Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H

DORAN, John (only son of John Doran of London, contractor, who d. 1824). b. London 11 March 1807; writer on the Literary Chronicle 1826–28; author of The Wandering Jew produced at Surrey theatre 2 Sep. 1832; Ph.D. Univ. of Marburg, Prussia; literary editor of The Church and State Gazette 1841–52; wrote for the Athenæum 1854 to death, edited it several times during Hepworth Dixon’s absence; edited Notes and Queries 1 Oct. 1872 to death; F.S.A. 19 May 1859; author of Lives of the Queens of England of the house of Hanover 2 vols. 1855, 4 ed. 1874; Monarchs retired from business 2 vols. 1857; “Their Majesties Servants,” Annals of the English stage from T. Betterton to E. Kean 2 vols. 1864, 2 ed. 1865, new ed. by R. W. Lowe 3 vols. 1888 and 15 other works. d. 33 Lansdowne road, Notting hill, London 25 Jany. 1878. J. Doran’s New pictures and old panels 1849, portrait; London Society xlii, 29–37 (1882), portrait; Temple Bar lii, 460–94 (1878); I.L.N. lxxii, 133 (1878), portrait.

DORATT, Sir John. b. about 1779; ed. at Westminster school and Univ. of Leyden, M.D. 1805; physician to British embassy at St. Petersburgh 1835–37; physician to Earl of Durham, governor general of British North America 1838–40; knighted at St. James’s palace 14 Feb. 1838. d. 9 North terrace, Alexander sq. Brompton, London 4 Sep. 1863.

DORIN, Joseph Alexander. b. Edmonton near London 15 Sep. 1802; assistant to accountant general at Calcutta 1821; secretary to Bank of Bengal; deputy accountant general; first financial sec. Jany. 1843; a member of supreme council of India 1853 to May 1858. d. St. Lawrence, Isle of Wight 22 Dec. 1862.

DORNFORD, Rev. Joseph (only son of Josiah Dornford of Deptford, Kent). b. Deptford 9 Jany. 1794; ed. at Wadham coll. Ox., commoner 4 Dec. 1813, scholar; B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820; Michel fellow of Queen’s coll. 1817–19; fellow of Oriel 1819–36, tutor 1823, dean 1828, classical examiner in the schools 1826–28; proctor 1830 when nicknamed the University Corporal; ascended Mont Blanc with Dr. Joseph Von Hamel 18–20 Aug. 1820 when three of the guides were lost in a crevasse and he narrowly escaped same fate; R. of Plymtree, Devon 1832 to death; hon. canon in Exeter cath. 1844 to death. d. Plymtree 18 Jany. 1868. Mozley’s Reminiscences ii, 55–77 (1882); G.M. Sep. 1820 p. 365.

DORNIN, Thomas Aloysius. b. Ireland about 1800; midshipman United States navy 2 May 1815; sailed round the world 1829–30; commanded the “Portsmouth” 1851; prevented invasion of Nicaragua by Wm. Walker the filibuster 1851; captain 1855; commodore on the retired list 16 July 1862; in charge of the fifth light house district 1865 to death. d. Norfolk, Virginia 22 April 1874.

DORRIAN, Most Rev. Patrick. b. Downpatrick, co. Down 29 March 1814; ed. at Downpatrick; entered Maynooth college 23 Aug. 1833; ordained priest 23 Sep. 1837; C. at Belfast 1837–47; parish priest of Loughlin island 1847–60; coadjutor bishop of Down and Connor 4 June 1860, bishop 1865 to death; consecrated in St. Malachy’s ch. Belfast 19 Aug. 1860. d. Dublin 3 Nov. 1885.

