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DENMAN, Thomas Denman, 1 Baron (only son of Thomas Denman of London, physician 1733–1815). b. Queen st. Golden sq. London 23 Feb. 1779; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1800, M.A. 1803; a special pleader 1803; barrister L.I. 9 May 1806, bencher 1820; M.P. for Wareham, Dorset 1818; M.P. for Nottingham 1820–26 and 1830–32; solicitor general to Queen Caroline 8 Feb. 1820 to her death 7 Aug. 1821; received freedom of city of London 7 June 1821; common serjeant of city of London 26 April 1822 to Nov. 1830; K.C. Nov. 1828; attorney general 19 Nov. 1830 to 4 Nov. 1832; knighted by Wm. 4 at St. James’s palace 24 Nov. 1830; lord chief justice of King’s Bench 4 Nov. 1832 to 28 Feb. 1850; P.C. 9 Nov. 1832; created Baron Denman of Dovedale, Derbyshire 22 March 1834; the first chief justice of England who sat in House of Lords without his judicial robes. d. Stoke Albany near Rockingham, Northamptonshire 22 Sep. 1854. Arnould’s Memoir of Lord Denman 2 vols. 1873, portrait; The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 436–45; J. Whiteside’s Early sketches of eminent persons (1870) 21–45; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 238–46.

DENMAN, Joseph (3 son of the preceding). b. 23 June 1810; entered navy 7 April 1823; captain 23 Aug. 1841; captain of H.M.’s yacht Victoria and Albert 19 Oct. 1853 to 15 Jany. 1862; naval aide-de-camp to the Queen 20 March 1858; R.A. 15 Jany. 1862; commander in chief in the Pacific 10 May 1864 to 21 Nov. 1866; V.A. 20 Nov. 1866; granted Greenwich hospital pension 9 Jany. 1869; contested Manchester 2 May 1859; author of The African squadron and Mr. Hutt’s committee 1850. d. 17 Eaton terrace, London 26 Nov. 1874.

DENNETT, John. b. 1790; invented Dennett’s life-saving rocket apparatus for conveying a rope from the shore to a shipwrecked crew 1832, these rockets were sent to all parts of the world, they were superseded by Boxer’s rocket 1865; custodian of Carisbrook Castle, Newport, Isle of Wight to death; contributed to Journal of British Archeol. Assoc. vols. 1–5 accounts of various antiquities in England. d. Carisbrook Castle 10 July 1852.

DENNIS, Sir James (son of John Dennis, an attorney). b. 1778; midshipman in navy; ensign 49 foot 2 Sep. 1796, major 25 April 1828 to 4 June 1833; lieut. col. 3 foot 4 June 1833 to 11 Nov. 1851; commanded a division of infantry at battle of Maharajpore 29 Dec. 1843; K.C.B. 30 Oct. 1844; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Pall Mall, London 14 Jany. 1855.

DENNIS, Rev. James Blatch Piggot (son of Philip Piggot Dennis). Matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 28 May 1835 aged 19, B.A. 1839; C. of Maxey, Northants. 1842–54; C. of St. James, Bury St. Edmunds; F.G.S., an authority on fossil bones; his collection of hawks and owls is in Bury St. Edmunds’ museum; author of An answer to the parishioners of Lawshall, telling them why he became a Catholic 1859. d. Garland st. Bury St. Edmunds 12 Jany. 1861. Bury and Norwich Post 15 Jany. 1861 p. 2.

DENNIS, James Samuel Aked. b. 1809; entered navy 24 Oct. 1822; captain 18 July 1857; retired V.A. 2 Aug. 1879. d. rectory cottage, Hanwell 9 Feb. 1881.

DENNISTOUN, Alexander. b. Glasgow 1790; a merchant at Glasgow; M.P. for co. Dunbarton 1835 to 1837. d. Lagarie row, Dennistoun, Glasgow 15 July 1874.

DENNISTOUN, James (eld. son of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, co. Dumbarton, who d. 1 June 1834). b. Dumbartonshire 17 March 1803; ed. at Univs. of Edin. and Glasgow; mem. of faculty of advocates 1824; edited several publications for the Bannatyne and Maitland clubs; contributed many articles chiefly on Art to Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews; published Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino 3 vols. 1851, and Memoirs of Sir Robert Strange, knt., engraver, and of his brother in law Andrew Lumisden, private secretary to the Stuart Princes 2 vols. 1855. d. 119 George st. Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1855. G.M. xliii, 647–8 (1855); Fraser’s Mag. li, 643–4 (1855).

