the world, i, (1858), portrait; I.L.N. xvi, 245 (1850), portrait, xxvi, 152 (1855), portrait, lxv, 61, 67, 115, 523 (1871), portrait.

DALHOUSIE, George Maule-Ramsay, 12 Earl of (2 son of hon. John Ramsay 1775–1842, col. of 79 foot). b. 26 April 1806; entered navy Dec. 1820; captain 20 March 1843; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 27 July 1857 to 1 Sep. 1862; commander in chief on South American station 7 May 1866 to 17 March 1869; succeeded as 12 Earl 6 July 1874; created Baron Ramsay of Glenmark, co. Forfar in peerage of the U.K. 12 June 1875; retired admiral 30 July 1875. d. Dalhousie castle 20 July 1880.

DALHOUSIE, John William Ramsay, 13 Earl of (son of the preceding). b. 29 Jany. 1847; naval cadet Jany. 1861; commander 4 March 1874, commanded the Britannia 1877–79, retired 26 July 1884; contested Liverpool 6 Feb. 1880; M.P. for Liverpool, March 1880 to 20 July 1880 when he succeeded his father; a lord in waiting to the Queen, Sep. 1880 to June 1885; K.T. Nov. 1881; P.C. 3 April 1886; sec. of state for Scotland 5 April 1886 to 26 June 1886. d. Havre 25 Nov. 1887. bur. parish church of Cockpen, co. Edinburgh 1 Dec. 1887. London Figaro 3 Dec. 1887 p. 5, col. 2, portrait.

DALLAS, Rev. Alexander Robert Charles (2 son of Robert Charles Dallas, miscellaneous writer 1754–1824). b. Colchester 29 March 1791; clerk in commissariat office of Treasury 1805–10, deputy assistant commissary general 5 June 1810 to 1 July 1814 when placed on h.p., retired 1820; gentleman commoner of Worcester coll. Ox. 29 Feb. 1820; C. of Radley, Berks. 17 June 1821, of Highclere Hants. 1821, of Woburn 1824, of Burford, Oxon. 1826; V. of Yardley, Herts. 22 Sep. 1827; R. of Wonston, Hants. 14 Sep. 1828 to death; chaplain to bishop of Winchester 1828 to death; founded Society for Irish church missions to the Roman Catholics 1848, hon. sec. 1848 to death; author of Cottager’s guide to the New Testament 6 vols. 1837–43; A Guide to the Acts of the Apostles by A. D. 1847; Revelation readings 3 vols. 1848 and upwards of 50 other books. d. in house of Mr. Annesley, Blackheath, Kent 12 Dec. 1869. bur. Wonston churchyard 17 Dec. Incidents in the life and ministry of Rev. A. R. C. Dallas by his widow (1871), portrait.

DALLAS, Charles. Ensign 32 foot 23 March 1815; governor of St. Helena 14 Feb. 1828 to 1836. d. Trefusis house, Exmouth 26 April 1855 in 88 year.

DALLAS, Elmslie William (2 son of Wm. Dallas of ‘Lloyds,’ London). b. London 27 June 1809; studied at the R.A. London 1831–34; painted a series of views of Scotland for garden pavilion at Buckingham palace; exhibited at Royal Scottish Academy; F.R.S. Edin. 1851; author of The Elements of plane practical geometry 1855. d. 26 Jany. 1879. Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. x, 340 (1880).

DALLAS, Eneas Sweetland (elder son of John Dallas of Jamaica, physician). b. Jamaica 1828; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; a journalist on the Times many years, special correspondent at Paris 1867 and 1870; contributed to Daily News, Saturday Review, Pall Mall Gazette and The World; edited Once a Week 1868; author of Poetics, an essay on poetry 1852; The gay science 2 vols. 1866; edited an abridgment of Richardson’s Clarissa Harlowe 1868; published Kettner’s Book of the table, a manual of cookery 1877 anon. (m. in Scotland, Dec. 1853 and in London 12 July 1855 the well-known actress Isabella Glyn (widow of Edward Wills), marriage was dissolved in the divorce court, London on her petition 10 May 1874). d. 88 Newman st. Oxford st. London 17 Jany. 1879. I.L.N. 8 Feb. 1879 pp. 78, 129, 131, portrait; Law Journal Reports xlvi, pt. 1, pp. 51–3 (1876).

DALLIN, Thomas Francis (eld. son of Thomas James Dallin of Plumstead, Kent). Matric. from Merton coll. Ox. 10 June 1858 aged 17, B.A. 1863, M.A. 1865; student at L.I. 23 Nov. 1861; fellow of Queen’s coll. Ox. 1864–71, tutor 1866; professor of rhetoric at Gresham college, London, Aug. 1875; public orator Univ. of Ox. 8 May 1877 to death; one of secs. of Oxford Univ. commission 1880 to death; author with J. Y. Sargent of Materials and models for Greek and Latin prose composition 1870, 2 ed. 1875; Materials for Greek prose composition 1878. d. Brighton 11 Nov. 1880. bur. in Holywell cemetery, Oxford 16 Nov. Times 13 Nov. 1880 p. 5, col. 6, 15 Nov. p. 9, col. 4, 17 Nov. p. 9, col. 6.

