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

DOWLING, Frank Lewis (son of Vincent George Dowling 1785–1852). b. 18 Oct. 1823; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1848; edited Bell’s Life in London 1852 to death; edited and published annual issues of Fistiana, or the Oracle of the Ring 1853–64, prepared another ed. published 1868; managed the fight between Heenan and Sayers at Farnborough, Hants. 17 April 1860. d. Norfolk st. Strand, London 10 Oct. 1867. Illustrated Sporting News 19 Oct. 1867 p. 657, portrait.

DOWLING, Rev. John. b. Pevensey, Sussex 12 May 1807; kept a boarding school near Oxford 1829–32; ordained Baptist minister in Catskill, New York 1832; minister at Newport, Rhode Island 1834–36, in New York 1836; preached in Providence, Philadelphia, Newark and other places; D.D. Transylvania University; author of Exposition of the prophecies 1840; Defence of the Protestant Scriptures 1843; The History of Romanism 1845 and other books. d. Middletown, New York 4 July 1878. M. H. Smith’s Sunshine and shadow in New York (1868) 589–92.

DOWLING, Vincent George (brother of Alfred Septimus Dowling, who d. 1868). b. London 1785; contributed to the Observer from 1804; employed on the Day newspaper 1809; edited Bell’s Life in London, Aug. 1824 to death, a service of plate value 100 guineas voted him 18 July 1833; one of the first persons to seize Bellingham when he shot Spencer Perceval in lobby of House of Commons 11 May 1812; claimed to be the author of the plan on which new police system was organised; edited and published Fistiana or the Oracle of the Ring, 14 editions 1840–52. d. Stanmore lodge, Kilburn, London 25 Oct. 1852. I.L.N. 13 Nov. 1852 pp. 406, 408, portrait.

DOWN, James Somers. Entered Bombay army 1819; col. 1 Bombay N.I. 13 July 1858 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. d. Kilburn, London 25 Sep. 1871.

DOWNALL, Venerable John (only son of James Downall of Liverpool). Matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 3 July 1822 aged 19, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; P.C. of St. George’s, Kidderminster 1843–49; V. of Okehampton, Devon 1850 to death; preb. of Exeter cath. 1855 to death; archdeacon of Totnes, April 1859 to death; author of Laying on of hands or Letters on confirmation 1848; An address after confirmation 1848, 5 ed. 1858 and 7 charges and sermons. d. Bournemouth 7 April 1872.

DOWNE, William Henry Dawnay, 7 Viscount. b. 15 May 1812; M.P. for Rutland 12 July 1841 to Jany. 1846; succeeded 23 May 1846. d. Torquay 26 Jany. 1857.

DOWNES, Ulysses De Burgh, 2 Baron (only son of Thomas Burgh of Bert house, Athy, co. Kildare, who d. 1810). b. Dublin 15 Aug. 1788; ensign 54 foot 31 March 1804; captain 92 foot 25 Nov. 1808; captain Grenadier guards 25 July 1814 to 5 July 1827 when placed on h.p.; surveyor general of the ordnance 18 March 1820 to 14 May 1827, clerk of the ordnance 1828–30; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign 27 May 1825 to 10 Jany. 1837; col. of 54 foot 4 April 1845, of 29 foot 15 Aug. 1850 to death; general 20 June 1854; succeeded his cousin 2 March 1826; Irish representative peer 4 April 1833 to death; reassumed ancient name of De Burgh 1848; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Bert house, Athy 26 July 1863.

DOWNIE, Sir Alexander Mackenzie (youngest son of Rev. Alexander Downie, minister of Lochalsh, Rosshire). b. 1811; physician to Princess Elizabeth, landgravine of Hesse Homburg; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840 for his attention to the Princess; phys. to British legation at Frankfort 1834–49; phys. in ordinary to Duke of Cambridge 30 Nov. 1840; phys. extraordinary in household of Duchess of Kent 1846; author of A short description of Kissingen 1841; A practical treatise on mineral waters in the cure of chronic disease 1841. d. Frankfort 3 Feb. 1852.

DOWNING, David. Ensign 6 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1819; colonel Bengal infantry 7 May 1855; general 23 Aug. 1875. d. The Grange, Plaxtole, Kent 18 Dec. 1888 aged 88.

