DORMER, ROBERT; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jul 1741; left 1746. [Perhaps bapt. Stanbridge, Beds., 6 Dec 1730, son of William Dormer, and Anne --- (IGI)]
DORNFORD, JAMES WILLIAM, son of James Dornford, St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate, London, and Mary --- (Hatt ? (IGI)); b. 16 Oct 1783; at school 1793; in school lists 1795, 1797; boarder (Clapham) 13 Jan 1796; KS 1798. [will PCC 24 Apr 1812, as of Greenwich, Kent]
DORRELL, ---; b.; adm.; a pensioner 1565-8 (tutor, Prebendary Norley) (Chapter Muniments 54005-16).
DORSETT, ---; b.; in school lists 1752, 1754.
Doswell, Algernon Michael, son of Algernon George Doswell, accountant, of Sydenham, Kent; b. 1 June 1918; adm. Sept. 1931 (G); left July 1936; Univ. of Lond., fenced for the University 1939; MN radio officer, lost in the Norwegian SS Polyana, sunk by enemy action Apr. 1941.
Algernon Michael Doswell was born at Torquay, Devon on the 1st of June 1918 the only son of George Algernon Doswell, an accountant for a railway company, and Hilda Elizabeth (nee Fortune) Doswell of 17, Crescent Wood Road, Camberwell in Kent, later of 22, Ingleby Road, Ilford in Essex. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Grant’s from September 1931 to July 1936. He was a member of the Fencing team in 1934 and 1935, winning the Foil Medal in 1935, and was appointed as Captain. He represented the school in the Public Schools Fencing Championship in April 1934. He went on to the University of London where he studied Architecture and fenced for the university in 1939.
He trained as a wireless operator with the General Post Office from the 6th of May 1940 before enlisting in the Merchant Navy. He was posted to the steam merchant SS Polyana.
The SS Polyana, under the command of Master Karl Jacobsen, set sail from Sutherland on the 22nd of March 1941 bound for Oban where she was to join a convoy. She set sail from Oban on the 7th of April 1941 as part of Convoy OG-58 but detached from the convoy on the 14th of April 1941 and sailed on unescorted bound for Freetown where she was due to arrive on the 30th of April.
At 11.57pm on the 24th of April 1941, the SS Polyana was sailing alone, about 250 miles to the west south west of Cape Verde Island, when the U Boat U-103, under the command of Korvettenkapitän Viktor Schütze, fired a torpedo at her which missed. At 12.38am on the 25th of April 1941 U-103 fired a second torpedo which struck her close to the bridge and she sank about one minute later with the loss of her entire crew of twenty five.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission record the date of his death as having occurred on the 23rd of April 1941 but all other records have the loss of the SS Polyana as having occurred on the 25th of April 1941.
He is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial Panel 82.
Doughty, Peter Arthur, son of Donald Arthur Doughty of Streatham and Evelyn Grace, d. of Henry Edward Merry; b. 12 July 1936; adm. Sept. 1949 (A); left July 1954; a computer consult.; m. 29 Feb. 1964 Judie Francis Elizabeth Barrow; d. 28 Apr. 2006.
DOUGLAS, ---; at school Christmas 1792.
DOUGLAS, GEORGE, son of Andrew Douglas, Great Suffolk Street, London, and Mary (Mercer ?) (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 1 Mar 1754 (IGI); in school list Jun 1764; KS (aged 13) 1767; elected head to Ch. Ch. Oxford 1772, matr. 17 Jun 1772, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1772 - void 29 Jun 1782; BA 1776; MA 1779; adm. Middle Temple 26 Jun 1770. [father perhaps Paymaster to Treasurer of Navy ?]
DOUGLAS, JOHN; b.; adm. 19 Feb 1768. [Doubtless kin (brother ?) of James Douglas, adm. same day].
Doulton, Peter Duke, son of Orrok Mills Doulton and Catharine, d. of Benjamin Duke of Eastbourne; b. 31 Jan. 1906; adm. Sept. 1920 (A); left July 1924; MlMechE MlChemE; RA 1939- 45 (Major); chairman and man. dir. Matthew Half Engineering Ltd; CBE June 1971; m. 31 Jan. 1939 Elizabeth, d. of Francis Stuart Cokayne; d. 29 Dec. 1984.