DENNISTOUN, John. b. 1803; M.P. for Glasgow 1837 to 1847. d. Armadale Row, Dumbartonshire 9 Sep. 1870.

DENNY, Henry. Curator of museum of Literary and Philosophical Society, Leeds 1826 to death; author of Monographia Pselaphidarum et Scydmænidarum Britanniæ, or an essay on the British species of the genera Pselaphus of Herbst and Scydmænus of Latreille 1825, er; Monographia Anoplurorum Britanniæ, or an essay on the British species of parasite insects belonging to the order Anoplura of Leach 1842. d. Leeds 7 March 1871 aged 68.

DENNY, William. b. Dumbarton 25 May 1847; educ. Edinburgh high school; Apprentice to his father a shipbuilder at Dumbarton 1864 and partner 1868; partner in engineering firm of Denny & Co., Leven shipyard on the Clyde, increased size of works from 19 to 42 acres in 1881; made great improvements in the construction and building of steam ships 1869–82; founded an Award scheme for inventions and improvements made by his workmen 1880; read papers on ships, etc. before Lit. and Philos. Soc. of Dumbarton, Instit. of Civil engineers, Instit. of Naval Architects and other Societies 1869–82; served on the Load Line Committee 1884–5; M.I.C.E. 7 March 1876; his-residence Bellfield with a valuable library burnt down 1882. d. Buenos Ayres 17 March 1887. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix, 457–66 (1887).

DENT, Charles Calmady. b. 26 Sep. 1793; entered navy 9 Aug. 1810; captain 16 Feb. 1852; retired R.A. 1 April 1870. d. 37 Nelson road, Great Yarmouth 3 Jany. 1872.

DENT, Edward John. b. London 19 Aug. 1790; employed by Vulliamy and son, and Barrauds and son, chronometer makers 1815–29; partner with John Roger Arnold at 84 Strand 1830–40; kept a shop at 82 Strand 1840; opened branch depôts at 33 Cockspur st. and 34 Royal Exchange; began manufacture of turret clocks 1843; A.I.C.E. 1833; received order for great clock at Westminster 1852, lived only to see commencement of it; author of On the construction and management of chronometers, watches and clocks 1846, and other works. d. The Mall, Kensington Gravel Pits, London 8 March 1853. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiii, 156–61 (1854); Sir E. Beckett’s Clocks, watches and bells (1883) pp. 181, 238, 266–68, 300, 310, 313.

DENT, John (eld. son of John Dent of Worcester, glover 1751–1811). b. 1777; glove manufacturer at Worcester with his brother Wm. Dent, who d. 11 Oct. 1854 aged 70; they purchased from Duke of Buckingham the ruined site of Sudeley castle and chapel, Gloucestershire which they restored; sheriff of Worcs. 1849. d. Sudeley Castle 8 Oct. 1855.

DENTON, Rev. William (eld. son of James Denton of Newport, Isle of Wight). Matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 28 May 1841 aged 26, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1848; C. of Shoreditch, London 1847–50; V. of St. Bartholomew, Cripplegate, London 1850 to death; author of A commentary on Gospels for the Sundays and other Holy Days 3 vols. 1861–63, 3 ed. 1875; A commentary on the Epistles 1869; Servia and the Servians 1862; Records of St. Giles’ Cripplegate 1882 and many other books. d. 22 Westbourne sq. Paddington, London 2 Jany. 1888.

DENYS, Sir George William, 1 Baronet (only son of Peter Denys of Hans place, Chelsea, who d. 27 June 1816). b. Easton Neston, Northamptonshire 20 May 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1814; equerry to Duke of Sussex; M.P. for Hull 6 Oct. 1812 to 10 June 1818; created Bart. 23 Nov. 1813. d. 42 Onslow sq. Brompton, London 26 April 1857.

DE PORQUET, Louis Philippe R. Fenwick (son of Capt. Fenwick). b. Paris 1796; taught English in France; adopted his mother’s name; came to England about 1823; author of educational works in the English, French, Italian and Spanish languages, upwards of 40 in number 1823 to death. d. 17 Camden st. Camden Town, London 26 Aug. 1873.