DOWNING, M’Carthy (2 son of Eugene Downing of Kenmare, co. Kerry). b. 11 May 1814; took an active part in formation of Irish parliamentary party of 1852; M.P. for county Cork 30 Nov. 1868 to death. d. Prospect house, Skibbereen, co. Cork 9 Jany. 1879.

DOWNING, Samuel (son of Rev. Samuel Downing, R. of Fenagh, Leighlin). b. Bagenalstown, Carlow 19 June 1811; ed. at Kilkenny coll. and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1834; educ. in engineering at Edin.; employed in construction of viaduct from Portland island to mainland, and on the Coed-re-Coed curved viaduct on Taff Vale railway; assistant professor of engineering Trinity coll. 1847, professor 1852 to death; Assoc. I.C.E. 2 March 1852; author of The elements of practical hydraulics for the use of students 1855, 3 ed. 1875; Elements of practical construction in engineering and architecture 1875; Selections and specifications of public works. d. 21 April 1882. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxii, 310–11 (1883).

DOWNMAN, Hugh. b. Plymouth 29 Oct. 1765; entered navy 10 Oct. 1776; captain 26 Dec. 1798; admiral 24 April 1847; awarded pension 1 July 1851. d. Hambledon, Hants. 4 Jany. 1858.

DOWNMAN, Sir Thomas Charles Francis (eld. son of Col. Francis Downman, Royal artillery). b. St. Neots, Hunts. 1776; 2 lieut. R.A. 24 April 1793; lieut. col. R.H.A. 20 Dec. 1814, col. commandant 28 Sep. 1843 to death; commanded Woolwich district and garrison 1848 to death; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign 27 May 1825 to 10 Jany. 1837; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; K.C.B. 6 April 1852; K.C.H. 1831; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep. 1831. d. Royal arsenal, Woolwich 11 Aug. 1852.

DOWNSHIRE, Arthur Wills Blundell Sandys Trumbull Windsor Hill, 4 Marquis of (eld. child of 3 Marquis of Downshire 1788–1845). b. Hillsborough castle, co. Down 6 Aug. 1812; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; ensign Royal South Down militia 4 June 1833, col. 30 July 1845 to death; M.P. for co. Down 30 Aug. 1836 to 12 April 1845 when he succeeded; K.P. 24 May 1859. d. Dolphin hotel, Herne Bay 6 Aug. 1868.

DOWTON, John. b. Uxbridge 1820; tutor at Haileybury; professor of Hindustani at University college, London and at Staff college, Sandhurst 1855–77; author of Grammar of the Urdu or Hindustani language 1862; Classical dictionary of Hindu mythology and religion, history and literature 1879; edited from the papers of Sir H. M. Elliott History of India as told by its own historians 8 vols. 1867–77. d. Sandhurst lodge, East Worthing 23 Aug. 1881.

DOWTON, William (son of Mr. Dowton of Exeter, Innkeeper). b. Exeter 25 April 1764; joined a company of strolling players at Ashburton 1781; acted with Mrs. Baker’s company in Kent 1791–96; made his first appearance in London at Drury Lane as Sheva in The Jew 11 Oct. 1796, continued at Drury Lane 36 years playing at the Haymarket in the summer; manager of theatres at Canterbury and Maidstone; acted in New York, June to Nov. 1836; one of the most versatile actors of his time. d. Brighton terrace, Brixton 19 April 1851. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iv, 253–62 (1826), portrait; Bentley’s Miscellany xli, 318–30 (1857); Cumberland’s British Theatre xxvii, 7–8, portrait; British Stage, Nov. 1819 pp. 25–6, portrait; Tallis’s Dramatic Mag. June 1851 pp. 235–6, portrait; Illust. sporting and dramatic news 30 Oct. 1880 pp. 160, 162, portrait.

DOWTON, William (eld. son of the preceding). b. 1793; manager of the Kent circuit 1815–35; made his first appearance in London at Drury Lane theatre 3 Dec. 1832 as Tangent; a brother of the Charterhouse 1846 to death. d. the Charterhouse, London 19 Sep. 1883.

DOXAT, Lewis. b. British West Indies 1773; employed on the Morning Chronicle in London 25 years; manager of the Observer 1804–57; manager of the Morning Chronicle 1821–34. d. 13 Queen’s crescent, Haverstock hill, London 4 March 1871 aged 98.