D’ORSAY, Gillion Gaspard Alfred de Grimaud, Comte (younger son of Albert D’Orsay, Comte D’Orsay, general in French army). b. Paris 4 Sep. 1798; in the Garde du corps of Charles x, 1815–23; became acquainted with the Earl and Countess of Blessington 1822, travelled with them in South of Europe. m. at Naples 1 Dec. 1827 Harriett Anne Frances dau. of 1 Earl of Blessington, they separated 1829, she was b. 5 Aug. 1812, m. (2) 1 Sep. 1852 hon. Charles Spencer Cowper and d. 17 Dec. 1869; the leader of fashion in London 1830–49; lived at 22 Curzon st. Mayfair 1833–36, at 4 Upper Gore, Kensington 1836–45; most intimately associated with Lady Blessington, they fled to Paris to escape imprisonment for debt April 1849, where she d. 4 June 1849 aged 60; 120 profile sketches by him of celebrities of the day were lithographed by R. J. Lane and published by Mitchell of Bond st; the handsomest man of his time. d. at house of his sister Duchesse de Gramont in Paris 4 Aug. 1852. bur. at Chambourcy near Paris 7 Aug. next to Lady Blessington. R. R. Madden’s Literary life of the Countess of Blessington i, 318–72 (1855), portrait, ii, 406–72; J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters ii, 191–204 (1841); Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known, second series ii, 198–224; W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 284–90, portrait; Gore House, Bentley’s New Monthly Mag. June 1849 pp. 135–51; H. Melton’s Hints on hats (1875) 33–8, portrait; Baily’s Mag. xli, 153–55 (1883); Colburn’s New Monthly Mag. xcvi, 112–26 (1852); Grantley Berkeley’s My Life (1866) iii, 201–31; S. Sidney’s Book of the horse 1886 p. 257, portrait.

Note.—A satire on him with a portrait was published in 1844 entitled D’Horsay or the follies of the day, By A Man of Fashion. Disraeli dedicated to him Henrietta Temple 1837, which contains a flattering portrait of him as Count Mirabel. His character and peculiarities furnished Eugene Sue with the idea of the hero of his novel Le Marquis de Létorière ou L’Art de plaire 1845. He was much satirized by Gilbert A’Beckett in Figaro in London 1832–34.

DOTTIN, Abel Rouse (son of Abel Dottin of Granada hall, Barbados, who d. 1782). Matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 24 May 1786 aged 17; M.P. for Gatton, Surrey 17 June 1818 to 29 June 1820; M.P. for Southampton 9 June 1826 to 23 April 1831, and 9 Jany. 1835 to 23 June 1841. d. 31 Argyll st. Oxford st. London 7 June 1852. Portraits of eminent conservatives, first series (1836), portrait.

DOUBLEDAY, Henry (elder son of Benjamin Doubleday of Epping, Essex, tradesman, who d. 1848). b. Epping 1 July 1808; grocer at Epping 1848–70; introduced the now familiar plan of ‘sugaring’ for moths 1842; an original member of Entomological Soc. of London 1833; published A nomenclature of British birds 1838, 4 ed. 1845; The Zoologists’ Synonymic list of British butterflies and moths 1847, 2 ed. 1859, 2 supplements 1865 and 1873; in a lunatic asylum 1871; the chief lepidopterist England has produced, his collections of lepidoptera have been at Bethnal Green museum since Feb. 1876. d. Epping 29 June 1875. Entomologist x, 53–61 (1877), portrait.

DOUBLEDAY, Thomas (son of George Doubleday of Newcastle, soap manufacturer). b. Newcastle, Feb. 1790; helped forward reform agitation 1832; sec. to Northern political union; junior partner in firm of Doubleday and Easterby, soapmakers, Newcastle; became insolvent; registrar of births, marriages and deaths in St. Andrew’s parish, Newcastle; secretary to the Coal trade to death; author of The true law of population shewn to be connected with the food of the people 1842, 3 ed. 1853; The eve of St. Mark, a romance of Venice 2 vols. 1857; A Financial, monetary and statistical history of England 1847; On mundane moral government 1852, and 10 other books. d. Bulman village (now Gosforth) near Newcastle 18 Dec. 1870. Monthly Chronicle of north country lore, Nov. 1888 pp. 485–88, portrait.

DOUDNEY, Rev. George David. b. 1811; a tailor at 97 Fleet st. London, retired 13 Nov. 1847; preached his first sermon at Clapham Asylum 21 Jany. 1848; matric. Corpus coll. Camb. 3 Feb. 1848; went to Ireland as a missionary and studied the Irish language; ordained by Bp. of Derry 23 Dec. 1848; Incumbent of Dunlewey, Donegal where he preached his first sermon in Irish 25 April 1849; Incumbent of Charles church, Plymouth 26 Jany. 1852 to death; preached 245 sermons 1852; author of Sermons preached in Charles’ Chapel, Plymouth 1866–67, 2 vols. d. Mannamead, Plymouth 19 May 1865. Recollections of Rev. G. D. Doudney 1866, portrait.