DE QUINCEY, Thomas (4 child of Thomas Quincey of Manchester, merchant, who d. 18 July 1793 aged 38). b. Manchester 15 Aug. 1785; ed. at Bath and Manchester gr. schs.; matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 17 Dec. 1803 where his name remained on the books till Dec. 1810; student of Middle Temple about 1808; edited Westmoreland Gazette 1819–20; wrote in the London Mag. 1821–24, Blackwood’s Mag. 1826–49 and Tait’s Mag. 1834–51; published Klosterheim, or the masque by the English opium eater 1832 which was dramatised for two of the London theatres; eat opium 1804–16, 1817–18, 1824–25 and 1841–44, in 1813 his dose had risen to 340 grains of opium or 8000 drops of laudanum per diem, about half what Coleridge was taking at that time; he is described in J. H. Burton’s The Book Hunter as Papaverius; author of Confessions of an English opium eater 1822 first published in the London Mag. 1821; The logic of political economy 1844; the first English edition of his collected works was published in 1853–60 as Selections grave and gay 14 vols., 4 ed. 16 vols. 1875–80, the most complete edition of his works is the American in 20 vols. 1852–55. d. 42 Lothian st. Edinburgh 8 Dec. 1859. T. De Quincey by H. A. Page 2 vols. (1877), portrait; D. Masson’s De Quincey (1881); S. Hodgson’s Outcast Essays (1881) 1–98; F. Espinasse’s Lancashire Worthies, second series (1877) 378–461; C. Mackay’s Forty years recollections (1877) i, 314–26; H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 409–17; John Bull Mag. July 1824 pp. 21–24.

DE RAMSEY, Edward Fellowes, 1 Baron (2 son of Wm. Henry Fellowes of Ramsey abbey, Hunts. 1769–1837). b. 14 April 1809; ed. at the Charterhouse; M.P. for Hunts. 10 Aug. 1837 to 24 March 1880; chairman of the Middle Level commission; created Baron De Ramsey 5 July 1887. d. 3 Belgrave sq. London 9 Aug. 1887.

DERBY, Edward Smith Stanley, 13 Earl of (only son of 12 Earl of Derby 1752–1834). b. 21 April 1775; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1795; M.P. for Preston 1796–1812 and for Lancashire 1812–32; colonel 2 Lancashire militia 1 March 1797; created Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe, co. palatine of Lancaster 22 Dec. 1832; succeeded his father 21 Oct. 1834; K.G. 2 April 1839; F.L.S. 1807, pres. 1828–34; pres. of Zoological Soc. 1831 to death; formed at Knowsley hall collections of living animals and birds, which far surpassed any menagerie or aviary previously attempted by a private person in this country, these collections were sold 6–11 Oct. 1851 for £7000; privately printed Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley hall 2 parts with 76 plates 1846–50. d. Knowsley hall 30 June 1851. P. Draper’s House of Stanley (1864) 275–82; Law Review xvi, 1–32 (1852); I.L.N. xix, 14, 405, 449 (1851).

DERBY, Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14 Earl of (eld. son of the preceding). b. Knowsley 29 March 1799; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Stockbridge 1822–26, for Preston 1826–30, for Windsor 1830–32, for North Lancashire 1832–44; under sec. of state for Colonies, April 1827 to Jany. 1828; chief sec. to lord lieut. of Ireland 26 Nov. 1830 to March 1833; P.C. 22 Nov. 1830, P.C. Ireland 10 Jany. 1831; sec. of state for Colonies 28 March 1833 to 5 June 1834; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow 1834–36; sec. of state for Colonies 3 Sep. 1841 to Dec. 1845; created Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe 4 Nov. 1844; succeeded 30 June 1851; first lord of the Treasury 27 Feb. to 28 Dec. 1852, 1 March 1858 to 18 June 1859 and 13 June 1866 to 25 Feb. 1868; chancellor of Univ. of Oxford 12 Oct. 1852; K.G. 28 June 1859; won the One thousand guineas with Canezou 1848, Goodwood Cup with Canezou 1849 and 1850, the Oaks with Iris 1851, and the Two thousand guineas with Fazzolette 1856; sold greater part of his racing stud 1858 for over £5000; privately printed Translations of poems ancient and modern 1862; published The Iliad of Homer rendered into English blank verse 2 vols. 1864, 10 ed. 1876. d. Knowsley 23 Oct. 1869, personalty sworn under £250,000, 9 April 1870. P. Draper’s House of Stanley (1864) 282–97; The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 291–99; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery iv, 51 (1848), portrait; G. H. Francis’s Orators of the age (1847) 101–23; Baily’s Mag. i, 1–6 (1861), portrait, xvii, 227–37 (1870).