DOYLE, Andrew (3 son of Andrew Doyle of Dublin, merchant). b. 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister L.I. 10 June 1842; inspector of poor law board, Feb. 1848 to 1871, of local government board 1871–76, his district included nearly all Wales; prepared elaborate reports on vagrancy 1849 and 1865, on pauper education 1850 and 1862, and a detailed report on sanitary state of his district on passing of first Public Health act 1872; assistant comr. on agricultural depression in England for Western district 1879–80. d. Pendarren, Crickhowell, Breconshire 14 Dec. 1888.

DOYLE, Sir Charles Hastings (eld. son of Sir Charles Wm. Doyle, C.B. 1770–1842). b. 10 April 1803; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 87 foot 23 Dec. 1819; A.A.G. in Ireland 1847; inspector general of militia in Ireland 1856–61; commanded the troops in Nova Scotia 1861–68; lieut. governor of New Brunswick Oct. 1866 to Oct. 1867; lieut. governor of Nova Scotia, Oct. 1867 to May 1873; col. of 70 foot May 1868, of 87 foot 10 Oct. 1870 to death; commanded forces in British North America 1870–74, and Southern district of England 1874–77; general 15 March 1877, placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.M.G. 23 June 1869. d. at his lodgings 18 Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 19 March 1883.

DOYLE, Sir Francis Hastings Charles, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, 1 baronet 1783–1839). b. Nun Appleton, Yorkshire 22 Aug. 1810; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1832, B.C.L. 1843, hon. D.C.L. 1877; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1835–45 and 1872–77; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1837; assistant solicitor of the Excise 1845–46; receiver general of Customs 1846 to Nov. 1869; comr. of Customs, Nov. 1869 to 1883; professor of poetry at Oxford 20 June 1867 to June 1877; author of Miscellaneous Verses 1834; Two Destinies, a poem 1844; Return of the guards and other poems 1866; Lectures delivered before the University of Oxford 1868, second series 1877; Reminiscences and opinions 1886. d. 46 Davies st. Berkeley sq. London 8 Feb. 1888.

DOYLE, John. b. Dublin 1797; portrait painter in London 1821; published 6 plates entitled The life of a racehorse 1822; issued under initials of H. B. a series of lithographed caricatures entitled Political sketches of H. B., Nos. 1–917 a series of coloured lithographic prints 9 vols. 1829–51, there was a key to them entitled A Key to the political sketches Nos. 1–600 of H. B. 11 vols. 1831–43; paid £300 by the War Office for an improved Tent 1856. d. 54 Clifton gardens, Maida Vale, London 2 Jany. 1868. Everitt’s English caricaturists (1886) 238–86; J. Paget’s Paradoxes and puzzles (1874) 461–3; The Month viii, 392–411 (1868).

DOYLE, Sir John Milley (2 son of Rev. Nicholas Milley Doyle, R. of Newcastle, co. Tipperary). b. 1781; ensign 107 foot 31 May 1794; lieut. col. Portuguese army March 1809; commanded sixth Portuguese brigade 1813–14; lieut. col. on half pay 11 May 1820; retired from service as col. 27 May 1825; M.P. for co. Carlow 1831–32; served in Portuguese army 1832 to May 1834; military knight of Windsor, July 1853; serjeant at arms to the Queen, June 1854 to death; nominated K.T.S. 12 Oct. 1812, gazetted 20 March 1813; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 28 July 1814; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; published pamphlets and petitions 1829–46 by which he got the mixed commission appointed to liquidate claims of English officers who served in Portuguese army. d. Lower ward, Windsor castle 9 Aug. 1856.

DOYLE, Percy William (brother of Sir Charles Hastings Doyle 1803–83). b. 1806; attached to British mission at Washington 2 June 1825; sec. of legation to Mexican republic 6 Dec. 1842, minister plenipotentiary 24 Dec. 1851 to 19 Feb. 1858 when he retired on pension; C.B. 4 March 1858. d. 5 Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 21 Feb. 1888.