DOUGAL, Neil. b. Greenock 9 Dec. 1776; a sailor 1792 to 14 June 1794 when he lost his eyesight by an accident; kept a tavern in Greenock 1824 and then a boarding house; teacher of singing in Greenock 1799; composed about 100 psalm and hymn tunes of which ‘Kilmarnock’ is one of the standard melodies in Presbyterian church service; author of Poems and Songs 1854. d. Greenock 1 Dec. 1862.

DOUGLAS, Andrew Snape. Secretary of legation at Court of Palermo 1809; sec. of embassy at the Hague 1 Oct. 1824, minister plenipotentiary 6 Nov. to 6 Dec. 1824 and 22 Jany. to 25 April 1825; retired from the service 5 Jany. 1829, granted a pension 15 Sep. 1829. d. 7 Onslow sq. Brompton 19 Nov. 1869.

DOUGLAS, Sir Charles Eurwicke (natural son of Right Hon. Charles Philip Yorke 1764–1834). b. 12 May 1806; ed. at Harrow and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, private sec. to Viscount Goderich at Colonial office, Nov. 1830 to March 1833; king-at-arms of order of St. Michael and St. George 1832–59; M.P. for Warwick 1837–1852, for Banbury 1859–1865; contested Durham city 1853; comr. of Greenwich hospital 8 Aug. 1845 to July 1846; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 Oct. 1832; K.C.M.G. 1859. d. 27 Wilton crescent, London 21 Feb. 1887.

DOUGLAS, Claude. Ensign 10 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1819; major 14 N.I. 10 June 1842; col. 56 N.I. 1 May 1858, col. 65 N.I. 1859–70; general on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. d. Bognor 11 April 1883 in 84 year.

DOUGLAS, Francis William Bouverie (2 son of 7 Marquis of Queensberry 1818–58). b. Harleyford near Marlow 8 Feb. 1847; ed. at Eton; came out first in examination for direct commissions in the army 1865; killed by a fall whilst descending the Matterhorn, Switzerland 14 July 1865. E. Whymper’s Ascent of the Matterhorn (1880) 273–95.

DOUGLAS, Right Rev. Henry Alexander (5 son of Henry Alexander Douglas of Dryfesdale, co. Dumfries 1781–1857). b. Lockaby house 22 Feb. 1821; ed. at Glasgow Univ. and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848, D.D. 1868; C. of Alverstoke, Hants. 1846–48; minister of Abp. Tenison’s chapel, Regent st. London 1848–49; V. of Abbotsley, Hunts. 1849–52; dean of Capetown 1852–68; bishop of Bombay, Sep. 1868 to death; consecrated in chapel royal, Whitehall 3 Jany. 1869; author of Sermons 1862; Missions in India 1877. d. Clifton lodge, Clifton gardens, Maida Vale, London 13 Dec. 1875.

DOUGLAS, Sir Howard, 3 Baronet (3 son of Sir Charles Douglas, 1 Baronet, who d. Feb. 1789). b. Gosport, Hants. 23 Jany. 1776; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Jany. 1794; commandant of Military college senior department at High Wycombe 1804–8 and 1809, inspector general of instructions to 1820; succeeded his brother 23 May 1809; patented the reflecting circle or semicircle known by his name 2 July 1811; governor of New Brunswick 5 Sep. 1823 to 1831 where he founded University of Frederickton; lord high comr. of Ionian islands 13 March 1835 to 2 Dec. 1840; col. of 99 foot 15 March 1841, of 15 foot 6 Oct. 1851 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; M.P. for Liverpool 1842–46; F.R.S. 25 Jany. 1816; C.B. 3 Feb. 1817, K.C.B. 18 July 1840, G.C.B. 27 Aug. 1841; G.C.M.G. 18 March 1835; author of An Essay on the principles and construction of military bridges 1816, 3 ed. 1853; A Treatise on naval gunnery 1820, 5 ed. 1860; On naval warfare with steam 1858, 2 ed. 1860 and 9 other books. d. Tunbridge Wells 9 Nov. 1861. Life of Sir Howard Douglas by S. W. Fullom (1863), portrait.

DOUGLAS, Sir James (eld. son of John Douglas of Glasgow). b. Demerara 14 Aug. 1803; chief factor of the Hudson Bay company, chief agent for region west of the Rocky Mountains 1833; governor of Vancouver’s island 9 May 1851 to 1863, of British Columbia 3 Sep. 1858 to 1863 when he retired on a pension of £500; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858, K.C.B. 11 Aug. 1863. d. Victoria, Vancouver’s island 2 Aug. 1877.

