D’OYLY, SAMUEL, only son of Charles D’Oyly, Westminster, and Martha ---; bapt. St. Margaret’s, Westminster 24 Nov 1681; adm.; BB 1691; KS (Capt. ) 1697; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1700, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1700, scholar 2 May 1701, matr. 1703; BA 1703/4; MA 1707; Minor Fellow, Trin. Coll., 2 Oct 1706, Major Fellow 25 Apr 1707, Tutor 1707; ordained; Vicar of St. Nicholas, Rochester, Kent, from Nov 1710; was “of such uncommon corpulence that he was prevented attending his duty as army chaplain in Flanders in the war of 1741 for no horse, it is stated, could carry him” (Bayley, History of the D’Oyly Family, 1845, 160); author, Christian Eloquence in Theory and Practice, made English from the French original, 1718, and joint translator with John Colston of Calmet’s Dictionnaire de la Bible, 1732; m. Frances ---; buried Rochester Cathedral 9 May 1748. DNB.
D’OYLY, THOMAS, eldest son of Matthias D’Oyly (qv); b. 16 Nov 1772; adm. 15 Sep 1787; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 Oct 1790; BA 1795; BCL 1800; DCL 1804; Fellow of All Souls Coll. 1795; adm. Middle Temple 7 Nov 1793, called to bar 9 Nov 1798; Home Circuit; Serjeant-at-Law 9 Feb 1819; patent of precedence 25 Apr 1834; Recorder of Salford; Chairman, West Sussex Quarter Sessions 1834; edited, with Edward Vaughan Williams (qv), Burn’s Justice of the Peace, 1836; m. 4 Jan 1820 Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Nicholas Simons, Rector of Ickham, Kent; d. 14 Jan 1855.
D’OYLY, THOMAS, only son of Thomas D’Oyly (qv); b. 21 Oct 1820; adm. 26 May 1834 (Benthall's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 May 1839; BA 1843; adm. Middle Temple 13 Feb 1843; became a strolling actor in the provinces.
DA COSTA, GEORGE, brother of Thomas Da Costa (qv) (IGI); bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 1 Aug 1743; adm. (aged 7) Mar 1750/1; in school list 1754. [Perhaps George Da Costa, EICS Bengal, Ensign Bengal Army 31 May 1767, Lieut., 4 Apr 1769, Capt. 2 Apr 1777, d. at Farrukhabad, U. P., India 5 Aug 1777]
Da Costa, Stanley Campbell, son of Surg.-Major Edward Ronald Da Costa, I.M.S.; b. Aug. 1, 1892; adm. Sept. 26, 1907 (R); left Easter 1909.
DA COSTA, THOMAS, son of Isaac Da Costa, and Anne --- (IGI); bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 9 Dec 1739 (IGI); adm. (aged 11) Mar 1750/1; in school list 1754; Ensign, 3rd Foot 4 Feb 1756; Lieut., 26 Sep 1757; Capt., 25 May 1772; Maj., late 99th Foot, half-pay 19 Mar 1783; still in half-pay list Army List 1808; will proved PCC 22 Mar 1809 (as of St. Clement Danes, Middlesex).
DACRES, ---; b.; adm. 12 Jan 1660/1 (as Dakers); a boarder (Busby’s account book); buried in the Cloisters, Westminster Abbey 22 Feb 1663/4.
DACRES, HUMPHREY, son of George Dacres, Old Warden, Beds.; b. 13 Oct 1665; adm.; KS 1680; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1685, adm. pens. 18 Jun 1685, scholar 26 Apr 1686; BA 1688/9; MA 1692; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. Cambridge 2 Oct 1691, Major Fellow 2 Oct 1692 - c. 1695.