DOYLE, Richard (2 son of John Doyle 1797–1868). b. London, Sep. 1824; published The Eglinton Tournament or the days of chivalry revived 1839; kept a manuscript ‘Journal’ 1840, issued in facsimile 1885; contributed sketches and cartoons to Punch 1843–50; designed the cover for Punch now used; his Manners and customs of ye Englyshe appeared in Punch 1849; published The foreign tour of Brown, Jones and Robinson 1854; illustrated The Newcomes by Thackeray 1854 and other books; contributed Birds’-eye views of society to Cornhill Mag. 1861–63; many water-colours by him were exhibited at Grosvenor gallery, London 1885; drawn by Leech in his cartoon entitled “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch vol. xii, p. 14, Jany. 1847, as the clarionet player in the orchestra. d. 7 Finborough road, South Kensington, London 11 Dec. 1883. Everitt’s English caricaturists (1886) 381–94; Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 101–3 (1885); W. M. Rossetti’s Fine Art (1867) 289–91; Blackwood’s Mag. April 1885 pp. 485–91; Graphic xxviii, 608 (1883), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 13 (1884), portrait.

DOYLE, Rev. Thomas. b. 21 Dec. 1793; ed. at St. Edmund’s college, Ware, ordained priest 1819; priest at Royal Belgian chapel, London road, Southwark 1820, senior priest there 1829; St. George’s R.C. cathedral in St. George’s Fields was built owing to his exertions, consecrated 4 July 1848; Provost of cathedral chapter of Southwark 1850 to death; wrote letters in The Tablet and other periodicals under signature of ‘Father Thomas.’ d. St. George’s Cathedral, London 6 June 1879. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 103–5 (1885).

DOYLE, Sir William Henry (son of Edward Doyle). b. Nassau, Bahamas 1823; barrister M.T. 8 May 1846; registrar of court of bankruptcy for Bahamas 1847–58; assistant justice of general court of Bahamas 1858, chief justice and pres. of legislative council 14 Sep. 1865 to 31 March 1875; knighted at Windsor Castle 12 Dec. 1873; chief justice of Leeward Islands 31 March 1875; chief justice of Gibraltar, judge of vice admiralty court and court of requests 14 May 1877 to death. d. 8 Montpellier villas, Cheltenham 27 April 1879.

DOYLEY, Henry (youngest son of Ven. Matthias Doyley, archdeacon of Lewes, who d. 13 Nov. 1815 aged 71). b. 21 April 1780; ensign Grenadier guards 2 Aug. 1797, lieut. col. 10 Jany. 1837 to 28 June 1838; col. 33 foot 28 Sep. 1847 to death; general 30 Jany. 1855. d. Nevill park, Tunbridge Wells 26 Sep. 1855.

DOYLEY, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. London 16 Nov. 1774; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1795, B.C.L. 1800, D.C.L. 1804; fellow of All Souls’ college 1800–20; barrister M.T. 9 Nov. 1798; serjeant at law 9 Feb. 1819, received patent of precedence 1834; chairman of quarter sessions, West Sussex; edited with E. V. Williams Burn’s Justice of the Peace 5 vols. 1836. d. Rottingdean near Brighton 14 Jany. 1855.

DOYNE, William Thomas (2 son of Rev. J. Doyne, P.C. of Old Leighlin, co. Carlow). b. April 1823; articled to Edward Dixon, C.E. 1840; resident engineer of Rugby and Leamington railway 1847–50; in charge of the Army works corps consisting of about 2400 navvies and artificers, at Balaclava 1855–56; practised at Melbourne 1866 to death; consulting engineer to government of Western Australia 1869; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1849, M.I.C.E. 9 Nov. 1852; author of The causes which have retarded the construction of railways in India 1860; Report upon the plains and rivers of Canterbury, New Zealand 1864. d. Melbourne 29 Sep. 1877. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. li, 270–73 (1878).

DRAKARD, John. Printer and bookseller at Stamford; started a weekly paper called The Stamford News 15 Sep. 1809; sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment in Lincoln Castle and fined £200 at Lincoln 13 March 1811 for a seditious libel, an article in his paper of 24 Aug. 1810 entitled ‘One thousand lashes’; started a weekly paper called The Champion of the East 5 Jany. 1830, the name was changed to the Stamford Champion; both his papers ceased 1834; published Drakard’s Edition of the public and private life of Colonel Wardle, Stamford n.d.; author of The history of Stamford 1822. d. Ripon 25 Jany. 1854 aged 79. Howell’s State Trials xxxi, 495–544 (1823).