DALLING and BULWER, William Henry Lytton Eakle Bulwer, Baron (2 son of Wm. Earle Bulwer 1757–1807, col. 106 foot). b. 31 Baker st. Portman sq. London 13 Feb. 1801; ed. at Sunbury and Harrow; entered Trin. coll. Cam. 1819, migrated to Downing coll.; went to the Morea as agent of the Greek committee in London 1824; attaché at Berlin 1827, at Vienna 1829, at the Hague 1830; M.P. for Wilton, Wilts. 1830–31, for Coventry 1831–34, for Marylebone 1835; chargé d’affaires at Brussels 1835–36; sec. of embassy at Constantinople 1837–39, at Paris 1839–43; ambassador at Madrid 14 Nov. 1843, arbitrator between Spain and Morocco 1844; P.C. 30 June 1845; K.C.B. 27 April 1848, G.C.B. 1 March 1851; ambassador at Washington 27 April 1849; minister plenipotentiary at Florence 19 Jany. 1852 to 26 Jany. 1855; granted a pension 25 April 1855; ambassador at Constantinople 10 May 1858 to Aug. 1865; M.P. for Tamworth 17 Nov. 1868 to 21 March 1871 when created baron Dalling and Bulwer of Dalling in the county of Norfolk; said to be the original of George Sand’s ‘Mauprat’ 1836; author of An autumn in Greece 1826; France, social, literary and political 2 vols. 1834, being the first half of a work called The monarchy of the middle classes 1836; Historical characters 3 vols. 1867–73; Life of Viscount Palmerston 3 vols. 1870–74. d. Naples 23 May 1872. A. Hayward’s Biographical essays ii, 320–40 (1870); Madden’s Life of Countess of Blessington iii, 63–74 (1855); Illust. Review iv, 97–103 (1872), portrait; I.L.N. ix, 245 (1846), portrait, lxi, 168 (1872).

DALLMEYER, Johann Heinrick (2 son of Wm. Dallmeyer of Loxten near Versmold, Westphalia). b. Loxten 6 Sep. 1830; apprenticed to an optician at Osnabruck 3 years; came to England 1851; a manufacturer of telescopes in London 1859; naturalised 17 Sep. 1859; F.R.A.S. 1861; supplied photographic lenses to photographers in all parts of the world; patented a single wide-angle lens 1864 largely used for photographing landscapes; received highest awards at Dublin, Berlin, Paris and Philadelphia exhibitions; author of On the choice and use of photographic lenses, 6 editions. d. on board ship off coast of New Zealand 30 Dec. 1883. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xlv, 190–91 (1885).

DALMER, Thomas. Second lieut. 23 foot 22 May 1797, major 10 Dec. 1807 to 24 July 1817 when placed on h.p.; col. 47 foot 16 April 1847 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815. d. Hawkhurst, Kent 26 Aug. 1854.

DALRYMPLE, Sir Adolphus John, 2 Baronet (elder son of Sir Hew Whiteford Dalrymple, 1 baronet, who d. 9 April 1830 in 80 year). b. parish of Marylebone, London, Feb. 1784; ed. at Harrow; ensign 37 foot 25 Oct. 1799; major 19 light dragoons 17 Nov. 1808 to Dec. 1814 when placed on h.p.; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign 1830–41; general 11 April 1860; M.P. for Weymouth 1817–18, for Appleby 1819–26, for Haddington district of burghs 1826–31, for Brighton 1837–41. d. Delrowe house near Watford, Herts. 3 March 1866.

DALRYMPLE, Donald (4 son of Wm. Dalrymple of Norwich, surgeon 1772–1847). b. Norwich 1814; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. and Guy’s hospital; F.R.C.S. 1854; M.R.C.P. 1859; a surgeon at Norwich 1835–62; sheriff of Norwich 1860–61; M.P. for Bath 17 Nov. 1868 to death; author of Meteorological observations on the climate of Egypt 1861. d. Coldecot near Southampton 19 Sep. 1873.

DALRYMPLE, John (brother of the preceding). b. Norwich 1803; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; a surgeon at 8 New Broad st. City of London 1827–39 when he moved to 6 Holles st. Cavendish sq.; assistant surgeon to Royal London Ophthalmic hospital 1832, surgeon 1843, consulting surgeon 1849; a founder of Royal college of Chemistry 1845; F.R.S. 7 June 1849; author of The anatomy of the human eye 1834; The pathology of the human eye 1852. d. 60 Grosvenor st. London 2 May 1852 in 49 year. Proc. of Royal Soc. vi, 250 (1852).

DALTON, Charles James (youngest son of Rev. James Dalton, R. of Croft, Yorkshire). b. 13 May 1812; Second lieut. R.A. 18 Dec. 1829, col. 25 Sep. 1859 to 23 April 1868, col. commandant 20 April 1877 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. Percy house, Twickenham park, Twickenham 7 Nov. 1880.