DOUGLAS, James. b. Brechin 20 May 1800; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1820; M.R.C.S. London; went to New York 1824; practised in Quebec 1826–51; one of founders of lunatic asylum at Beauport near Quebec 1845, also manager; an enthusiastic traveller and antiquarian. d. New York 14 April 1886.

DOUGLAS, Sir James Dawes (elder son of James Sholto Douglas 1757–1830, major in the army). b. 14 Jany. 1785; D.A.Q.G. in South America 1806 and in Portugal 1807; lieut. col. 8th Portuguese regiment 1809–11; commanded 7th Portuguese brigade 1813–14; lost his leg at battle of Toulouse 10 April 1814; commanded south west district of Ireland 1825–30; governor of Guernsey 1830–38; col. of 93 foot 15 June 1840, of 42 foot 10 April 1850 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.T.S.; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Clifton 6 March 1862.

DOUGLAS, John. b. 1811; ensign 79 foot 25 June 1829; lieut. col. 11 Hussars 13 Aug. 1854 to 8 March 1859 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 5 July 1855; M.G. 6 March 1868. d. Aldershot 10 May 1871.

DOUGLAS, John. One of a family of 24 children; b. Lambeth Walk, Lambeth, London 17 March 1814; played in pantomime at Covent Garden theatre 1825; manager of Gravesend and other theatres 1833–45; manager of Douglas troupe at Sans Souci theatre, Leicester sq. London; lessee of Westminster theatre; lessee of Marylebone theatre; manager of Standard theatre, Shoreditch 1845, proprietor 1852, theatre burnt down 21 Oct. 1866, reopened it 18 Dec. 1867; manager of Pavilion theatre, Whitechapel 1857–71. d. Castle villa, Dalston, London 31 Jany. 1874. Theatrical Times iii, 399, 424 (1848), portrait.

DOUGLAS, Sir John (son of Sir James Dawes Douglas 1785–1862). b. 5 Dec. 1836; ed. at Rugby, Cheltenham and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1864; clerk in audit office, Mauritius, Feb. 1859, sec. to council 1867; poor law comr. June 1868; auditor general Ceylon, Dec. 1869 to 1876; colonial sec. Straits Settlements 1876–78; lieut. governor and colonial sec. Ceylon, July 1878 to death; K.C.M.G. 24 May 1883. d. Lyndhurst, Watford 23 Aug. 1885.

DOUGLAS, Sir John (son of Sir Neil Douglas 1780–1853). b. 7 July 1817; ensign 79 foot 6 Sep. 1833, lieut. col. 13 Aug. 1854 to 16 March 1860 when placed on h.p.; A.A.G. in Scotland 1860–65; commanded the forces in Scotland 1 Oct. 1870 to 30 Sep. 1875; col. 79 foot 1 Jany. 1879 to death; general 30 Jany. 1880; placed on retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 14 May 1859, G.C.B. 2 June 1877. d. Glenfinart, Argyllshire 8 Sep. 1887.

DOUGLAS, Sir Joseph Abraham (son of Joseph Douglas of Whitehaven, Cumberland). b. Chepstow 17 Jany. 1799; master in the navy 30 May 1823, retired 1851; knighted at St. James’s palace 24 March 1841 for having armed his ship the Cambridge and assisted the British in Hong Kong bay in June 1839 losing £10,000 for which the government would not compensate him. d. of epilepsy at 2 Apsley cottage, Moor terrace, Lower park road, Peckham, London 3 April 1866. A case of individual sacrifice and of national gratitude 1847.

DOUGLAS, Sir Neil (5 son of John Douglas of Glasgow, merchant). b. Glasgow 1780; 2 lieut. 21 foot 28 Jany. 1801; captain 79 foot 19 April 1804, lieut. col. 3 Dec. 1812 to 16 Aug. 1833 when placed on h.p.; aide-de-camp to George iv and William iv 27 May 1825 to 10 Jany. 1837; governor of Edinburgh Castle 1 April 1842 to 1 Jany. 1847; col. of 81 foot 11 July 1845, of 72 foot 12 July 1847, of 78 foot 29 Dec. 1851 to death; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; C.B. 22 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep. 1831. d. Brussels 1 Sep. 1853 in 74 year. W. B. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882), portrait; My adventures by Col. Montgomery Maxwell i, pp. v-vi (1845), portrait.