DERBY, Alfred Thomas (eld. son of William Derby, water-colour painter 1786–1847). b. London 21 Jany. 1821; painted portraits and scenes from Sir Walter Scott’s novels; produced many drawings from paintings of well-known masters; exhibited 22 pictures at R.A. 8 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1839–72. d. of jaundice 11 Hammersmith terrace, Hammersmith 19 April 1873.

DERINZY, Bartholomew Vigors. Ensign 81 foot 26 May 1806; lieut. col. 86 foot 7 Jany. 1842 to 30 April 1852; inspecting field officer 30 April 1852 to 7 Sep. 1855 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 7 Sep. 1855; K.H. 1834. d. 4 Beaufort villas, Cheltenham 22 Nov. 1861 aged 73.

DE ROBECK, John Michael Henry Fock, Swedish Baron. b. 14 July 1790; cornet 7 Hussars, July 1808, retired 1814; sheriff of co. Kildare 1834, of co. Dublin 1838, of co. Wicklow 1839; well known for his scientific attainments; found drowned in the fall of the salmon leap in the Liffey near Dublin 11 Oct. 1856. Annual Register 1856 p. 165.

DE ROS, William Lennox Lascelles Fitzgerald-de-ros, 23 Baron (3 son of hon. Henry Fitzgerald 1761–1829). b. Thames Ditton, Surrey 1 Sep. 1797 or 7 Sep. 1795, according to his memorial tablet in chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula in Tower of London; cornet 1 Life guards 1819, captain 1825–27 when placed on h.p.; succeeded his brother 29 March 1839; deputy lieut. of Tower of London 13 Feb. 1852 to death when the office was abolished; captain of Yeomen of the Guard 17 March 1852 to Dec. 1852 and March 1858 to June 1859; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; Q.M.G. to army in Turkey 1854–55; col. 4 Hussars 6 Feb. 1865 to death; general 10 Nov. 1868; author of Field movements for a division of cavalry 1844; Memorials of the Tower of London 1866; edited The young officer’s companion 1857. d. Old Court, Strangford, co. Down 6 Jany. 1874.

DE ROS, John Frederick Fitzgerald. b. Boyle farm, co. Surrey 6 March 1804; entered navy 20 March 1818; captain 7 Feb. 1834; R.A. on half pay 14 Feb. 1857; F.R.S. 9 June 1831; author of Narrative of travels in the United States and Canada 1827. d. 122 Piccadilly, London 19 June 1861.

DE ROSAS, Juan Manuel. b. Buenos Ayres 30 March 1793; captain general of Buenos Ayres 1831; united all the Plate River States into the Argentine Confederation 1835; his government was overthrown Feb. 1852 when he came to England; lived in Rockstone place, Carlton crescent, Southampton several years, then at Burgess street farm, Swathling near Southampton to death; corresponded with Lord Palmerston many years. d. Burgess st. farm, Swathling 14 March 1877.

DE ROSAZ, Le Chevalier François. b. Savoy; a great supporter of the Orleans dynasty; settled in England after the revolution 1848; F.R.A.S. 8 May 1874; bequeathed his astronomical instruments to the Museum at Brighton. d. Upper Bedford place, Russell sq. London 21 Sep. 1876 in 76 year.

DERRY, Right Rev. John. Roman Catholic bishop of Clonfert, Ireland 9 July 1847 to death; consecrated 21 Sep. 1847. d. Cams, Fuerty, co. Roscommon 28 June 1870 aged 59.

DERVILLE, Adolphus. Entered Madras army 1816; col. 34 Madras light infantry 20 Aug. 1853 to 1860; col. 42 light infantry 1860 to 12 Dec. 1862; col. 31 light infantry 12 Dec. 1862 to death; general 25 June 1870. d. 8 The Terrace, Kensington gardens sq. Bayswater 27 March 1874 aged 72.

