DUPPA, BRIAN, second son of Jeffrey Duppa, Lewisham, Kent, Purveyor of the Buttery to Queen Elizabeth I and Brewer to King James I, and Lucrece Maresall; b. 10 Mar 1588/9; adm.; QS; “here”, said Henry King (qv), Bishop of Chichester, in his sermon at Duppa’s funeral in Westminster Abbey, “he had the greatest dignity, which the School could afford put upon him, to be the Paedonomus at Christmas, Lord of his Fellow-Scholars” (p. 34); elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1605, matr. 9 Jul 1605, Westminster Student to 1611; BA 1609; MA 1614; BD and DD 1625; Fellow All Souls Coll. Oxford 1612; Junior Proctor 1619; ordained; in 1620s successively Chaplain to Prince Palatine and to Earl of Dorset; Vicar of Westham, Sussex 7 Mar 1625/6-38; Vicar of Hailsham, Sussex 22 Dec 1626-26/7; Vicar of Withyham, Sussex 5 Feb 1626/7-38; Dean of Christ Church, Oxford 28 Nov 1629- Jun 1638; Vice-Chancellor, Oxford Univ. 1632-4; Prebendary and Chancellor of Salisbury 6 Jan 1634- Jun 1638; tutor to Prince of Wales and Duke of Gloucester 1638; Rector of Petworth, Sussex 19 May 1638-41; consecrated Bishop of Chichester 17 Jun 1638; translated to Salisbury 14 Dec 1641; on suppression of the episcopacy he retired to Oxford, and subsequently to Richmond, Surrey; carried out private ordinations of priests and deacons during the Commonwealth, and interested himself in the preservation of the episcopal succession; translated to Winchester 4 Oct 1660; Lord Almoner from 24 Jul 1660; author of a few published sermons and of Jonsonius Virbius, a collection of thirty poems on the death of Ben Jonson (qv), 1637; m. 23 Nov 1626 Jane, dau. of Nicholas Killingtree, Longham, Norfolk; d. 26 Mar 1662. Buried in North Ambulatory, Westminster Abbey. DNB.
DURAND, ---; b.; in school list 1743.
DURAND, SIMON, b.; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1720; in school list 1729; Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 12 May 1729, subsequently pens., matr. 1729; BA 1732/3; MA 1736; ordained; d. c. 1744 (will of Simon Durand, clerk, St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, proved PCC 1 Jun 1744).
Silversmith. Apprenticed to Omar Ramsden 1929-1938. Established workshop in partnership with Leonard Moss in 1945. CBE 1976. Studio taken over by Hector Miller in 1976.
DURELL, DAVID, son of David Durell, St. Saviour’s, Jersey, and Marie, dau. of Jean Aubin, Denonciateur, Royal Court of Jersey; b. 18 Jun 1762; adm. 23 Sep 1772; KS 1777; convicted with four other Westminster boys at Middlesex Quarter Sessions 21 May 1779 of a gross assault on a man in Dean’s Yard, but was only fined one shilling, as it was doubtful whether he was one of the principal offenders (Annual Register, 1779, 213); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1781, matr. 30 Jun 1781, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1781 - void 29 Sep 1792, expiry year of grace as V. Mongewell from 15 Oct 1791; BA 1785; MA 1789; DD Durham [check date]; ordained; Perpetual Curate, Hampton Magna, Worcs., 3 Jul 1789-91; Rector of Mongewell, Oxfordshire, from 1791; Rector of Twining, Gloucs., 1791-1802; Rector of Crowmarsh, Oxfordshire, 1793-1843; Prebendary of Durham from 4 Dec 1801; m. Ann, dau. of Philip Robin, Jersey; d. 15 Jan 1852.
DURELL, JOHN DURELL, elder son of Durell Durell, St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, and Anne, third dau. of Joseph Hamer, Demerara, West Indies; b. 21 May 1812; adm. 28 May 1823; New Inn, Oxford, matr. 16 Feb 1837; played cricket for Oxford 1838; BA 1840; ordained deacon (Norwich) 10 Jan 1841, priest (Winchester) 12 Dec 1841; Vicar of Barton Stacey, Hampshire, 1847-60; Perpetual Curate of Marchwood, Hampshire 1860-78; m. Florence Arabella, third dau. of Matthew Henry Lister (qv); d. 11 Jun 1879.
DURELL, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1745/6 (Preston's); in school lists 1746-9.
DURHAM, JOHN; b; adm. 17 Sep 1778, chorister.
Durham, Shelton, son of John Stephens Durham, attorney-at-law and civil engineer, of Philadelphia, USA, and Constance, d. of Robert Shelton Mackenzie MD DLitt, of Edinburgh and Philadelphia; b. 26 Nov. 1900; adm. Jan. 1915 (A); left Apr. 1919; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1919, BA 1923, MA 1939; Lond. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1931; MB BCh (Oxon.) 1939; Dip. in Tropical Medicine & Health 1940; RAMC in WW2 (Lieut.); MO Tanganyika Territory and later Cameroons Devel. Corpn; regional malariologist Papua New Guinea 1961-6; MO Durban, South Africa, 1967-72; m. 1st 1940 Eve Hart; 2nd 4 Oct. 1979 Mabel Simmons; d. 12 Nov. 1992.