DOUGLAS, Robert. Second lieut. R.A. 1 Nov. 1796, lieut. col. 31 Dec. 1827 to 6 May 1835 when placed on retired full pay; general 25 Sep. 1859; C.B. 4 June 1815. d. Claygate near Esher 10 Feb. 1871 aged 93.

DOUGLAS, William. Second lieut. R.E. 1 July 1801, lieut. col. 23 March 1825 to 27 Jany. 1829 when placed on half pay; lieut. col. on full pay 11 Nov. 1851 to death; general 3 April 1862. d. Hastings 10 Feb. 1864 aged 77.

DOUGLAS, William Scott. b. Hawick 10 Jany. 1815; ed. in Heriot’s hospital, Edinburgh; sec. of Edinburgh Burns club 1877 to death; edited The Complete poetical works of Robert Burns 1871, revised ed. 1876; Picture of the county of Ayr 1874; The works of Robert Burns 6 vols. 1877–79; supplied letterpress for Crombie’s Modern Athenians 1882; found drowned near end of the East pier, Leith 23 June 1883.

DOULTON, Frederick (3 son of John Doulton of Lambeth). b. Lambeth 1824; manufacturer of earthenware goods; member of Metropolitan board of works for Lambeth 1856 to death; contested Reigate 6 Feb. 1858; M.P. for Lambeth 5 May 1862 to 11 Nov. 1868. d. of apoplexy at Summerhill house, Tunbridge Wells 21 May 1872. Affaire Doulton Bruxelles 1868.

DOVASTON, John Freeman Milward (only son of John Dovaston of Westfelton near Oswestry 1740–1808). b. 30 Dec. 1782; ed. at Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; barrister M.T. 12 June 1807; author of Fitz Gwarine with other rhymes 1812, 3 ed. called Poems, legendary, incidental and humorous 1825; A selection of British melodies 1817; The Dove 1822 a selection of old poems; Lectures on natural history and national melody 1839. d. Nursery villa, Westfelton 8 Aug. 1854. G.M. xlii, 395–6 (1854).

DOVE, Patrick Edward (son of Henry Dove, lieutenant R.N.) b. Lasswade near Edinburgh 31 July 1815, lived at the Craig near Ballantrae, Ayrshire 1841–48 when he lost most of his fortune; captain of Midlothian rifle club April 1853; edited the Witness for 6 months in 1854; edited the Commonwealth newspaper at Glasgow 1858; edited first 20 numbers of Imperial dictionary of biography 1857; edited with M. Rankine Imperial Journal of the arts and sciences; invented a rifled cannon with ratchet grooves which had great range and accuracy; commanded 91st Lanarkshire rifle volunteers 1859; won several prizes at Wimbledon 1860; author of The theory of human progression and natural probability of a reign of justice 1850, anon.; The Elements of political science 1854; Romanism, Rationalism and Protestantism 1855; The logic of the Christian faith 1856; The Revolver, its description and use 1858. d. Edinburgh 28 April 1873.

DOVE, Thomas. A house painter; a marine artist of great ability; his best pictures were produced at Liverpool. d. in the Whitby workhouse 27 Dec. 1886.

DOVE, William (son of Mr. Dove of Leeds, leather manufacturer, who d. 24 Dec. 1854). A farmer at Bramham near Tadcaster to 1855; poisoned his wife Harriet by strychnia 1 March 1856, tried at the Assizes at York 16–18 July 1856, hanged at York 9 Aug. 1856 aged 30. G. L. Browne and C. G. Stewart’s Trials for poisoning (1883) 233–68; Sir J. F. Stephen’s History of the criminal law of England iii, 426–37 (1883); Observations on the trials of J. Hill and W. Dove 1856.

DOVETON, Frederick Larkins. Entered Madras army 1806; col. 8 Madras light cavalry 18 Feb. 1845 to death; L.G. 13 March 1859. d. Cheltenham 20 Dec. 1859 aged 68.

DOVETON, Sir John (son of Sir Wm. Webber Doveton, knt., of the H.E.I.Co.’s civil service, who d. 13 Oct. 1843 in 90 year). b. St. Helena 1783; cavalry cadet in H.E.I.Co.’s army, 31 Oct. 1798; aide-de-camp to Marquis Wellesley; commanded a division of the Nizam’s army; commanded centre division of Madras army; lieut. col. 4 Madras Native Cavalry 19 Aug. 1813, col. 9 Nov. 1821; col. 5 Madras light cavalry 1847 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Vichy, France 23 Sep. 1857.

