D'Assigny, Marius; Usher in 1730. This entry by Russell Barker and Stenning rests on the fact that “Marius D’Assigny” is given as the author of the “Verses spoken by the King’s Scholars at Westminster, at their Annual Feast, on Queen Elizabeth’s Birth-day, 1729-30”, printed in R.Dodsley, ed., A Collection of Poems, 1758, vol.5, p.119-25, where Dodsley adds a footnote “One of the Ushers of Westminster School”. No person of this name is recorded in other sources at this time, and the probability is that “Marius D’Assigny” is a pseudonym, perhaps for Robert Freind (KS 1680, qv), to whom the poem is alternatively attributed (the poem cannot have been written by Rev.Marius D’Assigny (1643-1717), for it contains contemporary references showing that it must have been written in 1729/30)
Dauber, John Addison Grant, son of John Henry Dauber, M.B., F.R.C.S., of Mayfair, by Margaret Isabel, daughter of Col. Addison Potter, C. B., of Heaton Hall, Northumberland; b. Jan. 10, 1901; adm. Sept. 24, 1914 (R); left July 1919; entered the employ of the Gas Light and Coke Co.; m. April 26, 1947, Hilary Grey, daughter of George Grey Turner, F.R.C.S., of Huntercombe Manor, Berks, Emeritus Professor of Surgery, London Univ.; d. 19 Apr. 1981.
DAUNCEY, ---; b.; adm. Midsummer 1806; left 1807.
DAUNEY, FRANCIS HASTINGS, elder son of Alexander Dauney, Lexham Gardens, South Kensington, barrister, Bencher Inner Temple, and Emily Ellen, only dau. of John Hastings MD, London and Weston Grove, Surrey; b. 12 Mar 1861; adm. 12 Jun 1873; left Christmas 1876; adm. solicitor Jun 1885; practised in Suffolk Street, London, to retirement 1914.
Daus, Edward Herbert, son of Robert Daus of Hampstead and Katherine Mary Gertrude, d. of Anthony Klimek of Hamburg, Germany; b. 30 Dec. 1925; adm. Sept. 1939 (R); left Dec. 1941; Fordham Univ., NY, USA, BSc 1953; Cordi, Durrant & Murray Ltd. 1946-9 and after 1954; French American Banking Corpn., New York, 1949-51; Chase National Bank 1951-2; resident Bradenton, FL, USA; d. 6 Dec. 1996.
DAVENANT, HENRY; b.; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1745; left 1747. [note will Henry Davenant, St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, Surrey, gent., proved PCC 29 Mar 1791]
DAVENANT, JAMES; b.; adm. (aged 13) Apr 1745; left 1748. [note will James Davenant, Pembridge, Herefs., proved PCC 3 May 1776]
DAVENPORT, DAVIES, second son of Davies Davenport, Woodford and Marton, Cheshire, and Inner Temple, London, barrister, and Penelope, sister of John Ward (qv); b. 2 Oct 1723; adm. Jun 1737; left 1740; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 2 Feb 1740/1; adm. Inner Temple 25 Oct 1742; perhaps “Daniel Davenport” reported at Capua, Italy, in 1753; m. 24 May 1755 Phoebe, dau. and coheiress of Richard Davenport (qv); d. 12 Feb 1758.