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DICKSON, GEORGE COCHRANE, son of Maj. Richard Lothian Dickson, 1st Life Guards, and Julia Diana, youngest dau. of Major-Gen. Thomas Cox, First Major, 1st Foot Guards; b. 1 Oct 1808; adm. (G) 28 Feb 1823; left 1825; Ensign, 85th Foot 5 Apr 1831; Lieut., 24 Nov 1835; Capt., 1 Nov 1839; 84th Foot, 8 Apr 1842; d. at Moulmein, Burma 17 Nov 1842.

Dickson, John Douglas Hamilton, son of James Douglas Hamilton Dickson, Fellow and Tutor of Peterhouse, by Isabel Catharine, daughter of William Banks, of Edinburgh, etcher and engraver; b. Oct. 18, 1885; adm. Jan. 18, 1900 (G); left July 1904; Writer to the Signet March 28, 1910; in practice at Edinburgh; president of the Edinburgh Bach Society 1914; served in Great War I; Lieut. July 14, 1917, attached Royal Scots Fusiliers, on the Recruiting Staff July - Nov. 1917, and transferred to the Ministry of National Service Nov. 1917 - Dec. 1918; demob. Dec. 31, 1918; at various times president and conductor of the Edinburgh Bach Society, chairman of the Reid Symphony Orchestra and of the Scottish Music Advisory Committee of the B. B. C. and a member of the Programme Committee of the Edinburgh Festival Society; Hon. Mus. Doc. Edinburgh Univ. 1946; O.B.E. 1956; m. June 15, 1918, Marjorie Balfour, daughter of William Duncan Lowe, of Edinburgh, Writer to the Signet; d. Dec. 5, 1958.

DIGNAM, JOHN JAMES; b. 4 Apr 1827; adm. (G) 9 Apr 1839. [Perhaps he and William Dignam (qv) were sons of James Dignam, Gerrard Street, Soho, solicitor : mother Anne Scott ? (IGI)].

DIGNAM, WILLIAM; b. 12 Apr 1829; adm. (G) 9 Apr 1839.

Dillon, Harold George Sydney, son of Emil Joseph Dillon, journalist and author, by his first wife; b. Sept. 24, 1889; adm. April 30 1903 (G); left July 1907; Christ's Coll. Camb., scholar, matric. Michaelmas 1907; B.A. 1910; took part in a gold-prospecting expedition in the Lena River District, Siberia, 1912-3; served in R.A.F. in 1917, and in R. N. V. R. as Lieut. in 1918; Vice-Consul at Libau, Courland, 1919-21; employed in the Enemy Debts Clearing House in London 1921-2; m.; d. 1922.

Dobrée, Charles Thomas Winston, brother of William Bonamy Dennis Dobrée (qv); b. 25 Feb. 1907; adm. Sept. 1920 (G); left July 1923; Cadet Malayan Police Force 1928; p.o.w. in Japanese hands 1942-5; Asst Commissioner Malayan Police 1948-55; Colonial Police Medal 1948, retd 1955; Investigation Officer security branch Min. of Aviation and Min. of Defence 1956-73; m. 5 Feb. 1949 Kathleen, d. of Francis Desmond O'Neill MD MC, of Rhymney, Mon.; d. Aug. 1995.

Dobrée, William Bonamy Dennis, son of Franklin Bonamy Hankey Dobrée, hydrographic sur­veyor PLA, of Grays, Essex, and Catherine Eliza, d. of Col. Charles Edward Shepherd IA, of Kensington; b. 7 Feb. 1906; adm. Sept. 1919 (G); left Aug. 1922; branch man. Shell Co. of Singa­pore, retd 1956; RAFVR in WW2 (Flight Lieut.); farmed in Devon; m. 7 Mar. 1936 Winifred Raleigh, d. of Wilfred Fox Hamlin of Shanghai, widow of William Wiley; d. 19 Jan. 1991.

Doll, John Christopher Shaboe, brother of Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll (qv); b. 8 Sept. 1919; adm. Sept. 1933 (G); left July 1937; RAFVR 1939-5 (Flight Lieut.); DFC Oct. 1943; camer­aman MGM studios 1946-54; BBC TV producer 1954-69; freelance TV producer and director 1970-; produced and directed Life of Sir Francis Chichester, and Prince Charles (BBC2 1975); m. 1st 4 Mar. 1946 Joan Frances Leak; 2nd 8 June 1954 Josephine Douglas, d. of Bernhard Rickett of Huddersfield; d. 13 Oct. 2004.

Doll, Sir William Richard Shaboe, son of Henry William Doll MRCS and Amy Kathleen Shaboe, concert pianist, d. of Richard Shaboe; b. 28 Oct. 1912; adm. Apr. 1925 (G), KS 1927; left July 1931; won an exhibition to Caius Coll. Camb., but did not matriculate; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MB BS 1937; MRCP 1939; RAMC 1938-45 (Maj.), despatches (Middle East) June 1943; MD 1945; statistical res. unit MRC 1948, dep. Dir. 1959, Dir. 1961-9; OBE Jan. 1956; FRCP 1957, DSc (Lond.) 1958; UN award for cancer research 1962; FRS 1966; DM (Oxon.) 1969; Regius Prof. of Medicine, Univ. of Oxford, 1969-79; Kt 1971; hon. DSc Newcastle 1969, Belfast 1972; Buchanan Medal Royal Society 1972; Gold Medal New York Acad. of Sciences 1974; hon. DM Tasmania 1975; Prix Griffuel (Paris) 1976; first Warden of Green College Oxford 1979-83; Gold Medal BMA 1983; chairman man. committee Inst. of Cancer Research 1979-; hon. Dir. Imp. Cancer Research Fund's Cancer Epidemiology and Clinical Trials Res. Unit 1978-83, acting Dir. 1983-; Royal Medal of the Royal Society 1986; hon DSc Harvard Univ. 1988; a Governor of the school 1967-77; author of Prevention of Cancer: Pointers from Epide­miology 1967, The Causes of Cancer 1981; m. 4 Oct. 1949 Joan Mary Faulkner MB, d. of Charles Duncan William Blatchford of Winchester; 24 Jul 2005.