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DE CARDONNEL, PETER, brother of William De Cardonnel (qv); b.; adm.; KS 1673; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1678, matr. 4 Feb 1678/9, aged 18, Westminster Student from 26 Dec 1678; BA 1682; MA 1685; Tutor, Christ Church 1686-9, Catechist 1690-1; ordained (by 1690); buried Christ Church Cathedral 20 Mar 1699.

DE CARDONNEL, WILLIAM, son of Peter De Cardonnel, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, Customer and Collector of Southampton; b.; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1668; Magdalen Coll. Oxford, demy 1671-6, matr. 14 Apr 1671, aged 16; BA 1674; MA 29 Jan 1677/8; Fellow of Merton Coll., Oxford, from 1676; hanged himself on the door of his bedchamber at Merton Coll. 23 Oct 1681 (Wood, Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, I, xciii-xciii, and Letters of Humphrey Prideaux, Camden Soc. Pub., NS, xv, 113-5).

DE CHAIR, HENRY, son of Henry De Chair, Christ Church, Newgate Street, London, and Amersham, Bucks., and Elizabeth Cant; b. 14 Nov 1711; adm. (aged 9) Oct 1720 (as Henry Dacier); in under school list 1721 (as De Chair); left 1721; d. 22 Jul 1746 (?) (IGI).

DE CHAIR, JOHN, son of Rev. Edward De Chair, Senior Cardinal of St. Paul’s Cathedral and Vicar of St. Pancras, Middlesex, and Dorothy ---; bapt. St. Pancras Old Church 19 Jul 1728 (IGI); adm. (aged 15) Jun 1744; left 1746; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 6 Apr 1747, Robinson exhibitioner 14 Nov 1753; BA 1750; MA 1753; DCL 22 Nov 1758; ordained; Chaplain, 46th Foot 10 Dec 1755 – still 1759; Rector of Little Rissington, Gloucs., from 1757; Vicar of Horley, Oxfordshire, from 1758; Chaplain, 22nd Foot 18 Nov 1768 – still 1773; Chaplain to King George III from c. 1772 (still 1793); m. 14 Jun 1760 Julia, third dau. of Sir William Wentworth, Bart., MP; d. Sep 1804 [or 1810 : check].

DE CHAIR, LEWIS, brother of Henry De Chair (qv); b. 2 Sep 1720; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1733/4 (as Lewis Dacier), left 1737 (in school lists as Lewis De Chair 1734-6); adm. Inner Temple 23 May 1737; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 May 1738, aged 17. [will Lewis Dechair, Berkhamstead, Herts., proved PCC 22 Jul 1746]

DE COURCY, HON. ---; b.; adm. 20 Jun 1764; left 1765. [Probably one of the younger sons of John De Courcy, 26th [or 25th ?] Baron Kinsale (I)].

de Courcy-Baldwin, William Langford, son of the Rev. W. H. de Courcy Baldwin, by Mary Osborne, daughter of the Rev. George Rowe, Principal of the Diocesan Training College, York; b. June 6, 1898; adm. as K.S. Sept. 26, 1912; left July 1915; R.M.A. Woolwich; 2nd Lieut. R.E. Feb. 19, 1916; Lieut. Aug. 19, 1917; served on the western front July 11, 1917, to Nov. 11, 1918; Capt. Aug. 15, 1925; Major Sept. 24, 1934; Lieut.-Col May 1, 1941; served on the western front 1939-40 and 1944-45; retired 1949; assumed the name de Courcy as a surname; employed with a firm of consultant engineers; d. 2 Feb. 1986.

DE CROUSAY, FRANCIS, son of Col. John De Crousay, and Susanna Rouse, St. Margaret’s, Westminster; b. 20 Oct 1749; at school for nine years under Markham, Hinchliffe and Smith (R. F. Scott, ed., Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Camb., pt iii, 176); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 4 Jul 1767; d. 1769.

DE FONBLANQUE, JOHN ANTHONY (subsequently FONBLANQUE, JOHN DE GRENIER), second son of Jean Grenier De Fonblanque, London, merchant and banker, and Eleanor, dau. of Thomas Bagshawe, London; b.; adm. 24 Jan 1774; left Christmas 1774; at Harrow School 1774-6; St. John’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 Nov 1780, aged 21; adm. Middle Temple 24 Sep 1777, called to bar 4 Jan 1783, Bencher 1 Jun 1804, Reader 1808, Treasurer 1815; KC 28 Apr 1804; MP Camelford 1802-6; assumed additional name of De Grenier by royal licence May 1828; regarded at his death as the “father of the English Bar”; writer on legal subjects; m. 30 May 1786 Frances Caroline, dau. of Col. John Fitzgerald; d. 4 Jan 1837. DNB.

DE FONBLANQUE, MILDMAY BARRINGTON, eldest son of Edward Barrington de Fonblanque, Deputy Comptroller, Commissariat Department, and Lavinia, dau. of Capt. Joseph Foot, Toronto, Canada; b. 15 Jun 1845; adm. 23 Jun 1859 (James'); left Aug 1861; d. 27 Dec 1861.