DERWENTWATER, Amelia Matilda Mary Tudor Radcliffe, calling herself Countess of (dau. of John James Radcliffe 1764–1833 by Amelia Anna Charlotte, Princess Sobieski). Came over to England and commenced to agitate for her rights 1865; resided at Blaydon, Northumberland 1865; took possession of the old ruined castle of Dilston 29 Sep. 1868 and suspended portraits of her family on walls of the principal hall; ejected by the agent of the Lords of the Admiralty 1 Oct. 1868 who recovered £500 damages against her; adjudicated bankrupt 24 March 1871; confined in Newcastle gaol 25 Nov. 1872 to July 1873 for contempt of court. d. of bronchitis at 53, Cutler’s hall road, Benfieldside, Lanchester near Durham 26 Feb. 1880 aged 49. The heirs of Dilston and Derwentwater by S. S. Jones 1869; Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 49–50 (1885); Monthly chronicle of north country lore and legend, April 1888 pp. 165–70, May 1888 pp. 205–212, portrait; Saturday Review 17 Oct. 1868 pp. 520–21; Celebrated Claimants (1873) 246–55.

DE SALIS, Rodolph. b. May 1811; cornet 8 Dragoons 17 Dec. 1830, lieut.-col. 2 Oct. 1856 to 21 Feb. 1865; C.B. 1 March 1861; col. 8 Hussars 22 Sep. 1875 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. 27 Ashley place, Westminster 13 March 1880.

DESANGES, Sir Francis (son of Wm. Desanges). Sheriff of London 1817–18; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 17 April 1818; sheriff of Oxon 1825. d. in the Queen’s Bench prison, London where he had been confined 4 years 20 Sep. 1860.

DESART, Otway O’Connor Cuffe, 3 Earl of (only son of 2 Earl of Desart 1788–1820). b. Desart house, Kilkenny 12 Oct. 1818; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; elected M.P. for Ipswich 3 June 1842 but unseated on petition Aug. 1842; a representative peer of Ireland 19 Jany. 1847 to death; under sec. of state for the Colonies March to Dec. 1852. d. Eaton sq. London 1 April 1865. I.L.N. xx, 321 (1852), portrait.

DESBOROUGH, Laurence. Solicitor in City of London 1818 to 1884; member of the Law Association 1823, president 1881 to death. d. 46 Gloucester gardens, Hyde park, London 10 Sep. 1888 aged 92.

DE SLANE, William Macguckin, French Baron. b. Belfast 12 Aug. 1801; went to Paris 1830; on missions at Constantinople and in Algeria for French government 1843–45; interpreter to the army of Africa; professor of modern Arabic at Ecole de langues Orientales, Paris to death; member of French institute 1862. d. Passy, Paris 4 Aug. 1878.

DE SOLA, Rev. Abraham (son of the succeeding). b. London 18 Sep. 1825; minister of Portuguese synagogue in Montreal 1847 to death; professor of Hebrew and Oriental literature at McGill Univ. 1848; LLD. 1858; pres. of Natural history soc. of Montreal; author of Scripture Zoology; The sanitary institutions of the Hebrews; Mosaic Cosmogony, and other books. d. New York 5 June 1882. H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 103–4.

DE SOLA, Rev. David Aaron. b. Amsterdam 26 Dec. 1796; student in the Medrash 1807–16; arrived in London and became Second Hazan or minister of the Sephardi congregation London 1817; preacher in English in the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, Bevis Marks, March 1831 and senior minister; instrumental in organising an Association for the promotion of Jewish Literature 1842; author with M. J. Raphall of A new edition of the sacred scriptures 1844, only vol. 1 completed; author of Eighteen treatises from the Mishna 1845; Ancient melodies of the liturgy of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews and other works; Revised the Jewish library a work issued at the expense of Mrs. Charlotte Montifiore. d. London 29 Oct. 1860. Biography of Rev. D. A. De Sola by Rev. A. De Sola (1865); J. Picciotto’s Sketches of Anglo Jewish history (1875) 327, 359–61.

DESPARD, Henry. Ensign 17 foot 25 Oct. 1799, lieut. col. 13 Aug. 1829 to 23 June 1838; lieut. col. 99 foot 27 Sep. 1842 to 20 June 1854; C.B. 2 July 1846; M.G. 20 June 1854. d. Baring Crescent, Heavitree, Exeter 30 April 1859 aged 74.

DE STERN, Herman Stern, Baron. b. Frankfort 1815; established with his brother Viscount de Stern a foreign banking business in London about 1848; launched many foreign loans; created a Baron by King of Portugal 1864 having been much connected with Portuguese finance. d. 4 Hyde park gate, London 20 Oct. 1887, personalty in England sworn over £3,540,000, Jany. 1888.