DALTON, John (son of Wm. Dalton of Bessville, co. Westmeath). b. Bessville 29 June 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1813; comr. of Irish loan fund board 1835; granted a civil list pension of £50, 4 March 1856; gained prize of £80 and Cunningham gold medal of Royal Irish Academy for best essay on social and political state of Irish people 1827; author of History of the county of Dublin 2 vols. 1838; The history of Drogheda 2 vols. 1844; History of Ireland to the year 1245, 2 vols. 1845 and other books. d. 48 Summer hill, Dublin 20 Jany. 1867.

DALTON, Rev. John. Educ. at Oscott college; engaged in R.C. missions at Northampton, Norwich and Lynn; elected a member of the chapter of see of Northampton; published Christianity in Europe by Novalis translated from the German 1844; The art of dying well, translated from the Latin of Bellarmine 1846 and many other translations from German, Latin and Spanish. d. St. John’s, Maddermarket, Norwich 15 Feb. 1874 in 60 year.

DALTON, John Stuart. Librarian of free public library, William Brown st. Liverpool 1852 to death; author of many poems. d. Low hill, Liverpool 2 Aug. 1868 aged 72.

DALTON, William Henry. Bookseller in Cockspur st. London about 1833–63; founded Booksellers Protection Association about 1851; member of Metropolitan Board of Works for parish of St. Martin in the Fields 1855 to death, being the last survivor of the original members. d. 30 Coleherne road, South Kensington, London 23 June 1884.

DALY, Cuthbert Featherstone. Entered navy 17 Feb. 1794; captain 18 Aug. 1808; R.A. on h.p. 9 Nov. 1846; C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Hayes place, Lisson grove, London 6 Dec. 1851.

DALY, Sir Dominic (3 son of Dominic Daly of Benmore, co. Galway, who d. 1841). b. Ardfry, co. Galway 11 Aug. 1798; went to Canada as private sec. to Sir Francis Burton 1822; assistant sec. to province of Lower Canada 1825–27, sec. 1827–40, sec. of province of Canada on union of the two provinces 1840–48; lieut. governor of Tobago 16 Sep. 1851, of Prince Edward’s Island 8 May 1854 to 1859; knighted by patent 2 July 1856; governor and commander in chief of South Australia 28 Oct. 1861 to death, assumed office March 1862. (m. 20 May 1826 Caroline Maria 2 dau. of Ralph Gore of Barrowmount, co. Kilkenny, she was granted a civil list pension of £100, 17 Nov. 1868 and d. 1872), he d. Government house, Adelaide 19 Feb. 1868. J. P. Stow’s South Australia (1883) 37–42.

DALY, Ellen. b. Kidderminster 1806; acted in melodrama at Adelphi theatre, London 1820–21; acted at Covent Garden and Haymarket, at Surrey theatre 14 years, at Standard theatre 1848–49; at Princess’s theatre under Charles Kean 1850–59. d. Notting hill, London 18 Jany. 1883. Actors by daylight i, 89 (1838), portrait; Dramatic Mirror (1847) p. 37, portrait; Theatrical Times iv, 1–2 (1849), portrait.

DALY, Right Rev. Robert (younger son of Denis Daly of Dunsandle, co. Galway 1747–91, P.C.) b. Dunsandle 8 June 1783; fellow commoner at Trin. coll. Dublin 1799, gold medallist 1803, B.A. 1803, M.A. 1832, B.D. and D.D. 1843; preb. of Holy Trinity, Cork 1809–43; preb. of Stagonill, Dublin 1809–43; R. of Powerscourt 1809–43; dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, elected 8 Dec. 1840, declared dean 1842 by court of delegates appointed to try validity of the election; bishop of united dioceses of Cashel, Emly, Waterford and Lismore 12 Jany. 1843 to death; an eminent leader of the Evangelical party; edited O’Brien’s Focaloir Gaoidhilge-Sags-Bhéarla, or an Irish-English dictionary 1832; Letters and papers of Viscountess Powerscourt 1838, 9 ed. 1874. d. See house, Waterford 16 Feb. 1872. Personal recollections of Right Rev. Robert Daly by An old parishioner i.e. Mrs. H. Madden 1872.

DALYELL, Sir John Graham, 6 Baronet (2 son of Sir Robert Dalyell, 4 baronet, who d. 1791). b. Binns, Linlithgowshire, Aug. 1775; lamed for life when an infant; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Edin.; advocate at Scottish bar 1796; knighted by patent 22 Aug. 1836; pres. of Society of Arts for Scotland 1839–40; succeeded his elder brother as 6 baronet 1 Feb. 1841; author of Fragments of Scottish history 1798; Scottish poems of the sixteenth century 1801; Journal of Richard Bannatyne 1806; Darker superstitions of Scotland 1834; Musical memoirs of Scotland 1849. d. 14 Great King st. Edinburgh 7 June 1851. Sir J. G. Dalyell’s The powers of the creator displayed in the creation to which is prefixed a memoir of the author, vol. iii, 1858.