DRAKE, Charles Frederick Tyrwhitt (younger son of Col. Wm. Tyrwhitt Drake of the Royal horse guards, who d. 21 Dec. 1848). b. Amersham, Bucks. 2 Jany. 1846; ed. at Rugby, Wellington coll. and Trin. coll. Cam. but took no degree; spent winters of 1866 and 1867 in Morocco; visited Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Greece and Turkey 1868–70; engaged on survey of Palestine for Palestine exploration fund society 1870 to death; F.R.G.S.; author of Modern Jerusalem 1875; author with Sir R. F. Burton of Unexplored Syria 2 vols. 1872. d. Jerusalem 23 June 1874. Literary remains of C. F. T. Drake by W. Besant 1877; Modern Jerusalem by the late C. F. T. Drake with a memoir 1875; Palestine Fund Reports (1874) pp. 131–4.

DRAKE, John Poad (son of Thomas Drake of Stoke Damerel, Devon, who d. 20 May 1835). Baptised at Stoke Damerel 20 July 1794; painted a picture of Napoleon on board the Bellerophon at Plymouth 1815 which he exhibited in New York; occupied with schemes for breechloading guns 1829–37; laid proposals before government for ironcased floating batteries and steam rams 1832–40; patented his diagonal system of shipbuilding and a screw trenail fastening 1837; failed to obtain adoption of any of his inventions. d. Fowey, Cornwall 26 Feb. 1883. Dict. of Nat. Biog. xv, 447 (1888).

DRAKE, Samuel, stage name of Samuel Bryant. b. England 15 Nov. 1768; apprenticed to a printer; ran away and became an actor; managed a theatre in West of England; acted at Boston theatre, U.S. 1809–13, and at Albany, New York 1813–15; managed theatres at Frankfort, Lexington and Louisville all in Kentucky 1815 to about 1827, afterwards managed theatres in Ohio, Tennessee, Missouri and Indiana; may properly be called the pioneer of the drama in the West. d. Oldham county, Kentucky 16 Oct. 1854.

DRAKE, Sir Thomas Trayton Fuller-Eliott, 1 Baronet (3 son of John Trayton Fuller of Ashdown house, Sussex, who d. 1812). b. Heathfield park, Sussex 8 Feb. 1785; lieut. 52 foot 5 Oct. 1804, major 26 May 1814 to 25 May 1815 when placed on h.p.; assumed additional surnames of Eliott and Drake by r.l. 31 March 1813; created baronet 22 Aug. 1821; sheriff of Devon 1822; edited Life of Sir F. Drake 1828. d. Nutwell court near Exeter 6 June 1870.

DRAKE, Thomas Tyrwhitt (eld. son of Thomas Drake of Shardeloes, Bucks., who d. 1810). b. 16 March 1783; M.P. for Amersham, Bucks. 31 Jany. 1805 to 3 Dec. 1832; sheriff of Bucks. 1836; master of hounds in the Bicester country many years. d. Bucknell, Oxfordshire 23 March 1852.

DRAKE, Sir William Henry (son of John Drake, deputy commissary general, who d. 24 June 1867 aged 84). b. 1812; deputy assistant commissary general 16 April 1835, commissary general 21 June 1859; controller in Ireland 1867, in Great Britain 1869; director of supplies and transports 3 Sep. 1871 to 29 Sep. 1872; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 20 May 1871. d. 10 Clanricarde gardens, Bayswater, London 28 Jany. 1882.

DRAPER, Rev. Daniel James. b. parish of Wickham, Hants. 28 Aug. 1810; became a Wesleyan Methodist 1830; minister of Chatteris circuit 1834; minister at Sydney, N.S.W. 1836–37, 1842–46, at Melbourne 1846–47 and 1855 to 1865, at Adelaide 1847–55; president of the Conference 1859; drowned with 244 other passengers in the wreck of the “London” steamship in the Bay of Biscay 11 Jany. 1866. F. J. Jobson’s Memorial tribute to D. J. Draper 1866, portrait.