DOW, Rev. William (youngest son of Rev. Anthony Dow, D.D., minister of Kirkpatrick, Irongray, Perthshire, who d. 17 July 1834). Educ. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 17 April 1839; licensed by Presbytery of Dumfries 6 Nov. 1821; presented by George iv to Tongland, Kirkcudbright 13 June and ordained 21 Sep. 1826; withdrew his adherence to the confession of faith, deposed by the General Assembly 23 May 1832; called to be an Apostle of the Catholic Apostolic church when at Kirkcudbright, June 1835; made a tour of the continent 1839 as the Apostle to Russia; a writer in the Morning Watch; author of A series of discourses on practical and doctrinal subjects 1847, second series 1850; Sermons and Homilies 1856; First principles of the doctrine of Christ 1856. d. Albury, Surrey 3 Nov. 1855 aged 56. Miller’s Irvingism i, 157, 166, 181, 271 (1878); Scott’s Fasti, vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 725.

Note.—His elder brother Rev. David Dow, assistant minister of Kirkpatrick, Irongray, was called to be an Apostle of the Catholic Apostolic church when at Irongray, June 1835 but declined to accept the call; he went to the Cape of Good Hope and became a farmer.

DOWBIGGIN, Montagu Hamilton (son of Wm. Henry Dowbiggin 1780–1849, lieut. 12 Lancers, by Georgina 5 dau. of 1 Baron Panmure). b. 15 Jany. 1832; ensign 71 foot 30 June 1848; major 99 foot 22 July 1859, lieut. col. 3 March 1863 to 10 Dec. 1863 when placed on h.p.; served in Crimean war 1854–55; the object of Lord Panmure’s celebrated telegram to Lord Raglan “Take care of Dowb”; retired from army June 1865; knight of the Legion of Honour 1856. d. Portland place, Brighton 3 Feb. 1866. bur. Haversham, Bucks.

DOWDESWELL, George (youngest son of George Dowdeswell, M.D. of Gloucester, who d. 1776). Writer Bengal civil service 7 Aug. 1783; sec. to Board of Revenue 25 Aug. 1794; sec. in judicial and revenue departments 16 March 1801; superintendent general of police 1805; chief sec. to Government 30 Oct. 1812; member of supreme council 28 Dec. 1814 to 1823 when he resigned. d. Down house, Redmarley, Worcs. 6 Feb. 1852 aged 86.

DOWDESWELL, John Edmund (youngest child of Wm. Dowdeswell, M.P. for Worcs. who d. 1775). b. 3 March 1772; ed. at Westminster 1779–89 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1795; pupil of Sir Samuel Romilly; barrister I.T. 6 May 1796, bencher 1834, reader 1841, treasurer 1842; recorder for Tewkesbury 1798–1833; M.P. for Tewkesbury 1812–1832; comr. of bankrupts 1806–1820; master in Chancery 8 Feb. 1820 to 1851. d. Pull court near Tewkesbury 11 Nov. 1851.

DOWDESWELL, William (elder son of the preceding). b. Oct. 1804; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; contested Tewkesbury 12 Dec. 1832; M.P. for Tewkesbury 1835 to 1847; sheriff of Worcs. 1855. d. Pull court 6 Feb. 1887.

DOWKER, Howard. Entered Madras army 1813; col. 40 Madras N.I. 3 March 1848 to 1853, col. 2 Madras N.I. 1853–1869; L.G. 21 April 1863. d. 5 Feb. 1870.

DOWLING, Alfred Septimus (son of Vincent Dowling of 30 Lincolns Inn Fields, London, bookseller). Barrister G.I. 18 June 1828; serjeant at law 12 Nov. 1842; judge of county courts circuit No. 15 Yorkshire 9 Nov. 1849 to death; a comr. for inquiring into state of county courts 20 Aug. 1853; author of A collection of statutes passed 1830–2, 2 vols. 1832; A collection of statutes passed 2 Wm. iv and 3 Wm. iv, 1833; Reports of cases in King’s Bench practice courts with the points of pleading and practice decided in the Courts of Common Pleas and Exchequer 1830–41, 7 vols. 1833–42, new series (with Vincent Dowling) 1841–43, 2 vols. 1843–44; Reports of cases in continuation of the above (with J. J. Lowndes) 1844–49, 7 vols. 1845–51; The practice of the superior courts 1848. d. 34 Acacia road, St. John’s Wood, London 3 March 1868 aged 63.