DE TABLEY, George Warren, 2 Baron (son of 1 Baron De Tabley 1762–1827). b. Tabley house, Knutsford, Cheshire 28 Oct. 1811; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; lieut.-col. commandant Cheshire yeomanry cavalry 1847–69; a lord in waiting to the Queen, Jany. 1853 to Feb. 1858 and June 1859 to July 1866; treasurer of the Queen’s household, Dec. 1868 to March 1872. d. Tabley house 19 Feb. 1887.

DE TRAFFORD, Sir Thomas Joseph, 1 Baronet (son of John Trafford of Croston and Trafford, who d. 29 Oct. 1815). b. 22 March 1778; sheriff of Lancashire 1834; created Baronet by patent dated 7 Sep. 1841; received royal license to alter his name to De Trafford 2 Oct. 1841. d. Trafford park, Manchester 10 Nov. 1852.

DEUTSCH, Emanuel Oscar Menahem. b. Neisse, Prussian Silesia 28 Oct. 1829; assistant librarian British Museum 1855 to death; author of an essay on the Talmud in Quarterly Review Oct. 1867, pp. 417–64 and of many articles in Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible, Chambers’s Cyclopædia and other books. d. of cancer of the kidneys and bladder, Prussian Deaconesses hospital, Alexandria 12 May 1873. Literary remains of the late Emanuel Deutsch with memoir [by Lady Strangford] 1874; Contemporary Review xxiii, 779–98 (1874); Macmillan’s Mag. xxviii, 382–84 (1873).

DE VESCI, John Vesey, 2 Viscount (eld. child of 1 Viscount de Vesci, who d. 13 Oct. 1804). b. 15 Feb. 1771; M.P. for Maryborough in Irish parliament 1796–97; succeeded 13 Oct. 1804; a representative peer for Ireland 19 Jany. 1839 to death; lord lieut. of Queen’s county 1831 to death. d. Portaferry, co. Down 19 Oct. 1855.

DE VESCI, Thomas Vesey, 3 Viscount (son of the preceding). b. Merrion sq. Dublin 21 Sep. 1803; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1825; sheriff of Queen’s county 1827; M.P. for Queen’s county 1835–37 and 1841–52; a representative peer for Ireland 10 Jany. 1857 to death; an ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland 1868. d. 4 Carlton house terrace, London 23 Dec. 1875. I.L.N. lxviii, 43, 431 (1876).

DEVEY, George. b. London 1820; architect in London; exhibited 6 designs at the R.A. 1841–48; F.R.I.B.A. 1856; produced large number of sketches; added to and altered many fine old English mansions, including those of the Duke of Argyll, Lord Granville, Lord Rosebery, Lord Wolverton and others. d. Hastings 5 Nov. 1886.

DE VINNE, Rev. Daniel. b. Londonderry 1 Feb. 1793; a minister of Methodist Episcopal church 1819; minister in Louisiana and Mississippi 1819–25, in state of New York 1825 to death; author of The Methodist Episcopal church and slavery 1844; Recollections of fifty years in the Ministry 1869; History of the Irish primitive church 1870. d. Morrisania, New York 10 Feb. 1883.

DEVLIN, Anne (niece of Michael Dwyer, Irish insurgent leader 1771–1815). b. about 1780; servant of Robert Emmett at his residence in Butterfield lane, Rathfarnham; messenger between him and his friends in Dublin when he was hiding in the Dublin mountains 1803; suffered more than two years imprisonment in Kilmainham gaol; a washerwoman in Dublin. d. Dublin 18 Sep. 1851 aged 70. bur. Glasnevin cemetery where there is a monument.

DEVON, William Courtenay, 10 Earl of (eld. son of Right Rev. Henry Reginald Courtenay 1741–1803, bishop of Exeter). b. Lower Grosvenor st. London 19 June 1777; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1798, M.A. 1801, D.C.L. 1837; barrister L.I. 11 June 1799; patentee of the Subpœna office 1800–52 when office was abolished; M.P. for Exeter 1812–26; a master in Chancery 30 July 1817 to 23 March 1826; clerk assistant of the Parliaments 6 Feb. 1826 to 26 May 1835 when he succeeded his cousin as 10 Earl; high steward of Univ. of Ox. Feb. 1838 to death; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 21 Jany. 1842 to Aug. 1850. d. Shrivenham, Berkshire 19 March 1859. Doyle’s Official baronage i, 583 (1886), portrait; Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen, second series (1846), portrait.