DRAPER, John William (son of John C. Draper, Wesleyan minister, who d. 1829). b. St. Helen’s near Liverpool 5 May 1811; ed. at Woodhouse grove school, London Univ. and Univ. of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1836; professor of chemistry and natural philosophy in Hampden Sidney college, Virginia 1836–39; professor of medical department in Univ. of New York 1839, of chemistry 1840–81; pres. of New York medical college 1850–73; made first photographic portrait from life 1839 and first photograph of moon’s surface 1840; LLD. Princeton 1860; first pres. of American Chemical Soc. 1876; author of Text book of chemistry 1846; Text book of human physiology 1856; History of the intellectual development of Europe 2 vols. 1864; History of the American civil war 3 vols. 1871; History of the conflict between religion and science 1874, translated into 9 languages. d. Hastings on river Hudson 20 miles north of New York 4 Jany. 1882. Barker’s Memoir of J. W. Draper 1882, portrait; Appleton’s American Biog. ii, 226–27 (1887), portrait; Graphic xxv, 68, (1882), portrait.

DRAPER, William Henry (son of Rev. Henry Draper, lecturer of St. George’s ch. Southwark). b. near London 11 March 1801; arrived in Cobourg, Canada 4 June 1820; called to bar in Canada 16 June 1828; reporter to the King’s Bench 18 Nov. 1829 to March 1837; solicitor general of Upper Canada 23 March 1837, member of executive council, Dec. 1837, the first attorney general for Upper Canada 13 Feb. 1841 to 28 May 1847; Q.C. 1842; a legislative councillor of Canada 10 April 1843 to Jany. 1845; member of legislative assembly Jany. 1845 to 28 May 1847; a puisne judge of Queen’s Bench 12 June 1847; chief justice of Common Pleas 5 Feb. 1856; chief justice of Upper Canada 22 July 1863 to 20 Oct. 1868; C.B. 23 June 1854; pres. of court of error and appeal Ontario 20 Oct. 1868; author of Upper Canada King’s Bench Reports 1729–31, 2 vols. 1861–62. d. Yorkville, Toronto 3 Nov. 1877. Law Magazine and law review xxvii, 362 (1869).

DRAYTON, Henri. b. Philadelphia 1822; ed. at Paris Conservatoire; primo basso in Italian opera in France and Belgium 1848–50; sang in English opera in London 1850–59; gave parlor opera entertainments with his wife in the United States 1859–61 when he returned to England; sang with Riching’s English Opera company in America 1867–70; author of dramas and operas. d. 57 East ninth st. New York 11 Aug. 1872. I.L.N. xxx, 411 (1856), portrait.

DREW, Andrew. b. 27 Nov. 1792; entered navy 4 May 1806; commodore of provincial marine of Upper Canada 1838–39; captain on h.p. 10 June 1843; agent victualler at Cape of Good Hope 16 Dec. 1850 to 30 Jany. 1863; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1875; discovered a dangerous shoal between Trinidad and Tobago 1842, afterwards called Drew’s Rock. d. Glenwood house, Peckham Rye, Surrey 19 Dec. 1878. A narrative of the capture of the Caroline 1844.

Note.—He successfully defended Cape Coast castle in 1824 with 160 sailors against an attack by 50,000 Ashantees. During the Canadian rebellion in 1838 with only about 35 men he captured the rebel steamer Caroline and sent it burning over the falls of Niagara, one of the most daring exploits recorded in naval history.

DREW, Rev. George Smith (son of George Drew of 11 Tottenham court road, London, tea dealer). b. Louth, Lincs. 1819; sizar at St. John’s coll. Cam. 22 Jany. 1839; 27 wrangler 1843; Inc. of St. John the Evangelist, St. Pancras, London 1850–54; V. of Pulloxhill, Beds. 1854–58; V. of St. Barnabas, South Kensington, London 1858–70; select preacher to Univ. of Cam. 1869–70; R. of Avington, Hants. 1870–72; Hulsean lecturer at Cam. 1877; V. of Holy Trinity, Lambeth, London 18 Sep. 1872 to death; F.R.G.S.; author of Scripture studies or readings in the Old Testament 1855, 2 ed. 1869; Scripture lands in connection with their history 1860, 2 ed. 1862; Reasons of faith or the Christian argument developed 1862, 2 ed. 1869 and 11 other books. d. Holy Trinity vicarage, Lambeth 21 Jany. 1880.